I liked that, actually, because my character was no longer breaking her wrist to unsheath them. Talk about not knowing how to carry your weapons; the wrist gymnastics involved in the original (and current) unsheathing is incredible. I was one of few people in favor of keeping that appearance in addition to the fixed version.
Or do you mean that they just flipped them around so that they don’t stick through your head? This was a problem that existed with the originals because of the technical limitation of them being a sword and is 1000% better than the originals. Glaives in general sheath differently than swords, and so the ORIGINAL issue with their sheathing was a result of this. Their current sheathing matches that of all DH warglaives (which were changed in either Legion Alpha or Beta because people complained they didn’t resemble the Warglaives of Azzinoth, which were carried wrong mind you).
Also, this is a great example of how Blizzard was swayed by fans to change something that fans perceived as incorrect that was intentional on Blizzard’s part. Perhaps they will be so quickly and easily swayed in this case.
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Like the choice to make vulpera a race? lol
Yeah, that’s probably the worst thing they ever did for the horde.
I don’t think the warglaive xmog should be restricted at all other than being able to equip 1h swords (yes, swords, because that’s what the BC warglaives were categorized as).
I have a DK friend who farmed warglaives for 3.5 xpacs and I’d like him to have the opportunity to xmog them. That amount of effort should be rewarded. DHs haven’t even been around for the 3.5 xpacs that it took my friend to get them in the first place.
Maybe the players that got the warglaive timewalking appearance can get a unique title or something instead of the DHs of those players being the only ones able to xmog warglaives. That way they’re recognized as accomplishing timewalking in Black Temple without preventing other classes that can use warglaives from transmogging them.
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This is an irrelevant argument.
They are “Warglaive” in name only - singular - and the set type is “Twin Blades of Azzinoth”. Their actual weapon type is “Sword” (Mh/Oh respectively) which were available to appropriate DPS specs and classes who could use the one-handed “Sword” weapon type.
Meanwhile, the weapons that DH’s use now are of type “Warglaive” which no other class can use.
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Blizzard feels that the Warglaives of Azzinoth, while originally classified as swords (because warglaives did not exist as a weapon type back then), should only be transmoggable by demon hunters only. No matter how irrelevant you feel my argument is, Blizzard seems to feel it’s important that the iconic weapons of Illidan are only moggable by demon hunters.
Using “feelings” as an excuse for a decision is laughable. “Feelings” change in arbitrary ways and for arbitrary reasons, without thought or reason. The sad part is that it is just another such decision in a now long-list of such decisions.
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I’m not really invested either way. I wouldn’t be upset if Blizz opened up the Warglaives of Azzinoth to being moggable by sword users, but I understand why they wanted to keep them exclusive to Demon Hunters.
Shadowmourne literally is a legendary. I’m linking it in trade chat instead of Thunderfury right now