Correct me if im wrong? But is this event not for collectors? Why are all the “bug fixes” and time spent fixing this event, targetted at “power farmers” over what actually matters?
The way the ensemble work and what item they contain is very messy
A few examples:
The T14 LFR Warlock “Sha Skin Regalia”
Out of remix, it’s not possible to get the appearance of the shoulders if you are not a lock, the only source for the appearance in the LFR color is the LFR lock tier, so you can’t have a lookalike of the T14 LFR Lock set on a mage or a priest that is the correct color. The same with the chest, Sha-Skin vestments. Non warlocks were able to get a non 3d asseted ugly version in retail. But not the actual warlock tier chest.
So you might want to buy the Ensemble for the The T14 LFR Warlock, even though you might already have it on a warlock, because you want to be able to use it on a mage or a priest
But you can’t, because the game consider you already have all the appearances of the set, not accounting for the fact that the shoulder is lock only
So if you buy the Ensemble and try to use it it will tell you you already know all the appearances from that ensemble (it’s a mistake prevention feature that does not allow you to use an Ensemble if the game thinks you won’t get anything from it)
At the same time, even if you are a lock with the full T14 LFR, turns out that, you actually don’t have all the appearance of the remix ensemble, because most remix ensembles are actually doing something that is pretty cool: they are adding a shirt version of the dress when the set has a dress, to allow you to equip the set as a shirt/pants combo and not a dress if you prefer
But you can’t get the shirt since it’s only source if from the ensemble, and you can’t get the ensemble cause the game see you already have all the normal appearances of that basic 8 piece set (all T14 LFR Warlock appearance, on a warlock)
Things like that appear all over the place, in almost every set
Some other things that are quite weird
Some ensembles have items in them, in addition to the items that are normally part of the set, that have nothing to do with the ensemble, for example the warrior ToT ensemble has the plate crown of leishen for some reason
It’s not that it’s a bad thing but it makes it super hard to know what you want or not, you might see a set and think “I already have this one” but actually the ensemble includes a new appearance for an item you don’t have. And it’s not like you will spot that by just trying each ensemble, because let’s say the new item that you might want is a helm, the ensemble will also have the normal set helm, and when trying on an ensemble, it seems completly random what item they will put together on your character in the outfit window, it might be the unrelated helm, but it might be the normal one, if you get the normal one you will never know there’s a bonus one unrelated to the set unless you check every single items that is part of the ensemble, and most of the ensemble have like 4-5 entries in each slots, 95% of them being the exact same model just from various actual items.
And obviously you can’t trust the message that says that this ensemble will unlock X new appearance for your class and Y for other classes, cause again, the game consider class locked appearances as class shared appearances and all items in an ensemble seem to not be accounted for in that message (examples with the lock t14 lfr set from the start)
In the Priest T14 LFR, you have a helmet that has nothing to do with the normal Priest T14 LFR helm (it’s horns instead of the normal pope hat), this incorrect helm is even the icon of the ensemble. The correct hat is also in the ensemble but the default one is this horned helm. This horned helm has it’s full set going with it as a bonus in the Priest T14 LFR set, nothing to do with the normal set, and there is all parts of that set expect the chest, and the chest for that new set going with the horns is, get this, in the T14 lock LFR set, completly alone, a random red dress in an ensemble with only dark blue items
The list is absolutly not exhaustive, it’s what I spotted just from looking for 20 minutes, it seems very very messy. Feels like this was really not QAd
Also there’s 2 color versions of the warrior t14 heroic set, only ensemble that creates a brand new color variant of all classes all tiers, not that’s it’s bad to add stuff, but it’s weird, why add only 1?
Maybe fix what actually matters in this event, and stop spending time nerfing people’s powers when it doesnt even matter in like 2 months.
