Crafting Cosmetic Rewards

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I think it would be great if there was a transmog set that you could acquire by leveling every level of a profession to the cap (Vanilla - Current Expansion). That Transmog set could be designed to look like the profession. Like a blacksmith’s apron, some goggles, big gloves, ect.

I think this would get so many people into the professions. I also think it could be a way to gauge what’s missing from crafting, since more people are engrossed in it, and there will be a larger pool of players to provide feedback then there currently is.

EDIT: Some more thought-out ideas of how this could be implemented - offer your ideas to bolt on!

  • Leveling every expansions portion of a profession would unlock an achievement, that would simply deliver you the set of transmog that is specific to the profession you have completed.
  • Add new achievements to professions (Craft X amount of Y) , and instead require these to unlock the profession related transmog.
  • Add a system to old raids (Old Raids = Raids where legacy loot is enabled) where a type of thread/item drops that is a material for a profession to craft the transmog set. Example: Ragnaros Drops Timeless Spellthread - BlackSmith’s Apron, Craftable By Blacksmiths, Requires Crafting Level XYZ, Requires 12 Timeless Spellthread to Craft.

General Additions:

  • Add more/new transmog pieces that can be crafted by any numbers of professions, and sold via the AH.
  • Add recipes from “Trial of Style” for unique BOP craftable transmog sets (Exclusive Items, I like these) available the few times a year it comes into town.
  • Transmog Sets for completing zones - A set of Unique BOP Transmog rewarded for completing a zone, or collection of zones.
  • Completing Archeology Achievements that end with a very cool “Explorer” set. Very long grind, but the set looks incredible.

I think Transmog is something a lot of people obviously like, but could open the door to more people playing more aspects of the game, including crafting.

What do you think?

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I like this idea, I would also like it if crafters were able to make more (tmogable) cosmetic gear in general.

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But… this would make tradeskills have a purpose. Oh wait. The items will be BOP to make sure they still have no purpose.

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I really like that idea as well.

It’d be cool if old raids had a low chance to drop an epic quality thread, which you could sell, that could be crafted, but only in a profession that has been fully leveled from all expansions.

Not to timegate, or whatever, but leveling each craft up, in my opinion, can be a journey, just like leveling.

And then of course the tmog could be BoE

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Yeah I like this Idea. It could give some professions a bit more of a reason since so many in game are interested in transmogs.

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I have always wanted the ability to “break down” greens and try to learn their pattern.

Then you could make them in the iconic metals of each expac.

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This game need way mote cosmetic items. Whether it is through Professions, as OP noted, or through other means. Plus with an awesome art department for this game, we need more awesome! Make it so Blizzard.

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This would be awesome! And it would add incentive to be active with professions.

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I like the overall idea. I would love to see more transmoggble cosmetic items.

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Might actually care about crafting in this case. FFXIV does this and the sets look great.

Would also love a ‘costumer’ tradeskill or something that just makes transmog gear.

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Just a quick bump to see what kind of interest this could generate.

This kind of system would legit have me tied to this game for a very long time, along with many others.

If you’re interested, respond and let Blizzard know why you would be excited as well!

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There are some pretty good ideas, I don’t think there is any harm in the game in creating some creative cosmetic transmogs.

I think a new cosmetic piece for leveling a profession for each expansion would be good, nothing fancy but just enough to sate a tmog collector.

There are already tmog set for various zones, or collections of zones, but there isn’t a rhyme or reason to them neccesarily. There are a number of sets built from questing and/or BOEs and have been since the beginning.

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Oh absolutely - there are zones specific sets already.

I’m simply thinking what if they were delivered to you as an item in the mail when you complete the zone, so they are pre-assembled in the “Sets” tab in collections.

Not only that, but what if there were some Meta-achievements tied to the Loremaster achievement, that gave you a “Traveler of the Eastern Kingdoms” set that just looked much nicer?

There’s just so much room to make content that people call “irrelevant”, relevant, by adding some cool rewards to them.

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I used a coveted “like” on this. I’m also not making a snarky comment, which means I really like this idea. Well done!

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Lol, well thanks - I’m glad others like the idea.

I feel like this kind of thing might be a low hanging fruit for Blizzard to grab and take a bite out of.

I’d love to see it get more attention.

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This is a great idea! Would like to see this or something similar implemented.

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This could be a fun idea!

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You had me at the moment you suggested more transmog options would be available for any reason at all. ;D I love collecting sets and assembling different parts of different looks, seeing how they work together. Having some actually available as a perk because of a crafting profession would have actually been sufficient reason for me to have kept my old Leatherworking profession that I had from BC-Legion around instead of unlearning it the night BfA dropped for Herbalism because Legion’s quest-gated dungeon-searching draconic crafting profession storyline system burned me out so badly that I never wanted to have anything to do with it again. :stuck_out_tongue:
That, and my wife’s also a leatherworker on her main, so there was basically no reason for us both to have it when she can make everything anyway. I made the Legion moose and the Draenor wolf for my collection, so I was basically done with everything I really wanted.

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What would be great is if they let the devs do these kind of things as passion projects, but then you might just have one for, say, Blacksmithing (because the modeler really like to make plate armor sets, for example), and then the tailors and LW start sharpening pitch forks and lighting torches about how they don’t have any, much less the whole Horde/Alliance thing.

But I think the whole idea would be great.

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