13:03, 17th Nov 2014
Sin'dorei300: First of all, i see only gray and black and no other colors, which from start makes it boring.
U chose to represent the entire sword, which doesn't help to put in value - neither textures, nor any details.
Plenty of space remains unused.
The effect is represented poorly, looks boring and doesn't bring anything new.
If u want to keep the sword's size, u could draw an interesting effect involving the sword (ability\characteristic\circumstance) to fill the unused space.
If not, zoom in, focusing on a part of it.

They're all grey, and barely have any differences.

Good icon!

Good and usefull.

Meh, I feel all 3 icons are so gloomy and similar. The "sweep" effect looks like the leaves of a pine which is pretty funny and peculiar. Then, the swords do not present any unique feature I haven't seen in the other tons of sword icons on the hive. However, they could still be useful to some people.
I would like to suggest adding more unique features to each of your 3 swords so that you can feel the difference between all of them. Maybe changing the background colour? The sharpness of the sword? It's up to you.

good icon.. but i suggest u should add some more thorns or anything to make it just like "Master" sword.. make it different than ur other icons so make it more unique.. 3/5 until update..

The sword was good but the effect around it needs improvement. I think changing the effect's color to another one.
3/5 right now

Yeah, I know it's all grey and not shiny, but what "special" effect would you suggest? It's supposed to be 3-tier item/upgrade icon for some Grey Warden order or something

make the sword wider a little bit.. and then add some textures to it

fareezizfar said:

make the sword wider a little bit.. and then add some textures to it

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If I make it wider it won't fit borders. The blade seems quite short already. I can make the hilt brown-ish and try to work on the blade itself.

Maybe fire or lightning will do. But since it is an item, I think adding a glow or background will do also.

just wide it 1-2 pixel.. or just do as ~Nightmare said.. adding fire of glow

Fire doesn't make sense if it's a knight's sword as item/upgrade.

add some outline maybe.. with yellow or else

Then add glow.
Tier 1 > Blue
Tier 2 > Yellow
Tier 3 - Orange

And color stuff. (@Nightmare btw I don't think Tier 1 needs a glow, you can push blue to 2)

Tier 1 Handle: Gray
Tier 2 Handle: Blue
Tier 3 Handle: Gold

Tier 2 Blade: Wider, Some Design
Tier 3 Blade: More Wider, More Design