The Advantages of Transmog Outweigh the disadvantages
Transmog Ruined a small part of the game
If everyone is using transmog and there isn't anyone using the new sets, that should tell you something. The problem isn't transmog, it's that no one likes the new designs.
Transmog didnt ruined anything. Being able farm up gear from absolote content is problem. If Blizzard would remove all rewards from outdated content than transmog would not ruin anything.
What is this Shadowpunkz 4th or 5th thread bitching about transmog in the past month now?
Simply put no, Transmog didn't ruin the excitement of the game. Hell if anything it along side LFR were the ones that actually paused the heavy bleed of subs that Cataclysm suffered from from 4.0 until 4.3. No one dislikes transmog except a few elitists who don't want anyone else except for them to look decent because somehow it hurts their feels of e-peen.
"Did Transmog ruined the excitement of new items?"
For me NO.
I'm not "admitting" anything and I don't understand how you could think power vs. looks is "debatable". Power always trumps looks. Every time. That's why they implemented transmog, so players could look the way they wanted while using the best gear for their performance.
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I am completely serious...
I think its a problem people are more excited about content of 8 years ago than current content "visually". I think is disturbing and a legit design flaw.
Current content should always be the most important thing in every single way. Both "looks" and "power".
I will say as a new player of the game in BC, you could definitely tell who was doing what content. For me back then, that was part of the reason I wanted to start raiding. I thought there was some prestige to being one of the few people with top tier gear. Nowadays character appearance means very little in-game. Not to ever say it was super significant early on, but it definitely meant more back in the day in my opinion.
Not true at all, Arms Warrriors in TBC Stacks Armor Pen over anything else, and if a piece of Mail or Leather had Armor Pen, they wore it, Same with Fury Warriors... Crit over anything else, and back in TBC Agi gave Crit, Str gave atk pwr. It wasn't until 4.0 (The end of Wrath of the Lich King) did they Force you to wear all the same Armor classification, with the Addition of "Mastery". You gained a "Mastery bonus" 5% (Str, Agi, Int) If you wore all of the Same classification of Armor. Thus preventing the Rolling for Off Armor pieces because they were better stat'ed.
if you like the way it looks you'll still finish the set, so no.
also if transmog was removed there would be a shitstorm the likes you've never seen before
No, it didn't. In TBC, the crafted tailoring gear was BiS for cloth wearers until T5 at least, and beyond in some cases. There was a good chunk of time, continuing into Wrath, where holy paladins wore cloth and plate melee users wore some leather pieces because those pieces were BiS for them. It was why they introduced "Armor Specialization" in Cata.
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It makes no sense because you can't understand words. Players will always take a more powerful piece over a better looking piece. Transmog was implemented so you could use those better pieces without being annoyed that they looked bad. Not a difficult concept.
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Those were design flaws and not the reality for many many class/specs. Rogues and Feral druids for example would never wear cloth in their entire lifes.
And the implementation of "Armor Specialization" in Cata was a confirmation that it was a flaw. like Deathquoi said
Thats exactly why i am saying i dont support the removal of transmog. I just support *new stuff* like "class acessories" or "CM sets of MoP with new animations on spells" and stuff like that to be implemented.
No one in their right mind wants trasnmog to be removed.
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Yeah, crafted gear in general was pretty much always at or near the top of the BiS list and it rarely matched with most sets. Even the crafted stuff that was based on a tier set would only match one set.
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That's not how this works. You can't say something was "always" a certain way and then claim that any evidence to the contrary is "a flaw".
I don't know why I keep responding to this guy. Absolute waste of my time.
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I genuinely don't see what harm Transmog has or what disadvantages there even are. If I like the way something looks I'm going to leave it alone, if I don't I love having the option of changing the appearance. It's nice not being stuck with something hideous while waiting for an upgrade. If anything artifacts have ruined the excitement of gearing, I miss having weapon drops.