Angelxman81

With the new monthly trend, giving a character spotlight to have their own Signature story arc, would be nice if they upgrade the look of that character starring the arc.
Examples, a Signature arc starring Valkyrie, would come with a visual upgrade, hopefully to a hi-res model, with some unique pieces and not that taller ( this can be applied to Swan as well lol).
I would love if the art team upgraded the looks of all the iconic heroes of Paragon, some of them look really old and low-res, but if its time consuming they can do it monthly with the signature story.
Sign if you agree with the idea

I apologize to the person that remade the looks of Michael and Christy but I think they look even worst, specially the female vendor.
Weird mix of pieces, colours, etc... I wish vendors were an UI option, not NPCs, specially looking that way.

I just hope the VFX team dont set colours for the FX of some attacks, like they did in the past with Broadsword, Battle axe, Katana, with those higher tier attacks with red and yellow flashes. I rather have some golden or metallic sparks like dual blades.
Now, some options I would love to see (Most of the screens are from Aion and Blade & Soul)

Staffs. Yeah, I hope we can hit mobs with this too.





Axes



Huge swords

First dissapoints:

No staff melee
Lvl 20-24 is nothing for all that content, enemy groups, etc in new zone.
I was expecting 20-30 at least, we got Mother's hospital, Diabolique's tower, Sorcerer Selene, Carnival of lights... Too much I think?

But anyways, stuff looking as the best content ever added to the game, at least for me. Also loving the Titan weapons new powerset!

I agree with the OP so I must be crazy as well!

I think they doing it the right way.
So if you bought GR and unsub for a few months, you can still play with a few of your favourite characters and enjoy the boosters or expansions you bought back in the day.
So you not VIP, but neither PREMIUM because you retain all the stuff you bought a while back.
I think its just awesome.

So if I get it right, Galaxy City got destruction, Atlas a huge makeover and Atlas and Mercy new missions and arcs?
This update cant come soon enough!

We still dont know the lvl range of the First Ward, right?
My bet is on 20-30, as it make sense expanding the Praetorian storyline, even if we got plenty of that levels content.
Looks like a BIG zone, with Mother's hospital, Diabolique's Tower, SS (Sorcerer Selene) and her Praetorian Snakes... Also Carnival of Legacy Banished lights!
Lots of stuff for a zone it seems.
Freedom cant come soon enough!

All the stuff is just too AWESOME.
I really cant wait till the end of the year... Hope we go it soonish.

Fastest comeback after a ragequit evah!

So Atlas, Galaxy and Mercy will get an upgrade?
I know Galaxy changes are permanent, but looks like a new tutorial instead new starting area...
Also, we will have a tour in Atlas and Mercy...
I hope the early experience is upgraded, as well as the arcs and visuals.

Maybe they can improve the Praetorian WW looks.
I already want that metallic corsets and hoods for my female alts!
Damn it...

I will be a VIP for sure, but I think this is cool news.
Looks like toons of content coming!

Remember this redesigns are made by players, we dont have access to those unique iconic costume parts.
We have to play with what we got!

Congratulations!

I still think Swan needs an update badly.
Maybe my redesigns were too similar to the updates made for the Praetorian counterparts but still...

Feel free to critique, post or whatever of course.
Just made the redesigns for fun, and I would like to see other's visions.

Well, I hate the trend of the devs to use blend pattern on all the old heroes gloves and boots... Maybe nice in 2004 but now is a poor design.
And I think sport pieces fits very well for speedsters.
Again, and as Techbot said, these are just some ideas to upgrade the visuals of the old heroes a bit, with the tools we players have access to.
If I had devs tools, trust me I would do truly unique looks and revamps for all the heroes, trainers and special NPCs.

Its seems theres some kind of revamp of the old hero content coming...
I think lots of heroes, contacts, NPCs in general could use a redesign.
I think some players of this game, like bAss_Ackwards make awesome costumes. So I think would be cool to have a thread to post our visions of those characters revamped.
I know there was some kind of costume contest called "Redesign Freedom Phalanx" and I found it funny.
I will start posting some redesigns. I wanted to keep it iconic and simple at same time:









Dont be shy and post yours, think of the worst dressed or older NPCs and make them a new look!

Techbot Alpha maybe you want to change the name of the thread to Heroes Redesign or something of your taste, since we made redesigns for different heroes.
I updated my first post with my visions on some heroes.
I wanted to keep it iconic, but simple and modern at same time so, my take on some of them, Valkyrie included:

Oh, man...
Foreshadow and Mirror Spirit are my favourite trainers blue side.
They are out of this world. I always wanted to have that level of quality for our characters, and its starting to show, even if is slowly with paid boosters.
Redside NPCs and AVs are good too, I love Scirocco's look Ghost Widow...
Praetorians, my favourite are Belladonna Vetrano, Nightstar, Mother Mayhem, Neuron and Noble Savage.
Maelstrom and Desdemona are awesome too.
But the heroes gallery, Freedom Phalanx and Vindicators are running jokes.

A blue side revamp and red side tweaks would make me really happy.
Red side content is good but can be better.
Blue side is awful and need to be reorganizated and upgraded.
GR stuff is just too awesome. Short experience but zones are beatiful, contacts have personality, arcs are awesome and well writen.
We need that level of quality blue and red side too.
What I would do?
Contatcs:
Reorganizate contacts. There are too many, to many filler missions and non trascendent. Keep just the important arcs, 4 or 5 missions, all in the contact zone, and give XP and merits as arc finished reward, just like in GR.
Upgrade old low res citizens and contacts with new ones made with the CC, like "some" of the new citizens added in GR. Erase the data of the old ones for complete, please. They hurting my eyes.
(Azuria, City representative, Im looking at you)

Zones:
Upgrade visuals in zones. Minor tweaks in textures, with higher res, like Praetoria. More reflections in environments and windows, like the AE building.

I think is a big different for new players that go to blue side after GR for first time, its like... WOW what happened to the game? I time travelled to 1999? Big different in graphics and story telling, mobs, etc...

I hope theres a big upgrade coming.