Its interesting that blizzard made the Warglaives of Azzinoth only transmogrifiable by Demon Hunters and its kinda lame. They are technically (one handed) swords. Not apart of the Warglaive weapon type. I think it’d be nice if they made it so everyone who can use one handed swords could transmog into them. Thoughts?
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Warglaives of Azzinoth are not warglaives? That’s funny.
I think it’s the other way around. They’re technically not swords but they were classified as such because at the time there were no DH or plans to implement them.
I think they should stay unique to DH for the lore aspect. DH specifically trained to use these weapons and no other class did.
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It sucks they took our weapon, but Warglaives are now class identity and it wouldn’t be right if every sword class could use them as transmog.
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Warglaives should have never been implemented as a unique weapon type. They should have been added as an aesthetic type for Swords for the sake of Demon Hunters, and that’s all.
The way they handled it resulted in the traditional Sentinel Glaive model being exclusive to Demon Hunters, which is insane.
I don’t actually have a problem with the transmoggable Warglaives of Azzinoth being DH-specific though.
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They were classed as swords simply because the warglaive weapon type didn’t exist at the time. But I’m sure if it did, it would have been classed as such.
Fun fact. DH was originally meant to be a vanilla class but got cut.
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Warriors are literally masters of ALL weapons according to lore.
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It’s fine that Warglaives of Azzinoth are DH only. Them making 1h swords back over 10 years ago when they probably didn’t even know they’d be making DH’s / warglaives an actual thing is okay. It’s an oversight.
It’s fine that was course corrected in the manner that it was and demon hunters have something for themselves.
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What lore? Just because they can equip a wand and bow doesn’t mean they’re going to do max dps with it.
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The truth is that we should have had Demon Hunter since Burning Crusade, but Blizzard had to spend effort balancing Horde and Alliance getting Paladins and Shaman respectively instead due to the admittedly justified whining.
Warglaives should have never been swords. It was a mistake, just like many decisions made during BC. Legion thankfully retconned many of the wrongs of BC (the handling of Illidan for instance) and finally brought us the DHs wielding Warglaives we deserved.
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No surprise that OP is rogue lmao. Imho, them being exclusive is fine. Warglaives are DH weapons.
I wouldn’t care if they opened them back up either. That’s not something worth whining over.
Rogues get exclusive daggers constantly but OP is malding that some other class DARES get something they want? It’s hilarious.
Rogue, and especially Hunter, have received the most exclusive loot of any class in the game. And the entitlement is still of the charts - the pandering has in many ways made players of these classes worse about their entitlement, not better.
Lmfao. This topic got me thinking about to current state of leggos though.
Should we go back to them being rare drops that only some classes can use?
I was going to go on a rant about how awful that idea sounds to me, but puke face I think does the most justice to how I feel about that idea, lol.
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The thing is, it probably wouldn’t be a valid argument because we have items like that in the game right now lmao. And I have yet to see any real complaints. I guess it’s just the orange text that would piss people off 
Oh, I know.
Jaithys, Gavel, Old Warrior’s Soul, Edge of Night, we’ve had “legendary in all but color” items with pumped up ilvl and cracked effects.
However, its worth saying that because they’re epic, they drop with a drop-rate equal to an epic. From what we’ve seen with the Sylvanas bow, Blizzard makes Legendaries more rare. Which seems like from a distance that limits the influence of those items, but the reality is that it makes it such that player performance is massively beholden to this extra layer on RNG. Sylvanas bow would have been a nightmare if it was actually very strong.
Imagine if you couldn’t get above the Rank One cut-off because fate denied you a legendary that massively impacted your power. Unlike Gavel, you can’t get the Sylvanas bow in your Vault. A leggo would be a nightmare to deal with.
Aside from demon hunters, only rogues who have unlocked them for a demon hunter and have them in their possession should be able to transmog them.
Tell that to my warrior and rogue that used them successfully for years.
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I think it’s dumb that it’s DH class only, warriors and rogues were there to pierce the heart of the Black Temple and defeat Illidan in battle to claim his glaives as their trophies.
Perfectly reasonable for them to be able to transmog them.
Just like Shadowmourne can be transmogged by classes other than Death Knights despite it being a runeblade.
They might claim them as trophies but they aren’t proficient with them as an exotic weapon to use in battle. If you want to walk around Oribos with them that’s cool, but don’t expect to wield them well.
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I already addressed that. 