You’ll look good once you get good gear. Thats what rpg’s do. When you’re weak, people know this by looking at you, if you’ve adventured into the lair of a dragon and now carry his head on your shoulder, that means I know it by meeting you in orgrimmar and just looking at you.
It’s such an integral part of any rpg and of classic WoW to gauge what a character has been through just by looking, not inspecting, looking.
It makes the world more tangible and immersive.
That’s why I hate transmog in retail, everyone looks too badass but at the same time none of those looks have any substance to it. I don’t know when this whole ‘I want to look pretty’ thing became a staple in rpgs, and I understand it sowewhat but one of the best feelings in the game is when you get a good new item which also makes you now look better.
Again, in an rpg people get items and they wear those items, transmogs are immersion breaking and honestly one of the maybe three main reasons I dislike retail so much.
Maybe it’s just me, but if sod adds transmogs I won’t be there to enjoy it, I’m pretty sure
Here’s the thing tho. If you go with the restriction suggested in this thread, that being, only transmog pieces your character collected (so pretty much transmog as it was on introduction), you still get your visual character progression of others, while I still get my ability to visually match my gear so I’m not forced to wear whatever mismatched thing drops.
And the looks do have substance - even if it’s not literally the item you have equipped right now, it’s still an item you had to collect. Which will be especially if it exists on Season of Discovery, because there will be no running past expansion raids solo to get their looks, because there are no past expansion raids. And you still get the feeling of having a new cool looking item too! You just don’t have to deal with the opposite, sinking feeling of ‘this new item is significantly better but I hate how it looks and clashes with the rest of my gear’. Hell, personally I’m going to be much more enthusiastic in hunting a specific gear piece for how it looks when I know I will be able to keep using it.
Plus look at it from the role playing perspective - dropped gear fulfills fantasy of wherever it dropped, which or may not fulfill the fantasy of your character. Like this might be a controversial opinion, but I…don’t want to wear dragon skulls on my shoulders. There are some good looking gear pieces, and some with stats you need. Transmog frees you to wear the best stuff you can, for the sake of the sanity of people you end up playing with, while not asking you to look like a rainbow clown in exchange for power. And it also means people mindful of the best in slot won’t all look the same, which can be downright comical.
And in terms of immersion - I strongly disagree that being effectively asked to wear mismatched gear adds to immersion. It is one of the most gamey and immersion breaking things. There is a reason irl armour usually came as a whole set historically. It works best that way. Plus you will pretty much never see anyone but players (i.e intentionally designed NPCs) wearing random mishmash of incompatible gear pieces even in WoW.
Anyway, this is why I don’t really understand ‘I hate glamour’ opinions. Because having it doesn’t really interfere with what you want, with only one exception, not knowing their exact stats by looking at their gear. Transmogged gear still has stories, fits better with characters in the world, you get to loot cool new items a everything.
And how should I be able to tell that you are wearing those shoulders and not some random level 40 shoulders from a quest before engaging you in world pvp for example?
In a vanilla wow environment (this is still that even though it have massive changes) the difference between a piece of end game loot and something else is massive, even the difference between tier 1 and 2 lead to differences in threat that person is to you. A full tier 2 warrior is less dangerous in pvp than a warrior with the same level of gear but who is optimized for dps. If you cant quickly tell the difference by just glancing at the warrior then it could lead to you getting killed by someone you were sure was not a threat to you.
World PvP is one place where I can kind of see the argument, which is one thing I didn’t particularly think about because I avoid PvP like a plague. That is the one place where the stats thing matters at all.
Trust me you are not the only one that avoids it so do I, but seeing as we will most likely have a more active world pvp environment than ever (other than phase 2 classic) its once again a important thing to remember, people would abuse that system to look like a smaller threat than they are just to score some cheap kills.
Yeh I get what you’re saying. I understand the appeal, but I’m still against it for the reasons put forward. I’m not a classic purist, hence why I’m excited for SoD, but transmogs are a step too far imo.
A few more FP would be nice Not a ton, but a few. Alliance need at least 1 in Northern STV and southern Felwood. Eastern Ashenvale would also be nice, but not that important as you can use the one in Azshara. Most hordes FP seems to be better position. In contested zones I think Arathi Highland is the only zone alliance has a better placement of the FP.
