Blizzard is backing itself into a strange spot of making the oddest stuff also the premium stuff. So there will be an audience who are most out-of-theme who are also the most lucrative to cater to.
Also, unlock holiday mogs for all year around, I would like to wear my bunny ear during easter time not after.
Forget addons, the base WoW UI color codes class nameplates.
Let all of my characters dress like rogues and use swords, blizz!
As a firm defender of the armor class I say.
Break it. Blizzard you’ve already ruined it so let us transmog w/e even class sets. Don’t pretend it matters. Break it all.
I don’t use any of those mogs (yet) but I firmly embrace both sides. My shammies embrace thier elements, my druids are primitive but also like this hunter some are less… restrictive. My mage is a lush, my pally wears skulls and my LFD 'lock “shows all thier tattoos”. More freedom is always better.
I think I agree with this, but I’m not completely sure. I find I enthusiastically collect silly mogs but balk at actually leaving my garrison wearing one. (Unless it’s a darkmoon temporary fish head).
(But again, I lean towards “it’s none of my business what other people wear”)
Those are class locked, so armor type doesn’t matter.
If it really were just “one silly item”, you might have a point. However, in terms of armor appearance, Blizzard threw that immersion out the window back in WoD, with the introduction of the appearance sets available from the garrison’s Dwarven Bunker (Alliance) and War Mill (Horde) buildings.
As the above linked site illustrates, several of the transmog sets are completely out of ‘class appearance’ character…especially the Alliance’s “Stormwind” set, which allows you to deck ANY class out in full plate. Ever since this came out, Blizzard has slowly been blurring the lines between armor types, to the point now that those lines are now pretty much obliterated with most of the monthly appearance releases from the Trading Post.