Transmogrification: a big fancy word for “RP in raids”
Sister Arolaide: SRS! SOLDIER! BUSINESS!
I’ve been thinking a whole lot about transmogrification since they announced it. A whole, whole lot, because this is an effective way for someone like me who enjoys RP and has a story to tell but not much time to tell it around the whole raiding thing to actually, you know, RP. Changing my armor’s appearance means I will never again have to deal with god-awful terrifying giant fuckoff spiders on fire or ridiculous birdbaths, but it also means that I have to, you know, decide what it should look like.
So a month of scouring my tailoring recipes, my hilariously full binary packrat bank, and every single piece of cloth armor available through WMV later, what I’ve come up with is a mishmash of grafted greens, old tier armor, and some honor points I happened to have lying around.
I love Transcendence and Avatar very very much, but so does every other priest with any sense of style whatsoever, and one of the things that frustrates me about WoW is that every character of a certain rank and level must by necessity look exactly the same. This sameness is especially galling in Shadowform, when all you can see is the silhouette anyway. So while I have those and will probably switch them in and out as the whims strike me, I’m not interested in making that my primary “look,” per se.
For a while I also considered putting together a full-scale Dragonsworn-y RP set, and I struggled some with what that would look like since most of my Dragonsworn “gear” are pieces with interesting and appropriate names (Drape of the Spellweaver; Greatstaff of the Nexus) or things that mean a lot to me but belong to slots that aren’t moggable or visible (Memory of Malygos, my very favorite item ever; Signet Ring of the Bronze Dragonflight). There’s no dragonwrought gear, really, unless you consider the Ahn’Qiraj tier 2.5 (which I sort of do; Aro is wearing Oracle with the awesome awesome bugmace in her figureprint), so other than the Fang of Korialstrasz I don’t have anything ICly approprite — and, frankly, that dagger is really, really hard to match with priest gear. I can’t stand not matching, okay, regardless of whether or not shadowform hides the miscoloring. I can see it on the login screen, I KNOW IT’S THERE.
So, instead of going with my Special Snowflake Princess Hero Class as a gear theme, I went more simply: this is a soldier.
What does this soldier do?
She wears some goddamn pants and covers her motherfucking midriff, that is what she does.
And finally, after six freaking years of collecting tabards and being unable to wear them because they look god-awful with robes, I get to wear one. FINALLY.
I am so excited for this patch, you guys. SO EXCITED.
I mixed and matched all of your above listed combinations for what I am going to wear, its so abysmally awful, its spectacular! Absolution helm, with Oracle shoulders, and Avatar robe, topped off by the Staff of Immaculate Recovery, closet dressing at its finest!
I am so jealous of your priest on a stick you don't even know. If I had that — and had a staff to change — I would suck it up and wear Avatar in a heartbeat. I think the Absolution helm will look pretty awesome with Oracle shoulders. XD
Hoorah soldier Aro!
Hell yes she does! That is awesome. I really can't wait for Transmogrification. It's going to be so fun to SEE how people imagine their characters to look.
Honestly, that's what I'm looking forward to too. I'm fascinated by other people's characters and stories, and being able to see that reflected in the live game world is going to be AWESOME.
Excellent outfit. I have a strong preference for kinda utilitarian gear. It makes the character look more like a real person, rather than some cartoonish caricature. The tiny shoulder pieces are a huge win to me.
Although that hammer design, forgive me please, makes me think it goes "Squeak! Squeak!" every time it makes contact with something.
Yeah, the mace design tends either toward the comically huge or the tiny and spiky, and the only other matching mace and offhand I have is the set I'm currently wearing from Ragnaros (which is also comically huge).
Finding nice, plain, SMALL shoulders with stats on them was a really huge challenge. XD
Great to see your enthusiasm on the topic! I for one, am welcoming the change.
The benefit for RP guilds/characters is brilliant. Finally being able to bring further the (MMO)RPG into the game, in this case raiding. Imagine a guild/raid team theme? Team colours/kit!
Also, I am with you on the point about tier sets. I'm looking to build something individual myself.
Good post,
- Jamin
My recent post Big Brother: Titan Edition
For your dragonsworn purposes have you ever though to design a look around http://www.wowhead.com/item=28437#. ?
Or one of its 3 versions of course.
I have, and I love that model super bad — but the problem is that it's a BOP hammersmith recipe, and there aren't hammersmiths anymore so if you didn't already have it (and I didn't, because I am not smart enough to not be a tailor), no can has. :(
Ahh. I'm a blacksmith, so I tend to ignore stuff like that (oops). The model for the 2h mace in BWD is pretty awesome too (Akirus). Its too bad you can't find something in that vein.
The 'weaponsmith'/ 'armorsmith' thing always bugged me too. That instead of working the idea they just dropped it. With profession like alchemy getting specific branches of mastery it should be easy.
Weaponsmith : crafted weapons have a change to proc an X% increase in one primary stat, a 2X% increase in one secondary stat, or an extra socket.
Armorsmith: crafted armor have a change to proc an X% increase in one primary stat, a 2X% increase in one secondary stat, or an extra socket.
Done. You're Welcome Blizz.
…ok, now I actually have to go post this on the forums…..