Im sure there are some disheartened DH players who worked hard for the warglaive xmog, knowing that now anyone can mog them. boo hoo
But seriously I can understand. But that shouldnt mean that the “bug” on the ptr needs to be intensional.
That being said, why dont DH have access to alternative azzinoth colors if they have the achievement. So, if you complete it you’d have the option to mog blue, red, purple, versions of the glaives. Similar to artifacts. Could match the various DH tattoo colors.
It’s not right if the bug turns out to be intended and rogues, warriors, dks, and monks are left out. Especially when rogues and wars were the original wielders.
“Anyone” can’t mog them. They don’t even show up under 1-handed Swords on the 8.3 PTR.
Of all the legendaries that will be moggable in 8.3, the PTR seems to have kept the Warglaives off the table, likely due to the arduous achievement required to unlock them solely for Demon Hunters.
Any non-Demon Hunters expecting to be able to mog the Warglaives of Azzinoth in 8.3 are likely going to be very disappointed.
With that said, I like the idea of more ways to color our weapons.
The Wraithchill illusion from Shadowlands pre-order is our first option to actually recolor an item, albeit in a limited fashion, and the Warglaives of Azzinoth look absolutely AMAZING with the Wraithchill effect. There’s also a new Void illusion coming in 8.3 that mostly colors the whole weapon and looks pretty cool too!
I hope we see more illusions that can completely color a weapon and I also hope Blizzard allows us to apply illusions to bows and guns in the near future.
The Warglaives of Azzinoth are called that because they belonged to a demon called Azzinoth. There shouldn’t be 10 different colors of the glaives – they existed in a single instance, belonged to a single demon, until Illidan killed the demon and took them for himself.
If need be, I say Blizz could swap out the DH achievement version of the warglaives with Illidan’s old panda-faced warglaives, that way the legendary is usable by everyone who can use them while DHs still get a bonus option for their effort.
Demon Hunters dont even need to put in the effort, the achievement can be earned by any class.
E.g. I found both the left and right glaives on my Monk, and I cleared Timewalking Black Temple on my Death Knight, earning the Glaives on my Demon Hunter.
That being said I wouldn’t object to the Panda Glaives.
Its a great transmog I dont see why I should be disheartened if others could use them. Im all for more options for everyone. Even when I worked my butt of for them and others get an easier time.
The reason why they did that (and what people still fail to grasp) is that every timewalking BT run would be full of DHs in every role possible, if all of it had to be done the DH alone. It was a good decision on blizzard’s part.
ironically enough, if you use the glaives and then use wraithchill illusion it gives the weapon set a nice blue hue; the same color as the mop legendary melee cloak proc. i sport this in korraks with my rogue and it looks ba.
I can only assume that since Warglaives (the actual weapon-type) can only be used by Demon Hunters, and the Warglaives of Azzinoth are so iconic as a Demon Hunter weapon, that Blizzard intends for them to only be moggable by Demon Hunters even though the original weapons were classified as 1-handed swords (since warglaives as a weapon-type didn’t exist back then).
I could be wrong but I am fairly confident that I am not. I truly believe that expecting to be able to mog the Warglaives of Azzinoth as anything other than a Demon Hunter is setting yourself up for disappointment. As I said, I could very well be wrong but I am pretty sure that I am not.
