I was curious what was the lowest number of characters you could have that could use every transmog piece.
The answer as it turns out is one for every race/class combination because of race and class locked gear. But that’s boring, so we’re going to pretend there are no such restrictions and just make sure we have every armor and weapon proficiency covered.
To start with we know we need a Demon Hunter, since they’re the only class that can wield Warglaves.
- Leather armor
- Warglaves
- Fist Weapons
- 1 handed swords
- 1 handed axes
For mail we’re going to pick Hunter since they’re the only ones who actually use ranged weapons, even though Rogue and Warrior can technically hold them.
For the same reason we’re not going to count daggers on hunter. Hunters can hold daggers, but they’d never want to.
- Mail Armor
- Bow
- Crossbow
- Gun
- Staves
- Polearms
- 2 handed axes
- 2 handed swords
For plate we want to cover the maces our previous two picks ignored, as well as shields. Either Paladin or warrior could work but we’re going to pick Paladin.
- Plate armor
- 1 Handed mace
- 2 Handed mace
- Shield
All we have left is
- Cloth armor
- Daggers
- Wands
- Off-hand items
There isn’t a single cloth wearer who couldn’t give us all four of those so we’re just going to take Mage since we already have a fel and divine class.
Conclusion: You could use every transmog that wasn’t race/class locked in practical gameplay with a Mage, Demon Hunter, Hunter, and Paladin as your only characters.
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You have a couple different combos But yes outside of racial/heritage stuff you need 1 of each armor type.
-Warrior can use every weapon yes even offhands and staves, the only exceptions warglaive (DH) and wand (priest/mage warlock)
So for plate go warrior
-leather go DH for warglaive
-cloth you can do any of the 3 (DH and warlocks get a bonus quest in ringing deeps for a sword, so with DH you are covered meaning you can go mage or priest for cloth and wands which can’t be unlocked on the warrior)
-mail you can do either hunter, shaman or evoker since the weapons are already covered by warrior since those 3 use anything a warrior uses.
The real odd bit is there are some quests that are unique to both Horde and Alliance as well as Aldor and scyer, so you need at least 1 Horde 1 Alliance 1 Aldor 1 Scryer.
They recently hot fixed it so a lot of the shadowlands covenant gear can be purchased regardless of armor type so long as you are in the covenant so have 1 of your 4 in each covenant.
Professions are where things get messy, there are some things that are unique to Goblin and Gnomish engineering so you either need to switch specializations or have two engineers
Vanilla, TBC and BFA have a lot of BOP crafted items so you will need 1 blacksmith, 1 leatherworker, 1 tailor. I think Inscription might have some BOP stuff too.
Warrior can hold daggers, off hands, and ranged weapons, but it isn’t practical for warriors to use them in combat.
So you’ll need a hunter for ranged weapons and your cloth character will pick up daggers and off hands.
And since we aren’t counting weapons they’d never realistically use, Warriors and Paladins cover the same weapons and are thus interchangeable.
Blizz, we need strength daggers.
If you don’t pick Warrior for plate then you just don’t understand basic math.
I think you’ll find my arrangement adds up perfectly.