The two appear to be using different lighting, which makes one of them appear brighter than the other. Also, the coat really isn't shorter, it just doesn't slope down to the knees in the front. I'm mixed on both, not a heritage set I will be working towards.
It's worthlessly short now. We were finally getting a longcoat and Blizzard forgot what the word LONG means.
Old looks better.
Amazing, they took the one heritage set I was hyped for and made it dog!@#$. They're gonna see a lot less Kul'tirans if they don't revert this utterly asinine decision.
I do like the new one better, BUT i do think the colours could be more pronounced, at least in certain areas - a lot of textures dont "pop" enough and blend together a bit, especially the belts...
I like the newer one more, with the exception of the trench coat length. I feel the newer look is more aesthetically loyal to a seafaring rustic culture like Kul Tiras. The old one was too flashy.
Old one looked a lot better imo. But i approve the new hats.
im guessing they made it shorter so the boots don't clip through. I like the new style better. The anchor on the back was a bit much.
The new version looks a lot better in my opinion but still way too busy. There are so many colours in different places. I'd totally use that hat though.
I was waiting to level a KTH Druid to have an alt Healer but then I remembered that the heritage armor doesnt fit the druid theme and the male is too bulky to fit my image of a healer.Oh , well......I guess I'll level a Night Elf.
I like the colour changes, but I'm not sold on the shorter coat - wonder if it looked bad during movement or clipping or something.I'm glad the hat isn't balding people though, I really wish they'd make it an option to "allow" your hair to clip through certain hats - there's plenty that look worse with erasing hair / facial hair than they would if they allowed clipping.
The hat also got a feather.
Colors seem duller now too.
Since Cataclysm came out,the game lacks of color.All Vanilla and Burning Crusade tiers and armors had unique beautiful bright colors which felt special.You look at your character wearing those armors and your eyes dont get bored.Continents like Broken Isles and Kul'tiras/Zandalar also lack base colors and thats just boring and bad.Got an Earthshatter set on my Shaman and i never get bored of it because it feels special and beautiful.To prevent the game from being boring,blizzard can start by such minor and basic things like the colorization of everything in the game.Kul'Tiran heritage armor looked way better before and they chose to give it a boring essence.
the anchor was just to much i think the new look is nice and simple and fits really well gg blizz.
good and bad things from both all they needed to do was fix that hat to show hair and it would of been perfect. In fact you just needed to take that new hat and replace the old with it. Guess those who whined about the anchor on got what what wanted - knee jerking to whiners ftw?
New colour style is better, old coat is better and longer, the anchor design too is better. That said, it should be Proudmoore green since that's the official colours of the nation.