Developer Transmog Decisions that do not respect players' time

1. No unlocking of appearances for previously completed quests

https://www.wowhead.com/news/blizzard-confirms-quests-will-not-reward-all-appearances-in-the-war-within-345742

Is it Blizzard’s expectation that we do Loremaster 8 times? (4 for each armor class, x2 for faction locked appearances). Quests already say “Your warband previously completed this quest” so the ability to unlock all the rewards is there.

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2. No vendor for weapon arsenals in MOP: Remix

https://www.wowhead.com/news/bring-weapon-arsenals-to-pandaria-remix-the-much-needed-quality-of-life-addition-343172

Speaking as a person who actually did grind EVERY single weapon drop in Remix, I feel bad for those that can’t just buy the weapon transmogs with bronze. Even if I finished the grind I would be happy for everyone else if arsenals were just included now.

To put things in perspective, I did the grind across 5 characters (fully upgraded gear) and still ended up with an EXTRA 3 million bronze by the time I was finished. On one character I had to do normal scenarios around 200 times to get the last weapon transmog to drop. And that’s just one character. I did sometimes up to 40 LFR wings a day and on some days I would not see any new transmog drop. It took 2 weeks of farming Dread Wastes for 1 shield to drop.

3. Unique transmogs drop only for leveling toons in Pre-patch event

https://www.wowhead.com/news/shield-and-off-hand-transmogs-only-drop-for-low-level-characters-from-radiant-345647

The drop rate is pretty abysmal. Some people have commented that they leveled all the way to 70 on eligible classes and never saw these items drop.

4. Class restricted transmogs not learnable

https://www.wowhead.com/news/mrgm-interview-warbands-and-hero-talents-in-the-war-within-345386

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/s/QECmjPoktD

The devs are asking for feedback on class restricted transmogs? Our feedback is that we want class restricted transmogs to become collectable by any class.

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100% agreed.
I was disappointed with every decision they made on the above points.

I’d like to hope they’ll go back and make good on some of these, but who am I kidding.

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It’s so petty but it was 4 that caused me to cancel my sub. And realistically I don’t even care that much about it, but among other bad decisions it broke my poor camel’s back.

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At least with Warbank we can now collect apperances of past Elite weapons and sets. :sunglasses:

Agreed. Warbands ideals goes against this decision and the previous interviews from Devs supported that old quests done by old characters would be respected in collecting appearances. This does not honor long-time players with all max level toons at all. It makes them feel less valuable in that they have to go level new toons to get new transmog and old alike. What is the deal, Blizz?

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This is incredibly disappointing.

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