My point was that beginning in Burning Crusade, all players were able to purchase the PvP Gear. This isn’t something new they added to Classic.
I’m a little confused… are you suggesting that a Rogue can use a Druid’s PvP gear as their transmog? Or that a Hunter can use a Shaman’s?
So, Rank 14 unlocked the weapons and shield. So, yes, in order to have the entire PvP set, you would have to reach Rank 14. You even mention that here:
I’d be curious to hear where you got that information regarding its implementation time because I can’t seem to find information on it in any patch notes; I’m going off memory.
What original version? Cataclysm?
You’re just now noticing and taking problem with how Classic has blatantly been diverted away from what these expansions were actually like? Where have you been for the last five years?
Yea but you were NEVER allowed to mog into it in original Cata. And in original Cata you needed to have RBG rating to do so and had to get replica gear instead while those other pieces were unmoggable. Then you could mog them in Cata final patch of 4.3 Twighlight Which was still restricted to R8 and above and only for the class that got R8 or above during Cata and beyond. They put Twighlight features in from start of Cata Classic just like they put Wrathgate features in at the start of Wrath Classic.
At the end of the day, anyone who completed the Rank 14 (or below) grind earned a title(s), and various pieces of gear that many players dreamt of getting one day.
With the release of TBC Classic, every player had the same opportunity to obtain this gear. The exact same thing happened in Vanilla → Burning Crusade.
Cataclysm Classic introduced the ability to Transmog it earlier than it initially was. You didn’t provide a source to say it was possible in 4.3, but that’s irrelevant. However, the thing to remember is that MANY things introduced/implemented in Classic throughout the years were early - heck, some VERY early.
Just to boil it all down… You’re upset because you wanted the exclusive prestige a little longer?
Very obvious from your post that you know nothing about any version of WoW outside of your current Cata Classic. Even in WoW retail today in The War Within you still to this day cannot get a single piece of that gear and mog it onto a toon that did not earn it, yet in Cata Classic you can. It is well over a decade since Cata ended and we STILL to this day are unable to mog a single piece of the old style Classic gear that we did not earn. You earn it, then you can mog it. but not until you do. Why cant millions of people who play retail over the years be able to mog that stuff that they didn’t earn but all you play this knockoff mockery version of Cata can mog to that stuff?
Same with original TBC. That was when the paladin Blood Knight BG PvP set was released and you had less than a single weekened to earn it in original TBC and had to play all day everyday for less time than the prepatch even lasted and even then, you got the red set but could not mog it and didnt get any titles with it. My paladin in retail has that full set that I got back then and have now unobtainable gear from that time period too all changed to ilvl 29. It is the Warlord Lamellar set that I still have and even now to this day am unable to transmog it on, but in Cata Classic, you can do that that for a BE pally if you want even if it did not earn it.
You also were not able to mog regular level 60 BG gear, it was the replica items only that you could mog and the entire set is unlocked for mog at R8, NOT R14. If you earned the titles in original 60 R8 or above then you could mog as well but needed to get replica PvP gear. And yea as it stands even to this day of late October 2024, you still cannot mog to non replice PvP level 60 Classic gear and when you didn’t earn it yet in Cata you can.
So what is this all about saying how it came early in Cata? It hasn’t even come to be possible in the main version of the game yet.
I just logged into my paladin that still has that old set from TBC era and was not able to mog it, in Cata I can mog it. Isn’t that something. Now quit lying to me by telling me you think this is a “classic” game because by every definition it is not.
This isn’t about what you can and cannot do in retail. We’re discussing Cataclysm Classic.
It’s been 12 years, hardly “well over” a decade.
Where did I EVER say anything to the contrary?
This is a mess… I’m going to assume you’re asking why players can’t transmog that gear on retail, but on Classic, they can.
I. Don’t. Know. I never said I did, nor did I say anything to the contrary.
Yes… that’s my POINT. My goodness.
I don’t even know what you’re trying to say here.
So I take it they removed the RBG rating as a possible prerequisite?
I know. That’s what I transmogged back in MoP.
I said you UNLOCKED weapons and the shield with Rank 14.
So, basically you’re butthurt about this.
TBC Era… as in Retail…? Considering there is no TBC Era.
I don’t think I’ve heard anyone complain so much about something so insignificant.
LOL - when did I say I thought it was a “classic” game? You’re just putting words in my mouth, and it shows lack of direction on your part. There’s no real reason to carry on with this conversation anymore.
I was talking about original TBC and you know it. How else could I have said I got that TBC pally gear and yet am still unable to mog it today in TWW. Era means time period. It does not only refer to Classic servers that Blizzard made. I said I got gear that is original TBC gear and you are trying to make it seem as though I said I got it in Classic TBC.
And I made it very clear in my post here that I was talking about a retail toon, not one made in Classic.
Yea and I am saying how this version is far different from the original version.
No. I am saying they should not be allowed to mog that gear in Classic Cata without having unlocked it first.
I told you the time period in which I got that gear which was long before RBGs even existed.