Breakfast Topic: Have transmogrification limits stymied your character's look?
by Daniel Whitcomb 
Dec 18th 2011 at 8:00AM
For example, I'd love to wear a leather eyepatch on my death knight, but since he's a plate wearer? No go. I would pretty much wear an Ashkandi forever and ever if I could, but if I pick up a two-handed axe in a raid or instance? Can't transmog it. My hunter has it even worse. I roleplay her as more of a backwoods, live-off-the-land type turned sniper, so she'd be more likely to dress in brown or black leathers instead of big, flashy suits of mail armor. Alas, under the current rules of transmogrification, I'm stuck with tier 11 while her Defias Leathers stay languishing in the bank. Finally, I had every intention of dressing up both my blood elf paladin and my gnomish warrior in level 60 PvP gear, but you probably heard that only those characters with the old high-level titles get to transmogrify that stuff for now.
So what about you? Are some of the transmogrification rules keeping you from putting together the look of your dreams?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 7)
Hoboken Dec 18th 2011 8:07AM
Yeah my belf paladin can't even wear the "Blood Knight" set because it is all mail and max level paladins really can only wear plate. So the class and race for which the gear is made can't even wear it due to restrictions.
It's a bit reduculous.
Gendou Dec 18th 2011 8:47AM
This.
I had my entire Blood Knight set ready to go, my Paladin leveled to where he could use it and set him in The Drag to wait for 4.3 to drop.
Then I found out I can't transmog the PVP set because my Blood Elf paladin isn't a Champion from the Vanilla PVP grind.
In addition, I discovered that Blizzard, in their infinite wisdom, did not place a cap on the cost of Transmogrification.
So the guild-purchased Heirloom head and cape cost over 300g each to transmog.
Between those two discoveries, mogging pretty much lost all of the luster it had when it was announced.
Schadenfreude Dec 18th 2011 11:28AM
I was also quite frustrated with my belf paladin's blood knight set for the above reasons. It's really annoying because those pvp sets were put in the game after the old honor system was long gone. They were never intended to be flashy pvp rewards but rather some plain old post-old-honor-system pvp gear and an easy way for people to get their hands on a really nice dark black and red blood knight set.
WoWie Zowie Dec 18th 2011 11:54AM
same for me and my scarlet chain set. My warrior wore it until around level 45ish (back in the day before armor specialization). Complete set. But its mail and warrior's wear plate now grrr.
Also, the mainhand/offhand thing has me buggin. Most tank weapons are strangely marked as "one handed" but some of the coolest weapons are labeled as "main hand" so it won't let me use the look. sad indeed.
Also, just so everyone knows. There is a plate eyepatch that is BOE that drops off the rare in Shadowmoon Valley. Sells very well.
Draelan Dec 18th 2011 12:30PM
This. I was so happy that I had saved that shield quest reward that has the Blood Knight emblem on it from Shadowmoon Valley. I spent Justice Points on the old lvl 70 Blood Knight cloak, and even did a few battlegrounds to earn the honor to buy these pieces. (Which, if you were at all aware of how hard my PvPer guildmates have been trying to entice me into bgs with them, you'd know is an AMAZING feat...) Only for patch day to come and my work be for naught? So much for playing dress-up with the ONLY character I actually had a specific look in-mind for.
I think what really pisses me off about the whole thing is that not only was this not announced beforehand, but the lvl 60 PvP gear is the ONLY group of sets that are technically transmogrifiable, but are arbitrarily limited to a finite set of the playerbase.
I can only hope Blizzard retracts this stupidity, or at the very LEAST makes the a Blood Knight set available some other way. (And if they go that route, they sure as hell better let me trade in the PvP set for the transmoggable set. Jerks.)
loop_not_defined Dec 18th 2011 3:00PM
I think a lot of the Armor type problems would be solved if classes didn't change their preferred type at level 40, and instead itemization was changed to accommodate Mail and Plate wearers from 1 to 40 (so the Blood Knight set would be changed to Plate).
loop_not_defined Dec 18th 2011 3:04PM
The 60 PVP set restriction is just stupid, though. After arguing that PVP Titles returning didn't hurt anybody, they do this and essentially validate every selfish opinion players had with the Titles.
loop_not_defined Dec 18th 2011 3:14PM
I rescind my previous suggestion and wish to support Mitawa's suggestion of simply letting Leather>Mail and Mail>Plate classes xmog both.
ThatGuy Dec 18th 2011 3:58PM
Im confused. about this blood knight set.....
are yall talking about this?
http://www.wowhead.com/transmog-set=278
which looks ugly and i've never seen a Blood knight wear?
or this? http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/shadow-council/Hiza/advanced
(ok so i liked some of the crusader gear better than other pieces of Inferno Tempered set)
Cus everytime I see my paladin i think of how great it would look on a blood elf paladin.
must be some set i dont know about.
