Comments on: Transmogrifying – now with less Legendary

By: Finnei

Finnei — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:23:48 +0000

I like the idea of buying old PVE sets with JP/VP. Although until I hear that officially from Blizzard, I’m running old dungeons and raids to get the tier I want. Also, some of the PVP stuff looks pretty good and I always wanted it in PVE…that stuff is already purchaseable with honor for a reduced price. I bet you’re on the right track with old PVE sets coming available.

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:35:54 +0000

I was all happy this afternoon cause the official transmogrifying pics had a tauren with a Sulfuron Hammer legendary… and I thought YEAH!!!!!

Im all sad now… :(

By: Syl

Syl — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:05:37 +0000

While this news would have had me jumping on my table few years ago, I cannot help but feel how horribly late into WoW this feature is being added. :( rotten timing for me personally.
I concur on the legendary issue – legendaries of all things should be displayable. I wonder how final the decision really is, though.

By: TyphoonAndrew

TyphoonAndrew — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:51:12 +0000

Totally agree – not allowing Legendaries is just wrong-headed. But I think they’ll come around.

By: KiwiRed

KiwiRed — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 04:10:26 +0000

Well, odds are “Players will not be able to transmogrify Legendary items” will eventually go the same route as “We have no plans to allow players to change a character’s faction, sex or race.”

If I was still playing, it’d give me some small incentive to start gathering old sets (unless the rumour that old tier sets may become available for purchase with justice or valor points proves to have some basis in reality, removing even that potential diversion). As it is, I have a rogue with full T6 (earnt during TBC), a warrior with full D1, and a priest who desperately wants her T5…

By: FaceTank

FaceTank — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:57:39 +0000

I reread what I wrote and I apologize if it came across the wrong way (I almost sounded accusatory but I had honestly not heard how they wanted to use it) . What I meant was if they were just going to have a list of all items in the game that you can pay to change then I can see why they might exclude certain items. I am definitely with you in that anything that you received in the past should be available. People worked really hard for those pieces and deserve to see them again (thank goodness my priest still had Benediction hehe). It would be really nice if they made it so that any item you have ever gotten and destroyed/sold/disenchanted etc would also count.

To be honest I was hoping that Void Storage was simply for people who didnt want to get rid of old gear or flavor items for nostalgia sakes but it completely makes sense if it is used as a pattern factory of sorts. I was a little puzzled that they weren’t a little more specific about at least that portion of it. Overall I am pretty happy since it gives people a lot more stuff to do in old content. Maybe many of the newer players will get to see how fun some of the old content can be even if they outlevel/overgear it.

By: Symbiode

Symbiode — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:27:16 +0000

I’m really hoping that’s the case as well. I can sort of see where they were thinking that this would keep the Legendary status by not letting cheap knockoffs take the appearance, but then the items really do become both useless and the least desired vanity items when you can do this with every other item available.

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:21:51 +0000

Honestly, this is the first blush of the Hobbesian rose, I expect the legendary restriction to be relaxed. It just makes no sense to let you have everything EXCEPT the most precious item in your inventory that has stats that make it useless for anything but show.

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:20:17 +0000

First, am I sure? No, but if the stated purpose of the Void Storage is specifically to give you a place to put lall that extra unused armor, then I am willing to leap to the conclusion that you have to own a piece of gear in order to use it as the appearance for your equipped gear. Somewhere. Will you have to go, get the item out of storage in order to apply it at the Transmogrifier? possibly. Or possibly you will be given a list at the Transmogrifier vendor of all the possible choices avaiable based on your inventory in the Void Storage for a selected armor piece, and you can flip through them until you find the one you want. That second option is the one that seems to make the most sense to me.

Second… I’m really not sure about your “everyone running around with legendaries”. Legendaries are legendary. They’re certainly not common.
If you have been fortunate enough to earn one or have the pieces drop, or spent the literal YEARS it can take to farm the exceedingly rare drop… why would you expect to be denied showing that of all things off? And why would you think the reason would be to cheapen them? Their importance is based purely on their rarity and difficulty in acquisition. If they really are so common that everyone would be running around with them… then nobody will be running around with them over something else.

Or, to put it another way, if everyone is running around with warglaives, the cool kids will be using a rusty butter knife.

By: Klepsacovic

Klepsacovic — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:30:00 +0000

This ruined my hope of finally getting to use Thunderfury again. I guess it will just sit wherever I left it, useless. I wonder what the next arbitrary restriction will be, “must be from the same expansion”?