Preview: Player Made Expansion Sketches 2

@Daerthalus' Woodfae Collector
http://forums.poxnora.com/index.php...-expansion-together.19825/page-38#post-279497

@Gorebucket's Dryad Matriarch (originally Dryad Queen)
http://forums.poxnora.com/index.php...n-expansion-together.19825/page-7#post-265284



@mortal ix's Frostwing Tempest (originally Tundra First Wing)
http://forums.poxnora.com/index.php...-expansion-together.19825/page-31#post-274108

@mortal ix's Frostwing Icestriker (originally Tundra Tempest)
http://forums.poxnora.com/index.php...-expansion-together.19825/page-28#post-272894

(One of them is going to have a spear instead of the axes)


@Ralphen's Creeping Abomination
http://forums.poxnora.com/index.php...-expansion-together.19825/page-61#post-312492

@Wolvon's Grintmaw Monotone (originally Grintmaw Soundaspect)
http://forums.poxnora.com/index.php...-expansion-together.19825/page-58#post-308320

 

It is going to be Ice Axes and Lightning Spear... I mean.. I thought that would be obvious given the way I changed the names, lol

There were extremely limited options in regards to what players suggested for ST - I picked what I thought I could do the most interesting things with.

Generally speaking, keep in mind that the plan was never to implement these runes exactly as the players have designed them - but for these to guide/influence the direction of the design. Of course, if something is particularly well designed, I will use them as is, but the plan was always that it'd have my touch on them.

As for Frostwings being a theme, I don't really consider them to be one - it's more of a sub-racial group in ST, similar to how the Hekatian work in UD (they may share similarities in design, but they are not explicitly being pushed as a stand alone theme, they'd be part of the "Bleed" theme if anything) - I am not sure where that question comes from. Are we under the impression that every champion released should be part of a racial theme?

That said, I do think flyers is a developing cross-faction theme so Frostwings kind of all under the greater umbrella of that.

 

What do these 2 sentences mean?

 

Anyway, since people are getting so hung up on what is written in the original thread and I am not ready to share the final designs yet, I am no longer going to do these for now.

My hope was to get people excited about the art process, not to bum people out because they didn't like the designs people did in the thread.

EDIT:

Actually, I changed my mind. That's the wrong attitude. Go ahead and comment on the designs - if I don't know why you don't like it, I will have less information with which to finalize those designs. For example, the suggestion of "electric spear" and "ice axes" fitting exactly what I had planned is helpful to know since it means I am on the right track there.

After all , it is the PLAYER MADE expansion, so your input SHOULD be solicited. Just be constructive about it and don't sound so defeatist, it bums ME out

 

See my edit

 

Yep, that was my thought too regarding the physical vs non-physical - though truth be told, that's less of a Frostwing thing and more of a general Pox thing. We have been diversifying damage types for awhile now and I try and fit in non-Physical damage where it feels like it'd make sense.

As for the Frostwings other attributes, my current "penciled in" idea for them involve pushing them a bit towards flyer synergy and some kind of CC-type abilities or gap closers. One interesting thing with regard to Ferren is that their relocation-synergy effects actually trigger off RELOCATES not "Monks/Ferren Relocating" so there's some mechanical synergy going on there that could potentially use non-Ferren runes in some cases. Personally, I think this type of thing is exciting for future deckbuilding, etc.