Can you tell if I’m using Arena S2 or T5 or off-set items?
What about folks like Hunters that are going to be rocking their dungeon set for a long while for the ArP bonus? Or Druids still using the Wolfshead Helm?
Also how do you know I won’t xmog the highest tier? I would love to not be mixing the Rogue looks (blades, blacks, reds, and skulls) with the Druid looks (bark, feathers, vines, and flowers), but I won’t have that option without xmog. The only way to actually wear the matching gear for Druid tier is to be a Resto Druid, and even then it isn’t BiS or worthwhile to do so and you end up mixing and matching cloth pieces with the rest.
This.
I can’t look like a Shredder-clone unless I’m a Rogue, I’ve done all of SSC/TK, and I’ve actually gotten those gear pieces.
No one is going to be ooo-ing and aah-ing over a Paladin still rocking 8/8 T2 because it was exceptionally common already in Classic and we’ve all seen it.
Hi, I’m a Druid, you haven’t been able to do this since forever.
Hi, I’m a Druid, we never look cool in our perpetual clown suits.
Oh my Lord, the sets are beautiful. Or maybe beautiful is in the eye of the beholder, but looking like mismatched scrubs is hilarious and an important part of the experience where your goal is just to find good gear that doesn’t resemble a rainbow.
Likely because it creates an inconsistencies. If I comment on something that you don’t see, it can be a jarring experience. It’s the same reason folks hated layering because they could be in the same area and be reporting vastly different events.
Also, it increases the amount of testing required since you’ll have to test everything once for what the “real gear shown” then test again with “fake transmog gear shown.” This would basically be more work on the QA team and could delay release over a development lifecycle and introduce bugs for a system that didn’t even exist in the TBC time.
Tell me all the projects you worked on as a developer when the client says “It should be easy to implement, so just add that to the next sprint” that you enjoyed developing for and get back to me
I wouldn’t mind a version of transmog where only the player can see it. I remember back in the day I used some software that changed my Tauren from male to female.
Druids are obviously an edge case when it comes to their relationship to the civilized world as opposed to other classes.
I know. I’m so sorry. xD
I absolutely couldn’t agree more with you!! In the context of modern game design, yeah, it’s kind of unfortunate that we have to spend so much time looking ridiculous before we can look at our characters and actually think we look cool… But that’s older game design for you. Sometimes you have to be the moron running around with a pan on his head and a pot lid as your shield because it creates so much satisfaction when you throw them down and pick up some REAL cool-looking gear.
This is a really weird thing to care about, but it’s one of the reasons why modern MMOs just feel strange to me. From the very first level, you might not look like a heroic paragon of strength and power, but you look a little too good. Maybe my head is too stuck in the old days, but I really love the fact that you used to start off looking poor and ragged. These games are so visual, and the look of your character is way more impactful to the gameplay experience than people give it credit for.
Not at all. I love shapeshifting and disguises in WoW. But don’t even try to pretend that they’re so common that they make up even a tenth of all the players you come into contact with. xD
It could be that appearance changing items and spells didn’t impact my gameplay so much over the years because PvP was never a really big focus for me, but even in PvP situations, it’s been VERY useful to know what I’m up against. In fact, I met one of my very best WoW friends during Wrath because I was being ganked by someone whose level I couldn’t see, but I was able to recognize the specific tier of PvP set the guy was wearing, so calling for help actually attracted someone who, unlike others at the time, was looking for a real challenge.
I digress. Transmog is really cool, but mostly only for me personally. Other people have some really cool looks made up, but I’d much rather know what they’re actually wearing.
EDIT: I should add that I really hate homogenized sets of gear in WoW. It’s really lazy and gave me the first taste of the frustration that would come to be a commonplace experience in retail: Not knowing what the hell you’re looking at. It’s just bad for class fantasy too.
I mean, you’re not wrong. But it doesn’t change the fact that Blizzard had intended for each set to be a coherent look for each of the classes. Just because they didn’t itemize things properly for that to happen in all cases, it doesn’t mean that it wasn’t the intended way for things to work. Transmog is a very weak solution for gear that wasn’t as good as the devs intended it to be.
Cosmetic things are really not important. I have had a max level Tauren since wrath and I have no idea what the tail looks like or if you can change its appearance. I’ve had male pandas as well and had no idea if they had a tail at all until my wife confirmed it. I have a lot of mog collection stuff on retail but that’s just cuz I’m super lucky with drops and wanted to raise my achievement point number. I didn’t mog at all until that system was introduced. I still couldn’t tell by looking what set was from what raid as I’ve never cared or been impressed by sets. Never looked in awe. Looked at health to figure out pvp related things. Tier has always been something people who take the game too seriously see as a way to flex epeen. I just lawl at the people who think level 5s gawk at them for their matching armor. No one cares. No one ever has.
and the orb of deception
the orb of sindorei - blood elf
noggenfogger elixir - skellie
pygmy oil - crazy gnome pygmy
time lost figurine - the arrakoa statue thing that turns you into an arrakoa
dartol’s rod of transformation - the fetish thing that turns you into a furbolg
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