I bought a few of the cosmetic packs, and quite a few of the sold separately pieces, but at a certain point you already have what you need for most “player fantasies”. This is what happens to me in PoE as well, but what I will always continue to buy are SKILL expression. Give me a huge variety of skill effects (even for the same skill), different colors, effect, shaders etc. Portals works well too. This is my go to in all games that support it. If I decide to play a “new” build / skill, I will 9/10 times buy a cosmetic upgrade for it.
When it comes to feedback on the actual gear sets, there is something that feels a little off. I cannot put my finger on it, but it feels slightly childish, or not as cool as it could be? Maybe? This is ofc hugely subjective, but there is rarely a time I feel “I MUST HAVE THIS”, when I see the cosmetic reveals. I buy the packs to support your guys development more than for myself. I would like to see much darker themes.
Just my thoughts, but I will keep buying them as long as you continue to develop great content I want to play. Deal?
I have purchased all the supporter packs that have been listed. And maybe a couple weapons. We need more of a selection. Also, how about making some of the skins more color coded. So for a lightning mage have the skin all bright with lightning. If using blood skills how about skins that are blood red and dripping blood. If using poison how about green skins and fumes of green smoke emanating from your character. You could also do the same with your pets. have them compliment what you are wearing. More color coded weapon skins and skill skins. There is plenty of things you can do to make the skins more flashy. We want to stick out among the other players so blood dripping from a blood build would look cool. Or molten lava dripping down from a build that uses something like that would be cool and use that with a lava colored skin. More options and colors and add brightness to the colors unless you are using a dreary build of some sort. Thanks
Hello hello! For myself, I personally find that armor set bundles tend to be the best value where available. These and weapon effects/skins tend to be the things I’m most interested in. Generally speaking, I prefer more natural-looking sets like leathers, cloaks, robes, etc. It’s especially cool when these can be mixed and matched.
I prefer supporter packs and bundles that allow me to stretch funds. I enjoy skill mtx the most since I can change the feel/look of a build, but it’s not always a clear purchase since it’s restricted to a character or build even, so it feels like poor value. Portals and pets are nice since I can rotate through them on any characters. Armour sets feel expensive and don’t always mix and match well OR fit the theme of a build.
I like wildcard options for portals, skills, pets, etc so that I can use all of my mtx without changing it manually.
I don’t like recolors that you need to purchase over and over, and would rather paint options.
Hello!
I really like cyborg/robotic/exosuit style cosmetics in almost all games.
And I like full sets of cosmetics with animations etc. with a discount (like bundles)
And I think that new animation for skills is kinda overpriced now.
The supporter packs right now offer the best value as they include a good grouping of things, and importantly, at least SOMETHING inside of them looks cool. I cannot stress that part enough that a big problem with the cosmetics is that there just aren’t enough. Let’s take skills as an example, I was looking through my Lich and Druid the other day as I have in game currency that I am actively trying to spend. But most of the skills have a single option, and many don’t even have that. That means you have 1 chance with your offering to get me to spend money. I’d like druid animal companion change, the polar bear is kid of cool, but I don’t play bear. The Sabertooth looks really meh, not a fan of the thematic. I’d love some kind of void themed Sabertooth, or maybe different types of tiger / cat skins ranging from an all black panther type to basic stripes to leopard print etc. Each person buying is different, they’re going to play different builds, and they’re going to have different preferences that WOULD trigger them to buy, with the cosmetic shop you need to have those options available or it doesn’t matter in the first place. I’m in a similar way with my Necromancer, Lich, and Sorc. I’d love a different meteor, but my options are turn it into a bee meme or a weird 8-bit looking shatter thing. The cosmetic options are priced well, and the rotating sales are nice, but they don’t DO anything.
Which items do you feel offer the best value or appeal, and why?
The packs are the best because normally there’s at least SOMETHING in there, and with the included in game money I can hope that eventually something else cool shows up and I can grab it. Mostly in the supporter packs I’ve liked the pets and the armors, maybe a portal or two.
Are there specific themes, styles, or item types you’d like to see more of? Less of?
Really I think initially your focus should be to shotgun out as many as you possibly can so that we have a wide range of offerings. Maybe shotgunning is too little… maybe a carpet bomb of assets. Go nuts. I’d say your general rule at this point should be “If it doesn’t have 4 to 5 options then we need someone actively working to pop a few out as quickly as possible,” In that vein there are no bad ideas, anything that someone thinks up for that slot is a go. It obviously needs to meet graphical quality standards to be released, but the idea itself is fine. You can get picky when you have 5+ offerings in that slot already.
Also if a slot on the cosmetic tree has 0 offerings, and has had 0 offerings since launch and we’re already 3 seasons in heading into the 4th… Why is that there? I understand future proofing something. But either do it behind the scenes with the code ready to insert into a different graphic when the time comes, or actually put something into that slot. When I see “Coming soon” I think “Cool let’s see what’s there next season”. If it’s still empty next season I think "Lol, they’re really behind, funny that they still haven’t done anything. 2 seasons still nothing “What are they doing?”, and if it goes 3 or 4 “They must be having troubles with the company because they don’t follow through”.
Are there any items you’ve avoided purchasing, and what influenced that decision?
Looks. The style just wasn’t something that appealed to me. Monetarily I love the price point. I would love to support you more, but it has to be for something that I think looks good or I would bother using in game.
Personally I prefer the complete packs that you put out some time ago, I would like more skill skins (some are completely missing) but above all I would like to have many more wing-shaped skins for the capes
Themes, styles, or item types we need more of:
I’m one of those who buys every legendary supporter pack when they come out, just to support the game. But in general, LE needs more classic looking armor sets because I find that the MTX are far too elaborate, confusing to the eye, and too flashy. I would love for EHG to look at each mastery and try to come up with at least one classic, timeless look for each mastery and release an armor MTX bundle for that. The (free) armor in the game sets pretty good examples, but since transmog isn’t available yet we can’t really rely on those looks. I find the MTX armors look like they are trying really hard to look expensive, and unique. Which isn’t bad, but the armor sets don’t have any gravitas because they don’t personify the classic RPG aesthetics.
The items that offer the best value are the supporter packs, by sheer volume of what’s included. But frankly, standalone armor set bundles would be just as valuable if they were great looking, grounded in their roots, thematic, RPG armor sets.
I avoid purchasing skill MTX for classes or skills that I don’t use frequently.
In summary, less over-the-top, extravagant, flashy armor sets, in favor of more grounded, classic looking, thematic armors. And more weapons & skills MTX overall, just keep adding weapon and skill skins and don’t stop.
