[Edit: ITS ALIVE AGAIN ITS GOT ITS VOICE BACK!]
I’m not sure as to whether this should go here since its related to transmogging or in the warlock subforum but in any case.
Lately I started leveling one of my mages on Arcane spec and I noticed that Aluneth while transmogged onto a prepatch darkshore staff was speaking his usual lines when running low on mana and stuff and that got me wondering, not once has my demo lock main’s artifact [Skull of the Man’ari]/Thal’kiel said anything since the launch of BFA even whether mogged onto dagger&OH or staves (wands are another matter entirely) not even lines for bring up portals, gateways, combat rotation stuff (like the “pathetic imps” line when using HoG) or even in legion areas he normally used to talk about. This surely has to be a bug right especially as the other artifacts that talk do indeed talk while mogged onto newer stuff as was intended and I do miss his flavor of prattling in my ear.
I suspect this may be a bug down to how the transmog interface handles it for demonology, as the actual weapon in bags was an offhand yet the interface requires us to tmog it over the main hand slot and therefore may have some different IDs that prevent it from providing the flavor text I miss quite dearly. Where as both Aluneth and Xal’atath already were main hand weapons so probably did not encounter this problem (other than a general reduction in lines due to not frequenting legion locales).
Has any other demo player found this to be the case since 8.0?