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Shoulders of the Slain Dragon
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Heroes: Dragon Knight
Slots: Shoulder
Non Hero: Wearable
Utility: Imported
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15.145 MB
Aug 5, 2012 @ 7:42pm
Sep 12, 2012 @ 8:58pm
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This item has been accepted for Dota 2!

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The Slain Dragon
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Description
Update -- 9/12/12
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Just posted my (hopefully) final revision to the shoulders. Changes:

--Added a collar or 'gorget', this was mostly to help balance the heft of the Helm
--Spent a lot of time on textures, especially wanted to get the feel of the bone right, but also played with the colors and shading on all the metals. I like the way it turned out and plan to make the same kinds of changes to the rest of the set. Let me know what you think.

As always, I hope everyone views the changes positively and that no one unlikes it that liked it before :)

And thank you for the feedback, as always I think it's improved the item tremendously, especially if you look back at the images of the earliest revision, which I've left up here.


Update -- 9/2/12
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The weapon, 'Edge of the Slain Dragon' has been submitted.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=93705552

Update -- 8/27/12
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3rd piece to this set is now up. Feedback would be appreciated, not only on that specific item, but on the set as a whole. Thanks!

Helmet: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=92219472
Vambraces: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=91153455
Shoulders: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=87567008

Update -- 8/22/12
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Back again. I took the encouragement I got from this item (thanks again) and finished up another piece of the set (Vambraces). But while I was struggling immensely with the polycount on the vambraces, I realized maybe I could take some of the feedback I'd received here and embrace the whole asymetrical thing.

So that led to me almost completely redoing *this* item in the process. My hope is you can see improvement in the areas I tried to address:

-------Integration with the existing Dragon Knight armor, more in-line with his 'theme'
-------Less of a mammalian or lycan-like skull
-------No longer having to guess why the dragon might've had two heads :)

Hopefully I didn't make anyone un-like it that liked it before, and you all think it's an improvement.

Stay tuned for more.

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My first item! Learned a lot in the process.

My initial plan was to make this the first piece of a full set of armor, but it was so much work.

If people show interest in this piece, maybe that will be the encouragement I need to make the set happen :)