To completely change your entire outfit costs roughly 900 gold, that’s just crazy. Why can’t it just be free like the barber shop?
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It’s called a gold sink, and it’s a very paltry one at that. 500g is loose change.
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first it was mail and ah fees but then they realized that transmogging and adding in mounts/toys that let you change your transmog at will basically would serve as a much better goldsink, the game floods you with gold so unless you’re some brokie who refuses to do world quests or whatever then it shouldn’t be an issue
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Golden sink?
Sorry I’ve seen it brought up but I actually don’t what it means. It is in every thread about costs tho.
Transmog and Repairs are like the only gold sinks left. With 800+ gold world quests that take 1 minute or less to do, they need gold sinks. I mean, I made 16,000 gold yesterday doing two world quests across my characters and never left Dornogal.
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Because MMOs require gold sinks. Since we can infinitely generate an infinite amount of gold, every MMO requires “natural”-feeling gold sinks. Instead of just occasionally removing gold straight from player’s inventory, which would feel dreadful, we have multitudes of smaller systems that all collective add up to remove gold from circulation.
If you want to learn more about it, here’s a video describing it in more words with other examples of effective gold sinks (and also why we have consumables in the game):
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become a void elf we get 50% off transmog
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They’d be adding to the elf problem then.
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what else would we spend our gold on?
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I think they should make upgrades the new gold sink. Keep crests and require gold, but remove valor stones.
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So we need a gold sink in a game where you can buy 300k+ for 20 buck irl. seems kinda pointless to me. 
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Being hot isn’t cheap
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The real elf problem is that there aren’t enough of us.
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Sadly, Blizz wants a gold sink and has not thought to just bump AH taxes, repair costs, and travel expenses by 33% each as an offset, allowing free mogs like we get during trial of style anyway.
That gold comes from someone like me who wants to buy a new mount or transmog from the shop…
It’s interesting how mogging a set on a level 60ish character costs a little over 200g, doing the same on an 80 cost over 600g. So it seems ok the make it cost less for one level and more for another.
And yes, they can remove the cost during the Trial of Style, so its an on/off button which imo should be permanently off.
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From what I understand, the cost is based on the ilevel of the items that you’re transmogging… So that level 60 is transmogging items of a much lower level than say this character with an ilevel of 670.
Not sure how an ilevel of an appearance works since you aren’t actually wearing the gear, just the look. If its true, its a very weird setting.
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Passive gold drain, similar to armor repair costs. Inversely there’s the passive gold gain, like quests, looting mobs, raid bosses, and weeklies.
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The actual items you’re wearing have an ilevel. The appearance doesn’t set the price. I can transmog into gear from Cataclysm and it is still going to cost me 600-800 gold.