Contrary to what was assumed, fans of World of Warcraft will not have to spend several million gold on Transmog. Blizzard corrects a mistake properly.
For many Transmog fans in World of Warcraft, it was quite disillusioning when they could try out the new and supposedly much better Transmog system in the beta. Because anyone who calculated quickly made it clear: The new system is extremely expensive and those who want to equip several characters will probably have to pay huge amounts of gold.
But Blizzard has heard the criticism and clarified just a day later: This is not finished yet, and one thing is going to change fundamentally.
What was the problem? After the first version of the new Transmog system went live in the beta, disillusionment quickly set in. Because the new system costs quite a bit of money and gets more expensive the more characters you play. One had to pay up to 800,000 gold for 20 Transmog slots – that is, free slots that can be filled with sets. On top of that come the drastically increased Transmog costs of around 6,000 gold for a complete endgame set. The disappointment was great, and the criticism was clearly heard everywhere.
What is going to change? Blizzard responded to the criticism in the official WoW forum. There, community manager Kaivax wrote in response to the demand that unlocking the Transmog slots should apply to the whole warband:
This will be the case in Midnight. It will just take a few more weeks to implement this feature in the beta.
In a future build of the Midnight beta, unlocking the outfit slots will apply to the whole warband. And the costs to unlock these slots will not increase.
In other words: Instead of having to pay 800,000 gold for the 20 slots on each character, this will now only need to happen once. Depending on how many characters you play – and how many
What other criticisms are there? One criticism still stands, and that is the increased Transmog costs. If you want to fully customize your entire gear – including weapons – you pay nearly 6,000 gold at max level. That is more than 5x what it currently costs in The War Within.
This is partly offset by the fact that in Midnight, saved “sets” only need to be paid for once – after that, they are automatically applied to all items you wear or find.
This poses a problem for all those who like to adjust parts of their Transmog and often make small changes. Because they are charged just as often as before – only now at significantly increased prices. This adversely affects the player group that has so far used the Transmog system the most. Therefore, there is a strong desire in the community to reconsider these costs and reduce them to a lower level.
If you want to take a look at the Transmog system yourself, check out the beta of Midnight – you can easily join in.
