Necrachilles wrote:
I think it has potentional to bring a little more uniqueness back to the game but only if done right and right is something Blizzard has a hard time doing.
Truth.
A lot of the ideas implemented in WotLK/Cata and more so now - class balance, dailies, daily dungeons, fiveman epics, RBGs, reused instances, archaeology, heroic modes - aren't actually bad ideas, they're just terribly implemented. Good ideas implemented so badly the inevitable arguments become about the idea as it's known by the implementation and not the potential merits.
Then Blizzard assumes their role of, "we can't fix the problem because that would concede we made a mistake." Which brings us here.
Honestly, a major turn-off for WoW is just how...cult-like...the community has become.
Necrachilles wrote:
As for farming the gear, I'm fairly sure you'll still be required to have the actual gear you want it to look like. I imagine a setup alot like the reforger. Insert True Gear in Slot A. Insert gear you want it to look like in Slot B. I believe if anything it would just change the look of the real gear as opposed to slapping all the stats on the other one because that would be confusing, harder to pull of on Blizzards end and make it more difficult to inspect people's gear.
Calling it a "transmogrifier" implies this is likely the case (as well as the proximity to the account bank and reforger). and I agree, yeah, it could be decent and interesting. Less so for plate wearers since God knows it's going to get "ugly" fast with 95% of the playerbase choosing T1/T2 and acting like they got it when it was hard.
Thinking about it, the rarest models are T3 (by a huge margin), followed by T8 (getting a full set is fairly difficult in the here and now), heroic T11 (few non-raiders got sets and it's very hard to get people to go back now, or get moron pugs to do heroic modes), and of course the neat ToGC cloaks.
I'd imagine Aestu in T5, of course. And I doubt many people are going to choose that set. Though T11 goes much better with the Shodowmourne tabard: new ones are surprisingly rare.