World of Warcraft cosmetics are finally delivering on the style front
Fashion is serious business in World of Warcraft; players march off to delve into dungeons and kill bosses wearing the most fantastic fits possible. The game has a transmogrify system, which allows players to wear whatever they’d like. All you have to do is visit an Ethereal in a capital city, and they’ll allow you to overwrite a boring piece of gear with a much prettier piece. Recent additions to World of Warcraft seem to be aimed at the transmogrify crowd, with data miners discovering even more goodies on the way, and fashion fans are excited to see what dolly dress-up gear they’ll be receiving next.
In World of Warcraft, players can get new gear by doing basically anything. Raiding, questing, raising your reputation with factions, achievement hunting, and PvP all have the chance to award new pieces of gear. Even if the stats on a piece don’t work for you, you might fancy the appearance, which is added to your transmogrification library. This is why players will run through old raids, soloing bosses that are years out of date — they want to indulge in collecting old tier sets and fancy weapons.
The problem is that most pieces of gear in World of Warcraft are designed to look cool and powerful. At first, this seems to be the correct choice, because of course players want to look badass. We take the role of heroes who regularly wade into world-ending crises and even other realms. It makes sense to find elaborately carved pieces, often with some kind of unearthly glow or dreadful visage. But after nearly two decades, those paths are well worn. The people want something new, something stylish. That’s why some new pieces are so dang exciting: They look nothing like what we’ve seen before.
The good folks at Wowhead have data
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