In World of Warcraft: The War Within, there was a bug for collectors. But the bug was so great that now everyone is demanding: Make it a feature! Blizzard complies.
A beta test is intended for finding errors and testing mechanics. However, some bugs turn out to be so great that the community later demands: Please make this a feature. This is exactly what has happened in WoW: The War Within. A bug resulted in much better collecting of transmog items and this will now retrospectively become a feature.
What kind of bug was that? During the beta of The War Within, the warband feature was already extensively tested. One thing that worked differently at times: When you completed a quest, you unlocked all transmog templates that this quest could ever grant – even for other classes. So, for example, a mage could also unlock two-handed axes. A single completion of the quest meant that all rewards landed in the template collection.
The bug was so popular that the community assumed it was a feature.
However, Blizzard recently explained that it was a bug (via blizzard.com). While quests should unlock multiple transmog rewards, they were supposed to be only those that could be selected upon completing the quest.
The disappointment was correspondingly great. Of course, because the current rule means that you have to complete each quest up to 8 times with different classes to unlock everything. This clearly stands in the way of the idea of account-wide progress.
Blizzard is turning the bug into a feature: In the official WoW forum, Blizzard has taken this feedback to heart and states: The former bug will become a feature.
After the introduction of the warband, we have followed a lot of discussions and received much feedback from transmog collectors. We want to let you know that we are currently working on some improvements to the collection of templates that are planned for the next patch after the release of The War Within. […]
We are working on the much-discussed update that will allow, when quests are completed, all templates from non-cosmetic item rewards to be unlocked, regardless of whether your class could see or select those rewards. We plan for this to be retroactive so that all quests you have completed in the past should grant all corresponding templates the first time you log in after the patch. The intention is to remove the need to complete these quests multiple times with different classes to receive all the templates they can grant.
“Incidentally,” you will also be able to unlock class tier sets in old raids that you are not actively playing. For some raids, this was already possible through account-bound set tokens, but some raids drop the equipment directly – and this required being present with the correct class.
When will this feature be released? Blizzard has already revealed that the feature will appear with the first patch after the release of The War Within, specifically with patch 11.0.5. Work is already actively underway on this patch, as the update has already been deployed to the test realms and should be unlocked in the coming days. This also makes clear how things will continue after the release of The War Within.
