If you go check mechagnomes on PTR or in wowhead dressing room, the only 2 visible armor pieces are head and chest, rest is neutered by the robot limbs.
Transmogs allow for unique appearances, looking different, and with only 2 equipment slots being moggable, you have to ask yourselves, do mechagnomes have enough customizations? Should they have added more options, ranging from 1 robot limb, to being fully mechanical?
The kul’tirans having transmogs look poorly on them might’ve been the cause of them becoming least played race, can we expect the same for mechagnomes?
As someone who plays Gnomes almost exclusively, I’m really disappointed with how few customization options there are. Hoping it changes, but expecting it won’t. WoW is SO limiting to begin with for all races when it comes to customizing. I was hoping something like this would force them to allow for more.
Maybe we could have chosen which limb (or multiple limbs?) to be robotic? There’s tons of metal and ore in this game? Why not create a questline that lets you choose the type of metal parts you want? I could go farm some dark iron ore and have a greyish-pink metal. I could farm saronite and have a teal color, cobalt - bright blue metal, copper metal skin, ghost iron metal skin, fel iron metal skin, etc etc.
No. It’s just, here’s your robot. You have very few hair styles, very few facial hair styles, very few options in general. I thought they gave us allied races as a way to provide more customization, but all they’re doing is giving us allied races with highly LIMITED customization.
Keep it the way it is… Fixing a problem for YOU causes another problem for somebody else. Sounds to me like Mechagnomes aren’t for everyone, and I’m ok with that…
But with that said… More customization of the mechanical parts to make up for the transmog limitations would be awesome. An arm cannon for Hunters as an example, maybe a flame thrower arm for fire mages, etcccc…
Maybe the Tinker class or Engineering profession will offer more choices, lets wait and see instead of willy nilly whines and gripes.
Really? Because it sounds like people aren’t satisfied with mechagnomes as they are. I’ve yet to see a comment saying they’re perfect this way, I either see people asking for regular gnomes with just 1 robot arm, full robots, or just regular gnomes with robot eyes, but not one comment saying “omg this is great, dont change anything”. So it isn’t really fixing problem for “ME”, it’s more fixing it for everyone who’d like an upcoming allied race to be created to its full potential, rather than becoming something like nightborne or kultirans, half-made.
The whole point of the mechagnome is the robotic body. It’s what makes them different from regular gnomes. You want to be covered up? Gnomes are there for you. Otherwise embrace the cybernetics.
If I could have one robot eye, arm and leg for half my body it would be perfect. Or maybe just an arm. As is the racials are great but transmogs will suck vs us natural Gnomes.