You can unlock them by having a Dwarven Armory. The equivelant for Horde has Orgrimmar Grunt armor. Neither seems to have an armor type requirement ATM.
I don't know what to think about it being Cosmetic. It's nice that anyone can wear it but it's going to feel a bit weird with Warlocks and Druids running around dressed like Stormwind Footmen.
Honestly, if the armor designers can find some spare hours, it'd be amazing to see one armor set per armor class and race, for all the races in game. I.e. a Night Elf cloth set, a Night Elf mail set, a Night elf leather set, a Night Elf plate set ... and this for all the races. It would make all the guards in game look a lot better, and it would be extremely nice for transmog and for the roleplaying communities.
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It's not Plate? -.-
See the comment I just made above. This should be the Plate set, with other armor classes to follow.
Well, it could just be that its not implemented yet to be plate. The Orc Transmog gear for instance had the mail (thunder lord) and leather (war song) armor swapped armor type.
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Idk exactly as I just used the instant lvl 3 garrison with max lvl 100 character. You get garrison resources primarily through A. Lumber mill (can be either purchased or given to you in Gorgrond) and B. Killing rares.
Stormwind guard armor only needs lvl 1 Dwarven armory.
No complaints. Might be nice to be a rogue rocking Stormwind guard armor. I agree with Awbee, though. Looking forward to getting my hands on the Ironforge version, hopefully in a later patch.
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Not sure if I have any characters I can see myself wearing that on, but the armor itself is pretty rad so that's definitely cool.
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I can only imagine the ramifications this will have on Moon Guard.
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Are there any screenshots of this set (on character?)
This is the new Guard set for those wondering, I assume there is a horde vendor somewhere too for the new horde set!
Definitely using the Orgrimmar set on my Orc death knight. Surprised it isn't a plate set, but that's cool with me.
What's this about a change to the clan transmog sets?
I might transmog my blood elf into the Orc armor for a laugh, as for the human one my Mage is so wearing it, battle mages finally playable!