Before I begin, I understand some of you will stick with these reasons: Class Fantasy, Lore reason, being able to tell in PvP who is which class, and the vast majority that just say “No” but it’s halfway 2025 and soon to be 2026 when Midnight releases. I just believe they should do away with Transmog restrictions, let a mage transmog into plate and 2h-mace so they can be a battlemage, or a death knight into cloth and staves to be a necromancer. I’ve noticed how repetitive the theme for each tier set is, if restrictions were to be lifted, then perhaps the developers and art team might be able to have more freedom to create different sets. Like a cloth-necromancer themed tier set for death knights. Heck, even let the shamans and warriors use monk lookalike transmog to create avatar-themed or blademaster-themed characters. What do you guys think? Should Blizzard do away with transmog restrictions?
I hope one day I can mog pants on my head
No. Nope. Don’t want.
It’s already hell trying to sort through a billion shirts when I only have to look through the leather ones. Throw in the other three armor classes and the transmog UI will be completely unusable.
Yes, I think they should.
Yep.
I used to advocate to keep class sets as class sets, but when I was able to transmog my warrior into the Nighthold DK set, I started wondering why it mattered. And then they unlocked the class “sets” they put into Remix and on the Trading Post.
But if people want to keep class sets, I’m not going to argue.
The rest of it? Just let people wear what they want.
Only on RP realms sure! Because in non-RP realms there’s no such thing as a battlemage.
Why wait until Midnight?
Armor type restrictions are beyond pointless by now. Even setting aside the glut of type-agnostic Cosmetic sets in the game today, armor type restrictions have never made any sense from any “Immersion” perspective.
NPCs from the most generic grunts to the epitomes of classes violate these restrictions all over the place. Thrall is the shaman, but has worn everything but mail over his many redesigns, going from plate in Vanilla, to cloth in Cataclysm, to cloth over plate in WoD, to leather and plate in BFA. His Alliance opposite, Nobundo, has almost exclusively worn cloth in all appearances across the entire history of the game. I still remember a poster in WoD who came to the forums for guidance on how to replicate the outfit worn by one of her garrison followers of the same class and even spec as her character, and had to be turned away disappointed because the follower’s entire outfit was cloth on a rogue.
And that’s when you can tell the difference between armor types at all. Early WoW had numerous pieces of gear that got reused across multiple armor types, robes have a tendency to look like cloth regardless of what armor class they belong to, and you go look at the entire collection of appearances from Battle of Dazar’alor and Uldir and try to tell which ones are what armor types without looking them up.
People always go on about how “people should look like the class they are,” as if we haven’t been able to look like other classes through mogging since Day 1 because Blizzard has been recycling tier set appearances as regular raid loot drops since Wrath. The reason we don’t already see this running rampant isn’t because players can’t pretend to be other classes with their mogs, it’s because by and large, most players want to look like the class they’re playing, just perhaps with a different twist than what’s currently doable.
Barbarian warriors in leather harnesses, cunning rogues in discreet street clothes, a battle mage who just wants to beef their mystical robes up with an armored gauntlet and pauldron. All of these exist within the Warcraft world already, and are entirely appropriate to their class fantasies, but are extremely limited if not outright impossible to achieve within the rigid single-type mog system.
Free the mogs.
Boy, I would sure love if they did this, but I have my doubts that they ever would. The argument that classes should maintain consistent visual themes went out the window when we got Dark Iron mages wearing their clearly plate heritage armor and everyone being able to wear magical girl uniforms, anyway.
I mean… we have edible pants so… why not? I’d actually be amused to see this.
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They could also just add filters for armor types.
Weapons yes.
Armor no.
I’m kinda okay with the transmog restrictions. Now, if they let us transmog gloves, boots, and bracers for each side like we can transmog shoulders, that’s something I’d really like to see.
Oh, and a complete overhaul of the tabard system, so they no longer have to use a design mirrored and we can finally get proper tabards that are asymmetrical, like a Lordaeron L tabard or a real Silver Hand tabard (not a Silver Rook/Fist).
Yes.
Or at the very least get rid of all the holiday mog restrictions.
I say lift the transmog limitations with 1 restriction. You cannot transmog a current tier set for a different class. Once the season ends, free reign then. Otherwise it would look odd for classes sporting another tier’s set.
Yes BUT as to not create drama between collectors and players needing the gear to run higher content, only be allowed to cross mog gear + expac away from the current one, so we could for example cross xmog gear from SL expansion on back to Vanilla. It drives up replayability for collectors and now ppl want alts for other classes to max out their Transmog wardrobe. Restricting that ability from the most current content will kill beefs between players and also makes sense as that far back in expansions everything can be soloed in instances and raids.
Absolutely.
There is literally no reason not to do away with them. Yeti and murloc pajamas that any class can wear exist, multiple magical girl outfits exist that any class can wear.
I’m convinced that the only people that want to hang onto the restrictions are just contrarians at this point.
Yep, absolutely. Aside from class specific restrictions on things like tier sets, artifact weapons, etc. Everything else should be open.
Nope. Dont like that at all.
Yeah but that requires you to know the name of whatever piece you’re looking for.
I don’t search for items based on their name I search for items based on vibes.