The Legion Questing cloth set has, in my opinion, one of the best tops in the game.
This however is held back by the fact that Every. Single. Piece. with that model has a robe, leaving you no option to have a different robe or even pants.
There is exactly one item in the entire game with that model without the skirt.
https://www.wowhead.com/item=121410/crumbling-ceremonial-vestments
A grey vendor trash item.
This is, in fact, a crime.
However it’s not an irreparable one. Here are my solutions to this terrible, awful, genuinely criminal injustice.
Give us an option to hide the robe portion of transmogs.
This is the most logical solution. This means any robe would be able to be cut down to just the top, which would dramatically increase the variety in cloth mogs across the board, and completely remove the need to have versions without the robe for any robed transmog from now until the end of time.
- Pro - Applies to every robe in the game, allowing greater variety across the board.
- Pro - Doesn’t have to affect a single item individually. Just the transmog system as a whole.
- Pro- I get to use the mog I want.
- Con - Requires changing the transmog system as a whole.
Make white and grey items transmogable
This would also be a logical solution, making this specific look transmogable without the hassle of having to change how transmog works.
- Pro - Relatively easy to implement, just change the requirements for what saves an appearance to include White and Grey items you sell.
- Pro - Also gives people access to the highly requested Pandaren starting area gear as mogs.
- Pro - I get to use the mog I want.
- Con - Does nothing to help robes that don’t have a version without the robe as a grey/white item.
Cut the skirt part off of half the versions that have robes.
This would solve this very specific instance of the problem, which would technically give me what I’m asking for, but fails to resolve the larger problems.
- Pro - No major changes to anything. Just cut the bottom half of a few items off.
- Pro - I get to use the mog I want
- Con - Solves only this exact instance of this exact problem.
- Con - Requires half a dozen items to be modified on a case by case basis
- Con - After seeing the other, better, options players will defiantly call Blizzard out for half-assing their solution.