Transmogrify Your Armor in WoW

[Azmael Silverlance]

OMG now i can put some roleplay look on my character : this feature is what ive been waiting for for a very long time! THe only thing i wanted more than this was an achievement system.

 

[Blueruler182]

Oh, come on, Blizzard, nut up a little. At least let us go around in armour we've used in the past, not just what we have in our bags. I mean, for furk sake, there's tons of stuff from outland I can't get again that I want to run around in. If DC and Guild Wars 2 can do this, so can you! Guess I'll be spending a lot of gold in the Auction House...

 

[Baneat]

And just as I quit my warrior with full T6 and warglaives, my favorite set ever. This is pretty much a reason to come back... but I don't think I will. Damn, would have been awesome rocking that set again with modern stats.

Aren't the glaives one-handers?

Well, you could at least tank with the MH one.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

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Blizzard is really dropping the ball on this. Being able to customize one's look without sacrificing stats, has been done before, and I believe just about perfectly.

I'm referring to Lord of the Rings: Online's cosmetic system.

It not only does things that WoW's new system will do, but it also has more freedom in what one can do to ones clothes, like the dying system. If I got a purple cape in LotRO, since I don't like purple, I could dye it whatever color I want.

I played LotRO before I tried WoW, and both have things that the other is lacking. But after I started playing WoW because I got a little bored of LotRO(Not that it wasn't a fun game, I was just in a rut), I got really disappointed with the equipment system, if I wanted to look good, I had to sacrifice stats. If I liked everything about the look of a piece of armor, accept the color, I just had to live with the color because there was no way changing it.

Here is my example of how good and matched a player can look in LotRO:

Spoiler: Big picture.

I not only could I dye the cloth and leather clothes, I could dye the metal on things like helmets. That Elvish helmet my hobbit guardian is wearing, wasn't originally blue, it was a silver color. But, I like the color blue so I dyed everything I was wearing blue. Granted that not everything can be dyed properly, but most can and enough that I look like I'm wearing a nicely matched set, rather than the actual mismatch of Dwarven and Elvish armor.

Another point is that the LotRO system is free. The cosmetic system unlocks when a player reaches level 20, but once it is unlocked on one character, it is unlock for all new made characters.

If Blizzard wants to find something to make more use of in-game gold, they should change how dyes in the game work, instead of just being a crafting item, make it so the dye can be used to change the color of equipment.

This is a great feature. LOTRO has it and it's one of the reasons I really liked that game

Yeah and it is free. Take the picture of my hobbit guardian I posted above:

The helmet is an incredibly cheap low level Elvish helmet that only gave like 15 or so armor. But it looked worlds better than the crappy human helmet that my hobbit was wearing for the stats. Plus, it let me dye the Elvish helmet blue.

I'm really thinking about going back to LotRO after this month of WoW is up. I'll miss the fast leveling of my character and of professions, but with how good LotRO looks, it is the one game I would chose over how great it looks graphically, especially in freedom of customization of my character's look.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

It sounds kind of cool, and I liked the version in LOTRO (Which is basically this system without paying).
Honestly I kind of wish more MMO's would do this because some armors may have better stats, but look horrible.

Actually, it isn't exactly like LotRO's version. If WoW's would be like that, I would be able to dye all the brown and grey armor my paladin is wearing a proper mixture of green and black, to match the color's of my guild's tabard.

The problem is that dyes in WoW are just materials for making clothes and don't actually serve proper purpose like being able to dye anything I want.

Unlike LotRO, in WoW I can buy every color of dye from a tailoring vendor, and pretty cheap too. If I want black dye in LotRO, I have to be Mr. Moneybags.

Blizzard should pick up on the dying thing, it would make WoW so much more pleasing to the eye.

 

[remmus]

still doesn´t solve the issue that combat in WOW is like one long quicktime event

sorry but I already sold my soul to Guild Wars 2