The models themselves are really not all that bad, overall, if you look at them without thinking of the class at the same time (and maybe think of hiding some of the helms).

However, when you actually factor in the classes they are intended for, I really start to wonder about Blizz sometimes.

Take the priests for instance. I don't know of any priest that wants to look like a rogue, in fact, for some pvp priests out there, I would be willing to bet that some of you want to get the T8 set, then go jump off a tall cliff, just so you can say you killed a rogue :-). Not to mention that the armor itself kinda looks like a clown face (seriously the chest item looks like the face, with the shoulders as the hair...the red set on a female especially reminds me of Bozo the Clown or the Insane Clown Posse, I can't really decide).

The mage set is equally disappointing, and from the view that is given, kinda reminds me of a metallic version of a chicken costume.

The hunter gear would quite possibly look ridiculous on a Tauren, giving them extra horns (though they may be hidden by the helm).

The rogue set reminds me of "The Nightmare Before Christmas".

And the Warlock set (though really not that bad) reminds me of the bird people from Burning Crusade more than anything.

As far as the weapons are concerned, I actually like the melee weapons, because they don't look like they are out of a Japanese cartoon (seriously, some of the melee weapons from BC we ridiculously unrealistic), but the ranged weapons are a little lackluster (looking more like blobs of glowing metal than a gun or crossbow).

Just my thoughts~

Edited, Jan 6th 2009 3:24pm by spazmoose

Most of it looks pretty ridiculous.
I think they all lost their creative talents (regarding Armor and Weapon designs) doing Northrend. I mean we spent a lot of time at 70 even without doing instances and PvP and still had nice to great looking items. Go to Northrend and what do we get?.... crap that looks like someone was coding for Conan the Barbarian! Sticks with Stones does more damage than a polished, gleaming, uber design weapon from the 70 dungeon runs?
Back on main topic.. Rogue blows chunks! What the hell were they smoking when they came up with that headgear? How is a rogue supposed to sneak around with a 3 foot piece of headgear on their heads? At least the Death Knights get some of their original look back.

Edited, Jan 2nd 2009 9:50am by ScubaShark

all but the rogues and priests are cool, i mean honestly why would they make the priest look like rogues

I like how Warlock T8 is almost a direct bite-off of Grenth from Guild Wars :/

Guess since I can barely get through heroics I don't need to bother looking forward to any of this.