Here we are, ladies and gentlemen. The outfit I will wear once tranmogrification is released!

Wait, you’re saying that everyone will be wearing the Thunderheart set? I won’t be a unique and special snowflake like I imagined? How can I fix this?

I have to find something that elegant, but also druidic. It needs to be relatively easy to obtain, but not dull. It cannot, by any means, interact with my worgen’s muzzle, because that makes her look horrible. Worse than wearing white after labor day (is that right? I don’t actually understand fashion).

Blue, Gold, and Green

Let’s try this lovely combination of Tier 9 (Alliance only) and Tier 11. The gold feathers on the shoulders match the gold accents on the dress quite nicely. The dress has excellent detailing, and the stitches down the middle accentuate this model’s lady-like figure.

[Malfurion’s Rainments of Conquest] – Tier 9 Chest, Alliance Only, 591 Justice Points
[Malfurion’s Handgrips of Conquest] – Tier 9 Chest, Alliance Only, 478 Justice Points
[Stormrider’s Spaulder’s (H)] – Tier 11 Heroic Shoulders, Token from Heroic Cho’gall
[Stag-Helm of Malorne] – Tier 4 Helm, Token from Prince Malchezaar

Belt options: [Cord of Pale Thorns], [Wrathful Gladiator’s Belt of Salvation]

Item Comparison Link (to view in 3D, click on the little down arrow and pick “view in 3D”)

Leafy Green and Beige

Want a more green and earthy ensemble? Look no further than this outfit made from Tier 5, Tier 4, and Tier 2. We are druids, after all, why not look like we’re one with nature.

[Stag-Helm of Malorne] – Tier 4 Helm, Token from Prince Malchezaar
[Cenarion Spaulders] – Tier 2 Shoulders, Baron Geddon
[Nordrassil Chestplate] – Tier 5 Chest, Kael’thas in Tempest Keep
[Nordrassil Feral-Kilt] – Tier 5 Legs, Fathom-Lord Karathress in SSC
[Nordrassil Handgrips] – Tier 5 Gloves, Leotheras the Blind in SSC

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Roguish Black and Green

Here is an outfit that is a little roguish, but without the overused fashion of the Bloodfang Set and its lookalikes.

[Emerald Beholder Eye] – Drop off Collidus the Warp-Watcher (also drops differently colored goggles)
OR [Green Lens] – Engineering craftable
[Cultist’s Bloodsoaked Spaulders] – Lady Deathwhisper (normal 25)
[Cadaverous Armor] – Rare drop off bosses in Scholomance
[Cadaverous Leggings] – Rare drop off bosses in Scholomance
[Cadaverous Gloves] – Rare drop off bosses in Scholomance
[Cadaverous Belt] – Rare drop off bosses in Scholomance

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Autumn Orange and Yellow

Fall is upon us; it’s time to don our autumn colors. This lovely dress also gives us the rare opportunity to show some thigh. Hot, hairy worgen thigh.

[Valorous Nightsong Headguard] – Mimiron in Uluar
[Mantle of Autumn] – Laj in The Botanica
[Flamestrider Robes] – Pyromancer Loregrain in Blackrock Depths
[Natural Mender’s Wraps] -Avatar of the Martyred in Auchenai Crypts

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Brown and Crimson

These colors also suggest autumn, but one for a colder place. Not ideal for Firelands. These shoulders are also one of the few that indicates the true nature of your role (that is, if you’re feral).

[Relentless Gladiator’s Dragonhide Robes] – 1100 Justice Points
[Relentless Gladiator’s Dragonhide Spaulders] – 695 Justice Points
[Relentless Gladiator’s Dragonhide Gloves] – 695 Justice Points
[Thunderheart Cover] – Token drops off Archimonde in The Battle for Mount Hyjal

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My first post on Transmogrification Outfits for Druids can be found here.

In this edition, I picked a weapon I thought looked cool and I tried to build an outfit around it. Unlike the first post, I will try to include matching belts and, if possible, boots as well (night elves are the only druid race who need to care about their feet matching in robes). World of Wardrobes and MogIt are very helpful for stuff like this.

Blue Feathers and Leaves

This set feels a bit obvious and it wasn’t too long ago when everyone was wearing Tier 11, but at least now you can make every piece match.

