Allow us to turn off transmogs of other people

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Back in TBC I was playing a hunter. I finally got full T4 and really liked how my character looked wearing that.
Then came the Zul’Aman raid which dropped gear that were an upgrade stat-wise, but I thought looked horrible. I was secretly hoping that upgrades wouldn’t drop for me so I could keep my awesome looks.

Going from clown-suit with a mix of everything to T4 felt great. Going back to a mix of troll-themed gear and tier-pieces didn’t feel as great.

The real irony is that I rarely care how others look myself. Got a silly-mog, s*ut-mog or a carefully thought-out, matching set? Chances are I don’t even notice.

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“Transmog is duh wurst, I’s haeted it since da beginning” → has both armour and weapon transmogrified to not look remotely like what they do normally, even turning a sword into an axe :smile:

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Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

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Without mog probably i never play wow.

They could create server for ppl hating mogs and loving goin around like the orc above (TL3 missing).

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There’s a big difference between disliking mogs in general, and “silly” mogs.

I personally love transmogging, but I would still agree that plain silly items that look like they were fetched straight from Fortnite, feel out of place and redundant.

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I’m not bothered by people dressing up in fun outfits. I don’t RP though.

If you are going to an RP event no your Yeti costume isn’t going to be very appropriate but I see no difference in M+ between someone who doesn’t mog and looks horrendous and someone who uses a Yeti mog.

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the game is changed. im not a tryharder but when i raid (LFR ofc) i love to be dressed in silly costumes. i know its weird but heroic outfit lost their fashion for me ages ago.

Personally i disagree always when ppl wanna “force” others to behave in a certain mode: this gives me an echo from real world that i dislike.

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Then you are absolutely playing the wrong game. Perhaps Solitair or Tetras might be better suited for you. Just saying…

There is a toy already albeit with a time limit and long cd. If it bothers you that much try using that and let ppl just get on with the game they feel they want to play.

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How about you form a guild for likeminded people and only do group content with them?

Or make your own groups and specify in the rules that no mogs are allowed on your runs.

Done.

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Post whatever you want. But not these titles :

  • “Allow us to turn off transmogs of other people”.

Who is “US”? You mean me and NOT you (because you dont play)?

It was a patch. You could not before.

And that is where all this transmog thing came to be. Because people did not want to dress like clowns. And it started with helmet and cape toggle “off”.

So what? Some cleared, some did not. What people do in the game is none of my concern. And should not be yours either.

Also, gear in classic was very RNG. So in my case its was not for a lack of trying let me tell you that.

And its horrendous to dress up like a clown for months until you finally complete your set, look at it for 1 month and then BAM. Next patch/expansion.

Not cool.

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Did I say that? I dont recall…

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Where do we draw the line, though? Should we stop doing regular fantasy zones with mountains, rivers, and forests? Swap taverns and inns with night clubs and hotels?

WoW is an RPG, and while Warcraft as a franchise has always included some amount of goofiness, going as far back as the units making jokes in Warcraft 2 if you click them enough, or the buildings being a bit christmassy on snowy maps, there has to be a line. Otherwise it’s just not immersive anymore, and the world loses any allure it once had.

It needs to feel like a fantasy world that follows certain “rules”. If a player can just step into a raid dressed in clothes that feel super out of place, it diminishes that ever so slightly.

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Yeah, no. BiS gear is mismatched as hell, you end up using 4 pieces of your class tier, some random crafted items for stat fixes and random dungeon/raid items that are probably from another class set. You end up looking like a clown if not mogged. Even in classic not all tier was BiS and you ended up being a clown (some less so than other but still).

Judging by your posts you have hated pretty much everything that has been added to the game after ye olden days. Why not just stick to the classic forums since you don’t like what retail is.

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Rules in fantasy? Is like SS Van Dine when put rules in crime books and after that was criticized by everyone.

The only rule in fantasy is … fantasy.

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Games evolve.

Transmog created an entire new minigame of its own. There are probably a lot of people who play this game only for collecting and creating sets they think look good. “Silly” or not.

Fantasy is just that… fantasy. Wearing a wizard-hat and shooting frostbolts out of your fingers is just as much fantasy as wearing butterfly-wings and shooting fireballs before jumping on the back of a dragon and flying away.

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Based AF.

Also he is a classic player, do you honestly think he can clear Gnarlroot Mythic without buying a boost? Dude will probably be running around in his OW/LFR nighmare look until he finally folds, mogs over it something with less pixels than Super Mario Bros 2 and start yelling at the clouds that this game is only made for the 1%.

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my disappointment grows Puny…

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I think it’s amazing that people make up all these stories about their characters and act them out in game. It’s just not my cup of tea.

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Yeah, rules. Every fantasy world has rules.

Middle-Earth has rules. Gandalf can’t just insta-kill Sauron from halfway across the world. He needs to do the things one must do in order to beat the Dark Lord. Otherwise there wouldn’t be a story, nor any compelling mythos behind the Istari (wizards).

Harry Potter can’t just look at Voldemort to cast spells. He needs to weave his wand and say the words of his incantations, or it won’t work.

Narnia isn’t accessible from every wardrobe in the world. It’s accessible from a specific one. If it was, “the” wardrobe would lose its charm.

Star Wars has almost exclusively 70s sci-fi tech, because those are the rules of compelling and believable Star Wars.

While Warcraft as an IP takes itself a bit less seriously than these other examples do, it still needs to adhere by its own rules.

Orcs aren’t blue, they’re typically brown, grey, or green. For reasons we all know.

Connecting this back to transmog, then, and anyone should be able to agree that there are probably not any craftsmen on Azeroth able to create some of the transmogs we’ve seen recently, or even concieve of them as concepts. For example all the heart-stuff from February. Those are clearly inspired by western society IRL and our ideas of Valentine’s Day and fictional characters such as Sailor Moon.

I’m not entirely against “fun” transmogs, though. Some of the stuff we have now is OK. I’m not lying in bed at night, pondering the implications of the Yeti outfit.

But I think, and especially for as long as Blizzard keep insiting Tanks shouldn’t be able to wear Cloth because of reasons, it wouldn’t be good for the game if everyone ran around in completely silly outfits, all of the time. For example, why is it possible to tank a raid looking like a Murloc, but not looking like Geralt of Rivia? (A Warrior in Leather armour.)

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As for the actual topic itself if someone really wants to see the mismatched things people are actually wearing I personally wouldn’t have any objection but even from an RP perspective people are going to want to appear certain ways without having to actually equip items.