tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4765136501328523372.post4492581601767200111..comments2023-11-03T02:45:14.110-05:00Comments on I Have Touched the Sky: The Trouble With Transmogrowanblazehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820814610269599162noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4765136501328523372.post-66360554297802986742016-08-10T11:06:26.142-05:002016-08-10T11:06:26.142-05:00My point about Vanilla was that people DID swap pi...My point about Vanilla was that people DID swap pieces for appearance. They LOVED collecting that final piece of a set. Doing holiday events just for the costumes. Clogging their banks, regretting deleting old pieces. Blizzard tapped into that. Add systems without disrupting the existing gameplay. Added Void Storage, then Tranmogrification, then the account wide Appearance Collection.<br /><br />As for the interface function becoming a vendor function: <br />For players who ONLY want to hide their helm, back (and now shoulders) its a pain. I mean you have to go one back to your main cities (boy does this place look busy) and since you have access to account wide appearances, why not fix those gross boots. But now my chest doesn't match. And those gloves look too bulky........ Dammit Blizzard! I promised myself I would never get involved in any of this crap, I just wanted to hide my helm! :)<br /><br />Overall I'm a big fan. I have the mount. I'm running the crap out of old content on multiple toons, even with the same armor types, cuz, well RNG. Switching Transmog outfits based on your spec is especially satisfying. My Frost spec looks all frosty and Fire literally looks hot. No vendor required for the switch, just a spec switch. And when you get new pieces, just reapply your saved outfit with a single button click at the vendor.<br /><br />Because all of this is so easy and satisfying I've outfit several lesser used toons I never would have outfitted otherwise. Addons and eventually Blizzard will make the UI better. But for now I think it works.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07952621116472430103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4765136501328523372.post-84518065219457982662016-08-07T08:31:01.434-05:002016-08-07T08:31:01.434-05:00Hi, thanks for commenting. :)
Considering I haven...Hi, thanks for commenting. :)<br /><br />Considering I haven't played Legion, yet (nor has anyone not involved in betas), I don't know what might be worth the trade-off. Also, having played since Vanilla, I'm not sure what you mean by collecting gear for appearance sake. Prior to patch 4.3.0, you could might swap out pieces for appearance, but you ran the risk of less than optimal stats. That changed with Transmog.<br /><br />Slapdash, call-it-a-day work is not something Blizzard Entertainment has a reputation for. Polished improvements on prior work of others and themselves is.<br /><br />However, perhaps I wasn't clear about my issue, I have no problem spending gold to change my characters' appearance or costumes. My beef with the revised system, as stated in my post, is the change of an interface function into a vendor function, and one that for most players requires a trip to a specific capital city. As far as gold sinks (which I did not complain about), Blizzard accelerated the need for them in the first place with the literal gold mines they put in the Garrisons (which at least a few players have never seen, much less taken advantage of). I certainly have no beef with the idea of collecting gear by running old content. My last year playing prior to my recent return was spent running instances, simply for the enjoyment of playing with friends.<br /><br />And lastly, regarding Blizzard's incrementalism, I will grant that some of the systems they implement in an evolutionary way; however, the expansions are littered with systems that were introduced then abandoned when Blizzard didn't get them just right. Garrisons being the latest example.rowanblazehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06820814610269599162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4765136501328523372.post-82335342931526439612016-08-06T20:19:22.425-05:002016-08-06T20:19:22.425-05:00Blizzard is doing with the Appearance collection j...Blizzard is doing with the Appearance collection just like they did with Pet, Mount, Heirloom and Toy Box collections: get people to rerun old world, dungeon and raid content to remind us how much content they've made. And implement it as cheaply as possible.<br /><br />They tend to make their changes incrementally. Assigning the appearance of one item to another is probably easier than allow players to assign the appearance of an item to a slot. Plus you've been able to collect gear to change your appearance since vanilla. They've just made it more convenient for you.<br /><br />And aside from any programming limitations, the current system is a great gold sink:<br />- A mount with a Transmog NPC on it costs 120,000g (less depending on rep)<br />- Each new piece of gear requires a fresh trip to the NPC (which if you are rich means "outside")<br /><br />I believe they made the system the way they did out of convenience to them. Slapping existing appearances on other existing gear, making it account wide and calling it a day.<br /><br />What would you have been willing to give up in Legion to have Blizzard spend more time implementing a more flexible appearance system?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07952621116472430103noreply@blogger.com