A bit tongue-in-cheek, of course. Normally I'm a person who doesn't really care about recycled or overly "accurate" art in books so long as it's cool and relatively close.
That said, some of the Swordmage art is really, truly bad for a couple of the Paragon Paths. Look at pages 68 and 69.
On 68 it's one of the "pet" races (Dragonborn) wielding two swords and wearing chain. Wasting feats to nerf your defenses featured? Just to equal your warding you'd have to multiclass as a Ranger, Two-weapon Defense, Hide & Chain with a Dex of 13 on an already sub-optimal race. "Look kids, here's how to build a character that sucks."
For 69, pick up a small shield to negate the warding bonus for using a one-handed weapon?
As I said, I rarely get worked up over art but these just bugged the living shizzle out of me. I generally love the book and the powers and flavor added (except the secondary stat choices for Sorcerers, but oh well).
That said, some of the Swordmage art is really, truly bad for a couple of the Paragon Paths. Look at pages 68 and 69.
On 68 it's one of the "pet" races (Dragonborn) wielding two swords and wearing chain. Wasting feats to nerf your defenses featured? Just to equal your warding you'd have to multiclass as a Ranger, Two-weapon Defense, Hide & Chain with a Dex of 13 on an already sub-optimal race. "Look kids, here's how to build a character that sucks."
For 69, pick up a small shield to negate the warding bonus for using a one-handed weapon?
As I said, I rarely get worked up over art but these just bugged the living shizzle out of me. I generally love the book and the powers and flavor added (except the secondary stat choices for Sorcerers, but oh well).