The tabards were redesigned with 2 ideas in mind. When we designed the original tabards, the idea was to go for a "classy" and "classic" look, but then to slap a monkey on it - sarcastic, right? Well, it was. The problem is that our look (BTW, HoS was one of the very first guilds on the Hyjal server) was so "classic," that almost half of the guilds on the server use the same Maroon with gold colors. We just looked too much like the pack.
So, the first goal was simply to show that we are different. The new design, Royal Purple with black trim and gold logo, is still a classic look, but there is no other guild on Hyjal using it. To the Harbingers go the sarcasms.
The second (and related) goal was to make us more visible to each other. Whether running with guildmates in an 80-person epic PvP raid, or just looking for a guildie to buff you in IF, we should now be able to pick each other out from the crowd more easily.
I would like to thank Wolfbrother for all of the time he spent drumming up ideas and then sitting in the guild tabardrie with me running through designs (Anyone online last night and reading guild chat probably spent an hour reading posts that went something like: "Okay, now click to the purple 3 clicks to the left, with the rope border in white, and then blue 5 clicks to the right with chain border and tell me which looks better").
Hope you guys like them. Please pick up your new tabards at the ... well, actually, you don't have to pick them up at all. The design should change automatically.
See you online! Harbingers Hoooooooooo!!!!
Laila
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Kalleie Models the new tabard in Booty Bay
New tabard back
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