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All of the latest Mists of Pandaria newsPatch 4.3: Deathwing, cosmetic armor skins, and armor storage
by Alex Ziebart 
Aug 17th 2011 at 7:00AM
- Deathwing's raid and three new 5-man dungeons
- Cosmetic armor skins (!)
- An armor closet to store old gear, freeing up bank space
Follow us past the cut below for details on cosmetic armor skins and more!
In the grand scheme of things, that's actually the smallest piece of information Gamona.de managed to gather. Surely you remember the "Glimpses" screenshot that community manager Zarhym revealed via Warcraft's Facebook. The NPCs there had two curious labels: Void Storage and Transmogrifier. Void Storage, as revealed to Gamona.de, will act as a massive bank specifically for armor. Armor probably makes up the vast majority of what all (old school) players have clogging their banks, so we will all appreciate such a feature. We will appreciate it even more as time goes on, too. There are only so many bank slots to stuff with armor, and nearly every content patch brings us new tier gear to collect.
The transmogrifier is the feature players have been begging for for years; it provides the ability to alter the visual look of your armor into something more desirable. Don't like the look of your tier 12? Then reskin it with a tier you do like. It is made clear that you can only skin your armor as things your class could/should wear. For example, plate armor can only be transmogrified into other plate armor, and if you're a mage, you can't transmogrify your set armor to look like that of a different class. Currently, it's undecided whether you can only transform your armor into something you've previously acquired or not, but it's a possibility for the system. Needing to acquire gear before you can use it as your armor skin will lead to players frantically running old content to assemble their dream gear.
The costs associated with using these services have not been provided. They may cost nothing. They may cost ludicrous amounts of gold. It would be unwise to dismiss the possibility that cosmetic features such as Transmogrification could cost real money.
With the addition of these cosmetic, quality-of-life changes that patch 4.3 is implementing, this patch may very well be the most memorable patch in the game's recent history.
Keep an eye on Gamona.de. The video interview will be made available later today.
Brace yourselves for what could be some of most exciting updates to the game recently with patch 4.3. Look at what's ahead: new item storage options, cross-realm raiding, cosmetic armor skinning and your chance to battle the mighty Deathwing -- from astride his back! Filed under: Cataclysm
Reader Comments (Page 10 of 10)
Akurano Aug 22nd 2011 10:50AM
Yet it always bothered me that a Mage was just as buff as a warrior.
I mean, you study magic like a boss, AND you look like a body builder, yet can't take a punch unless I Frost Armor your ass?
Buckethead's Bucket Aug 24th 2011 5:54AM
Cataclysm's content, mechanical changes and brazen simplification ruined the game -- at least for me. I quit just prior to 4.2 after playing since 1.12.
Blizzard did an incredible job at making the new world boring, uninteresting and underpopulated, complimented only by the addition of the dungeon finder. Why go out and experience a massively-multiplayer adventure game when you can sit in your main city of choice and do nothing but queue for dungeons and spout nonsense on trade channels?
Cataclysm has also made WoW's carrot-on-a-stick scheme insultingly prominent and obvious. Blizzard no longer cares about the integrity of the game, they care about the amount of subscribers they have. Do you want your game to be popular? Make it easily accessible by stupid people and use Bioware's "button that does something awesome" philosophy.
I just thought I'd add my opinion; I'm honestly not trying to create any negative energy here.
maoxuefeng15 Sep 24th 2011 12:32AM
When the BLZ will open Level 90?