If Blizz cannot or wont change current transmog restriction then can i suggest racial transmogs.
What i mean is:
The warfront sets, so the Hammerfall and Darkshore ones all suit Orcs and Forsaken races and alliance equivalents.
I was thinking these could be flagged as racial sets and say an orc or maghar orc could transmog the cloth, leather, mail or plate sets.
Other races can still mog the armour class appropriate to their spec but it allows better race fantasy looking sets.
Same goes for the Orc sets from WoD, theres a nice leather frost wolf set id like mog on my warrior bur its leather.
I actually wish they had went the sub race route too, id quite like access to the bronze beard, dark iron and earthen sets on my Dwarf. Then we may have seen a proper wild hammer set.
Isn’t this technically what the heritage sets are for? To provide people with a set of armour themed specifically for their race? I kind of don’t want human Mages running around in full Arathi plate, just because that’s a human coded set… call me crazy, but even with all the muddled restrictions and the “fluff” sets we have now a bit of armour consistency is nice…
Being able to transmog different class/armour types on characters, which can’t use them, does open up a lot more options for people to make their characters look unique.
I’d have no problem with this, as it changes nothing in the game, and it’s just a visual thing for the players who wish to use it, which would be the vast majority of the population.
As long as those classes can not roll on other classes items in a raid, then I doubt anyone would have a problem with it.
I would agree with you and wouldve in the past but heritage sets and cosmetic sets are now blurring the lines between types as it is. I am currently collection all the Earthen sets some of the pieces would look great mixed and matched.
I came into this thread thinking you were going to talk about something else:
Head transmog being split into: Head, face and neck transmog.
So we can wear (for instance) glasses, a hat and a scarf. Since items like that are not 'in each other’s way, generally).
Also: Gloves, wrist and boots should get the shoulder treatment and make it possible to change the left and right side seperately from each other.
As for your suggestion: As long as racial transmogs can still be worn by other races, I’m fine with it. I don’t want more restrictions, but having ‘a little something extra’ for a racial set if you’re the ‘matching race’ then, sure.
What youre suggesting sounds good too. Id like the option to transmog asymmetrical shoulders too. Quick Example - Human heritage armour. Being able to either transmog two eagle shoulders or two of the standard shoulders or choose which side to be asymmetrical.
Lets be fair we are well overdue a character customization pass again. I mean earthen males were released with a selection of hair styles that dwarfs had before their last pass and you cant change thier beard jewelry colour, yet you can on other races like draenei. I just want a big mohawk on my earthen please!
I know its been said in the past too, hair under hats please!
I would love to see more options for Pandaren. Longer beards, longer hair maybe even a skinny red panda male model. Less cute and more rugged. Oh and a Lu Bu style heritage armour set lol.