Amateur Azerothian, Effraeti, and Tome of the Ancient have teamed up to bring Mog Madness to the WoW blogosphere! There will be five rounds, and each round will have a different “Mog Build” prompt. For the third round, the Mog Build criteria are these: mail, shoulder armor must be the Wavemender’s Mantle.
Persona-wise, I thought of an Elemental Shaman who has spent her life out in the wilds dealing with truculent elementals, so I looked at staves and axe/shield combinations for the weapons. In an effort to avoid cross-contamination by influences from the ensembles presented in Round 2, I decided immediately to use the bronze/brown tones of the Wavemender’s Mantle as the main color for my ensemble, keeping the blue as an accent color in very small amounts. And as soon as I’d decided that, I knew that I wanted to use the Battle Scarred Leggings for the pants. I loved how the Helm of Pilgrimage interacted with the shoulderpiece as soon as I saw it; although this helm may bring “Val’kyr” most immediately to mind because of all that time we spent in Northrend, its design is actually quite similar to the classic Tier 1 Earthfury Helmet, making it very appropriate for a Shaman.
My junior Shaman, Kryztalya, Kilauea, Kjerstin, Keshona, and Kermione, will be the models for this round.
Helm of Pilgrimage, Wavemender’s Mantle, Veteran’s Armor, Vicious Gladiator’s Links of Accuracy (ilevel 371), Battle Scarred Leggings, Gloves of Foolish Innocence, Earthen Netherscale Boots, cloak hidden, Icecore Staff
Some alternate weapon choices:
Ruthless Gladiator’s Battle Staff; Spell Axe of the Farseer (Alliance Shaman-only) + Lost Pavise of the Blue Flight (Normal)
Frostbite (Horde-only) + Grunt’s Shield; Frostbite + Zom’s Crackling Bulwark
I won’t be making an “also-rans” post for this round, because I didn’t come up with any dramatically different ideas for the overall ensemble, and the variations for this one are limited to the weapon combinations shown above and the two alternate chestpieces shown below.
The Circuit Design Breastplate (Heroic) looks made to go with the Battle Scarred Leggings, even though one first appeared in Cataclysm and the other in Burning Crusade! The Battle Scarred Leggings & Earthen Netherscale Boots also have a matching pair of gloves, the Murkblood Oven Mitts, but those did not work well in the context of the rest of the outfit. Although a matching chestpiece style is available in BC, it only comes in blue, and not in bronze.
The necklace of teeth strung across the Cuttlefish Scale Breastplate gives it a rather wild sort of appearance.
Kamalia, the Over-Achiever! <3 Am I correct in assuming Shammy #1 is our prime model?
~ Effy
Yep, Ms Kryztalya with the Icecore Staff is the primary entrant.
I love it, the helm makes me think of a vrykul and the belt/staff ties in perfectly.
I’m just going to quote you when I enter my judge comments on this one because this is EXACTLY what I said to my wife…lol.
Love the set and those shoulders look so petite on your Draenei
I’m impressed that you made weapon combinations for all the races too.
Thanks!
As far as the weapons go, though, it was really just that I had a hard time deciding which weapons to use. I had five combinations and five races, so I just paired them up. Then, when I had taken screenshots of all the variations, I went through them and picked out the one I liked the very best of all to be my actual entry.
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