Dear Lads at Rare, dear Community!
I had and idea while watching an old video about SoT, untill level 100 in both PVP factions you recieve anything but a title, it would be great to add clothing and weapon sets to Hourglass.
Benefits of it:
-sense of progress - people would see bits and pieces of progress through their upgradable weapon skins
-rewards you can see more in game - if you are using the skelly or ghost curse, it is mostly the others that see your curse, you can see a glowstick hand and a few fingers of bone, but it would be great to look at a HG cutlass for example.
-additional change to hourglass meta - i though about this a lot while getting both curses, everyone is doing half-sail orbitals, because it is the most effective, there is no reason to TDM/board, because it could mess up your chancec of winning without a reward. However if you had a reason e.g.: to get 10/25/50/75/100 kills with a weapon to unlock it's next tier upgrade, we could see a more interesting more diverse combat in HG.
You could get a piece of the hourglass set every 5 levels, weapons skins would be tied to kills with the particular weapon in the HG fights and clothing pieces would be tied to wins in a match, with one piece of clothing unlocked at every 5 wins.
Both companies the Guardians and the Servants would have different weapon sets.
Design:
Guardians:
-I imagine a black blade/barrel, using a blade model with a cut at the tip, something like a Measly Sea Dog, with completely new handle design, i imagine on the higher tier blades/guns an insignia just like the Guilded Phoenix or Flaming Jackal, but with a hourglass engraved in in, with a green Athena jewel on the middle. Handlewise I would like gold/silver getting detailes over the progress of tiers. The cloth like on the Gilded Phoenix or higher Sea Dog Blades, would be a fine touch too.
Servants:
I imagine a bone white blade, with black and gold handle, designwise just like the Guardian weapons but with a different color palette. On the Servant blade some Reaper runes in red would look awesome, and the insignia would be an Hourglass with a red skull gem in the middle of it.
The same palette, applies to both Guardian and Servant clothes either a compltely new design, or the redo of some old, not so common model, with fancier details.
This would bring something more to hourglass, for people than less grindy misndeset it would be a good reward system, and the refreshment of PVP in the Hourglass scene is very desirable to prevent burnout.
I hope it gets enough community approval and recognition from you lads at Rare to make it happen!
All the best of you all,
László "BasicToaster577" Óvári
