What I think they should do is make SPECIFIC transmog pieces that are not obtainable cross compatable. Things that we likely sold, deleted, or completed on the wrong class at the time of their removals.
There’s a transmog I’ve wanted that my clothy could wear that is no longer available. It was the cloth chest piece that was given via quest from Tethyr, the kraken that attacks Theramore. (Yes, that wasn’t made until 2.0 but still)
I believe that only quest rewards and removed profession patterns should be cross linked. Things that we lost in raids, raid quests, or limited time events should remain to classic.
Letting Classic items earned transfer to retail fundamentally changes the dynamic of the community. Loot is it’s own thing. But if I start a raiding guild and I know loot transfers to Modern Wow, I am going to be constantly eyeing every person in the guild with suspicion. “Did this person join because they want to enjoy Classic? Or are they playing me to get loot and achieves they can’t for Modern WoW and are going to bail as soon as they get it?”
That’s very true that this would bring a playerbase that would more or less be a blight on the regular Classic community. So, I do agree that at least during the life of Classic that this does not happen. However, there are other options/ways they could go about this. For example, another thread gave me an idea. The thread on making different types of servers. His thread suggested a server with changes. But, it gave me the idea of having a server where a player could earn transmog.
I feel that would actually be very beneficial. As, that specific server would form it’s own community of transmog hunters. Bring an entirely new group of players to Classic that otherwise wouldn’t play. In addition, it would also keep them away from the main community of Classic players that was to just enjoy Classic.
Didn’t this anniversary event just allow some Vanilla skins to be obtained?
Blizz can milk out those old school skins into some other rehashed content for live.
Vanilla time walking events and what not.
Looking at your class and Xmog, I’m just going to assume this is another person who wants Corrupted Ashbringer in retail, and would likely to ninja it in Classic and never log on again, screwing over their guild pushing KT.
People who are framing these things in the name of preserving the longevity of Classic are doing it wrong.
Blizzard isn’t putting Classic together with longevity in mind. It’s a museum piece. Doesn’t matter how many people are playing it, it’s just there for no reason other than to be there.
A person that did that , reallllllly would be playing the long game just for that,lol, that would be some next level commitment, course who is to say that all them transmog hunters wouldn’t just make their own guilds?
A person that did that , reallllllly would be playing the long game just for that,lol, that would be some next level commitment
I think you give most of these people too much credit for understanding how Classic worked.
I think they would be thinking in terms of, “I’ll rush through the stupid pre-raiding tutorial part of the game, use the automatic catchup mechanics to get geared for the most advanced raid, then pug that raid. That’s how World of Warcraft works! I’ll be done in less than a month.”
And of course it would actually end in them giving up in frustration a month later, around level 40 and with no prospect of having a mount anytime soon, with the parts of the game they thought of as “just the tutorial” dragging on and on and trying to get them to engage as if the game was about something other than raiding…but they’d make the game less pleasant for everyone else until they quit.
Honestly the really big transmog hunters are extremely dedicated, and honestly trying to us Classic as transmog farm would be the most inefficient way of farming these looks, of which, honestly I don’t think there are really that many that you can’t get much easier in Current, and that’s why honestly the ones that are the most serious would likely just make their own guilds with goals like that in mind.
Which would leave the average Joe who has no idea about any of that, and just thinks" Oh Classic is soooo old, it will be sooooo easy for me to get xx transmog" who would be the ones ninjaing, if they even made into a group that was doing the content.
Just way too much work, when you can just play the game you are already playing and get the appearance there.
Of course, all of that is 100% moot anyway since this is not going to happen anyway, so my dreams of having every cooking recipe in the game get to stay just that, a dream,lol.
I already replied with Blizzard’s answer – “No” – but I’m going to add a few things.
Cataclysm removed a lot of gear when the levels of the mobs in the revamped zones changed: the biggees off the top of my head are Chromatic Sword and Cho’s Robes (or wev it’s called) from STV and Desolace respectively.
In WoD, the Salvage Yard offered you a chance at having gear no long attainable drop. Not even close to a guarantee, just a chance. Instead of bugging Blizzard to allow stuff from Classic be linked to Current, try asking for a similar method. Island Expeditions, chests (that would be ONLY available in Current) that have these items around the proper zones, profession recipes for said NLA stuff that drop from old-world mobs, even Archeaology rewards — there’s many ways this could happen. C’mon, guys, think outside the box a little!
So op just to prove my point, here is one person who admits they have no interest in classic.
But if they added mog transfers would play the game.
This is why stuff like this needs to be avoided
You are kidding yourself if you think there wouldn’t be multiple people coming back PURELY for an ultra rare drop from one of the hardest raids ever put into the game in Corrupted Ashbringer. The idea that it would take an enormous amount of time and effort for just that one transmog item would only ENHANCE their desire to try and get it, specifically so they could stand around in town showing off their “so rare as to potentially be considered unique” level transmog. The difficulty in getting the item, and the rarity that results is a FEATURE of the xmog to them.
Which was avaiable as a skin for the Paladin artifact weapon, but I never said they would not come just for that.
But if they added another skin in current or added another way to get it(TW) then what I said is still true, much easier to get it in Current than to hope you get in a
Lol no, they just want to get the appearance, if there is a more efficient way to do it, they will do that . Course there will always be that one that thinks that being a Scarab Lord would be an easy thing.
People VASTLY overestimate how many items/appearances would be sought after, most have ended up either at the Faire, TW, or just re added.
But for the ones that for now are not available like the CA, I would really imagine if enough of them were into transmog they would jsut form their own guild.
Not just no but F no.
And defias set LOL. Try blowing two entire months on a mount all day every day doing same retarded Q only to have it become a 20 day one quest a day daily.