Agree, it’s a horrible feature.
IMO, the original WoW design was about community, and a goal was to gain respect/status within that community, which was visually represented by the gear you wore. Everyone could take one look at you and tell how much effort you had put into the game and how successful your guild had been. It motivated people, drove them to play and put forth more effort, because they wanted to gain that respect/status, too.
Transmog, along with having different versions of the same gear from different versions of the same raids (introduced in WotLK), destroyed that dynamic. They were short-sighted concessions given to lazy, jealous players who wanted to feel special, too, but by trying to make everyone feel special, they ended up with nobody feeling special. If everyone is driving a Ferrari, nobody cares anymore that you are driving a Ferrari, so what’s the point?
It was just one more step down the path to destroying the game’s community and ruining the game.
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there are plenty of classes/specs where the “god gear” is a mishmash of pieces that don’t match and look like an absolute stupid clownsuit. So many off-tier pieces have art that’s either explicitly recycled from, or might as well be recycled from, greens 40 levels lower. Try looking at what some of the best AQ and Naxx gear for spriest/fury warriors looks like, especially worn together. Awful.
Looking appealing matters to plenty of people, and it’s great they added a system to let people enjoy that.
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They only did it because Rogues were still having flashbacks from some of the headgear from BC.
Sounds so innocent, like a lot of the other things people asked for that destroyed the community and ruined the game.
Problem is, by making the appearance of gear insignificant, you make every toon’s entire appearance within the community insignificant. With transmog, there’s no reason to even look at other characters anymore, because you can’t tell what they are wearing by looking at them. You can’t tell what they’ve done or what they’ve accomplished.
It’s a terrible idea, in a community game where everyone’s accomplishments are represented by the gear they wear, to make the appearance of that gear not matter.
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the appearance of my gear is already insignificant. my sandreaver leggings look identical to a level 30 green “of the whale” mail legs. Are you really staking your “sense of community” on the stupid two brown lines on you waist when you’re wearing onslaught girdle? give me a break.
I don’t feel like inspecting peoples’ gear gives me a “sense of community”. I feel like it’s something I do to see if someone is ready to go to a raid or not. if your “community” comes from feeling special because you have the special gear, that’s a you problem, not a “community” problem.
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Transmog was awesome. Some of us put a lot of work into our look and we like being able to have it. People can notice and tell who you are if uou have a creative transmog before they can even read your name.
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Transmog is great in retail. Provides replayability for vets, offers a reason for new players to explore old raids/dungeons. Also it allows a person to put some personal flair on and make their character truly their own. While I think it has no business in classic, it is an amazing feature in retail
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I’m not saying this one thing makes for community. It’s a bunch of little things. And one by one they were stripped away by Blizzard giving in to short-sighted people like you who argued that there would be no negative effects to each little QoL change, until eventually the sense of community was destroyed.
Nah. I love transmog. It lets me make my character appear however I want, instead of having to wear a clown suit of mismatched pieces because those mismatched pieces have the best stats.
I would love to wear this: i.imgur . com/9xreoYq.jpg
But I can’t because my actually good healing gear looks like this: i.imgur . com/PBKjYg4.jpg
I’d absolutely love transmog in Classic. Even if it was something that only you can see, not other players.
Your whole argument about gear = status is just elitism. You want to feel like you’re special and unique because of your character’s appearance…in a game where all the gear is static. Pretty dumb tbh. Also, you’re forgetting that in retail, achievements exist. Now instead of gear dictating how “pro gamer hardcore” you are, your achievements dictate that.
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The true issue is that so much power is in the gear so you’re extremely gimped if you don’t wear the best you have instead of dressing the way you like.
If the power came from the players instead of the gear then we wouldn’t need transmogs. But we don’t, so we do.
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“wahh wahh I want to be a special snowflake in a game with millions and millions of players!”
Found your problem.
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You haven’t explained at all why this gives you a “sense of community” except I guess you want everyone to have to wear the same crap and look the same? Does that build community? How about all the toxicity and denigration that comes from gawking at undergeared or poorly-geared people, is that community?
“Community” is the most obnoxious thing classic rose-tinteds can say. It does nothing but describe a vague sense of nostalgia you have for a mythical Narnia you imagine once existed. It’s “make america great again” for game nerds. So silly.
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Retail reminds me a lot of Diablo 3, where if you take all your gear off you can’t even enter the town in act 1 if you are max level.
When I came back to Retail for a few months, it was one of the biggest turnoffs (after i learned why there was a server name after someone’s name (no joke). When i looked to see who had the best gear, i couldn’t tell because all the gear looked cool or was hidden via transmog. Everyone was the same.
Tbh, kinda like Classic.
Only in the bizzarro-world of rose-tinted classic land can 100 players all having different transmog outfits look “the same” but every healer on the server wearing that stupid blue dress be unique and “good for the community”.
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I find it hilarious how people claim that what’s so awesome about classic is how much you can customize your character, but transmog? OMG How dare people look how they like.
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If you want to gear shame people you should be inspecting them anyways to see what enchants and gems they have.
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I love transmog. I see nothing wrong with it.
There are looks you can’t find anywhere else and it helps with that identity instead of 500 people in the same Tier gear running around in a sea of clones.
Especially since there are roleplay servers. Someone wants to be a Witchdoctor, or a pirate, or a ninja.
Aesthetics do not effect the game at all and it only increases people’s enjoyment.
Do you run the HOA or something?
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When gear matters being able to visually convey how geared you are or what spec. Adds visual info into pvp
Transmog is cool when your gear stats are lottery wins .
Transmog is an excellent feature allowing you to be who you want to be, and not what the game forces you to be. Nothing is more boring that seeing everyone with the same BIS set gear at the end of each new raid.
Flying mounts on the other hand…