I’ll start by saying that I’m a Legion baby, so this probably makes my opinion less “right” I suppose.
So the perfect scenario in my head is:
I see someone with cool(good) gear
I want that gear
I do all the content required to get that gear.
That content would be PvP and PvE, obviously.
But now it’s never like that. I never look at other people, I’m always laser focused on my own character because I know that other people most likely wear tmog gear.
Another thing. We need hubs where people go and just chill. In these new expansions we go to new areas and we are everywhere instead of having a well known place for people to go and chill. I’m not talking about the Horde and Alliance areas in Nazjatar, there are too many things going on, I’m thinking more of something like Ironforge.
What are your thoughts on this? Is it nonsense or does it make sense?
I earned my helm in mythic raiding and it reminds me of those times that I liked before I quited raiding that I think I earned, just as my set from Dragon Soul that I used sometimes to remind me of the best days of my raiding time.
I dunno if I think that I earned the looks by older content but I definitely earned the right to where those suits or the 5 man Zul Gurub set to my rogue
i dont really get it. when i see someone with cool gear. doesnt matter if current gear or transmog, i look at their gear and check where they got it from and then i try to get it too. cant really see how transmog ruins that. maybe its just a personal issue you are having.
or maybe im just missing a point, i dunno.
transmog hasnt ruined anything in my opinion, if at all, we need more transmog options and items to rp and transmog. i mean, have you looked at the “transmog” equip from the last couple of expansion? compared to older transmog it looks stale and all the same anyways. i mean, yeah sure give me the 5th recolour of that one ugly chest piece please…
any other place is enough for me to “chill”. dont really care for a “hub”.
You don’t remember the times when gear was this colorful mismatch that could potentially hurt your eyes. TBC was terrible in this sense, I remember some very odd colour schemes I was running around in. I also remember keeping an old belt instead of equipping a newly acquired one because it was yet another colour. There’s a limit :D.
Reason being: The process still works with Transmog.
You see someone with a cool mog.
You want that look.
You do the content required to get the mogs.
It’s pretty much the same as you’d do without transmog, except that you can keep the look past the statistical relevance of the items.
What always sours me is when the third step isn’t possible because of removed content. At that point, I generally make a short ritual to curse the dev who made that decision to step on a lego and move on with my day, feeling vindicated.
I was going to write exactly same thing. He doesn’t remember those times because he started in Legion. I remember. I remember leveling in TBC wearing (on my clothie) black underpants with suspenders, violet large sleeved shirt, bright red rimmed hat, green shoes and sheesh i don’t remember color of the gloves but it was none of the above, mustard yellow i think. It was color mismatch, none of the styles fit together and i looked like a mental mixbreed of clown and definately not like fantasy adventurer of any kind. Still traumatised.
No, I think transmog is a very good thing! And like others have said, if you do see someone with a cool mog you’ll still inspect and see what pieces they use.
I do love transmog instead. Makes my character feel like my character, not a thing with random armors on it.
I like to think about him as a hero in warcraft 3: they had equipments (few, but they had them) but their visual appearance was always the same, so you could recognize the character. I probably wouldn’t play at all if I didn’t like my main esthetically. We already have very little customization when it comes to face, hairstyles and body. Transmog makes your character YOUR character
I see a lot of you guys saying that you don’t miss seeing how your gear looked miserable because of color mismatch. But isn’t it the goal to get a full set and eventually look really good?
Transmog makes your character unique. I couldn’t imagine playing any of my characters without their iconic transmogs. I’m sorry, but the day Blizzard removes transmog is the day I unsub.
But If you want to spend most of your adventure in clown gear and work towards tier sets, Classic comes out next week.
While it can be debated that transmog ruined “the chase” for cool looking gear that was only obtainable through more difficult content (for example tier-gear), it also created a whole new meta for collecting and customization.
I have a good example. Back in TBC I played a hunter and once I obtained full T4, I was really happy with how my character looked. So much so, that i was actually hoping that I DIDN’T get any drops from the new Zul Aman raid, as I found that gear to be ugly. Transmog fixed that (trivial) “issue”.
Just add more cosmetic only but rare or hard to obtain items. Legion showed that people like that sort of stuff. A lot. I’m surprised bfa still doesn’t have that.
Amazed if you looked like that the enemy’s where not feared by the sight of you and ran away that does indeed sound an awful sight on the eyes. I was also someone who started end of TBC and hated some of the colour schemes I got stuck with when it came to armour on my old main.
Not a lot we could do about it back then. Thanks for the chuckle.
i mean, yeah sure give me the 5th recolour of that one ugly chest piece please…