Head: [Stormrider’s Headpiece]
Shoulder: [Stormrider’s Spaulders]
Chest: [Stormrider’s Raiment]
Belt: [Withered Dream Belt]
Gloves: [Stormrider’s Grips]
Weapon: [Brutal Gladiator’s Staff]

Item Comparison Link (click on the little down arrow and click “View in 3D”)

Green Leaves

I never noticed this robe until now, but I absolutely love the fur and bear paws on the rim and side; it’s like you’re a stag-bear-tree. The staff has flowers that bloom in different colors.

Head: [Cenarion Helm]
Shoulder: [Cenarion Spaulders]
Chest: [Ymirjar Physician’s Robe]
Belt: [Ley-Whelphide Belt]
Gloves: [Fallbrush Handgrips]*
Weapon: [Draenic Wildstaff]

*= These gloves are pretty easy to obtain, but there are plenty of other matching options out there, too.

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Purple Glow with Brown

To be honest, I just really wanted to use this dress with this weapon. The staff has a purple glow, as well as the shoulders, but it doesn’t show up well in the model viewer.

Head: [Nordrassil Headdress]
Shoulder: [Nordrassil Feral-Mantle]
Chest: [Big Voodoo Robe]
Belt: [Belt of the Fang]
Gloves: [Nordrassil Handgrips]
Weapon: [Vengeful Gladiator’s Staff]

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Golden Wings

This is the closest I’ll probably ever get to a set that illustrates “Sunnier” colors. I tried to find a belt that brought out the turquoise and purple accents on the shoulders, but the one that fit the best is a rare drop off Emalon and therefore difficult to obtain.

Head: [Valorous Nightsong Headguard]
Shoulder: [Stormrider’s Spaulders (H)]
Chest: [Valorous Nightsong Raiments]
Belt: [Belt of the Sleeper]
Boots: [Boots of Hasty Revival] or [Boots of Wintry Endurance]
Gloves: [Valorous Nightsong Handgrips]
Weapon: [Staff of Immaculate Recovery]

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Obnoxiously Red

Is there a paladin on your raid team who wears only yellow? Well then here is your fiery counter! These pieces are all leatherworker craftables, random trash drops, or loot from Outland. If you’re also an engineer, everything is soloable; otherwise you might need a raid to get the goggles. There aren’t any gloves that match this set really well, so I just went with a pair that looked cool on their own. Feel free to substitute your favorites.

Head: [Mimiron’s Flight Goggles] ([Hyper-Vision Goggles] for Engineers)
Shoulder: [Bonechewer Shoulderguards]
Chest: [Silvermoon Tunic]
Belt: [Blastguard Belt]
Legs: [Blastguard Pants]
Boots: [Blastguard Boots]
Gloves: [Dandred Gloves]
Weapon: [Hellreaver]

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Monks will be a difficult transmog target. Not only do they lack all the fancy tiers that other classes enjoy, but pandaren, with their adorably large, round stomachs, awkwardly stretch some textures out in ways that aren’t exactly expected.

In the real world, monks of almost any flavor dress in simple cloth robes. Unfortunately, our World of Warcraft monks wear leather. Equipment designers also have a tendency to create overly complex designs that completely go against traditional simple monk attire.

I watched a few kung fu movies so now I’m an expert on monk clothes. They wore white or red/orange robes, and no shoulderpads or helmets. Google tells me that monks of European origin sometimes wear hoods, but those guys aren’t famous for martial arts.

If I were in charge of designing monk tier sets, I would create a set that had a knee-length robe. I’d use bright red or orange colors, but otherwise keep it simple. Gloves would be armwraps; helm would be an ugly beanie looking thing because that’s what I see in the movies.

Sadly, that’s not gonna happen because this is World of Warcraft we’re talking about — the world with many flavors of aliens, werewolves, minotaurs, and panda men.

I went through the Wowhead transmog listing to find cool outfits that can be equipped by monks and look good on pandaren. Here are my favorites, plus a few additions to make a complete set. Please note that helms currently aren’t loading on Wowhead’s Pandaren viewer, so all these sets lack headpieces.

Purple Serpent

This seems like the most monk-like set I can find, with those golden serpents and handwraps. Happily, it’s also purple. She also looks like Mileena from Mortal Combat except without the teeth and excessive boobage (well, maybe a little excessive boobage).

Orange Robes

Orange robes just like the monk in my picture! Though it’s slits in the side which I don’t think is very monk-like.

Purple Leather Padding

I just love the chest and the gloves. Much of this set is crafted through leatherworking, so you can prepare it beforehand if you want.

