- Author: Luxrah
- Date: August 9, 2024
- Updated: August 9, 2024
- Expansion: World of Warcraft
The War Within pre-expansion patch brought many changes to the collection of transmog appearances with the addition of Warbands, and Blizzard is planning to improve the system even further after the expansion launches later this month.
The first change that is planned will make it easier to collect class-restricted gear without having to run the same legacy raids on every class every week. Class-restricted gear such as tier sets are among the last appearances that must be obtained by a character who can equip them. There are currently 13 classes in the game, which means it would take quite a lot of farming to collect all of the tier sets as it currently stands.
As previously promised, Blizzard is also working on a change that will grant all possible appearances from quest rewards, regardless of which item you choose or whether your current character can use them. This change is expected to be retroactive for all of the quests you’ve already completed.
These changes should be included in a future update sometime after The War Within launches.
Following the introduction of Warbands, we’ve seen a lot of discussion and received a lot of feedback from Transmog collectors. We want everyone to know that we’re currently working on some improvements to appearance collecting that are planned for the next patch after the release of The War Within.
First is an update to class-restricted gear. We’re working to make it so that non-cosmetic class-restricted gear can have its appearance collected by any class. Appearance collection will be retroactive to any gear in your inventory or bank. The intent is to make it much easier to collect class sets from legacy raids where that gear drops directly.
We’re also still working on the much-discussed update that makes it so that when quests are completed, all appearances from non-cosmetic item rewards will be granted, regardless of whether that particular class could have seen or chosen them. We plan for this to be retroactive, so any quests that you previously completed should grant all qualifying appearances when you first log onto any character. The intent here is to remove the need for completing these quests on multiple classes in order to collect all the appearances they provide.
Again, our intent is to implement the above with the next patch after the launch of The War Within.
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