The emperor's new clothes

[Llewndyn]

I just created a WF dark monk and it is quite possibly the coolest thing I have ever done (outside of the reverse layup in basketball today)... the only sad thing is his outfit. Wearing armor (I know docents are different but it LOOKS like armor) makes me the sad time in my pantaloons.

I could have sworn I had seen WF monks with flowing robes, mullets ablaze with the fury of the metal gods of the 80s, somewhere in the distance an elven bard plays styx as the ogres stand rapt before the inevitable onslaught, but when I spammed general chat to both sell my winter boots and to ask how I would go about getting a sweet robe, I was scorned, then insulted, and possibly murdered, I'll never know.

Anyway, to the devs, a cry from a recovering altaholic... please, PLZ give us Warforged monks a way to wear monk outfits, so we can stop the charade, running around looking like barehand barbarians (I typed bearhand barbarians first, sounds like a sweet band name) and show our true selves...

Thank you

(PS - if there is a way to robe a WF up let me know that too, even making it LOOK like a robe is good enough)

[Irinis]

The Blademark Docent looks like a bunch of toilet paper draped over the character. That might be closer to what you're looking for.

[Llewndyn]

The sad thing is ostensibly the player who is able to make a WF monk is one of two schools, both of which I think Turbine would see n their best interests to please:

1. Someone who spent money on points in order to play both characters, or
2. Someone who wears turtlenecks, smokes an elegant pipe, has a mustache and a study with leatherbound books that smell of mahogany.

3 would be someone who attained said accoutrements by grinding points out, and yet again thats another demographic that I as a developer would be out to please. For the record, I am #1 and a few weeks growth from #2.

[donfilibuster]

Judging from the miniatures game and other d&d imagery the warforged wizards wear robes (or robe looking docents).
Might be just cloaks but since ddo don't show cloaks there's nothing else to look wizardly (not even a pointy hat).
There's also some warriors with spiked plates.

[Jamma]

The dragontouched docent is kinda half robe half GI Joe field kit. With a giant superman logo necklace on the front..

[Odin's_Hugin]

?

I tried to make a WF monk another day, and at Character Creation, you can put permanent "robes" on them. I thought that it looked very, very cool.

[jamkriz]

Bah...Warforged are the only race that are not able to customize outfits/garb on their toons. Even if you select the "cool" robes at char creation, those go the moment you put on a cookie cutter docent. The only decent looking named docent for a monk is the Blademark with all the others making you look more like a 3rd rate "Iron Man" rather than a paragon of serenity.

I think the best ways to get rid of the standard look for wf are to do the following:
1. Have "docent accents" available in the DDO store similar to hair styles, etc for fleshies. This will allow you to add frills and bling to your docents :-). At least give me a freakin' loincloth so I don't scare the little halfling girls.

2. Something that should have there from the start (but maybe the programming is a bit difficult). Have dragontouched armor/docents have different looks based on the runes that are used in the makeup of the armor/docent.

3. At char creation, similar to scars, tusks, etc for some of our fleshie friends, warforged need to have spikes which they can mount on shoulders, chest, head, knees, etc...

I think the first option would be the easiest to program given that there seems to be at least one field which determines the look of a docent. An accent would thus override that field regardless of what else was in that field.