And add them as a toggleable option for all races / genders on character creation!
Let us choose from a variety of styles, half-moon, simple, etc and customise the colour like we can with jewellery.
They’d of course be hidden on any full face helm, same as dwarven beards and draenei circlets, to avoid clipping.
I think this would be a nice addition that would allow people to keep the look of using glasses whilst also being able to use certain hats, masks and the new hood and scarf models whilst dealing with the restrictions of the transmog system as it stands.
Yeah, I like this option slightly better, mainly because I do have a transmog dude on call through the yak, but no barber. And I think this will be less work for the devs as well. They once added a slot for the separate shoulder transmog, so surely a face/eye slot isn’t impossible?
Also I wish they’d do something about hats making you go bald already. Allow certain existing loose hair styles to remain visible. I’ll take a little clipping here and there over never using like 80% of head items in the game.
Would also like to see the glasses vendor get their own shop. Players take a silly fun eye test mini-game, try on/purchase new glasses, and colour palettes.
Not sure how profession gear might affect this, Blizz would need to figure it out.
Glasses were invented in medieval times, therefore they can totally fit in a medieval themed fantasy world that always had steampunk aspects as well, I don’t see the issue there.
Warcraft is not medieval fantasy you know (tho’ the first eyeglasses were estimated to have been made in Central Italy, most likely in Pisa, by about 1290 and mediavel is from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, so fits)
Not even a “true” fantasy, in the tolkienesque sense… even WC1 whole story was, alien invaders - orcs - came from another planet via a stargate basically to conquer. Then went downhill so to speak from there
Warcraft, contrary to popular belief, never was a medieval fantasy (well duh’ considering it was planned to be a Warhammer game…) but more like a steampunk High fantasy with heavy Sci-Fi elements
What about Draenei? do they date back in 1290?
Guns?
Gyrocopters?
Zeppelins?
What about elves? Dragons? Living stone men?
Sure buddy, glasses don’t fits Azeroth.
Plus did you know originally castles windows were decorated with coloured mosaic glasses? Sometimes even pink ones. And the color of the dresses wasn’t the one depicted in movies but more colourful. Pink was very easy to make.
Oh and blue was a feminine color wore by brides on the wedding day.
Ashlein beat me to it
But
Coloured glass has been produced since ancient times. Both the Egyptians and the Romans excelled at the manufacture of small colored glass objects. Phoenicia was important in glass manufacture with its chief centres Sidon, Tyre and Antioch.
Evidence of stained-glass windows in churches and monasteries in Britain can be found as early as the 7th century. The earliest known reference dates from 675 AD when Benedict Biscop imported workmen from France to glaze the windows of the monastery of St Peter which he was building at Monkwearmouth. Hundreds of pieces of coloured glass and lead, dating back to the late 7th century, have been discovered here and at Jarrow.
In early Christian churches of the 4th and 5th centuries, there are many remaining windows which are filled with ornate patterns of thinly-sliced alabaster set into wooden frames, giving a stained-glass like effect.
This would be my preferred option, the biggest downside of current glasses-models in WoW is that they’re either/or with other headwear, i want my warlock to wear glasses and a hood-style headpiece.
That was my first thought, but I doubt it would work with how WoW currently handles transmog, which is just turning one item into another. Iirc even when you have your helm hidden you’re technically still wearing one, just one that’s invisible. I think the dual shoulders work because the left and right can be allocated separate ID’s. In which case the same could also be applied to boots and gloves.
So adding the glasses to the character creator would bypass the transmog restrictions.
I agree it would be better if it could be transmogged, due to the yak. Unless they add a barber to another mount
Sorry my knowledge covers just the dark age after the fall of Rome… not the Roman Empire because we know it continues way long after the Romans . Not a fan of ancient times
And I think this will be less work for the devs as well. They once added a slot for the separate shoulder transmog, so surely a face/eye slot isn’t impossible?
do they date back in 1290?
my knowledge covers just the dark age after the fall of Rome… not the Roman Empire because we know it continues way long after the Romans