I know how they’re generated.
This is a really popular counter point that doesn’t matter but okay, I’ll take an easy swing at it.
You know what casual players were struggling to build gold up for? Flight training fees. Those are gone.
You know what wasn’t nearly as costly as transmogging regularly? Appearance changes at the barber shop. Those are also gone.
There are gold sinks everywhere else, this one being removed is an easy, no brainer choice and it’s silly anyone argues to keep it.
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Then you also understand the game needs gold sinks like transmog to help pull gold out of the economy to at least partially offset inflation.
There are others avenue of gold sink. Transmog items themselves, mounts, pets, what have you. Don’t feel like just the action of transmogging should be one if barber’s got removed, and that transmogging is free everytime the trial of style is active. (Which is not often enough) 
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Just have the cosmetics themselves cost gold only and not some animal hide and other resources. I always hate that I have to make up a list of things to bring with me to get something off of a vendor anyway.
ATT (All The Things) is a great addon to get for that situation. It’s gonna show how many of something you need in order to get everything.
While it sounds great on paper, it would cause severe inflation in the prices of tokens in the future.
I stopped using it because opening it was such a resource hog.
Yeah it is, and I do turn it off when I’m not actively hunting for stuff.
I’m in agreement with the OP’e request.
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People haven’t struggled with that since Wrath. They’re gone because Blizz think were too stupid to go back to town every few levels, so they just grant us the skill now like every other skill.
Only because “Being yourself shouldn’t cost gold. It feels icky”.
Like? Flight paths nobody takes? The only other real one I can think of is repairs. And if they take transmogs away then you’ll be paying 700g for repairs every time you die. Lol. No thanks.
Just go make gold. It’s VERY easy. And free. I don’t understand how people are complaining about spending less gold a week than you can make for just spending 15 mins doing the 4 racing world quests.
Okay, yeah I’m sure that’s true and totally not you trying to win an argument.
Oh, so now reasonable explanations matter for past gold sinks that got removed, how curious.
NOBODY takes, lmao. Yes, that’s a fee and gold sink, good job! Here, I’ll give some other examples:
AH listing fees
mailing items
Vendor-only profession materials
Profession training
unlocking bank slots and reagent tabs
Plus we’re acting like, idk, blizzard doesn’t regularly add more gold sinks with new mounts, tabards, toys, appearances? One of the new gold sinks next expansion is warbands.
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Pretty sure the transmog fees are there to just screw people with alts and roleplayers to be honest. Feels bad every time I use it.
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Crafting isn’t worse now. Never been that good outside a few items in the past.
It’s just more convoluted and hard to understand. If you finally do understand… you got to go through the grind to make something better.
In terms of gathering professions, bots are still a plague. They’re the main issue.
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Mildly related but true. Double gathering has a much shorter term life not just because of bots, but because they impact the regionwide AH.
I would be really okay if it was mogging per slot instead of the gear itself. I shouldnt need to remog everytime i upgrade a piece of gear while questing or what not.
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Okay but transmog is extension of that kind of idea. I don’t really care about the fees, they are minimal. But this applies to mog as well.
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Keep the cost but get with the times and make it slot transmog and not item transmog. No clue why Blizz is so bizarrely behind on BASIC content like housing, transmog, etc. Always the worst takes.
I’d also like no-cost transmog. Where do I sign the petition?
If we must pay the magical clothing wizards… what about paying a flat fee for unlimited mogs a week? Or a frequent mogger miles reward program?
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Not gonna lie, a mogger miles reward program is a cute idea on paper.
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