With Karate being a Fighting Style likely coming at some point, I believe we should get some sort of preview for it; namely items that could relate to it.
These items would mainly just be for vanity, but would give stats, potentially making them useful for early game. So uh… yeah.
So, my ideas for the Vanity Karate items will come in 2 segments; regular and deluxe variations.
First off, Regular.
The regular items would include;
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Karate Gi : 5-11 Power, 3-6 Attack Speed - Reference Item
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Karate Band : 3-6 Power, 1-4 Attack Speed - Reference Item
-Karate Leggings : 4-10 Power, 2-5 Attack Speed - Reference Item
Yes, I believe the leggings should be blank with no belt featured on them, as I feel the belt would be a separate item, but I’ll get into that in a second.
The deluxe items would be the other items with some form of branding on them that could be dyed into different colors, similar to the idea of the deluxe iron set. Maybe there’s a dragon on the back of the Gi, for instance, that can be numerous different colors?
So, with the regular and deluxe items being discussed, now for the belt.
Now the Karate Fighting Style has been stated to be in a similar state to Boxing, where you’ll have a belt to represent how far you are in your levelling of the Fighting Style, likely getting a new belt color for higher mastery, and perhaps having a Black Belt for Master mastery.
However, I think there should be a “Deluxe Karate Belt” vanity item, likely with similar stats to the other karate items. This would be able to be equipped in the vanity slot, and would take a similar effect to Glove items, changing the way your belt looks.
Now the main idea of this; if you equip this Belt, it’ll appear with the primary color as dependent on your mastery (unless if you don’t have the Fighting Style, in which case it would always be white), with the tips being dyable to any available color.
The idea is similar to this. Except, imagine the white part is able to be dyed to any color, and the rest of the black belt changes with your mastery.
I’m unsure how difficult this would be to add into the game, but I feel it’d create a good sense of remaining cosmetic power to your character. This way, people don’t complain about “oh my gawddd this belt doesn’t like, match my aestheticcc,” or at least as much as they may have previously.
But I dunno. Karate hasn’t released yet, so it’s still kinda early to be making suggestions for it, but I think it would be nice to see these armors regardless, as some people may want to dress up as a karate master. The closest thing we’ve gotten is the Martial Artist’s Gi, but I feel that’s kind of… plain. We also don’t have matching pants, or a helmet or other accessory to go along with it, so it’s just kind of lacking.
I hope this is at least considered… and uh, yeah, thanks bye.