Because what I said isn't significantly clear enough, the bulk of this post IS NOT WRITTEN BY ME. It is copied from someone's tumblr who is sourced just below this.
This thread is about the recent changes to what was planned and partially implemented in Legion to the Wardrobe/Transmog system. I'll be copy-pasting the information here, but I want to cite the person who made this post on their tumblr
right here. Apologies if this is somewhere else, but I didn't see any threads for it. Onto the info:
More Transmog Changes In Legion, Blizzcon To Now.
So, there are many changes made to what we were told at Blizzcon. Honestly, some of it’s shattering, some of it’s pointless, and some is just annoying.
At Blizzcon we were told anything we looted would be unlocked for our account. This was excellent! Did you do firelands on your mage and get no staff? No problem, go on your rogue and have it drop for him. Now your mage has a staff!
Did you do Loremaster back in Classic? Did you do it again after Cataclysm’s zone changes? Great! ALL of the quest rewards is now unlocked to your account. Did you choose a bow over the sword? You get both sword and bow now because of the fact you did the quest!.
But, of course. Players have a quote they love to say about Blizzard.
FUN DETECTED, FUN NERFED.
In order to unlock an armor piece, it must be SOULBOUND, and any trade/refund timer must EXPIRE before it is unlocked. This means if a pretty green drops, you need to equip it and make it soubound in order to unlock it.
If an item is race/race/faction restricted, it will only unlock when looted by the target.
To unlock an armor piece, it must be of your class’s PRIMARY armor spec. This means if your priest’s long lost helmet drops on your warrior, you’re out of luck flat out. Warriors can equip cloth, but that helmet isn’t plate, so it isn’t unlocked.
To unlock a weapon, your class has to be able to equip it to unlock. This means to get a warrior to max level if you want to farm a weapon that refuses to drop for another class of yours. If it’s a wand, you’re out of luck.
And now, there’s one big change that was made recently. As Blizzard promised us before,
“If you complete a quest, ALL of the rewards will be unlocked, no matter what you chose.”
FUN DETECTED, FUN NERFED. Blizzard changed this rule DRASTICALLY. People, like myself, have began to do Loremaster in order to get all of that sweet transmog you unlock. As some people know, both factions have UNIQUE quest rewards you can only get by questing on that faction. No faction restriction, simply they didn’t add the model to the other. So, in order to get ALL quest rewards, you needed to do Loremaster twice.
Now, blizzard changed this. You no longer get all rewards, you only get what belongs to your class. If you did all quests on a hunter, YOU ONLY UNLOCKED THE MAIL AND WHATEVER WEAPONS YOU’RE ALLOWED TO EQUIP. If you did all the quests on a warrior, YOU ONLY UNLOCKED PLATE AND ALL WEAPONS(minus wands).
This means if you want to get ALL quest rewards for transmog, you need to do Loremaster EIGHT TIMES. One for EACH armor type, for BOTH factions.
Q: “So we have to do Loremaster on all armor types?”
A: “if you want to unlock every single appearance granted from questing, yes.”
Q: “Could you at least reconsider easing the unlock restrictions for old removed quest rewards?”
A: “we would rather offer other opportunities to earn otherwise lost appearances”
Source:
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/to...6754?page=1#15
Oh, right. Here’s the biggest punch to the face.
THIS APPLIES TO REMOVED QUESTS AS WELL, so everything before Cataclysm..
https://twitter.com/nite_moogle/stat...07569327935493
I hope everyone did loremaster 8 times before Cata so they can have those removed rewards.. and did it 8 times after.
EDIT: My personal thoughts and feelings are that this change is unneeded and unfun. Who here likes this change? Anyone? Anyone at all? No? Didn't think so.