The Gloaming

Oh, the memories working with these base colors! The last time I worked with black and orange, I was creating my Thrang-themed series and it's a difficult color scheme to coordinate effectively. Recall my "Silver Dawn" outfit from two weeks ago? The one featured this week is the near opposite, the dusk to that dawn theme. It took close to a week to complete this, even if it's a bit over the top.

The biggest obstacle was finding gear that was orange with areas that could be dyed black or black gear with areas that could be dyed orange. That brought to mind the Reforged Rift gear from the Summer Festival and the Ceremonial Gloom-bane set from the Cosmetics vendor at the skirmish camp. The former wasn't an option, as I missed the festival and had none of those skins. The Gloom-bane set worked somewhat, but it was too plain looking. If I'd wanted a simple black and orange outfit, they'd have worked...but I wanted to add another splash of color. That left me with very little outside the various crafted or bartered gear from the Mordor expansion. I found the "Pathfinder's Artifice" recipes, the ones that cost 75 silver signets to acquire and require a Fragment of the Gorgoroth Dungeons to craft, ideal. By default, they come with deep purple undyeable areas and look great when dyed black or orange. I was lucky to still have those fragments in storage. Whereas the "Silver Dawn" outfit had a lot of lightly colored, soft, and rounded pieces, this outfit, in the end, embraced a dark, harsh, and jagged look.

Believe it or not, I had quite a bit of "kinput" on this. I wasn't sure if my original approach wasn't quite working. Thanks to my amazing kinnies, they helped me eliminate most of the gold from the outfit. My original cloak, the Woven Heavy Cloak of the Pathfinder's Artifice, was far too busy. Even though it could contain all three colors, purple, orange, and black, it was throwing off the entire appearance. They sent me on the right path, settling on something that was just the right amount of busy and the right amount of color balance.

It also came to my attention, in late September, that another fellow cosmetic blogger, Losmiren of The Gleaming Thread, used the Jacket of the Sunset Hills in an outfit. Check out the Marshal of the Burning Depths, a practical design as opposed to my eccentric one, and be just as amazed as I was when I first saw it!

Shoulders: Embroidered Mantle of the Pathfinder's Artifice (Default, T11 Tailor recipe)
Back: Woven Wool Cloak of the Pathfinder's Artifice (Violet, T11 Tailor recipe)
Chest: Jacket of the Sunset Hills (Violet, bartered from Rowan Raspberry)
Hands: Dextrous Gages of the Pathfinder's Artifice (Orange, T11 Tailor recipe)
Feet: Lithe Boots of the Pathfinder's Artifice (Orange, T11 Tailor recipe)

Weapons (main and off-hand): Thrang's One-handed Axe