Season 8 armor sets unveiled

by Matt Low Jan 27th 2010 at 4:15PM

Season 8 arena gear now available for you to drool over! Even though season 8 hasn't quite started yet due to delays, arena players will be rocking it in style. Although no clear date has been set in stone, the next arena season is expected to start soon (possibly coinciding with the 3.3.2 patch). The above shot is what the paladin gear looks like. Personally, I really like the way paladins, priests and warlocks look. I can't say that there is a specific armor set that I absolutely despise, but do take a look at our gallery and see all the sets for yourself.

Gallery: Season 8 Armor Preview

Tags: 3.3.2, arena, arena-season-8, gear, patch-3.3.2, preview, pvp, season-8, wow-arena, wow-arena-season-8, wow-patch-3.3.2

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, News items, PvP

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)

Meadow Jan 27th 2010 4:19PM

This armor looks so much better than the PvE tier 10! Jealous.

Heilig Jan 27th 2010 4:55PM

That Paladin set is up there with T2 in my book. It just screams Hand of the Light. not like our current burning skull demon armor. Very class-appropriate, that :/

Possum Jan 27th 2010 4:20PM

Pity Christmas is over, that mage would look good hanging from my tree!

Jal Jan 27th 2010 4:21PM

It's ok. But seriously, that warrior set is idiotic. How are you supposed to protect your skull from being crushed in?

Tell me that Blizzard.

devilsei Jan 27th 2010 4:41PM

Silly Jal, warriors don't worry about their skulls though, it just holds their brain, nothing important.

Hates Jan 27th 2010 4:53PM

He runs.....oh wait, he can't, no boots, only painted socks......goofy look Blizz

Wildcat0695 Jan 27th 2010 4:21PM

The mages and rogues look the best, followed by paladins. To bad paladins have the side shoulder blinders. I guess they don't need to look around.

Why does the hunter helm look like it it was LeForge inspired with the huge blinder across the eyes? Are hunters going to be able to see minerals and infrared?

(cutaia) Jan 27th 2010 4:46PM

My pally's PvP shoulders just keep getting taller and taller and taller. :(

Wildcat0695 Jan 27th 2010 4:48PM

It's a hidden paladin nerf.

Scott Jan 27th 2010 4:51PM

After seeing the Hunter helm I felt a sudden urge to watch 'The Fly.'

Eddy Jan 27th 2010 4:53PM

I was thinking about that, in regards to the hunter helm. I wonder if it blacks out your screen in the first person camera mode?

Tomatketchup Jan 27th 2010 5:19PM

Is it only me that thinks of the Riftstalker tier set when I saw the hunter's PVP set?

RogueJedi86 Jan 27th 2010 5:30PM

It looks to me like Blizzard has officially jumped the shark on the whole "huge shoulders" thing with Paladin Season 8 shoulders. They've literally become just a huge wall on both sides of the head. Hopefully they get their Huge Shoulders thing out of their system after this, and start doing small ones that look good without being huge. It's not the size of the shoulders, it's the motion of the arms.

(cutaia) Jan 27th 2010 6:06PM

I wonder how they'll look in action. I know that my Furious Scaled Shoulders already look like they're chopping off my poor little head sometimes when I move in certain ways...

Alanid Jan 27th 2010 8:02PM

The lock set looks like it was made of 50% Awesome 49% Badass and 1% Chutney. Us paladins just can't get enough of the shoulders. Standard paladin regulation: Shoulderplates must either be extremely glowing or twice the size of your head - failure to keep to these regulations will force us to write a very angry letter to you.

poissondemer Jan 27th 2010 4:23PM

Mage set... is... is...

/drool

poissondemer Jan 27th 2010 4:30PM

On a another note, I understand the convenience, but why do they always use human male models? I mean, human males don't even need, say, a shaman or druid set, so why "fit" them for it, you know?

Then again, if it was any other race people would be like: "They used Tauren for druid model not NE!" and they look so different, I understand the problem there...

anyway lets us return to
/drool

Eddy Jan 27th 2010 4:57PM

Well, I believe there's a lot of evidence to back up the idea that white males are the default for just about everything conceivable and that any application that needs an icon that represents "person" it will use something that looks white and male. I guess this is just taking that one step further- that in a world of other races, the default is still the white human male.

I mean, they could come up with a set- male orcs are the default DKs, female night elves the default Druids... they could even use the armory data they must have to find the most common gender/race combination for that class to actually give a majority the idea what their character would look like.

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