A Thorny Sneakpeak?

Yeah, Baltzam looks sweet! He would definately merit a second look in a costume contest that I was judging!

I was thinking about the possible issues concerning the long skirt- I imagine that martial arts+long skirt might have some issues, but you know what? There's always workarounds.

I've got a level 50+++ MA/Regen scrapper, who would LOVE the long Death Mage skirt as part of his "epic armor" costume, which currently uses a blend of Ascension and Samurai. So let's say that the Death Mage skirt clips with those big Ascension boots. I have two choices then- depending on how bad the clipping is, I might just suck it up and ignore it. Or if it really bothers me, I can just swap out the ascension boots for something sleeker, which might be a good design choice anyhow, seeing how busy the skirt already is. Either way, problem solved.

So I get the costume made, and find that the long skirt looks funny with those flashy kick animations. Again, I've got options. I can ignore the weirdness- my character only spends a second or two in those extreme poses anyhow. Or I can go back to the tailor and select the little-used martial arts alternate animation set, which is more punch based, for use with that specific costume. No crazy-legs animations anymore, problem with looking weird solved. Or I might decide to make an outfit just for roleplay and socializing, kind of a ceremonial kit, if you will, changing into a different costume for combat. Or the least likely, I can choose to leave the long skirt off of my MA scrapper altogether, and save it for the characters whose leg animations are not so extreme.

Either way, at least with the costume piece included I would have all these cool options, being able to decide for myself which of these is most acceptable. Please stop trying to protect us from ourselves with "clipping" as a lame excuse. As Baltzam's costume and my list of options attest, we don't need the foam padding and arbitrary withholding "for our own good".

I heard about the high collar in game but didn't see it. I at first thought the person was talking about the normal High Collar from the Magic set. Did we get the CoT High Collar?

Edit - looks like no, we didn't.

Therefore:

I'd like to see the High Collar added and of course the Hat, big gloves, cape and belt. I understand the long skirt may have excessive clipping but I think we're at the point where we can handle it.

Sorry, I was referring to the high collared cape from the Magic pack. Unfortunately, we can't be trusted with the pretty one that the CoT get, even if the clipping issues would probably be about the same.

I wish I had remembered we could preview pieces without buying them... Seeing how much is missing from the CoT costume set has resulted in me with a sevre case of the buyer's remorse...

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I'm glad everyone's voicing their opinion, but the pessimist in me is saying that this will likely never get revisited now that it's out.

Here's hoping the gunslinger set is good at least, huh?

The CoT costume pack makes me wish for Thorn blast and Thorn manupliation for blasters.

I, too, often rely on clipping to make new pieces look awesome.

Bring on the clipping. We can handle the clipping!

Not for nothing but I'm glad I read this topic before wasting any money/points on the COT bundle... without those really unique pieces it just isn't worth it to me. Sadly this decision on Paragon Studio's part will make me question buying any future costume sets based on npc's since the likelihood of anything I actually want from them actually being in the release is low it seems.

I do hope they rethink these decisions and add those missing pieces (and give them retroactively to those who already bought the bundle. As it stands I have little use for the COT pack

The more I think about this, the more I expect there to be a second and perhaps third CoT costume pack with the remaining costume items. Perhaps a CoT Lt pack, then a CoT boss pack. This would also given them more items to aid with the whole add something new ever week statement.

Not the best screenshots but I was in a hurry:



Stormrune, Bots/Storm technomage I rolled up on Exalted.

Edit: No sooner did I post this than I changed my mind and re-rolled him as Demon/Storm. Same costume though.

Wow, way to disappoint my trust in you guys. I thought for sure you'd drop that hat or the armored gloves in the set, even went so far as to defend you guys in the previous thread.

Though, I do see a problem with the armored versions not quite working for players: three colors. They'd have to slightly redesign the gloves to just take two colors.

I want to stick up for you guys, I really do. But, this seems like such a small bit of clipping compared to the rest of things in the creator that already clip.

That being said, I really dig the hood, nice and tight to the head. And the regular CoT gloves are pretty cool, really like the silhouette on them.

The Fire pattern seemed a bit too busy. Perhaps I will reconsider later.