When I first started playing WoW I was so excited about the style of the game and enjoying the leveling process so much that I really didn’t care too much about tier sets. As I got more and more involved in the game, though, I started to lust after that gear a little bit. The original tier gear had really cool models, which is a big part of my drive for getting a piece of equipment.

In Burning Crusade it was the same thing – the tier sets looked incredible. The Tier 4 sets remain some of my favorite in the game, and Tier 6 was amazing as well. I wasn’t a fan of most T5, but that might just be me.

The current sets, though, are appalling. Most of the Tier 9 and Tier 10 sets look like a monochromatic blob of trash. Gone are the cool shoulder animations (remember those sweet priest shoulders with the blind faces of justice on them?) and the nifty details in the chest pieces and leggings. It doesn’t help that everyone is rolling around in the same gear because of the ease of the badge system, so as ugly as the sets are, I get sick of them much more quickly.

Lucky for me I’m playing a druid, I guess. Bears always look the same…