Black Ninja

I know ninjas are different from monks in the real world, but you have to admit this fellow looks dashing in black.

Next time… the non-monk-flavored transmog sets for monks!

These are the two transmog sets I’ve used lately. The first is inspired by traditional Chinese Buddhist monks, and the second is inspired by those dark and reclusive martial artists that I’ve seen in movies.

Dawn

This set is based on Buddhist monks, who often wear simple orange robes. It’s hard to stay simple in World of Warcraft, but this combination of vanilla and MoP keeps the spirit alive. This transmog goes well with two-handers.

• Head: Murkblood Cover, or any other headdress with orange feathers. Can be found on the AH if you’re lucky, but also through quests.
• Shoulders: Red Crane Spaulders (N), or any other normal monk tier 14. Drops from normal Lei Shi.
• Chest: Flamestrider Robes. Drops from Pyromancer Loregrain in Blackrock Depths.
• Hands: Elven Spirit Claws, or any other orange gloves. Can be found on the AH.
• Belt: Brown Belt of Precarious Balance, or any other blue belt you get from the monk class quests. Orange belts work too.
• Legs: Warbear Woolies, or any other legs that skimpy enough not to show. Crafted by leatherworkers.
• Weapon: Key to the Planes. Crafted by scribes.
• Boots: Anything dark and / or simple.

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Dusk

This set is inspired by the many rogue figures we can see in martial arts movies. Unfortunately, some pieces are Alliance only. There are two variations on this transmog. This set goes well with dual-wielding.

• Head: Rifle Commander’s Eyepatch, or any other eyepatch. Most of them are obtainable through quests.
• Shoulders: Shadow Heart Spaulders (LFR), or any other blue rogue tier 14 lookalike. Alternative is: Duskstalker Shoulderpads, or any other rogue tier 9 lookalike. Sold for 591 justice points.
• Chest: Knightbane Carapace, or any other rogue tier 9 lookalike. Crafted by leatherworkers.
• Hands: Greyshadow Gloves, or any other blue rogue tier 14 lookalike. Crafted by leatherworkers.
• Legs: Warbear Woolies, or any other legs that skimpy enough not to show. Crafted by leatherworkers.
• Boots: Anything dark and / or simple.
• Belt: Brown Belt of Precarious Balance, or any other blue belt you get from the monk class quests.
• Main hand: Scourgebane’s Slicer, or any other long, narrow sword. Obtained through Winterspring quests.
• Offhand: Fist of the Deity, dropped by Heroic Moorabi in Gundrak.

Wowhead Comparison

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These are the two transmog sets I’ve modeled lately. They’re both built around attractive, brightly colored capes and contrasting colors.

Pink Shadow

The focus of the Pink Shadow transmog is the hot pink cloak. Everything else is black or another subdued color and contributes to a simple, ninja-like theme. Most of the items are buyable or obtainable through quests, so unless you’ve already done the quests and threw out the rewards, it’s easy to put together.

• Deathblow X11 Goggles – Engineering only. Non-engineers can add more pink with Mimiron’s Flight Goggles
• Puncture-Binding Spaulder – Desolace quest reward.
• Quick Strike Cloak – Leatherworking BoE. Very common on most AHs.
• Hardened Tongue Tunic – Halls of Lightning quest reward.
• Glovelettes of Opening – Felwood quest reward
• Belt of Vengeful Purification – Dragonblight quest reward
• Legguards of Swarming Attacks – Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom boss drop
• Rustflutter Boots – Tanaris quest reward
• Staff of the Redeemer – Shadowmoon Valley quest reward

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Summer Flame

The Summer Flame transmog was inspired by the Fire Festival and the cloaks / tabard you receive from the yearly event. Both the cloak and tabard are a simple blue with yellow accents, which contrasts nicely with orange and red (see: my blog colors).

This set is a combination of faux tier 8 for druids, and heroic tier 15 for monks. That makes it a little bit harder to get all the pieces, but luckily both sets are pretty interchangeable so you can mix and match whatever you have available.

• Heroic Monk Tier 15 Helm or Mechanized Snow Goggles – White goggles go with everything.
• Shoulderguards of Assimilation – Ulduar 10 N boss drop
• Icebound Cloak – Ahune drop (fire festival)
• Vest of the Glowing Crescent – Ulduar 10 N boss drop
• Tabard of the Summer Skies – Fire Festival quest reward
• Heroic Monk Tier 15 Gloves
• Dreadful Gladiator’s Waistband – You can buy a version on the AH, or if you were lucky you could have bought it for honor last season.
• Heroic Monk Tier 15 Legs
• Boots of the Petrified Forest – Ulduar 10 boss drop
• Fordragon Blades – Alliance only ToC 10 N

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Here are some of the new transmog sets I’ve created lately.

