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[Lantyssa]

I would probably wear T9 on my Alliance druid, I even like the hat for it. The shoulders are a little wtfenormous on a NE dude, though. But aren't they all?

I like the T9 Druid set, except the helm.  And the grey shirt (woolen?) that matches.  Only that Shaman set could put the cleavage to shame otherwise.

[Sjofn]

Yeah, tier 6 is awesome on a tauren.

[Ashamanchill]

If my druid was a Tauren, I would rock Tier6 no doubt.

Word. That set is my favorite one in the game. What's that you say? I would have to grind Black Temple to get that? Okkkkkay, I guess it's some generic blue shoulder pads for me.

I would probably wear T9 on my Alliance druid, I even like the hat for it. The shoulders are a little wtfenormous on a NE dude, though. But aren't they all?

I like the T9 Druid set, except the helm.  And the grey shirt (woolen?) that matches.  Only that Shaman set could put the cleavage to shame otherwise.

You so craaaazay!

[SurfD]

If my druid was a Tauren, I would rock Tier6 no doubt.

Word. That set is my favorite one in the game. What's that you say? I would have to grind Black Temple to get that? Okkkkkay, I guess it's some generic blue shoulder pads for me.

Well, in all fairness, each tier boss in BT drops 3 tokens, and you can pretty much 5 man the place with a group of full 85's.   Your chances of putting together a full tier set from BT / Hyjal in less then a month, at 2-3 hours a week investment are fairly high if you go with 4 friends.

[Azazel]

Have they released some kind of timeline on when they'll add in their version of the appearance tab?

[Miasma]

The transmog stuff is coming with the next patch, 4.3.  They have not said when the patch will come but if I wanted to be cynical I would say December 19th.  December 17th if you have a pre order.

[calapine]

Oh my. I used to play WoW for what must have been several years - starting from launch - , still I can't remember anything past Tier 2.5.
Time just flows by...

Additional it took me about a year or two to figure out the hamster-wheel aspect of it all. Used to play the game eight hours a day...thinking it has..meaning. *sigh, mutters to self*

[Setanta]

I have full T6 waiting for my druid. It took one run of each raid as we 4-manned all 3: Feral tank, Arms Warrior, Survival Hunter, Ele/Resto shaman.
The warrior already had everything he needed but got a glaive for his efforts.

CoT: World tree bored us to tears.

[Rokal]

CoT: World tree bored us to tears.

Sounds like the raid hasn't changed much. The only notable fight in the zone was Archimonde which was a complete pain in the ass (1 death was a raid wipe and there were *lots* of ways to die). I probably participated in more wipes of Archimonde than any other fight in WoW, including M'uru. I do not look back on that experience fondly. The rest of the raid was just plain boring, so overall it's probably my least favorite raid zone they've ever done.

[Azazel]

So for the whole Transmogrification thing do you get to choose from a list of gear, or you actually have to own the stuff that you want to "wear"?
Just wondering if I need to go and try to get my Pally a bunch of armour I never got him in the first place.

[Rokal]

You need to own it. Pretty easy to solo most of the old content at this point though, so collecting the sets isn't that hard.

[SurfD]

You have to have the "source" item for the model change in your bags.  It also has to be "uesable" by your character (so even if you own some Warlock Tier 1 from molten core, you cant make your Priest look like a Tier 1 Warlock).

[Lakov_Sanite]

You have to have the "source" item for the model change in your bags.  It also has to be "uesable" by your character (so even if you own some Warlock Tier 1 from molten core, you cant make your Priest look like a Tier 1 Warlock).

mag'har ritualist horns, bitch!

[caladein]

Yeah, Tier look-a-likes are pretty common as either quest rewards in BC for the Classic stuff or as off-set pieces from the same dungeons for everything since.  Wowhead has a guide up for it.

[Kirth]

Yeah, Tier look-a-likes are pretty common as either quest rewards in BC for the Classic stuff or as off-set pieces from the same dungeons for everything since.  Wowhead has a guide up for it.

What if you have completed all those quests ages ago and long crushed the rewards? I can see them adding no stat teir models on the valor vendor or next expansion equalvant.