Even the Thorium set would probably make a better blood knight than the Blood Knight set
Chris W Dec 19th 2011 12:09AM
@Schadenfreude
That lvl 60 pvp armor wasn't added later, you had to earn the titles to get it.
I know, I wore it pre BC. And considering all the perks they took away from high ranking pre BC pvp players, it's nice to get at least one small perk back.
Pyrese Dec 19th 2011 2:17PM
If you're looking for a "blood knight" set, feel free to give this a try:http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/burning-legion/Logitech/simple
(wowhead: http://www.wowhead.com/compare?items=30766:24934.-18:32073:30769:30767:30768:32083:29382:25549;24940.-18#modelviewer:4:7;96730;6;40767;3;97265;5;21580;10;97175;8;96744;1;97267;16;40592;19;37484:10+0:0)
I'm using the spaulders of dementia as I like the claws. Although there's not a real close plate match to what the npc "blood knights" wear, I find that the darkcrest shoulder piece makes a good substitue as well.
Tsukuri Dec 18th 2011 8:08AM
My only restriction seems to be the weapon types, so it takes forever for me to decide what to transmog my MH/OH into while my staves collect dust in my bank. Otherwise I prefer my charaters to have the gear type on... partly because cloth is my only restriction :P
razion Dec 18th 2011 8:47AM
Weapons for me as well, to an extent.
Three words: Titan's Grip Polearms.
LynMars Dec 18th 2011 11:59AM
Ugh, the weapon restrictions. The mace and sword I wanted to use for my paladin --once upon a time useful tanking weapons for her--are main hand items (BC era weapons having caster stats on them still). As a tank, she uses One-Hand. it won't let me transmog them.
Yet my roommate could transmog one-hand vs main-hand daggers on her rogue the other day. WTH?
I didn't go for old pvp gear, but my Hunter is happy with low-level mail quest items instead of the ridiculous tier sets that class gets. I'm trying to get the new white caster cloth from the Hour of Twilight dungeons for my mage; I've been stuck on what look to give her. Usually I'm pretty happy with armor restrictions, but the weapons? Urgh.
loop_not_defined Dec 18th 2011 2:55PM
Warriors can't normally dual wield Polearms, regardless of Transmogrification, so I don't think that restriction will lift anytime soon.
In fact, with Polearms being exclusively Agility weapons these days, I wouldn't be too surprised if Warriors lost the ability to wield them in the future. As weird as that sounds.
Tondef Dec 19th 2011 12:25PM
Yes the "Main Hand" or "Unique" labels have sucked most of the goodness out of transmog making it a 'Meh' addition to what is quickly becoming a 'Meh' game. I'm thinking Blizz has had the headquarters in California to long as Baz Luhramann would have advised, and they have all gone soft.
ghola Dec 18th 2011 8:23AM
Take heart Daniel, there is at least one plate eyepatch in the game. The Crimson Beholder Eye drops off Collidus the Warp-Watcher in Shadowmoon Valley. It is unfortunately a purple eyepatch, but it's better than nothing!
Andrew Dec 18th 2011 11:03AM
The Warp-Watcher drops eyepatches (well, futuristic monocles) for all gear types, actually. They just affect what color they are, is all.
Imnick Dec 18th 2011 8:24AM
It would make me much happier if the Weapon transmogrification limits were just "One-handed", "Two-handed", "Main Hand" and "Off Hand" (the last two because some weapons can't be flipped properly), and also obviously limited by what you can actually equip so people don't need on polearms for transmogrifying with no intent to actually use them.
Literaltruth Dec 18th 2011 8:31AM
I think most rogues who ever play combat would agree with me that one of the most disappointig things about transmog is the restriction on 1h weapon types. Rogues just generally look better with blades in both hands, it makes more sense (how exactly am I applying this poison with a hammer again?).
However Blizzard's recent itemisation of rogue weapons, since the removal of AP, has seen a plethora maces and axes for combat since we have to share our itemisation with Enhance Shamans and so we just don't get swords any more - or fast OH weapons of any kind except daggers. So a lot of the time we are stuck with Mace / Dagger...which just looks weird and awkward.
I want a ninja costume - possibly using the Dungeon set 3 combined with the D1 head. And I want a katana in one hand and one of the wakizashi-looking dagger models in the other (or to dual-wield katanas if I can ever farm up that one decent-looking katana model in the game that sheathes to the back). But at max level that means you need an agi sword.
Personally, and I'm saying this as someone whose rogue is very much an alt, I think that Rogues 1h weapons should get the same treatment as hunter's bows, crossbows and guns. You should be able to transmog axes, maces, fists, daggers and swords into each other as long as your character can equip both source and destination weapons of the transmog.