Golden Wings (monk style)

Inspired by a druid set I created a long time ago, this version is wearable by monks who are willing to farm Ulduar 10/25, heroic Blackwing Decent 10, and Black Temple. I was able to solo all that was necessary as a SoO-geared brewmaster or windwalker, so it’s not too hard to complete.

I like to use this for my healer set because it goes so well with the healer legendary cloak proc. Also, my secret RP for my draenei monk is that she started out as a priest, and this set looks like something she’d wear.

• Cover of the Keepers (Auriaya, Ulduar-10)
• Heroic Passive Resistor Spaulders (Heroic Omnitron, Blackwing Descent-10)
• Phaelia’s Vestments of the Sprouting Seed (Normal Assembly of Iron, Ulduar-25)
• Gauntlets of Seven Sacred Seals (Normal General Nazgrim, Siege of Orgrimmar)
• Flamewrought Cinch (Ignis the Furnace Master, Ulduar-25)
• Staff of Immaculate Recovery (Gurtogg Bloodboil, Black Temple)

Lean Red Set

This is similar to one of my favorite druid tiers, tier 8. I particularly like the shoulders because, unlike most shoulders on female pandaren, they actually appear to sit on skin instead of hover two inches above.

This set requires some farming of Uluar 10, 25, and heroic SoO.

• Crown of Seven Sacred Seals (Normal Thok the Bloodthirsty, Siege of Orgrimmar)
• Shoulderguards of Assimilation (Normal Mimiron, Ulduar-10)
• Vest of the Glowing Crescent (Normal XT-Deconstructor, Ulduar-10)
• Forgotten Gloves (Pandaria Rares)
• Heroic Dragonmaw Emergency Strap (Heroic Galakras, Siege of Orgrimmar)
• Zodiac Leggings (Algalon, Ulduar-10)
• Boots of the Petrified Forest (Normal Assembly of Iron, Ulduar-10)
• Twisted Visage (Normal XT-Deconstructor, Ulduar-25)

Odds and Ends

I threw this set together out of individual pieces of gear I thought looked cool. It miraculously looked okay all together. Many of these pieces come from leatherworkers, so hopefully you have a friendly leatherworker available to you.

• Crown of Seven Sacred Seals (Normal Thok the Bloodthirsty, Siege of Orgrimmar)
• Normal Passive Resistor Spaulders (Normal Omnitron, Blackwing Descent-10)
• Knightbane Carapace (Crafted by leatherworkers, mats from AH and Wrath vendors)
• Forgotten Gloves (Pandaria Rares)
• Crafted Dreadful Gladiator’s Waistband of Cruelty (Crafted by a leatherworker, or if you bought it for honor in season 12)
• Warbear Woolies (Crafted by leatherworkers)
• Boots of the Petrified Forest (Normal Assembly of Iron, Ulduar-10)
• Fordragon Blades (Normal Anub’arak, Trial of the Crusader-10)

Mysterious Pilgrim

Most of my transmog sets are made when I get bored of my current one so I throw together a bunch of random cool-looking pieces. This one is the exception, mostly. Once I got the belt, I knew I had to make a set inspired by the druid heroic tier 16. Add on top the classic orange monk robe (in my mind at least), and we have a mysterious holy pilgrim!

I really like this set, even though it covers my face and hair (usually big no-nos) because the bright orange is easy to pick out. It sort of grabs your attention. Fire!

• Hood of Blackened Tears (Heroic)
• Shoulders of the Roiling Inferno (Heroic)
• Flamestrider Robes
• Handwraps of the Regal Lord
• Dragonmaw Emergency Strap (Heroic)
• Warbear Woolies
• Claws of Shek’zeer (Heroic)
• Broken Promise

Ox Assassin

Ok here’s a mostly random set again. I really wanted to use the Tyrannical Gladiator’s helm. It’s the closest thing we have to a Niuzao-inspired set, plus some rogue lookalike gear.

