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<blockquote data-quote="Tuft" data-source="post: 5308950" data-attributes="member: 60045">I much prefer when my characters can enchant their own gear, or have things made to order.Not because of the optimality of the build - I'm not much for such builds, but rather because of the look. I like to draw my characters and illustrate the various in-game occurrences they are involved in. Because of that, I'd really like to have control of their appearance. I do want a good reason why my characters gear is coordinated in style, instead of the &quot;Salvation Army&quot;/&quot;Hand-me-down&quot; hodge-podge look that dressing up in random loot would give - just look at the typical WoW character, as immortalized by Penny Arcade:<a href="http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/12/31/" target="_blank">Penny Arcade! - The Ungift, Part One</a><a href="http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/1/2/" target="_blank">Penny Arcade! - The Ungift, Part Two</a>And that is not contained to WoW. When the Magic Item Compendium came out for 3.5, it had color illustrations for some items, and rather - ahem - colorful descriptions of others. When we browsed through that one, we had great fun in describing how some characters would look with that gear - they inevitably ended up as clown-like as the Penny Arcade strip above. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tuft, post: 5308950, member: 60045"] I much prefer when my characters can enchant their own gear, or have things made to order. Not because of the optimality of the build - I'm not much for such builds, but rather because of the [i]look[/i]. I like to draw my characters and illustrate the various in-game occurrences they are involved in. Because of that, I'd really like to have control of their appearance. I [i]do[/i] want a [i]good[/i] reason why my characters gear is coordinated in style, instead of the "Salvation Army"/"Hand-me-down" hodge-podge look that dressing up in random loot would give - just look at the typical WoW character, as immortalized by Penny Arcade: [url=http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/12/31/]Penny Arcade! - The Ungift, Part One[/url] [url=http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/1/2/]Penny Arcade! - The Ungift, Part Two[/url] And that is not contained to WoW. When the Magic Item Compendium came out for 3.5, it had color illustrations for some items, and rather - ahem - colorful descriptions of others. When we browsed through that one, we had great fun in describing how some characters would look with that gear - they inevitably ended up as clown-like as the Penny Arcade strip above. ;) ;) [/QUOTE]

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