Real World Minecraft Interior Design

I couldn’t tell whether this was a real world installation of Minecraft or Tetris. Judging from the materials (wood and glass cubes etc), I’d say Minecraft!

It’s located in Japan and here’s the actual story:

“A Gallery Space for Puzzles designed like a Puzzle by Tatsu Matsuda

The architect used a computer algorithm to generate an answer to his puzzle: how to fit 144 pentacubes into a space.”

via “ghost in the machine” (Tumblr)

A landscape based on an algorithm? Definitely Minecraft!

Mog-spottting and Roleplay Gear Scouting on Argent Dawn

In just a few hours, we’re off to Argent Dawn EU with the WoW Factor (my home realm), so I’ve collected a variation of what I could find from seeing folks around and from the forums.

I chose to include both transmog and roleplay outfits, even though we can’t award a roleplay outfit any price at the event. Some people are disappointed by this, but it’s because we don’t think the grounds for a roleplay gear competition are fair. If you can wear plate, your choices are much bigger than a clothie, so we stick to transmog. It’s a shame really, because it could open up for a wider range of creativity, so I hope my gallery can shed some light on some really cool roleplay outfits here instead.

Mog: At first glance I thought Jaed had a paladin vibe, but she is a hunter. Her skin and hair color really makes the Lord’s set look good.

Mog: Thuglyfe has really capitalized on a dark forsaken (pirate) theme. Simple but well done in my opinion.

Mog: I get a Wildhammer impression from Thorwolfwind. Maybe it’s the hair. Regardless, I think his mix and match is great.

Mog: Sadly I didn’t catch who this person was, but her dress is Robe of the Dragonslayer and I think she did a good job of matching it up.

Mog: If you can rock the Stylin’ Crimson Hat the way Slanmander is, you should! The armory shows he has a matching bow too – Skyfire Hawk-Bow. Love it.

Mog: Nelitia has a dark mix and match. She almost looks like a death knight, but she is a warrior.

Mog: Halkin is actually wearing a “recipe” set (all pieces are official matches), but you barely notice when his cloak and guild tabard blends so well.

RP: For comparison, here’s Halkin again when I checked his armory. It’s leather, and he’s a warrior, so this is probably his rp set. Aesthetically, I like his actual mog better.

Mog: The Ebonhold set, but done really well here by Dorgun. His choice of gun is perfect!

RP: Clean and simple forsaken roleplay outfit. Mary looks like a mysterious NPC.

RP: Some might find this set ugly, but Gwendyn looks like a character with an interesting story to me. Notice how her tabard perfectly blends with her robe.

RP: These guildies, whose name I didn’t catch, have really made coherent outfits around their tabard. If they took the tabard off, you could probably still see they were affiliated.

RP: Here’s an Argent Dawn demon hunter named Zathorius.

RP: Samuel is a pirate. I like his assembly, the weapon is especially clever – the unique model Revilgaz’s Cutlass.

RP: Look at Mynock, his face, his hair and beard, his purple monocle. Such a character!

RP: Michelli is a good example of when someone’s roleplay outfit looks like it really fits a hunter, even though it can’t be mogged.

RP: Kerengar has really done an amazing job with the Overlord’s set, turning it into a white knight almost.

RP: There are several subtle details going on in Cathán’s Ebonhold outfit. The orange coloring, how the Dark Iron Mail chest piece decorates the shoulders.

RP: The background can make it a bit hard to see what’s going on in Feranos outfit. He’s a hunter, but his cloth set called Gaea’s looks really good on a worgen.

RP: Covey’s outfit is a good example of a really well done outfit for an undead hunter, sadly not moggable.

RP: Only the hood is leather, the rest is plate from what I can glance of Angelus’ outfit, so this is almost a mog. Clearly looks like, and indeed is, a death knight.

Related articles

• WoW Factor on Home Realm – WHAT AM I GOING TO WEAR??? (ironyca.wordpress.com)
• WoW Factor EU-Argent Dawn Alliance Follow-up (Wowroleplaygear.com)

Cataclysm Gear Journeys – Then and Now

There’s a few memes out there right now, but one of them flagged a little project of mine which I had to re-conceptualize when Transmogrification came out. Vidyala wrote an article on Manalicious titled “Then and Now” about comparing an old screenshot of your character to a new one, and this had me look at my old project again.

When Cataclysm went live, I decided to take a screenshot every time there was a change in my characters’ gear. Every expansion has a certain aesthetic and I wanted to capture the aesthetic of Cataclysm-gear. I thought of the changing look of my characters as a “gear Journey”.

There’s a good chance, that if you leveled through Outland pre-mogging, you will have suffered a mild trauma from being forced to look like a harlekin clown for 12 levels straight. Since Outland, leveling gear is more uniform, but often also a smudge of brown and grey. Regardless it’s still fun to see the changes as you move from a scrappy looking lvl 81 to a nicely matching raiding set at 85. It tells a very “material” story about what you did and where you’d been with your character.

Of course then mogging came out and it’s no longer required that we wear our fighting equipment. We can now fight in our ball gowns!

So the gear journey I was hoping to capture ended, but a new began. Surely we’ll all keep reassembling our mogging sets too, as we gain more clothing, new gadgets and weaponry.

Therefore here’s the Cataclysm gear journey of a few of my characters, short as it is. Besides the mogging sets, there’s also a few of my vanity sets that are sadly not moggable, but part of my collection anyhow.

Earliest Picture I still have of Ibi. I lost a lot of old screenshots when the previous computer of mine died.

Ibi in her lvl 80 gear ready for the new expansion. I looked like this for a long time.

Ibi lvl 84 – In leveling gear.

Hit 85 wearing this. Soooo grey and muddy.

This shot was taken on the day I got my first epic.

A while later – I really needed a Transmogrification make-over, as you can see.

The mog I ran with to begin with. It’s not a head turner and the staff doesn’t fit theme-wise. I have several nice shields and a dagger to go that matches way better.

My mog in game, here showcasing the shield+dagger version including fancy sparkles.

My poor and neglected priest – here at 81 still in her PvP gear.

lvl 82. I liked the cloth leveling sets in Cataclysm and have kept the robe and shoulders in the bank.

lvl 83 – Now more white, but still a shadowpriest!

My priest is now 85 and this is her prospective mog. Still looking for a belt.

A collection of my outfits prior to mogging came out – the Bonechewer set (leather).

My Flaming Ruby Guild set – designed around the tabard. A proper mix, sadly not moggable.

My favourite roleplay set before mogging. Simple but with a touch of shaman.

The Ebonhold set (mail). More formal looking with a white shirt underneath.

This is a green set that I’ve been trying to perfect for a while. Fully moggable, but I have not yet comitted.

What do we have here? An old picture of Ironyca and Noelani when they were “growing up” together.