Transmog is probably the #1 best feature added to WoW since back in 2004. Transmog has allowed a creativity and freedom of choice beyond anything else the game offers, and I think it creates way more uniqueness than what we had before. Imagine BFA without transmog, all paladins, warriors and death knights would look the same, all rogues, druids and monks would look the same, same with mage, warlock and priest.
Social status? Why do you feel the need to have social status above random strangers? Or do you want to feel like you're above your guildies? I really do not see the point here. You can just go get cutting edge and post it in Trade chat to water your ego flower.
wowhead (and others fansite) count very little registered users. It's like taking MMO-C poll seriously and extrapolating them to the total wow population.
Retrieving achievement from the PUBLIC API of the Armory is the more accurate data we can have and ANYBODY CAN CHECK IT THEMSELF.
So feel free to do it.
Don't get me wrong I get your point but I don't see where OP expressed that desire. In the opening post OP states:
Which sounds to me that an effect for current tier would be enough. It could still be bought from boosters but you know, it would be very distinct. If we also make the effect shine through even when mogged into T2 then you'd still be able to see who rock the current pinacle of WoW.
That would for me be very cool and fun. An achievement such as Cutting Edge is cool but it isn't visual at all. There could be 3 stages of the "end game current tier effect" for every third of the raid, different PvP ratings (2.3, 2.5, 2.8k maybe?), m+ (all dungeons lvl 15, lvl 19, lvl 23 in time or so), maybe even from Torghast (super late floors etc). Would be neat to finally get to one of those levels. Also, since it wont carry over into the next teir you wouldn't feel forced to do it just to have it, instead you get it or you don't and then try next season/tier.
Man, the more I think of it, the more great it becomes haha. Gotta remember this!
Thats because since the Introduction of Mythic raids, Heroic is MainStream.
Also, the List is from end of Last Year, so the amount of Curve for Azshara can even be Higher, and Current RaidTier doesnt even come up.
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No, it means "Heroic Mode" is Casual Content.
Everyone can go Heroic.
Lets look fabulous threads are something completely different that the point of OP. He wants to be a special snowflake exclusively wearing current raids shiny armor that only players can wear that actually earned it on its actual difficulty. Without transmog facerolling older content to get the same looks as former proraiders is not working anymore. What an embarrasing point of view. Wants to restrict others from making their chars look dope just to be "admired" by... yeah by who actually? scrubs kneeling infront of IF gates to you will never return, whatever you turn the game into.
i admit without problem that i have no clue how to get numbers from official source, so definitely not "anybody"...
and you obviously did it since you claim to have exact number, so why not just share your calculations and sources they are based on rather than saying we can check it ourself or trust you based on your word? or did you just pulled number out of your ass and now try to save it by saying "you can check" knowing fully well that not everybody CAN check it?
The PvP stats make sense. Only about 7% of the entire playerbase has 1800 rating
I thought Heroic raiding had the same status as 1800 rating.
Guess not. (if this is true)
Welp...i have no idea how to be a generous king in this current system then.
Since rewarding anyhting valuable in Heroic would be a joke.
I don't reinvent the wheel, I choose to believe a website who does it already.
But feel free to prove them wrong, you can start here : https://develop.battle.net/
Transmog always existed, it just required switching legacy gear on manually without being able to actually fight in it, which sucked. Lots of people were running around cities in T1 and T2 in Wrath. Did it invalidate hardcore raiders' achievements of getting the best gear currently in the game? No, it didn't.
There are no negatives to the transmog system, even from the elitist standpoint. The current tier mythic armor is still current tier mythic armor. If people were really still in that mentality "oh look he's so cool" then people farming old gear and wearing it's looks wouldn't stop others from marvelling at someone who wears an actual current tier mythic armor. The fact that no one does that, just means that people's mentality in general has changed. It has nothing to do with being able to transmog old raid sets.
I have no problem with special visual effects for current / high tier armor, but blaming transmog for anything is just DUMB.
So, once again, what has changed with transmog ?
T1 wasn't prestigious in Wotlk without transmog, it's still not prestigious with transmog.
You're using transmog as a scapegoat because you're unable to said what bother you.
Something bother you, you can't really see what but it's seem tied to prestige and incencitive to do raid to have cool looking gear (highly subjective). But now you see people with (old) cool looking gear and because you're a wow pleb (like the majority here, I don't mean that negatively), you said to yourself "Hey ! Why so many people are wearing gear that nobody can have before ???" and you point your finger on transmog because it's a conveniant scapegoat, totally ignoring that people were already doing it before.
One character switching "Show off gear" to "PvE gear" is totally irrelevant to the prestige of said character. Because his prestige came from "current" gear and "actual content" he is clearing, and you're seeing this by numerous factor immediatly recognizable by looking.
In the past it was : What his gear look like (obviously the point bothering you, but if HE want to show off he can just no use transmog and let his prestige radiate from his awesome gear), his mount, his HP pool when it became visible, his title.
In Vanilla, you could have a naked character looking prestigious solely because they have "High Marshall" or "Warlord" in their names.
In BC you could have a naked character looking prestigious by having Al'ar mount.
In WotLK you could have a naked character looking prestigious by having HC 25 man Arthas mount.
And now with transmog, you could have a naked character looking prestigious by having mythic Jaina's mount, Mythic N'zoth mount or simply the title.
So your argument of "Prestige was tied to the good looking gear and transmog ruined that" is completely invalid and you're justing bashing your head against facts that you don't like.
I think the problem is that most Mythic Armor looks shit in BfA.
If I saw something with the Mythic BoD armor, I would think he is hot shit.
Or if I saw someone with the Mythic BRF Warlock set, I would do the same. Its sad that they go back to Mythic being just a different color in Shadowlands, but hey, what can you do.