Why are weapon transmog rules so weird for cloth classes 
Hello guys, I’m a priest main, and honestly… I don’t get why the transmog system is still so restrictive when it comes to weapons.
Why can’t I mog my staff into a dagger, a mace, or even a wand — all of which priests can use? I’ve worked hard collecting these appearances, but I’m stuck just because of some arbitrary weapon-type rule? That feels unfair.
What’s the point of having these appearances if we can’t actually use them the way we want?
And let’s be real — cloth classes like priests, mages, and warlocks already get the shortest end of the stick when it comes to weapon variety. Meanwhile, classes like warriors or dracthyrs get access to many kinds of weapon types and awesome mog options.
Please, Blizzard, let us mog any weapon type our class can use! It would mean so much for customization and creativity. 
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Probably just because it’s 1 two-hand item vs. 2 one-hand items. Same applies to other classes e.g. dual one-hand swords can’t be transmogged as a two-hand sword.
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It’s frustrating that a priest can’t mog a mace or wand into a dagger, but a wand can be mogged into both maces and daggers.
I remember something about combat animations being the reasoning, but then you look at warriors mogging 2hand swords into staves, and all logic goes out the window.
Really should be updated!
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I think it’s an actual coding problem displaying a two handed weapon as a single handed one. Now you need to display an off-hand but you can’t equip one.
That’s still transmogging a two-hand to a two-hand. Whatever the reason, that’s clearly where the line is drawn.
Please read carefully — I wasn’t just talking about staves.
You can’t transmog a dagger into a mace or a wand.
You also can’t transmog a mace into a dagger or wand.
This isn’t just about staves — the game has some really strange restrictions even within one-handed weapons. That’s the frustrating part.
The game seems to handle axes, swords and maces as functionally the same thing. You can transmog any of them into an item from that same group, but daggers and wands are separate groups of their own.
It can be done with Legion Artifact Appearances I noticed.
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2h into 1h or vice versa doesn’t make much sense, but I’m infinitely more annoyed that we can’t transmog 1h into other 1h weapons, like swords into daggers or wands, or the other way around.
Those also have their own unique flag.
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All 1h being moggable on to each other would make much more sense, it would also be neat to mog 1h onto 2h.
Ya 2hander to 2hander. I was adding more info to the discussion. My point was that the combat animations was the reasoning I’ve read about before. I don’t think 2hander swords have the same animations as a staff.
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If you transmog a wand to a sword or dagger and attempt to physically attack with it, you get an error message.
I feel like the answer is in there somewhere. 
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Yep, there is probably some esoteric technical reason.
As a Holy Paladin, I can transmog a 1H and shield into a 2H mace, which is obviously an exception to the rule, but also makes the rule much more arbitrary and pointless, in my opinion.
However, I have much more extreme views on lifting transmog restrictions in that I believe we should be able to transmog anything into anything else, e.g., cloth to plate, 2H weapon to 1H and shield, etc.
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Yes, dreams…
I very like a lot of paladin sets, I would love to wear them, but I only play as a priest 
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As a rogue I second this. Daggers can only be transmoged into other daggers, that’s it. So as sub/assassination we only get to use daggers with other daggers while our class as a whole can use 1h swords, 1h axes, 1h maces, and fist weapons.
It can be coded fine, they already did it with legion artifact skins. A monk can tmog dual wield fist weapons into an artifact staff, for example. Or a lock with a staff can tmog it into an artifact dagger and offhand.
They are just choosing not to allow it for normal weapons, for whatever goofy reason.
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When I began my hunt that I still have now in WoW it started using leather, warrior with mail and pally too. Up until around level 40 or so until I paid the gold to lean how to use better. My hunt still has all the leather it used to have. So… be cool if every class that began the game using a lesser armour type could mog to those… from time to time my mog glitches (Blizz hates that word so I guess…bug) and when it does I can mog to wrong faction or have mogged armour types I am not meant to. So yea we should be able to have more freedom in how we mog. Orc warrior on Illidan server runs around with Grand Marshal gear mogged to it for example.
I can’t transmog a dagger into a regular staff, but I CAN transmog it into the artifact appearances I have for priests that are staves (the holy and disc ones). So it’s all very weird.