I was more into transformers myself.
Maybe they are also girly. Who knows.
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If you mean that bands music cover, no. Why would I?
My guess is they are due to the holidays. I can’t remember what we had in January but in February it was based on Valentine’s Day (blech) and in March it was based on …spring? April it was Easter (bunnies woo…) what the frick did we have for May? June is obviously summer gear. I don’t know what they will do for July but I suspect Halloween is gonna be great.
I very much doubt Metzen was in any way related to what the Trading Post put out.
I am trying to tell you that you shouldn’t look at it like that at all. Just see it for what it actually is. A multicolored chair.
Anyway I am done with this conversation.
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Mhm… I hope your right about that… and that in the winter months we will see some more cool stuff again.
This was the previous water gun we had
To obtain this item you must have access to the Throne of Thunder while having cleared at least up to and including Council of Elders. Down bellow the bridge (after Lei Shen’s cutscene) there is a circle of small geysers surrounding a larger, central one that leads you back up. These small ones push you forward and upward if you step on them (directed towards where you are facing), and doing so gives you a stacking debuff. In order to get this item you must be flung from one to another and accumulate 250 stacks of the debuff.
At first it seems like an evil, evil minigame. Typical of those you find in Final Fantasy games (rope jumping, anyone?), but in the end it is really not so hard, in a few minutes you can get all the stacks, even if you don’t land perfectly on a geyser you have a small margin of time to walk over it facing the next one you need to get thrown at. Upon reaching 250 stacks you get the item mailed to you by Taoshi, I’ll submit her letter to the screenshot section (I guess the Shado-Pan are more playful than we thought).
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I personally want a vampire/gothic theme and more black stuff! And more skulls!
Although hot pink with skulls works too…
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The issue is volume and frequency.
I didn’t have much of a problem with 3 limited promotional pets in World of Warcraft when it came out, because the game was vast and those 3 out-of-context pets didn’t take very much away from an otherwise well-crafted immersive fantasy world.
But over the years Blizzard have just piled on and on and on, as your post kind of also shows.
And recently they’re not just piling on. They’re pouring on.
And I don’t appreciate that.
I see the same trend in Diablo IV now. I like it less the more it gains traction.
And it never seems to slow down.
Hey I were collecting those comics when 14-16 year old teen boy 
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If you hold the top creative position, you hold the top responsibility for the creative work.
Creative with the story not random freebie cosmetics. That’s probably some art person.
Maybe we’ll get more spooky stuff for Halloween
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One persons junk is another’s treasure or so the old cliché goes, but you have generally nailed it.
Lets just say they put out another color of the Glorious Armor say in silver, white or black I would be all for it. That to me would be still girly but in theme.
I have to say, looking back at the rewards last year, none of this comes across as particularly cool or masculine. In fact most of it was very boring. The only difference for me is we got a lot of mounts as journal filling rewards.
I remember a video where Tom Chilton, former Game Director, talks about the development of World of Warcraft. And he tells of an instance where Chris Metzen got angry because someone had released a commerical image that showed a Night Elf riding an orange Zulian Tiger. And he was angry because that was a wrong presentation, beacause Night Elves only ride Saber Cat tigers that are native to their lands.
And there was another story by Rob Pardo, former VP of Game Design, where they had to convince Chris that Druids should be allowed to be female as well as male, and that the Horde should also have a Druid race, otherwise the class couldn’t be put into the game. Chris Metzen struggled to allow this, because the lore he had written dictated that only male Night Elves were Druids – the women were rangers and sentinels. That’s how the Night Elf society was structured.
It’s sad to see how a guy who was so vigilent and so protective over the details of the universe he had crafted himself is now overseeing the same universe that 20 years later been thrown into such disarray that it’s but a shadow of its former self.
Eventually Warcraft will come to an end and people will look back on it as a completed work of fantasy. A work of fantasy that is increasigly looking more impressive in its beginnings than where it is currently going.
As a fan I hope Blizzard don’t screw up their own gaming legacy, which Warcraft will be.
But when I see friggin’ swim rings and super soakers and whelping daycares, I do worry about it. Just a bit.
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Somebody can find goblin characters grinning confidently with sunglasses in bright color shirt as cool or masculine, like me example. Its just opinions that vary from person to person depending who looks it. I hope everyone finds something for their liking from the trading post at some point, they have some nice stuff. 
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There are always some things I don’t like. I think every time there are some ugly weapons for example. Someone else probably really likes them!
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This upcoming trading post stuff will fit well in kezan starting area pool party, Ill be heading taking my screenshots there with this stuff 
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The truth is these days no attire is really considered particularly masculine, honestly.
Women are now wearing all the things only men used to wear. Business suits, trousers, and many more were typically masculine clothes. In fact I’d argue they took over tights, which used to be masculine by virtue of being trousers.
I think the only examples men really have left would be a bowtie or a tie. And if you put the bowtie in the hair it’s feminine. And women of course still have dresses and skirts.
There used to be quite popular masculine variants of these. For example, the male version of a dress was a robe - like you see with wizards and stuff like that. Actually getting that in the west though… I genuinely haven’t been able to find a single one. I’m sure they exist though, but wearing them outside isn’t gonna do much good either.
So when they make a random selection of clothes it’s more than likely going to appear more feminine than masculine. That’s just how it goes.
On the other hand, female worgen really got shafted imo. That attire is distinctly masculine for Victorian England. I think this image quite well captures what went wrong there:
Left one? Doesn’t exist. Not in the game. That’s the same company that’s now being accused of never making masculine clothes, is it?
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