[Ingmar]

For the plate sets at least they're all dungeon pieces, I don't recall any being quest rewards.

[Sheepherder]

The Battlegear of Might lookalike helm is a quest item.

[Ingmar]

Ah, yeah, I was thinking of the dungeon set recolors. I can't imagine actually wanting to look like you were wearing Might.

[Simond]

Oh look, there's a dungeon drop Might recolour too: http://roleplaygear.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/might-recolor/

[Sheepherder]

The colour scheme on that is terrible, even compared to the various shades of grey that is Might.

[Simond]

It'd look fine on a blood elf! 

[Lakov_Sanite]

Looks like wow just added the first trade-able item that costs real world money. New guardian cub for sale in the blizz store for $10 but bind on use, not pickup and intended to be so.

[caladein]

It's just a TCG loot card item without the cards.

Which is important in some respects but not earth-shaking.

[Ingmar]

Will be interesting to see what they sell for on the AH, though.

[Simond]

Judging by the stupidity of the majority of people using the AH, about five coppers.

[Sjofn]

Depends on your server. 

[Miasma]

Oh that's what's going on, some guy was spamming the things in trade for 1k.  I thought it was cheap for one of those tcg cards but didn't buy one because I'm paralyzed by a fear of being ripped off.  It pays off again!

Still not sure what he was thinking, trading 10 dollars for 1k in gold seems like a very bad deal.  I'll have to head over to the forums to see what's going on as this is basically a money for gold scheme run by the host.

Edit: Oh they aren't for sale yet, think that guy was scamming the winterfall cubs as tcg.

[sinij]

mmorpg champion posted chart of "people defeated firelands" and total number is sub 150,000. That is out of what, 5-10mil subscriptions and after all these nerfs.. LULz.

[Paelos]

mmorpg champion posted chart of "people defeated firelands" and total number is sub 150,000. That is out of what, 5-10mil subscriptions and after all these nerfs.. LULz.

Extrapolating those numbers a little further, that means that close to 250,000 characters have killed anything in the firelands.

EDIT: Oh and as a comparison point, Wrath numbers put it somewhere around 1.5-2 Million characters killing stuff with some adjustments for overlap on T10.

[Miasma]

They said the sample size was out of 2.7 million level 85 characters so the percentage would be 135,000/2,700,000 or 5%.  It gets more complicated since we don't know how many might have been alts on the one hand and how many hardcore raiders might have run multiple characters though on the other.

However you look at it it is a terribly low number, people really do not like firelands.  My guild can do most of it after the nerfs but I'm fairly sure that unless they nerf ragnaros again we won't be beating him.  The adds in the transition phases move so very fast and missing one is a wipe.

[Miasma]

I'm hoping none of you guys try to buy Earthen Ring out from under me :)

[Paelos]

I'm going to be appaulled by how much these things go for, aren't I?

I hate how Blizzard donates this money to sick kids so I can't get really pissed at people for buying something stupid.

[Pantastic]

What if you have completed all those quests ages ago and long crushed the rewards? I can see them adding no stat teir models on the valor vendor or next expansion equalvant.

In the past, it's been possible to open a GM ticket to get back quest rewards for quests you've already completed. I don't know if they'll still do it after this patch hits, but it's not like it costs anything to open a ticket. This was really common for druids who decided to try feral and discovered that the best tanking trinket for all of vanilla and BC up until ogri-la was a quest reward that was useless for anything else.

[Merusk]

I tried to do the ticket thing a few weeks ago and they said the item had been deleted too long ago.  It could be that I didn't word it properly, however, as I specifically asked for an item restoration instead of a quest reward replacement.

[caladein]

EDIT: Oh and as a comparison point, Wrath numbers put it somewhere around 1.5-2 Million characters killing stuff with some adjustments for overlap on T10.

That data point is rather useless if it's not from the same time after T10 came out as we are from T12's release.  T10 had: the nerf up for months, slightly better gear available from Halion (or ICC-25 pugs with regards to 10), and the Cataclysm systems patch to push its numbers up.