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Air elemental + Tempest elemental

So, I noticed how there were still no air elementals in WcReforged, but the enraged elemental did have a whirlwind. So I decided to change its animated texture to another one (used the waterfall for this) and, since I disliked the purple colour, I did a small recolour of the texture to make it more "windy".

The tempest elemental shares the same texture as the air elemental, but his animated texture moves twice as fast, so you can tell them apart easily (he has some minor facial tweaks as well).


-UPDATE: Models are now optimised, the tempest elemental was overhauled as well and heavily modified (kept the original screenshot for comparison).

-UPDATE 2: The air elemental's texture now moves sideways, and the tempest elemental's lightning has been moved to the origin point.

-Update 3: Fixed the visibility in the decay animation.


*Ignore the model viewer of Hive, it's messed up. Works fine ingame.


Thanks to @Altruistic Anduin for improving the air elemental icon!
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Air Elemental (Model)

Air Elemental Icon (Icon)

Air Elemental Portrait (Model)

Tempest Elemental (Model)

Tempest Elemental Icon (Icon)

Tempest Elemental portrait (Model)

Reviews
Barorque
Approved. Quite useful, we have fire as in lava golems, all sorts of rock elementals and water, but no air... well now that's fixed! I like what's you've done with the overlay on-top of their bodies, that extra texture layer looks much more...
Approved.
Quite useful, we have fire as in lava golems, all sorts of rock elementals and water, but no air... well now that's fixed!
I like what's you've done with the overlay on-top of their bodies, that extra texture layer looks much more... tempestuous than on the original arcane elementals.

Animations work all fine, PKB as well. I wonder if you considered adding tornado spin (the small PKB, not the whole tornado model) to a base of one of those elementals?
 
Approved.
Quite useful, we have fire as in lava golems, all sorts of rock elementals and water, but no air... well now that's fixed!
I like what's you've done with the overlay on-top of their bodies, that extra texture layer looks much more... tempestuous than on the original arcane elementals.

Animations work all fine, PKB as well. I wonder if you considered adding tornado spin (the small PKB, not the whole tornado model) to a base of one of those elementals?
That would be neat. I first thought of these elementals as 3 tiered units, the latter with a turban and a scimitar à la Al-Akir. Maybe even Al'akir itself, with a sorta-imported [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]


(I know that it's not his blade, I just wanted an excuse to say [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker])
 
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