I wanted to talk about some of the requirements that exist on acquired collection items, specifically transmog and toys. Here’s a compilation showing some of the requirements.
To summarize the requirements that can be found, we have:
- Reputation
- Faction
- Profession
- Level
- Zone
- Outdoor vs Indoor
- Class
- Covenant / Renown
- Holiday
While I understand the need for certain requirements, like class, faction or profession, many of the others feel unnecessary. In general, when you earn a collection item, there shouldn’t be additional requirements in place to use it, especially if they are the same requirements needed to unlock it in the first place. It defeats the entire purpose of having an account-wide unlock.
Sometime in BFA, with changes made for account-wide credit of exalted reputations, many transmog reputation restrictions were loosened (see here). However this is not applying to certain toys or Shadowlands reputation transmogs (I’ve unlocked every covenant cosmetic and have renown 80 on each covenant).
I would love to see many of these collection restrictions loosened, or removed entirely. For example, for any of the engineering skill requirements, rather than require a specific skill number and expansion, just check if engineering at skill 1 is learned at all across all expansions. It really is disappointing to play an alt, especially a new character, and not be able to use unlocked collection items.
During the lunar festival some time ago, a questline was added to make the flower wreath appearances lose its holiday restriction. I think it’s a great solution to handling the holiday requirements and I’d like to see more holiday cosmetics getting similar treatment!
I’d also like to hear from those in the RP community and how these restrictions have affected them.