Following the introduction of Warbands, we’ve seen a lot of discussion and received a lot of feedback from Transmog collectors. We want everyone to know that we’re currently working on some improvements to appearance collecting that are planned for the next patch after the release of The War Within.
First is an update to class-restricted gear. We’re working to make it so that non-cosmetic class-restricted gear can have its appearance collected by any class. Appearance collection will be retroactive to any gear in your inventory or bank. The intent is to make it much easier to collect class sets from legacy raids where that gear drops directly.
We’re also still working on the much-discussed update that makes it so that when quests are completed, all appearances from non-cosmetic item rewards will be granted, regardless of whether that particular class could have seen or chosen them. We plan for this to be retroactive, so any quests that you previously completed should grant all qualifying appearances when you first log onto any character. The intent here is to remove the need for completing these quests on multiple classes in order to collect all the appearances they provide.
Again, our intent is to implement the above with the next patch after the launch of The War Within.
This is a good change.
Unfortunately, after nearly 20 years, your game is still full of an incredibly large number of limitations and restrictions for players. Sadly, this still extends to the faction system and the fact that you place race as a decisive factor over value when it comes to faction choice, thus taking away players’ freedom to actually choose the faction they like and forcing them into a faction solely based on race.
Therefore, I appreciate that you are at least introducing more freedom in the transmog area. Thanks!
What an incredibly weird reply, the entire history of WoW and quests story’s have involved problems between various races and factions of Azeroth’s society.
If I was Elon Musk, I’d drop ya a cool $5mil just because this is an awesome improvement to the game. Sadly, I’m not and thus can’t afford to drop ya that type of capital, but I did give you a thumbs up.
This is great news! These two changes were definitely ones I wanted (and a ton of other players too!). Even better that they are retroactive! It means we can hang on to any Class gear from old content and we can continue to do quests with the intent to have the transmog looks granted later.
That makes me feel like my time is actually valued seeing as I don’t have to repeat anything.
This is amazing news. Happy to see confirmation that it is intended, just not yet implemented. Will likely go back and do Loremaster again once this goes live to ensure I didn’t miss anything.
Not sure what quests I have and have not completed yet due to multiple faction changes on this character over the years, and I did Loremaster of EK and Kalimdor before Cataclysm.
