Alright Blizz- Remove Armor Mats from Tmog

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At this point, what does it matter with armor mats for tmogging? Lorewise, characters are NOT locked into one class. We’ve had rogues use the light, shaman becoming warlocks and warriors, the priestesses of elune using bows and behaving like hunters.

But at the same time, it does no good to whine if I do not have a solution, so here is my solution.

To unlock a tmog appearance, a character MUST acquire the armor on a character that can equip it. Once the appearance is acquired, any character you make can transmog it, but cannot equip the armor in question. This GREATLY expands what players can create in terms of appearances while still maintaining the grind (as with this system, a leather toon couldn’t grind out plate).

What are your takes? What would you want to see?

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I want transmog “builds” in addition to the fast, cut-and-dry system. Some way to tie barbershop and xmog settings to a single thing.

At this point, I’m also all for opening it up in other ways. If I get a staff on my mage, let me mog it to a wand and OH. Don’t make getting an upgrade ruin my mog.

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That is a very good point and while that exists to a minor extent, I absolutely feel it is a system that needs building upon

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Armor type restrictions on transmog are nothing more than Blizzard being stubborn tools at this point. Literally.

Blizzard used to say that the restrictions on transmog mostly revolved around class identity. i.e. - priests should not wear plate, warriors shouldn’t wear cloth, etc.

This discussion is done. It was done the moment I could mog any character I have into footie pajamas. We should have footie pj day where every single player mogs their character into the pajamas so we can show Blizz how dumb they are being.

Also, Blizzard doesn’t follow their own rules…

Why Armor Restrictions Need to Go: *(pics and thinly-veiled irritation included for free)

I have a Dwarf hunter named Clancy.

Upon spawning into the Dwarf starting area for the 40,000th time since I’ve been playing, I remarked to myself how great it would be if my new Hunter could dress like the heroes that he sees when he first joins Azeroth, the Coldridge Mountaineers. The very first NPC’s he will encounter…

https://imgur.com/WPKHhmA

This guy. This guy is carrying a polearm. If attacked, this guy will also pull out a blunderbuss. He also spends most of his time in game, staring blankly at nothing, so clearly, he’s a Hunter. Well, my character is a Hunter too! Wow! These Coldridge Mountaineers have been holding the line against the Rockjaw Invaders for well over 10 years! What an amazing fighting force! I want to dress my character up like these super heroes! Well, WoW let’s me transmog my gear, so I’m going to go in search of what they wear…

Helm: Eldr’naan Hood (Cloth)
Chest: Fungus Shroud Armor (Leather)
Waist: Nigh-Invulnerability Belt (Cloth)
Legs: Marauder’s Leggings (Mail! Finally!)
Feet: Gossamer Boots (Cloth)
Gloves: Gossamer Gloves (Cloth - although, the model for Gossamer was changed yrs ago and no longer has the gauntlet attached to it. You can get the Emissary Cuffs to go with the gloves, but they don’t flare out.)
Cloak: Muck-covered Drape

Well, that’s odd Blizz. I guess if I wanted to transmog my character to look like a Mountaineer, he’d only end up with pants and a cloak on. Not really the look I was going for…

However, If I pony up a few dollars to Blizz, I can make him look like this…

https://imgur.com/ixuGcVw

We are far beyond the point where this is even a discussion anymore. They’ve added footie PJ’s to the game, they added a fairy costume, Org Grunt/Stormwind Armor, I mean come on? Who the hell is making this decision? Get off your high horse and be done with it.

Remove the armor restrictions, except for class/tier gear if it’s that big of a deal. (i.e. Judgement, Bloodfang, etc.)
etc. etc. etc.

They need to give it a rest already.

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This is very well said and I am grateful to see this

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This is something I can see blizzard caving on. It has always bothered me just a little bit that hunters can’t wear leather and we are instead stuck with chainmail, even though almost all of our tier sets are made of literal monster skins. It doesn’t help that mail is the worst for tmog.

However, I think we will see some restrictions. Weapon proficiency won’t change, so your warlock won’t be using shields anytime soon. And I don’t think they’ll change class tier sets to be available to any other classes…. if and when they do this.

Maybe. I think old blizzard would view that as a begrudging compromise between them and their needy players. But new blizzard may just say screw it and unleash everything.

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I’m only down for this if it’s not handled like the druid shapeshifting was.

As a performer, being able to mog my different bear and cat appearances allowed me to do some fun stuff both as a rave bear/kitty, and in a roleplay sense. If I have to run back to a barber shop every time, or open up a UI every time to change my mog, it will kill that flexibility even more.

So in that regard I’d like to be able to keep something like we have now with assigning sets that we can switch to at the press of a button, and if a consolidation can do this I’d be on board with it. I just don’t want to be locked to like " Oh here’s your pve/pvp gear set slot and here’s your town/rp set slot for tmog".

In regards to what I want? I want guardian druids to be able to mog dual claws outside of the legendary, and I want a lot of the troll related armors and masks to be cosmetic instead of class and armor restricted. Trolls aren’t the only ones that have their mog identity heavily restricted to what armor class/class they play, but boy does it feel stupid as heck to look at stuff like the antorus shaman set while not being plate, mail, or a shaman.

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Oh yeah I’d want like 100 slots per character minimum haha