AION - Dark Lord's Breastplate

In today's post, I'll be showing a mod on the Dark Lord's Breastplate. For many people, the first antagonist to come to mind when "Dark Lord" is mentioned, is probably Voldemort from Harry Potter series. In AION, however, "Dark Lord" refers to Beritra who is the second Dragon lord to be faced by players. This armor drops off Beritra's arm in "Drakenspire Depths" dungeon. Why is it dropped off an arm? Well, Beritra was defeated in the battle but managed to fled with a relic, leaving behind a severed arm which players loot for goodies.  >.<

 

This armor is still pretty rare in game even after AION 5.0 has been released and unfortunately, unlike the Tiamat armor set, the Dark Lord's set was not sold on Black Cloud Marketplace. Thus, players who are lucky enough to get the tradable version from events, "looted" other players for kinah (in-game currency) by selling them for hundreds of million each.   ~.~ 

 

Well, enough talk about the rarity of this armor skin. Let's look at what the original armor is like.

 

Front View - Original Armor

Rear View - Original Armor

Rear View - Close-up on original Armor

Side View - Original Armor

 

From the images, you can see that this plate armor is beautiful and sexy in a way. It also has special effects on the back where a shadowy dragon head fades in and out on the top, and black smoky fumes emitting around the "tail".

 

So what can I modify on this already beautiful armor?

 

Hmmm... First of all, I want to make it even sexier by removing the translucent back cloth that is covering her front right torso and upper right thigh. But doing so on the right thigh alone, leaving the left leg with full length pants, looks weird. Thus, I might as well modify the pants into panties style... again...  ~.~

 

Next, I went looking at her bra armor, intending to remove the bra on her left breast since there is already a dragon head covering it; but realized that the uneven bra surface is actually a mesh structure which is embedded onto the skin surface; and thus, I cannot simply replace the bra with skin color, as that will give a rough surface instead of a smooth contour needed for the breast.  >.<

To make matter worse, the skin surface for her right breast is actually missing!  D:  That means that if I removed the right bra, we will be looking at a hole!  >.<

With little options for the bra, I decided to modify it into some sort of a clip-on-bra. But that sadly failed and it got turn into a shiny white bra with high reflectivity instead.... But it doesn't looks so bad I guess, so I kept it...  XD

Anyway, let's look at the modified armor in the images below.

Front View - Modified Armor

Front Close-up View - Modified Armor

Side View - Modified Armor

Oh, if you are curious about where these images are taken in-game, it is in an Oriel village with its very own infinity pool (Or a pool that closely resembles one that is)! This very large open concept pool, which I think will be really cool if it is a real life one, is located just next to a beach. You can see more of the pool in the video.   :D

That's all for this post and see you next time!

 

 

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