I’m still left with the feeling of “This is just a pointy staff.” Especially if a bunch of void spell damage gets slapped on as an affix.
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I’m sorry if people get upset but…these option are ugly as hell, could be better.
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I agree 
They did say it’s thematically more of a flagbearer than a spear, so why not incorporate it in the design? Perhaps a significant cross-guard thing at the top? Maybe the tattered remains of the Last Refuge/Rat City flag?
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None of these fit the uniques design but #1 does look the best
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Yeah these are more void/abyss/orobyss spears instead of Last Refuge spears, which should be more like traditional metal spear being corrupted (more similar to Trident of the Last Abyss) rather than the bone and stone spears we have here. The ‘flagbearer’ mentality should also be represented on the art if that’s what the design team sees in it.
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For clarification: The unique effect is a community member’s suggestion, and it being a “flagbearer’s spear” is an interpretation of how the unique effect works - it’s not coming from our unique design team - as we might normally mention the intention behind the design had we designed it. The art is something from our team, which is based on The Lost Refuge being a combination of many Eterran cultures creating makeshift weapons as a last stand against the void.
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Not a single rat, this is an outrage!
All 3 are cool designs, but I don’t think any of them really fit the whole “Volcanic orb turned to void, related to Rat City”. Expected something maybe like a volcanic rock with red hot veins, slowly transitioning into leaky purple stuff. Perhaps strapped to the end of a stick because touching it yourself could be dangerous.
I chose 1 like many just because it has purple and red on it, but the shell, antlers, and fur looks more like something you’d find around Heoborea or the Wengari Camp.
The second option is really pretty, but again, I’d expect it to relate Lagon, not there. The third has a similar problem: very cool, but also has that coastal look to it.
I’d like to see all 3 eventually make it into the game, but these feel like the developers made them long ago and anticipated different choices winning. I’d rather see this poll again in like a month with proper concept art that better matches the item as designed so far, and these 3 made into something else.
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Bummed the meteor effect didn’t make it. Volcanic orb is just meh. Unless it’s made spammable this unique will have a hard time “stacking” buffs. The spear art is cool but I think if we had visual void tendrils growing out of it per stack it would really shine and would make it worth using even if it doesn’t perform endgame.
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The last refuge isnt its own location/culture, its in the ruined era which takes place when all of humanity is fleeing the void and fighting in the last bastion of humanity the lost refuge. Thats why it has shells, antlers and other things. Lagon AND heorots people are in the last refuge fighting together to fend off the void.
The whole volcanic orb thing is just sorta unrelated tbh, Thats just what the item does. The item itself is not related to its effect. Remember that we voted for Ratcity/Lost refuge before we even chose what the item did, That means you could have a ratcity meteor on crit item. And it most likely would not have art that evokes meteor spear. it would have art that invokes humanities last struggle as a group against the void.
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I think the design should be more “mad max” ish… messed up, broken, cobbled together pieces of various cultures showing the slow void corruption creeping up it… Its far too “clean and pretty” for the supposed Rat City/Last Refuge theme for me… I think the designs need to be run through a trash compactor for one or two cycles to be more true to the theme of an amalgamation of the last remaining cultures…
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I like the “flag bearer” type idea.
I imagine the spear has strips of fabric tied to the shaft. Each strip of fabric represents a fallen ally. Fallen to the void. As the soldier carrying the spear fell, the next would step up to hold the banner high and leading in battle. Rallying others behind. Letting the others know that all those who have fallen are still behind them in spirit. All those lost to the void, yet the brave from the Lost Refuge persevere to the last of them. (I picture the uncorrupted spear similar to the martial arts types with the tassels that whip about with the motions of the spear, but makeshift in design.)
As the spear itself is corrupted by the void, the strips of fabric begin to take the shape of sick void ooze tentacles, seemingly flowing about as if they had a mind of their own. (I picture the Princess Mononoke boar that was corrupted by the chaos).
In a way, the void tentacles represent the Volcanic Orb Splinters, and the tip of the spear the Orb itself. While I don’t know the extent of the coding, it would be neat if the VO void splinters wriggled outward instead of in a straight path.
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Cool beans!
Reading the comments, maybe the look can be somewhat explained by the name and/or the flavor text? With that said, this is what was being discussed in the theme thread.
My only critique to the options is that they are very similar. Like, it is what you would expect when giving 3 artists the same directives. It would maybe have been slightly more interesting with 3 different interpretations of the theme instead of 3 takes on 1. If that makes sense. I think they all look good anyways.
Suggestions:
Forgotten Hope
Delirium of the Lost
Alloy of the Desperate
I think it would be fun if the flavor text somehow referenced that it is a community item, and/or the process.
“At no point in the grueling weeks of the Voids siege did the community of the Lost Refuge lose their Hope”
“Communities from all over the world defended the Lost Refuge against the Void for weeks. They combined all their knowledge and ingenuity in order to hold on. They fell, but some things live on.”
Come on people, lets see some suggestions! 
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My name idea: Flame Antlers of Javelin
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Refugee’s Plight
“In this precarious situation against the Void, The Lost Refuge takes their final stand to protect the last remnants of humanity. There will be no repose until they emerge victorious.”
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Eraticate
Not sure how well a rat pun will translate into other languages though.
I don’t have a cool lore quip… words hard. Why can’t we have numbers instead…?
Oh what if the lore description contains the dates of each of the human civilisations’ downfalls/dates they joined the Last Refuge?
Huzzah! Numbers!
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Wizard’s Pointy Rat
Trying to follow the rat-puns footsteps (admittedly, rather weakly).
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(The) Last Stand
In our desperation to defeat the void, we became what we fought so hard against
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Infernal Emptiness
“Creating something out of nothing Isn’t out of the ordinary for an Elder in his prime, but the source of this nothing was not ordinary”
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Last Resort (or something along those lines)
"Reasoning that the void could not take what had been reduced to ash, some people razed their homes.
But the void does not reason."
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