The sad part is I’m farming for those glaives. Another funny part is I though u can tranmog them once you get the glaives, i was wrong xD Story of my WoW life.
Well, if we are gonna argue semantics. Corrupted Ashbringer is an epic item. Epic items aren’t bound to the same rules that legendary items are. Plus, does that really affect you given that probably 0.01% of the players actually have Corrupted Ashbringer?
The only exception being class specific epic items like Rhok’delar.
As for Shadowmourne, while sure, it is very Deathknight themed, its sole purpose was to act as a powerful weapon capable of holding its own against Frostmourne. If it’s sole purpose was for a Deathknight to steal the souls of those slain, or drain the souls from Frostmourne or whatever, your argument would be more sound. But as is, despite the materials it was crafted from, it’s literally a powerful axe to counter Frostmourne. That’s it.
Look, I get why people want the Warglaives open to everyone, and personally I could care less if they were. However I understand Blizzards view. That said, regardless of the fact that they are labeled as swords because Demon Hunters weren’t in the game at the time, they literally are warglaives. It’s in the name. It’s established in lore. Now, had Demon Hunters been in the game during Vanilla(which was the orignal idea, along with Necromancers, it just never came to fruition), I can guarantee that they would’ve been DH exclusive back then.
The only warglaives I’ll acknowledge SHOULD be swords and treated as such are the Sentinel Moonglaives from the Darkshore Warfront, considering those are the iconic weapons of the Night Elf Sentinels, which obviously weren’t Demon Hunters.
And that is solely on Blizzard because they killed Single Minded Fury(or whatever it was called). But Warriors can still use Thunderfury, so its not the same thing.
Yea and the legendary bow from Sunwell, despite being a hunter weapon that saved insane gold due to not needing to buy ammo, typically went to Warriors and Rogues too. All because the Golden Bow of Quel’thalas with the Sands of Time(or whatever that rep was) epic ammo was slightly(and I mean slightly) better. Funny how that works. Seems like Warriors and Rogues were just greedy during BC. 
How do you figure a decade though? Did BC last that long? Man I must’ve slept through 80% of the expansion then. /shrug
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I remember proud rogues running around with their “warglaives” long before demon hunters were around. I imagine it must feel like a kick in the face to have that taken from them, so I agree.
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Illidan is a demon hunter when that expansion came out so the wielder was the Demon hunter which the class wasn’t out yet but my opinion, they should remove the achievement for the transmog which is bit to much to farm for both begin with, make it useable for classes that can wield it like before. Remember those days that rogues had them, they were OP back then with them.
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I’m saying this as a DH…the Warglaives of Azzinoth should be available as a transmog for any class that can equip them just like every other weapon. It pisses me off to no end that I have 5 of those damn things across four characters (one complete set) and I can’t use the appearance.
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Wow! DH mains who also dislike this decision!
You guys aren’t as greedy as people say you are after all.
As long as a class can equip it, then it should be able to mog it, I don’t see why needs to be restricted when all legendary can be mog.
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I mean…I wouldn’t turn down any spare abilities you might not need…
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I’m for more transmog options. As long as the warglaives transmog remains exclusively available through the current method, I don’t care if it is restricted to only demon hunters or not.
The reward is only diminished if you remove the timewalking raid requirement and the ownership requirement.
If someone does those things, let them go ham. Transmog it on warriors, rogues, I don’t care.
That said, I think the OP’s argument leans closer to demanding entitlement than a heartfelt request. If I were a lesser person I would hope they didn’t ever go this route just for them.
Because it’s an iconic weapon that has an obviously apparent relationship to the DH class, with a unique unlocking experience. In addition… it’s a glaive. Only DHs can use glaives. The weapon restriction might be relaxed in the future, but the main point still stands: it’s iconic in DH Blizzard lore. If I have to spell it out:
Illidan created DHs
Glaives were Illidans weapon
Only DHs were able to mog them in Legion
Only DHs could use glaives in Legion
See the commonality? DHs … illidan… new class… Legion… timewalking …
People being intentionally obtuse because they are just thinking about themselves and not about the class overall is a glaring testament to how people can potentially change the game for the worse just by spouting off stuff
I don’t exactly mean to come across that way.
It’s just this is definitely an injustice to rogues.
I totally understand the mindset behind the exclusivity. So I’m fine if they never open up the option to other classes.
I also would have understood if only Death Knights could transmog Shadowmourne. It would have made sense, it is thematically a Death Knight weapon modeled on Frostmourne.
Demon Hunters are a new class and have far fewer transmog options that are along their iconic weaponset (warglaives), so this gives them an extreme piece of flair.
Again, I also wouldn’t be heartbroken if they opened it up either. Then rogues could look just as ridiculous as my warrior or paladin mogging Shadowmourne.
Oh, no, I certainly read it. And that is what I took away. Thematically it doesn’t make sense for rogues to transmog the glaives.
It also doesn’t make sense for anyone but DK’s to mog Shadowmourne as far as I’m concerned.
I have all of the above. I say let the clown mogs flow. My warrior dual wields Rag and Shadow, he is definitely in a clown mog and its great.
No. Its a sword. I have the set on my monk and carry both of them when I do Timewalking.
I saw a warlock with Thunderfury the other day, good on them. If you can equip the weapon class you should be able to use the appearance.
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Not sure why glaives are only mogable by Dhs, meanwhile my hunter can xmog Whirlwind axe from an warriors only quest from back in the day.
https://classic.wowhead.com/item=6975/whirlwind-axe
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Warglaives are Glaives
Be fortunate Blizz didn’t retro change the tooltip
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I’d love to mog the warglaives on my rogue or monk or warrior or DK… . I think they are one of the best looking weapons in the game.
But for sake of letting another class have a very cool exclusive mog… with some nice juicy lore attached, I’d rather not be able to mog it and ruin another classes fun. We have enough of that stuff happening in the game already…
Blizzard just needs to change the items to ‘warglaive’ instead of ‘sword’ and kill all these silly arguments.
How would opening up these swords for xmog to the other classes on the weapon label ruin a DH’s fun?
You do realize that if you complete the unlock, the cosmetic gets a different look when sheathed on the back and uses warglaive animations yes?
They are not going to change the label on a weapon to be only usable by a class that came out long after it’s introduction.
So all of us who have the original weapons on non Demon Hunter characters would what? Just not be able to equip them anymore? Thats a terrible idea even for sunday.
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