Last Bastion of Player Character Customization

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ive stated this a few times in other responses; not a fan.

but to each there own. I myself don’t care for the over customization and breakdown of what blizzard has tried to build. not trying to pull the “ok Boomer” thing, but if you want to wear all leather as a warrior, just go play outlaw…just my 2 cents.

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FTFY. Fem trolls of both flavors have 6 faces and 7 hairstyles

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Weren’t you around when pallies and wars wore mail before lv 40.

And hunters and shaman wore leather before 40, too

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Things every other game pretty much has at this point that WoW hasn’t had for the vast majority of its 20 year existence:

  1. Thorough character customizations across playable races and classes
  2. actual animations that make said characters really sort of feel alive and dynamic… WoW animations make me look like a humanoid Mantid.
  3. player housing.
  4. somewhat compelling stories and consistent lore setting building.
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…you mean gear progression?

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Uh, yeah you can, if everything preceding is done and happened first.

You realize that my first post I do imply that something like opening up armor classes would be first, right? But you want to defend your word choice of “last bastion” by telling me something you labeled as last is happening first. Talk about missing the forest for the trees.

Customizations are the “last bastion” specifically because they will continue to be expanded, even after armor classes open up.

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And, they still wore it?

Imagine there was still mount progression and different mounts flew at different speeds.

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So there would be ZERO requirement that you transmog your gear.

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You don’t get the point…

We are actively getting more and more race options…

But we are yet to be able to mog across armor types…

That is a mechanic that is completely unavailable to us.

You’re turning this into an argument of semantics.

You know exactly what I mean by “last Bastion”

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I don’t really care about new races. They make the problem worse. I don’t simply want new races and more customizations. I want parity in quantity and quality of customizations.

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Yeah I know. That’s kinda hard to do though… Can’t expecting total equality. But yes we should keep getting more options, and we will since we have been since shadowlands.

It’s going to be a none ending process.

For cross armor mogs though, we just need blizz to shift their mog philosophy and fully embrace the chaos they’ve created with cosmetics and hiding gear.

Resisting is silly and pointless

Again, even the lore supports it with characters like anduin and thrall

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Before you go sealing the door shut on YOUR last bastion, I would like to add a few things:

  • Body Scaling - There are several MMOs and RPG that have sliders to customize your character down to the size of their fingernails, boobs, and toes. I am tired of looking like every other Gnome or Worgen
  • Player housing with the new profession “Woodworking” - This would allow players to have TRUE instanced and decorative housing, much the way strongholds work in SWTOR and ESO homebuilding happens and WoodWorking would allow the user access to trees, the same way we had in WoD with the Lumnbermill in the Garrison to gather wood and make furniture.
  • Nameable Mounts with their own nameplates - If my Paladin Charger is given a name, I would love for that name to appear when someone hoovers over them.
  • Color Dyes - Add a Color swap option for Mog Gear and Saddles so if I love the Judgement set, but would rather it have blue in it, instead of red, I could buy a blue dye, and place it over the red section to recolor my favorite mog to match my mount or weapons
  • New Garrison Buildings - Let’s make Garrisons useful again by adding the option to have race specific building that require more resources to tear down the human and orc stuff, and rebuilt it for Gnomes, Pandas, Dracthyr, etc. We’ve gone back and reused most dungeons and raids for other stuff, so let’s just make Garrisons a bit more customizeable and add some small quest hub that comes and goes from Draenor as a central base of operations to stay hidden from The Void.
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If not Midnight and Last Titan, Microblizzard really should take the expansion after that to really just R&D and move WoW and years worth of assets to a new more capably modern software engine.

That way we could: maybe get a armor type and mog system that allows us to mog down and get different secondary stats from it like making you faster the lighter the armor or while full plate or mail being stouter, free form housing across Azeroth, better emotes and stuff, etc.
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Because innovations like these just aren’t really sustainable on the current WC3 engine we use. Because it was never meant for an MMO setting. WoW needs its own engine so we can move forward.

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It’s been broken for a while now. There are plenty of silly mogs. Sailor Moon pink hearts warrior dual wielding heart staves anyone? That’s lore accurate.

I don’t want to play a rogue I want to play a warrior.

That aside mixing warlock and DK mogs would be absolutely amazing.

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I love class fantasy, and they can still make class fantasy based armor and I hope they make a lot of them.

But at the same time, I’ve seen plenty of transmogs people have made that use armor not for their class or for another class and they’ve made it look really cool despite that. I don’t really think people looking like the wrong class is as big of a problem as people make it out to be.

People, in my experience, are just trying to make their characters look as cool as possible. Or as silly as possible. I can genuinely say that I have never actually seen someone’s transmog and been like “they are killing class fantasy with their transmog”. Have you? Has anyone?

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Yeah and that wasn’t good either. Just because something has been doesn’t mean that it should be.

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How you doing, Tahonto?

Complete or completely generic? I lean toward the latter.

I recall my days of MMO gaming where I chose an armor type to combine with the offensive skills I wanted to choose.

And, yes, looking back from WoW that feels like the generic approach. Looking forward from now it still feels that way even if we are just talking appearance.

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I’d be opposed to this if they hadn’t busted every other barrier when it comes to class gear. Palas can dress up as DKs who can dress up as Warriors. So at this point, might as well break the last barrier.

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Oh no. Plate can dress up as plate which can dress up as plate?

That’s literally the same as letting cloth wear plate sets!

Wait…no. It’s not.

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I didn’t say that. I said there’s no more class uniqueness when it comes to armors, so why not remove the last restriction?