I’d be down with that, but I’d also add one caveat. Let us transmog the SLOT instead of the item itself. DCUO had that function with transmog from the beginning, and it’s so convenient.
We had a mega-thread about transmogging which got it in game in the first place, and in it, we asked for this very thing. To be fair, they did implement transmogging with most of the functionality we asked for originally. One thing we asked for then was grey/white quality gear to be used, too.
right… because I can’t wait to attack a warlock in all cloth gear… only to find out I actually just attacked a full PVP-Plate wearing arms warrior and get absolutely destroyed.
this seems fair and in no way incredibly misleading and game breaking for PVP…
So, you’re dumb enough to go by what people look like rather than their actions and abilities? Oh, isn’t there something else really small for you to tell… THE FRACKING HEALTH BAR AND TOOLTIP…
Honestly, your argument is the same one we heard during the mega-thread of transmogging. “Don’t do transmogrification, Blizzard! I won’t be able to tell who I’m capable of beating up at a glance, and it’s just not fair if a high level player makes it look like they’re a scrub, because I’ll lose!”
Is this a warlock, a priest, or a mage I guess they just die (yes I’m plugging more mog that currently exists that doesn’t fit the “texture brand” of weights to illustrate how god damn silly this argument about breaking immersion is).
I don’t really care what FFXIV does but it sounds like they are also employing equally arbitrary restrictions. WoW should strive to do better; either adhere to their transmog philosophy (which they are already violating with their cash store transmogs) or open the doors.
How is it dumb? Even with the transmog restrictions we have right now, you can still look like a cloth wearer as a plate wearer. Like the starry store cosmetic, or the Nightborne heritage armor. Plenty of NPCs also use armor that they wouldnt be able to if they were players, like Anduin whos a plate wearing priest, Tyrande who wears plate as a priestess/night warrior, etc. Less notable NPCs Ive seen are druids who wear cloth, hunters that wear leather, and more.
Also, its fantasy! If I wanna run around and wear leather as a mail wearer, or cloth as a plate wearer, then I should be able to. I really dont think its THAT big of a deal.
For what it’s worth, ESO lets you mog all weights and weapon types to all things, and you can’t even see people’s classes in tooltip, and all classes can wear all armor types anyway, so there’s a wild amount of variation to account for in the first place. Somehow this has not broken the PvP at all.
(Plenty of other things did, lol, but not that thing.)
This is some rather clothy looking plate gear that I could just slap together. I sure hope no one gets confused and think it’s a warlock before getting slapped around by a sword or whatever.
None of that looks like cloth, lmao. The shark jaw doesn’t fit into any armor type, and the boots look like wood/vine/bark, but nothing looks like cloth armor unless you’re picking at bits of cloth sticking out from under a piece of plate armor like the chest.
You’re right, it does look more like druid/dh gear but that wouldn’t help me continue to poke fun at the guy who would think someone using two giant swords was a warlock.
Most people who want this have seen the funky chickens and UwU outfits they have there, and want them in Warcraft. The fact is I don’t know of a big name MMO that doesn’t have armor restrictions.
Health already does a fine job of letting you know how geared someone is. I fail to see how being restricted to a transmog type tells you how squishy someone is. If anything it’s completely out of the window, a cloth healer is harder to kill than someone in plate armor currently.
(yes I’m plugging more mog that currently exists that doesn’t fit the “texture brand” of weights to illustrate how god damn silly this argument about breaking immersion is).