• Tyrannical Gladiator’s Copperskin Helm
• Ricocheting Shoulderguards (Heroic)
• Knightbane Carapace (Alliance)
• Handwraps of the Regal Lord
• Greatbelt of the Regal Lord
• Riou’s Vigilant Leggings (Heroic)
• Treads of the Regal Lord
• Fist of the Deity
• Talon of Azshara

Bonus Round

I just spent a lot of time getting my GW2 main into shape, and I think she looks pretty cool (for a Chaar in medium armor, the most awkwardly-clothed race in the most awkward armor type).

Here are the transmog sets I’ve created so far this expansion. Each is named after the title I sport while wearing that set. I have a couple sets that are a bit different between races because some look really good on some races and really bland on others.

Night Elf Flamelord

• Head: Crown of Woe
• Shoulders: Shoulders of the Roiling Inferno (M)
• Chest: Flamestrider Robes
• Hands: Handwraps of the Regal Lord
• Waist: Dragonmaw Emergency Strap (M)
• Weapons: Hellscream’s Pig Sticker
• Enchant: Flames of Ragnaros

Draenei Flamelord

• Head: Crown of Woe
• Shoulders: Deep Walker Paulders (H)
• Chest: Hardened Tongue Tunic
• Hands: Glovelettes of Opening
• Waist: Belt of Vengeful Purification
• Legs: Proto Hide Leggings
• Feet: Meadowstomper Boots
• Weapons: Mantid Sky Reaver
• Enchant: Flames of Ragnaros

Crusader

• Head: Cover of the Keepers
• Shoulders: Duskstalker Shoulderpads
• Back: Fireproof Greatcloak (M)
• Chest: Stormwind Chestguard
• Hands: Greyshadow Gloves
• Waist: Stormwind Belt
• Legs: Stormwind Leggings
• Weapons: Fist of the Deity + Bloodblade of Teron’Gor
• Enchant: Crusader
• Tabard: Council of Exarchs Tabard

Draenei Brawler

• Head: Murkblood Cover
• Shoulders: Gnarled Ironwood Pauldrons
• Chest: Thunderlord Chestguard
• Hands: Korgra’s Venom-Soaked Gauntlets (H)
• Waist: Sabermaw Waistband
• Legs: Kilt of the Forgotten One
• Weapons: Fist of Molten Fury
• Enchant: Flames of Ragnaros

Dwarf Brawler

• Head: Tyrannical Gladiator’s Copperskin Helm
• Shoulders: Ricocheting Shoulderguards (M)
• Chest: Thunderlord Chestguard
• Hands: Korgra’s Venom-Soaked Gauntlets (H)
• Waist: Girdle of Unconquered Glory (H)
• Legs: Thunderlord Leggings
• Weapons: Fist of Molten Fury
• Enchant: Flames of Ragnaros

I haven’t done a transmog post in a while, and boy do I have a backlog to show off.

Big Blue

I love these lollipop maces but it’s hard to find a set that lets them shine without overwhelming everything.

• Dressing Room
• Head: Tyrannical Gladiator’s Copperskin Helm
• Shoulder: Duskstalker Shoulderpads
• Chest: Knightbane Carapace
• Hands: Greyshadow Gloves
• Waist: Belt of the Merciless Killer
• Legs: Leggings of the Broken Beast
• Weapon: Guiding Star x2
• Enchant: hidden

Torch Dancer

This fiery mog will bring some warmth to your otherwise green and fel experience in Hellfire Citadel.

• Dressing Room
• Head: Mask of the Hurricane’s Eye
• Shoulder: Bloodtusk Shoulderpads
• Chest: Heroic Tunic of the Soulbinder
• Hands: Heroic Insulated Wirer’s Gloves
• Waist: Heroic Belt of Misconceived Loyalty
• Legs: Heroic Empowered Demonskin Kilt
• Weapon: Ko’gun, Hammer of the Firelord x2
• Enchant: Flames of Ragnaros

Brewfest

This is very similar to the Torch Dancer, but with all the brew-themed items I could find (mostly challenge mode pieces plus actual Brewfest loot).

• Dressing Room
• Head: Mask of the Hurricane’s Eye
• Shoulder: Shoulderguards of the Regal Lord
• Chest: Heroic Tunic of the Soulbinder
• Hands: Heroic Insulated Wirer’s Gloves
• Waist: Greatbelt of the Regal Lord
• Legs: Heroic Empowered Demonskin Kilt
• Weapon: Tremendous Tankard O’ Terror x2
• Enchant: none

Reaper

Okay, this is just the rogue heroic Tier 18. But it makes a great Halloween costume! Add in some creepy blades, an unholy enchant, and a demon horse, and you’ve got a set worthy of fear.

