The World Of Warcraft Europe website has recently posted an interview with a member of the German workshop group BattleHeat, who took it upon themselves to create a positively amazing set of tier 2 Paladin Judgment armor from the game.

Hi Tobias. Could you introduce yourself, tell us what makes you so special and why we chose you for this spotlight?

Hello! Well, I don't consider myself to be very special, but my small team and I, we're creating under the name of "BattleHeat" some quite unusual stuff. We are armor blacksmiths, who have over the last years specially concentrated on customer specifications, many of which are related to armors originating from fantasy universes.

What materials do you use for such armors? How is it to wear? Is it heavy to wear?

Mainly we work with steel, additionally leather and maille, rarely wood or horns. A full armor normally starts, depending on the strength of the material, at about 20 kg (44 lbs). An extra heavy version can be at about 35 kg (77 lbs). A typical Nightelf bikini armor has consequently less weight of course.

What other objects from WoW did you forge besides the Paladin armor or what has inspired you?

Besides the Paladin armor I can easily think of Doomhammer's armor, that warchief Thrall is wearing. Then there's also the Hypnotic Blade, a few Troll shoulders made of wood, and last but not least the deliberately awful armor big enough for two men, which we did because we wanted a twin-headed ogre for a few pictures. But generally a lot of stuff that I put into the design of armors comes from what people have seen in movies, from what you find around video games, and probably also from what you played with as a child. And for me Warcraft definitely also contributed to everything.

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