Going to jump into a fresh comment here and first say:
100% this. Warglaives serve no business being locked to Demon Hunters. Aside from the obvious reason that the original Glaives were actually 1-handed swords, allow me to drop a few images.
Glaives are Elvish/Trollish by design:
Since Vanilla, Night Elves have been using the iconic tri-blade (since WC3 actually) and yet the only Tri-blades in game are locked to the one demon-infused Fel-ridden instead of allowing Hunters, Rogues, Warriors and Monks to use them. This image, by Transmog logic, is impossible because these are Hunter NPC’s wearing Mail but using Glaives.
Literally, this image isn’t possible aside from NPC’s
Two: Blood Elves and Suramar Guard have used glaives since their introduction. Silvermoon City guards have used an iconic glaive since BC and only recently in BFA did they receive a newly updated, higher rez glaive…that is NPC only.
These are the worst Demon Hunter-looking Demon Hunters I’ve ever seen
Trolls have also used glaives since literally forever. Zul’jins fist weapon in game would nowadays be classified as a glaive 100% but back in the day, it was a fist weapon.
Vol’jins glaives - which he died using - are part of his story in BFA. And yes, they’re called glaives.
Modern Zul’jin made in Wowhead model viewer using his glaive not glaive
Basically: You make great points. I 100% used some of my own images from my recent thread on some loosening Transmog restrictions for 9.1.5 found here: Easing Transmog Restrictions - 9.1.5 Wishlist
If anyone says that Demon Hunters need the Warglaives to be ‘unique’, I’d tell them to look at every other unique aspect about their class: Big HUGE wings, unique class-race customization, special glaive-only animations, wicked visual FX kit.
I’m 100% in favor of DH’s keeping their crazy unique animations and all other melee classes using glaives with regular one handed animations.
There’s absolutely no gain to having glaives be so restricted on a class that can also use other weapons. If Glaives were the ONLY weapon DH could use, this might be another conversation.
Good post, OP!