Cross armor-type Mogging proposal

Gameplay Transmogrification
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I’m well aware that I’m not the first person to put the idea forward of changing armor type restrictions for transmogrification, but I think I’ve come up with an idea that doesn’t break the intended philosophy of sticking to certain aesthetics for certain classes.

People generally have been looking at it as black and white, Either no leeway for armor type restrictions, or removing the restriction entirely, but I think the best answer is somewhere in between.

I got the idea while looking at a lot of the new armor appearances in the collections screen that will be coming in TWW, and envying the armors of classes that were JUST BARELY not the same armor class as mine.
Essentially:

Allow classes to transmog gear that is 1 “armor class” below their own, or, in the case of cloth wearers, 1 armor class above.

So IE,
Plate wearers can transmog some of the many heavily armored mail sets, most notable coming to mind right now are the cool knight-themed mail sets coming in TWW

Mail wearers can transmog leather armor, which includes some of the many hoods, cowls, shrouds, and other light armor available to that armor class, that fit so well with the mail wearing archetypes

Leather wearers can transmog cloth gear, which gives them access to many of the “plainclothes” outfits available to the cloth classes, INCLUDING ACTUAL PIRATE COSTUMES (pirates fall under the category of “rogue”, a leather class)

and cloth wearers, of course, having access to leather, which carries some great caster robes as well as even more “plainclothes” options like coats that are otherwise unavailable to cloth

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one of my coolest mogs on my paladin uses all four types of armor; just lemme mog all of it plz

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Here’s another idea: XMog Points®!

Each character has 8 armor-specific equip slots, so let’s attribute a set number of “points” for each type of armor slot, like this:

  • Each Cloth slot: 1pt
  • Each Leather slot: 2pts
  • Each Mail slot: 3pts
  • Each Plate slot: 4pts

Then, let each class transmog whatever armor-type they want according to this rule:

  • Cloth-wearing classes: 8–16 XMog Points®
  • Leather-wearing classes: 12–20 XMog Points®
  • Mail-wearing classes: 20–28 XMog Points®
  • Plate-wearing classes: 28–36 XMog Points®

You’re welcome, Blizz!

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Considering the huge problems, I keep having to find something nice for leather users to wear this would help a lot. There is also classic mail gear MEANT for paladins and warriors that they can no longer wear. There are also some plate outfits that actually would look better on a hunter. As such, go for this!

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That’s actually where my idea stemmed from! A lot of players nowadays weren’t around back then to remember, but it used to be warriors couldn’t even wear plate until level 40, and hunters/shamans couldn’t wear mail likewise

Meaning lots of mail transmogs are actually meant for plate classes, and lots of leather mogs are meant for mail classes.

Giving everyone else one additional armor type to mog from as well would mainly just be so everyone gets included in the change and, of course, for the reasons in OP

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Anyway we get outfits at the Trading Post that anyone can use making class restrictions moot anyway. This is especially true if it is something like a classic cloth robe that plate wearers now can mog.

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