Expert Recipe Ranking: Glamour and Mount Reward Concept Art

[TrenDeca]

Updated with color New glamour design coming soon! Please share any ideas or drawings you guys have, because I believe expert recipe competitors deserve better rewards:

[TrenDeca]

Here’s another one! My general design choices are very “sexy, show some skin” types, as I’m personally not a fan of baggy or cloak-styled clothing for either male or female. So I do apologize for that, haha The drawing is not complete and needs a lot of touching up, including the line art

[ElazulHP]

Oh I really like these artworks. I'd love something like this as a reward. Devs get on it :P

[TrenDeca]

I “remade” the design above into a more clearer to see art style, and made the proportions a bit more normal haha. Same design as above! This one should be top 12 or top 100. Personally, I think glamours and mounts and tools should alternate between top 100 and top 12, to make things interesting! Anyways, design will be colored soon!

Design:

[TrenDeca]

TrenDeca, your mount design is fabulous! That's 25,000,000x better than then Pteranodon mount they are currently giving out. Seriously? Why the FXXK would a crafter want a Pteranodon mount by doing 500,000 points on both crafting and gathering classes? That is NOT a easy thing to do, and it should have been a much prettier mount. Whoever made that decision of granting a Pteranodon needs to be slapped into some senses...

Thank you everyone! And see, that is something I wanted to touch on also. Whoever on the dev team is making these illogical decisions for mounts and rewards...seriously should look at other positions that better suit their tastes. Because a prehistoric dinosaur as a CRAFTER Mount, makes absolutely no dang sense. So, where developers fail, we should succeed, and give better feedback/suggestions. And a title? I think that is personally very insulting to the people who love to craft in your game, and craft seriously. Should at least reward a primary tool that is made out of ice or something as glamour, and have the ice shine bright during a craft and out of a craft. (Lightbulb moment!)

Point is...the rewards are insulting in my opinion, and lack creativity. That is where I hope this thread will thrive in, and maybe, we can give the developers suggestions they can add to Ishgard Ranking in future seasons. Also! The whole “the rewards have to suck or people will whine” does not hold up. Top 12 and top 100 prevents previous winners from winning again during that season. Giving thousands of people a chance to win.

By the way: Forum Moderators, if you’re reading this, please forward this to the devs. You would really be helping us out.

[TrenDeca]

Colored second glamour reward drawing, and updated thread with it! (see two posts above updated)

If anyone has any reward suggestions or designs, please please post them! I want to see what everyone else has come up with!

[Liam_Harper]

I feel the 500k achievement mount was a missed opportunity. What would be brilliant would be a DoL Harvesting mount (sort of similar to WoW's Sky Golem), so we can harvest mats on the go without dismounting/remounting. It shouldn't be that difficult to code via a special mount action. It's a tiny QoL but I know I'd be crafting and gathering non-stop to get my hands on something like that.

The Pteranodon mount feels like they just took a spare unused mob or mount model from their files and tossed it in as a reward to save time designing a real one. You'll also notice that the Hunt got a Dinosaur too. Possibly they planned something with dinosaurs, scrapped it and are using the models as free content filler. They have nothing to do with crafting. It's a very lazy approach.

I hope the leaderboards show the devs that endgame crafting is actually popular. We have a top 100 on every realm, with a huge number of crafters dipping their toes into Expert, even though there's only a title to gain from it. It's undoubtedly a success and we've shown them the desire for challenge was not just a whim. Just imagine how far it could go with desirable rewards and further tweaks and improvement to the system.

[KDSilver]

Really like your design Tren.
Do you have some inspiration for male as well ? I'd be curious.

[Nezerius]

TrenDeca, your mount design is fabulous! That's 25,000,000x better than then Pteranodon mount they are currently giving out. Seriously? Why the FXXK would a crafter want a Pteranodon mount by doing 500,000 points on both crafting and gathering classes? That is NOT a easy thing to do, and it should have been a much prettier mount. Whoever made that decision of granting a Pteranodon needs to be slapped into some senses...

How exactly is it weird that a city-state that's recently made peace with a bunch of scalekin ends up having a scalekin mount as reward from content related to said city-state?
The logic of "The mount isn't crafter-related" could just as easily be applied to the glamour idea posted by the OP. How exactly is some casual/revealing set of clothing related to crafting? Is it because it happens to have some goggles and a belt with a couple of tools hanging off of it?

Also the achievement isn't supposed to be easy. Since it doesn't specify a time frame in which it needs to be obtained (unlike "The Height of <class>" achievement noting the second phase), it's supposed to be a long term goal.

That said, the design of the flying WVR mount is funny/neat.

[smoodie]

How exactly is it weird that a city-state that's recently made peace with a bunch of scalekin ends up having a scalekin mount as reward from content related to said city-state?
The logic of "The mount isn't crafter-related" could just as easily be applied to the glamour idea posted by the OP. How exactly is some casual/revealing set of clothing related to crafting? Is it because it happens to have some goggles and a belt with a couple of tools hanging off of it?

Also the achievement isn't supposed to be easy. Since it doesn't specify a time frame in which it needs to be obtained (unlike "The Height of <class>" achievement noting the second phase), it's supposed to be a long term goal.

That said, the design of the flying WVR mount is funny/neat.

Yikes. You must be fun at parties.

OP was nice enough to draw really well detailed art designs of possible rewards we could get, and i personally like both her glamour and her Mount. By the way. You are missing the point entirely. The Mount has absolutely nothing to do with the creativity of crafting. Would you want a Snake mount for reaching level 80 on Miner and Botanist? It doesn’t make much sense when you think about it, and doesn’t fit the theme. Let’s see YOU come up with something more innovative, creative, and fun than Tren can. Sorry, but she has my vote.

Whether you have an issue with her “revealing” outfit (I’ve seen roe men in thongs. That’s revealing.) or not, is irrelevant, since it seems you have an issue with female outfits showing stomachs. Kinda hoping Tren posts a nice male design soon, would be interesting to see that.

Don’t be such a party pooper. INSANE!