Not to mention store sets, certain factions sets and heritage armors ignore gear restrictions.
The gear restrictions will be lifted. It’s just a matter of when Blizzard wants to cash in on it.
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So why not make it a major selling feature of this future expansion?
Cool good talk. 
To everything else? Even gnomes being able to zoom out enough to actually see their weapons in the interface? Yeesh, I know people around here like to be contrary for the sake of being contrary, but dang, girl.
The funny thing about “destroying the RPG” whenever it’s presented as an argument is that the people who make it seem to have very specific ideas about what makes an RPG that rarely lines up with mine. It was the same line that kept getting used to defend the trashfire of locked in Covenant choices in Shadowlands, and it’s just as wrongheaded now.
The point of an RPG is to build an experience where roleplaying and game mechanics coexist harmoniously, which sometimes means getting out of each others’ way. That is the entire point of transmog as a system in the first place, and way back in the days, in the ye old Appearance Tab series of threads on the pre-Cata Suggestion Forums and Cataclysm’s General Discussion that predated transmogrification’s addition to the game, we faced the exact same arguments that being allowed to separate our gear’s appearance from its stats would ruin the RPG. That appearance and game stats were inseparable facets of each item in the game, and being able to look like you were wearing something other than what you actually were would tear down the foundations of the experience.
It was wrong then, and it’s wrong now. Being able to customize how your character looks is one of the most fundamental aspects of an RPG, and armor type restrictions on transmog only hamper that. These restrictions have no basis in lore. NPCs from the highest lore characters to the lowest generic NPCs break them willy-nilly, and it can be practically impossible to distinguish many items’ armor type in the first place solely by looking at them.
The fear that always comes up is that without armor type restrictions, we’d have tanks in dresses, and mages in plate. Well, sorry to be the one to break it to you, but we already have the ability for people to do that. The Valentine’s event dresses are cosmetic items moggable by anyone at any time now, and the Alliance in particular has multiple cosmetic set options between the Stormwind Guard set from WoD and the Dark Iron and Lightfore Draenei heritage sets where any class can be wearing head to toe plate armor.
The reason we don’t see people constantly breaking their class aesthetics isn’t because it’s not possible, but because by and large players want to look like their class, or at least an interpretation of it. By and large, most of the use of these expanded options would most likely be for adding flair to sets that are otherwise primarily within the class’s main armor type, because those are the gear sets designed to evoke that fantasy. Battle mages augmenting their robes with a heavy plate shoulder and protective gauntlet, holy paladins borrowing a lighter robe from their priest friend’s wardrobe, a rogue who just can’t find the right matching set of boots in leather, but there’s a perfect fit in mail.
And even if we do end up seeing the occasional mage walking through town in the purple Judgement recolor from BC, y’know what? We should have exactly as much say in how that person dresses in-game as we do in how they dress IRL:
None.
I was so excited for the Blood Hunter set when it was previewed, and I thought those red lines down the legs were part of the belt.
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Because Blizzard is saving it for a rainy day.
They could remove restrictions at any time, if they wanted to.
Holy Paladin here. Shield of the Righteous is still linked to having a shield equipped (WHY BLIZZARD!?!?!?!)
If it gets me a bowl of sweets.
Removing restrictions from armor is stupid, give it a rest. Mogging is my favourite thing to do in game, but that’s ridiculous to ask for that.
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I’m actually really not a fan of removing the restrictions to Transmogs.
Being only able to wear a certain type of armor adds to class fantasy and helps give a player more of an identity.
I don’t want to start seeing Mages walking around in full Death Knight gear, so dumb.
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Classes mogging to look like other classes has always been possible from day 1 because class tier lookalikes have existed since BC, and has only gotten easier over time. Mages have always been able to mog like necromancers because warlock gear has always existed. Paladins and death knights, two of the most opposite classes in the game, have always been able to steal each other’s tier set appearances.
Yet we hardly ever see people do this, not because it’s impossible, but because most people want to look like the class they’re playing, or even a more specific version of it. If they wanted to look like those other classes, they’d be playing them.
You talk about class fantasy, but being armor restrictions actually inhibit it more than help. Think of the myriad NPCs in this game who ostensibly (or sometimes even explicitly) belong to certain player classes, yet have iconic looks that cross those restriction lines. Orc, tauren, and troll warriors (including both Cairne and Baine) frequently wear a majority of leather gear. Thrall is the shaman, but has worn basically everything but mail throughout his many incarnations. Most shaman NPCs if not wearing an explicit shaman tier set are wearing leather or even cloth. WoD’s garrison followers had explicit player classes and even specs, and violated those armor restrictions all over the place.
Armor appearance restrictions are not supported by the lore, routinely and even iconically violated by NPCs, and don’t even actually stop the thing they’re supposedly there to prevent. They should go.
Ever since I made him on MoP, I’ve been trying to make my Lock look like a Demon Hunter. This would facilitate it.
No
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Yeti pajamas say “hello”
A once in a lifetime promotiolal item is not justificstion to turn wow into a privateserver
I wonder how rainy the day has to be in order for some of these things to be implemented.
Then the korthia sets, which also can be worn by anyone.
Seeing a mage wearing plate would be jarring. It doesn’t make any sense and would hurt the immersion of the game.
Exactly but people and their “I want to be and wear whatever I want” is the cancer thats gonna ruin the game for the actual players.
Except you already can do that with many sets, maw sets, korthia sets, the Stormwind guard. The restrictions you talk are BS
It would become much more pervasive. It makes sense for casters to look like casters.
She got into the factory that makes water mellon flavored candy
Mages wearing armor makes less sense to you than the idea that learning how to cast Firebolt suddenly renders an individual incapable of putting on steel toed boots?
Summer’s over, you can take your slip and slide off that slope.
Yeah! Casters should never wear anything heavier than cloth robes!
Unless they’re holy paladins, then they should never wear cloth robes!
…or shaman!
…or evokers!
…or druids!
…or monks!
But aside from those 5 outliers, it only makes sense for spellcasters to wear exclusively cloth, as the vast majority of 3 classes demonstrates!