Blade & Soul - Balrok Raiment (Yun Outfit) Mod

First, I would like to wish a Happy Lunar New Year to those who celebrate the occasion and Happy Holiday to those who don't celebrate this day but lives in countries with holiday designated for this occasion. I remembered writing some stuff about the Lunar New Year in one of my previous post so I wouldn't do it here again.

But seeing how two major quakes, that rocked Mexico and Britain, occurring just nearing and entering the new year, I just can't help thinking: Can ancient civilizations' methodology be so accurate as to predict nature's activities? However, I am not going into details about how ancient Chinese civilization characterizes each year in the main post. I'll leave that in the side note at the bottom for anyone interested.

Back to the outfit. It is obtained randomly by spinning the Wheel of Fate at the Frostscale Basin in the Silverfrost Mountains or dropped off the field Boss, Balrok, in the same area. Balrok is a huge dark monster that looks like a dog with bat wings and deadly breath. Not mentioning that the basin is packed with snake and primitive type monsters that are ever ready to grab any humans they see, to be slaves and sacrificial lambs.   😱

To this date, it is still difficult to farm this outfit because the essence that is required for spinning the wheel doesn't drop easily and Balrok can only be summoned after killing three other mini bosses, which in turn only spawns when large numbers of the respective monster types are killed. In other words, it is a horrible 'blood bath' to get the outfit, unless of course the player is lucky enough to get it straight from the boss' chest.  😧

Unlike Balrok which is dark and ugly, the outfit looks pretty cool in mainly white-purple color theme, and decorated with purple fur and several metal armor pieces. The outfit for the races looks very different as shown below.

Gon                                   Jin                                    Yun

As we can see from above, Jin and Yun are given open skirt that reveals half a leg, while Gon sports a tight pants. Also, both Jin and Yun have white body suit for the torso but Gon has only a shroud that covers their frontal, leaving the side of the breasts exposed. We can also see the same laced layers on the Gon tummy and butt area, as compared to that on the Yun's right leg and left side of body.

Let's take a closer look at the Yun's outfit below.

Front View - Original Outfit

The torso area is a white body suit with a white flower on the left side of the chest and the right leg sports a laced stocking, while the left leg is uncovered.

Front Close-up View - Original Outfit

Also notice the bulky metal 'belt' and hand guard.

Rear View - Original Outfit

We can see that the dress portion is made up of a bluish-purple cloth, extending from below some fur around the waist level.

Rear Close-up View - Original Outfit

The laced portion of the torso looks nice but the bottom part of the outfit looks really 'bulky' from the rear.  😧

Left Side View - Original Outfit

Right Side View - Original Outfit

The uncovered left leg is partially revealed under the long cloth.

I really like the lace patterns on the outfit so I tried to duplicate them on the entire torso. However, the mesh of the cleavage area is missing so I cannot just laced the entire torso. That is because if we look through the empty portion of the lace pattern, we are expecting to see the curve of the cleavage underneath. But with the mesh missing, I will need to paint the skin layer directly under the laced layer which will only show a flat region under the laced layer, which will look incorrect.  😞

Thus, I shifted the white flower on the left breast to the center to have a full opaque layer to hide the missing cleavage.

Although I find that the bottom part is too 'bulky' for my like, I can't simply remove the belt, fur and cloth. That is due to the discontinuity between the torso and hip portion as they don't join nicely on a same layer. The front part of the torso extends above and beyond the hip such that it gives a shirt over skin effect. As such, I only remove the long purple cloth, hoping that will be enough to remove the 'bulky' feel.  😥

Let us take a look at the mod outfit below.

Front View - Modified Outfit

Most of the torso area is now laced, except for the white flower in the middle.  😄

Front Close-up View - Modified Outfit

Rear View - Modified Outfit

The long purple cloth is also gone and now we can see more of both the leggy legs. 😍

Rear Close-up View - Modified Outfit

Is the 'bulky' feel still there?  😥

Right Close-up View - Modified Outfit

Left Close-up View - Modified Outfit

So, that's all for this mod. Check out the video for all round views.

Side Note:

Ancient Chinese civilization characterized each year with respect to the twelve Earth Pillars and five elements (Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth). The twelve Earth Pillars are also known, in a simpler form, to some as the twelve zodiac signs starting from Rat, Cow, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and finally Pig.

This year happens to be the Earth Dog (Earth as the element and Dog as the eleventh pillar) year which is characterized with Earth related disaster. Just nearing and crossing into the new Lunar calendar, the world is greeted with two major quakes in Mexico and near Britain. Are they coincidence? Well, we don't know except that from the year 2010 to 2017, there had been on average 13,640 earthquakes per year, with magnitude above 4.0, around the world! But then again, Earth related disaster is not only earthquakes but can also includes landslides, volcano eruptions and others.

So stay safe everyone!