So I’m a big fan of transmog and wondered how the average wow players see certain things, like do you all actively care if you wear a full set or if its a mix of different unique pieces?
Im honestly interested in your take on this cause some sets simply are amazing but cant be mixed due to specific colors or what have ye, and I find it to be a shame to leave them to die just because of that.
Thoughts?
I’ve never understood the snobbery from transmoggers that treat sets with such disdain.
They match perfectly most of the time. That’s the big appeal for me. I rarely make mog from scratch. It’s just utterly frustrating to find the colours mismatched because they are slightly different shades.
If that makes me a terrible person, I don’t care, I can live with it.
It doesnt, perfectly valid reason and argument, I aint gonna attack you because of this haha
Now I’m curious, what set would you say is too good to mix with others?
I do both. Wear full sets or mogs made out of different pieces. One ain’t worse than the other so I honestly don’t see why there could be an issue among players >.<
That wasn’t aimed at you personally 
Some set are so iconic that mixing and matching should be handled with care, such as the Paladin Judgement set.
But there are alot of sets that can be easily played with. Oten though it seems like keeping certain areas together is almost mandatory. Chest, shoulders and gloves should match as closely as possible. Boots, Legs and Belt should match.
Since usually the art team puts the most effort into designing the tier sets (and the store items, but that’s a different story), these pieces are also some of the best looking items in general. Therefore, using them as a basis is generally good.
Personally, I usually remove some of the more extravagant pieces and replace them with smaller nice things that still fit, such as the flowers for my bracers, anklet and headpiece with my current mog.
Fully agree.
I’ve collected 8 elite PvP sets for my main class.
I like to switch between them.
They’re rare, they’re a display of skill, and tokens of a bygone era.
It’s nice.
I feel that, recently swapped to hunter cause i got bored with rouge, had all optainable(for honor tokens) pvp sets, was satisfying to open the sets tab haha
I have almost no full sets.
My ultimate goal is to obtain Armour sets as created and designed by Blizzard. When I complete a set, that makes me happy.
They don’t necessarily need to be in my “Sets” tab, but they need to have been designed as a complete set.
I’m not opposed to creating your own transmog out of available pieces. In fact, I find it quite fun to do from time to time, and the Trading post has gotten me into that quite alot.
But for me, Sets is what I like to collect.
I don’t consider them proper transmogs BUT there’s absolutely no shame in using them if you like them. Just play the game the way you want, anyone who tells you otherwise isn’t worth considering - unless you’re doing group content which requires coordination among players, that is, but this is not the case.
Usually the point of transmogs is to achieve an outfit that isn’t really supposed to exist in game, but with some invention can be “crafted” in order to satisfy a specific fantasy. There’s also this strange rule I don’t remember from where, that says that a transmog shouldn’t share more than 3 pieces from the same set - but that’s more of an advice, it usually helps me not to lose the focus on what I want to create in favor of a cool aesthetic of a set.
Take this transmog for instance: I wanted a circus mage/carnie vibe, but the only pieces that are from the same set are the hat and the boots. If I’d used more from that nobleman set, I would just end up being a slight variation of the nobleman set which although cool, is not what I want.
Sometimes I use full sets but mostly I mix them with other pieces. Depends on the situation. I’m not too bothered as long as the result looks good. 
I like to try and find pieces from different sets that go together nicely but i sometimes use full sets if i really like them. Theres no shame in using full sets (unless youre my friend and then I’ll call you andy).
Depends on the set. I use a lot of sets, and also a lot of transmogs I’ve put together from scratch. And even in most sets, I rarely use helms or pauldrons (there are very little armours on those two categories that I don’t find abhorrent).
I don’t understand why people would look down on full sets. A lot of them are very difficult to put together. It is kind of stupid.
And there are sets which are cool except for a key piece, and looking for a replacement becomes a challenge (Like the pauldrons on the Molten Core hunter set, which are horrible. I managed to find a much better ones tho)
People that need to feel special are everywhere.
Ofc they do, however when you see someone in a well matched custom transmog set then it does look and feel better than seeing your umpteenth ret paladin in judgement set. Just my opinion.
They have their place, and in my personal opinion there is nothing wrong with using them. I myself use mostly full sets on the characters I currently play.
I did put together a few pieces which consist of around 3-4 set pieces, and like 2-3 custom pieces that matches the set.
https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-gb/character/eu/draenor/athiyk
Like this for example. I do have some fully customized pieces too.
https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-gb/character/eu/argent-dawn/Ath%C3%ADyk
There are some slight hue issues, but overall the pieces blend well enough together thanks to the theme that I feel it isn’t really that visible.