only one picture of a reaver so far for update 5
Mon, 11/28/2011 - 11:24pm
#2
Yes I know...I was there when
Yes I know...I was there when you had the conversation about this in TS, remember? :P
I guess it's more of a disappointment in the fact that from Breeland to Mirkwood, orcs look pretty much the same throughout, with the exception of the glosnabba (sp?) orcs in Foundations of Stone in Moria...and I can't say I'm overly inclined to wear a skin that resembles a pink version of Gumby 
Tue, 11/29/2011 - 1:46am
#3
NO WAI! Pink Gumby FTW! =p
NO WAI! Pink Gumby FTW! =p
Mon, 11/28/2011 - 9:20am
#4
you are one twister
you are one twister mother.....
Sun, 11/27/2011 - 11:27pm
#5
Looks...slightly
Looks...slightly different...I suppose. Unfortunately since I run everything on lowest/low res atm...it'll look pretty much exactly like Skhaar does now only w/ red skin instead of green.
But having looked at the other classes' "designer" skins...I think they probably spent about 5 minutes on the reaver simply changing the skin tone and loincloth tone. Would've preferred to see something DRASTICALLY different...like a reaver wearing a suit made of hobbit skins w/ Frodo's face pulled on like a distorted mask. Is that really asking for too much!?!? 
To be clear; every skin coming out in this update was already present in the game prior to being chosen by the devs as a new creep cosmetic.
The obvious difficulty is that some classes just don't have a lot of variation in the world landscape mobs; this is why reaver/defiler in particular have very similar skins across most of their ranks (and to a lesser extent BA/WL).
They're getting around this by bringing in the moria fire/fungus looks when possible, which are really the only vastly different looks for orcs as of yet.
WL also get a really pimp purple looking one that's from either moria or murkwood (don't remember where I first saw the model).