World of Warcraft: Cosmetic Renown Unlocks Will Be Account Wide in Dragonflight

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World of Warcraft is making the ability to purchase Renown cosmetic ensembles an account-wide unlock in Dragonflight. This is a welcome shift from the system for Covenants in Shadowlands, and is an alt-friendly boon for World of Warcraft players.

This discovery came about due to a bug in the World of Warcraft: Dragonflight beta. Renown vendors for the major factions of Dragonflight offer cosmetic ensembles for each of the four armor types–cloth, leather, mail, and plate. A glitch in the beta allowed all four of these ensembles to be purchasable by a single character, allowing the character to unlock all the faction’s cosmetics for their account, rather than just that of the armor type used by the character's class.

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In a recent forum post, World of Warcraft clarified this was an unintended glitch, and would be patched out in later builds of the Dragonflight beta. However, World of Warcraft said it was making the ability to purchase these cosmetics account-wide in Dragonflight. While buying the ensembles will still require a special currency, a player's other characters can buy their cosmetic armor sets without having to grind up their Renown on again.

In Shadowlands, players interested in unlocking the cosmetic armor sets for each of the Covenants would need to reach a high Renown level on a character who uses each of the armor types. With four armor classes and four Covenants, World of Warcraft players need to repeat the Renown grind 16 times to get all the cosmetics. With the system in Dragonflight, players only need to grind out their Renown once for each faction, a huge relief for transmog lovers and alt-aholics everywhere.

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