New Weapon Concept Art?

[Judas]

Originally Posted by phatkat1972

I hope they Look like that when they are in my hands. That would be very sweet.

Unless those hands on that staff belong to it's last user.. Think i'll keep my distance.

Love the bow.. Must have the bow.

[Raolinx Aeromancer]

Wow that staff is knda disturbing. I hope it dosnt start to smell after awhile.

[phatkat1972]

Originally Posted by Raolinx Aeromancer

Wow that staff is knda disturbing. I hope it dosnt start to smell after awhile.

It may be disturbing, but very cool. If it looks like that when you are running through the game I will be amazed.

[Korinth]

That is some nice artwork.

I get this little gut feeling that these might be the class symbols, similar to when you open your inventory in eq1 and you see the class symbol in the middle of all your equipment slots.

[Cobalt Katze]

I believe still that they're weapon designs, though perhaps moreso in the epic endgame variety due to their highly stylized appearance.

However, with the mention of class icons, Brad just released some screenshots last night that do include some of those in it!

Check out the UI in this screen: http://www.bradmcquaid.com/foh4.jpg

Seems that the character portrait spot has now been replaced with amazingly-rendered class icons. Seems to be Druid (leaf book), Bard (cello scroll!), and... I'm going to have to go with Disciple on the last one. Ozurian can be seen healing in the combat text going on in the screenshots, and the icon looks really eastern in concept what with the whole eye-in-palm deal. I couldn't picture a Cleric, Shaman or Bloodmage with something like that. Brad's icon could be the Warrior image... But there might be a possibility that, similar to WoW's interface, the crossed/swords represents "in-combat."

Regardless, I love the overall style the UI has. It seems to be a lot more "hand-crafted" than some of the other UIs we've seen. Lots of dark metal at this point, but also check out the leathery background for the money icons in the inventory window. I'm also glad they kept the "target-locator" thing in the UI and party window. I'm betting that'll help a whole lot, especially when following a MT's assist.

The rest of the shots are in this post. Beautiful stuff. For coming straight from Brad's print screen key, the visual quality sure has come a LONG way from the very first Beta 0 screens that Brad took and sent out.

http://www.fohguild.org/forums/mmorp...tml#post542024

[Korinth]

The eye in hand icon just might be discipline.

If these are concept arts of high end weapons, I only hope it is not the absolute best because if that is the case, all the classes that use a certain weapon will have it.

I like Greymains idea of keeping track of very rare/uber item numbers via a database, so that way it is kept rare.

Very nice screen shots and looking forwards to seeing some more.

[Coinspinner]

From an E3 video. I'm convinced that the rose is the blood mage and the eye-hand is the disciple. My reasoning is sound -- it's so we can get a good look at our enemy's face as he realizes he's being bitch-slapped by a healer.

[Deeon]

Oh my... The hammer. I can already see a Dwarf running around with that thing smasking things

Bow is also nice. Infact... All of them are nice.

[Pirotess]

Originally Posted by Coinspinner

From an E3 video. I'm convinced that the rose is the blood mage and the eye-hand is the disciple. My reasoning is sound -- it's so we can get a good look at our enemy's face as he realizes he's being bitch-slapped by a healer.

Hrmm so lets see if we can name all of those based on the list of classes we've been told about.

Warrior/Inquisitor, betting Paladin (Very crusaderish), Dread Knight seems likely, Warrior/Inquisitor

Ranger, Rogue, Monk, Bard (easy line there)

Hrmm Cleric? Dreamcatcher has to be Shaman, Leaving Disciple, Blood Mage as the last two. I agree the hand icon seems more likely for the Disciple given what we know of them.

Bottom line looks easy. Sorcerer, Druid (leaf), Psionicist, Necromancer (Skull)

[Doddy Curumehtar]

Originally Posted by Cobalt Katze

Arcane Staff w/ Severed Hands

Now, how do we craft something like that? Is that going to involve a necro's harvesting ability?