Transmogrification

I know it is probably too early to do something like this now. I know that it is stealing from WoW. However I think it would be a good addition to this game.

If you are unfamiliar with this, it is a concept in World of Warcraft where you can change the appearance of an item to look like another.

For example: If you found a really godly bow that you want to use but you think it looks boring compared to your Death's Harp, unique bow, you can "transmog" your new bow to make it look like your Death's Harp. You can have your cake and eat it too.

In WoW I believe it is something that you pay gold for and as long as you have the item you can make another item look like it.

In POE it could work as a microtransaction. You must have the item you want your item to look like. I personally think that you should have to keep the item too if you want to look like your using it. That way people don't trade for it just to transmog it and then sell it again. This could help as an item sink for default uniques.

Pros:
-GGG can make some money back from time well spent on 3D unique models. Keeping our favorite game company in business.
-Players can walk around in style.
-Could be an item sink for default.
-More Character customization
-Increase demand for certain unique items


Is there any reason GGG wouldn't consider this suggestion?

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godsmackfan1002 a écrit :

I know it is probably too early to do something like this now. I know that it is stealing from WoW. However I think it would be a good addition to this game.

If you are unfamiliar with this, it is a concept in World of Warcraft where you can change the appearance of an item to look like another.

For example: If you found a really godly bow that you want to use but you think it looks boring compared to your Death's Harp, unique bow, you can "transmog" your new bow to make it look like your Death's Harp. You can have your cake and eat it too.

In WoW I believe it is something that you pay gold for and as long as you have the item you can make another item look like it.

In POE it could work as a microtransaction. You must have the item you want your item to look like. I personally think that you should have to keep the item too if you want to look like your using it. That way people don't trade for it just to transmog it and then sell it again. This could help as an item sink for default uniques.

Pros:
-GGG can make some money back from time well spent on 3D unique models. Keeping our favorite game company in business.
-Players can walk around in style.
-Could be an item sink for default.

Is there any reason GGG wouldn't consider this suggestion?

Only if it consumes the piece of gear you want the transmogrifying gear to look like.

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Only if it consumes the piece of gear you want the transmogrifying gear to look like.

It could consume it or possibly make the item no longer tradeable. So you could keep it for alts and you wont feel like your losing something by paying for a microtransaction.

I'm not sure about the exact implementation, but it sounds like a decent enough idea. I feel like a can barely see the details of my characters armor/ weapons when zoomed out to a playable distance, but hey, why not?

Also, small gripe, transmogrification is a word that is hundreds of years old and means exactly what you think it means. Blizzard did not invent it in any way.

Yeah I could see transmog as a 1-time-use microtransaction item. You buy it for a number of points, and use it to consume a piece of gear and transplant the visuals onto another. My guess is uniques skins won't be transmoggable though, as their looks are signature to what they are.

I think GGG can make such a system in a much more professional and awesome way.
Note: Names below are placeholders.
1 - Unique Items cannot be given a different appearance, and cannot give their appearance to other items.
2 - Add a new currency to Path of Exile: Orb of Envy
3 - Add a new Window to Path of Exile: Depths of Desire
4 - Depths of Desire uses the left side of the game screen.
5 - Using an Orb of Envy directly prompts you to select a unequipped item from your Inventory.
Doing so destroys that item and permanently unlocks its Appearance in Depths of Desire.
6 - Clicking Appearance A from Depths of Desire promts you to select Item B from your Inventory.
Doing so uses an Orb of Envy to give Appearance A to Item B.

This way, items are still destroyed in order to gain access to their appearance for the first time.
However, the game doesn't become extremely frustrating requiring you to acquire and destroy an item EVERY time - it will simply require the Currecy.
The value of this currency would fluctuate with supply and demand.

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Monkeynutz a écrit :

Also, small gripe, transmogrification is a word that is hundreds of years old and means exactly what you think it means. Blizzard did not invent it in any way.

Did not realize this but it is interesting to know. I know if I had not mentioned WoW in my original post, I would have heard another gripe. "Omg that is stealing from WoW!"

Some of you think that uniques should not be able to be transmogged. I think they should because it would bring in the most money. I am sure it costs GGG a lot of time and money to create 3D models for hundreds of different uniques out there, not to mention all of the alternative arts that they will have. So I think it would be nice for them to get their time and money's worth back from creating the seperate 3D art for each unique.

Who really would want to transmog the same armor pieces we see everywhere anyways?

It's a great idea! Would be awesome to make your character look the way you want it to look like. It's the same in real life. You decide what clothes you want to wear ^^

Customizable character appearance is a great idea! +1

+1 OP