Class illustrations by 羽々キロ and 雀葵蘭

Do you know? The current class illustrations for 1st and 2nd Jobs are not as we see today on all official websites, and that the former set of class illustrations, done by 羽々キロ-san, is in fact way superior no matter how you look at them. It is imho enough to make you wonder what the hell the developers were smoking to have made the unacceptable decision of replacing them for something worse.

It is imho a pity that newer players may not have the chance to experience 羽々キロ-san's fine work in ECO after his/her departure from the ECO team, and this post is made to show off the aforementioned former class illustrations for the 1st and 2nd Jobs, as well as those for the Chronicle Jobs done by 雀葵蘭-san.

Note that 羽々キロ-san did not draw almost both genders together in almost all her Job illustrations (unlike the current versions), and that only 1 gender per class was used for the official websites, e.g. Male Swordsman, Female Wizard, Female Farmer, etc (same goes for 雀葵蘭-san's Chronicle Job illustrations). The Gambler is the only class that showed both genders together in official art. Another would be the Breeder, which is not shown here. However, for some cases the art for the other gender was released as well, and I have tried to show as many of those here as well. If a class has two or more images shown, the first one (left-most image) is the "official" image.

1st Jobs:

Swordsman:


Fencer:


Scout:


Archer:


Wizard:


Shaman:


Vates:


Warlock:

(If the centre one is Belial, he's looking mighty cool here. And the Warlock-ko is )

Miner:


Farmer:


Ranger:


Merchant:

Expert Jobs:

Blademaster:


Knight:


Assassin (hi there, Sister Rosette):


Striker:


Sorcerer:


Elementalist:


Druid:

(I must admit I really, really hate the Druid's robes, 羽々キロ-san or not >_<).

Cabalist:


Blacksmith:


Alchemist:


Explorer:


Trader:

Technical Jobs

Bounty Hunter:


Darkstalker:


Commando:


Gunner:


Sage:

(Note: The Sage-ko shown here is the original design before she was changed to the Class Rep look we all know and maybe love today.)

Bard:


Necromancer:


Machinery:


Marionettist:


Treasure Hunter:


Gambler:

Chronicle Jobs

Gladiator:


Guardian:


Eraser:


Hawkeye:


May the moe Forcemaster be with you:


Cardinal:


Soultaker:


Maestro:


Harvest Moon:


Strider (not very Aragon here...):


Royal Dealer (Call me Queen!):


Cyclone Joker:



Can you feel the love? =3