• Dressing Room
• Head: Heroic Gurtogg’s Discarded Hood
• Shoulder: Heroic Blood-Tanned Pauldrons
• Chest: Heroic Chestguard of Gnawing Desire
• Hands: Bloodfeather Grips
• Waist: Belt of Vengeful Purification
• Legs: Heroic Rivet-Studded Leggings
• Feet: Heroic Toxicologist’s Treated Boots
• Weapon: Blade of Savagery x2
• Enchant: Unholy
• Mount: Headless Horseman’s Mount

Today our transmog theme is nature (loosely).

Rock Ninja

How to slow down a ninja? Cover it in armor made of rocks and bright green lights.

• Dressing Room
• Head: Mythic Helm of the Somber Gaze
• Shoulder: Mythic Mantle of the Somber Gaze
• Chest: Heroic Tunic of the Soulbinder
• Hands: Mythic Handwraps of the Somber Gaze
• Waist: Mythic Girdle of Unconquered Glory
• Legs: Heroic Legwraps of the Somber Gaze (mythic matches better but it never dropped for me)
• Feet: Mythic Furnace Tender’s Treads
• Weapon: Heroic Iron Soldier’s Saber x2
• Enchant: Landslide

Forest Guardian

In place of a bug lord, you will have a queen!

• Dressing Room
• Head: Mythic Sorka’s Nightshade Cowl
• Shoulder: Mantle of Autumn
• Chest: Jinxed Hoodoo Skin
• Hands: Gloves of Cushioned Air
• Waist: Flamewrought Cinch
• Legs: Jinxed Hoodoo Kilt
• Weapon: Draenic Wildstaff
• Enchant: Mending
• Title: Guardian of Cenarius

Druid Wannabe

You can try to appease us with transmogs, but we’ll never forget how you rerolled.

• Dressing Room
• Head: Tyrannical Gladiator’s Copperskin Helm
• Shoulders: Veil of Turning Leaves
• Chest: Grizzly Jerkin
• Hands: Thunderlord Gloves
• Waist: Flamewrought Cinch
• Legs: Kilt of Immortal Nature
• Weapon: Pillar of Ferocity
• Enchant: Mending
• Title: Guardian of Cenarius

I finally completed my Challenge Modes, which means I have all these new trasmog outfits! These sets aren’t completely new. They might be old sets with slight modifications to better match the weapons.

Cloudsong Glaive

Red Tabard White Pants

A mix of monk Tier 16, Challenge Mode gear, and the Shado-pan tabard.

• Gear List

Seven Sacred Seals (Heroic)

A perfect match that doesn’t require much creativity (though it requires quite a bit of luck to get that belt).

• Gear List

Arcana Shard Spire

Shadowmoon Arcana

I wanted a simple set of armor that evoked draenei style without drawing attention away from the staff.

• Gear List

Greatstaff of Infinite Knowledge

Scholarly Red

The rune on the helm of normal monk Tier 18 is similar to the rune that appears on the staff. If you’re like me and sadly lack most of normal Tier 18, this set is a good alternative.

• Gear List

Hurricane’s Eye (Normal)

If you are lucky enough to own a set of normal Tier 18, then it works great with this staff! The yellow and beige match perfectly, and even the little balls on the shoulders match the foot of the staff.

• Gear List

Dimension Ripper’s Staff

Spirit Hunter

It’s difficult to align this creepy staff with any monk themes, so I modified a witch doctor transmog to match the trollish elements, instead.

• Gear List

When Nighthold came out and I realized I was missing several pieces that only dropped in Emerald Nightmare, I decided to compile a list of where I can get all the monk and dh tier 19 models so that I know exactly what to spend my bonus roll tokens on.

Also, with the new Armor 2.0 models that don’t always display well on Wowhead (with all the cool knickknacks on the boots and gloves), I wanted to take my own pictures to remind me how pretty they are.

There’s also going to be the new Transmog Sets UI coming in 7.2, so I wanted to get ahead of the game and track them before Blizzard does.

So I wrote up some pages on the class guides with Tier 19 models. Eventually I’ll expand it to include all transmog this expansion, including lookalikes and questing gear.

Monk

Demon Hunter

For the latest patch in late March.

Brewmaster Changes

Not many balance changes to brewmasters.

• All tanks now get 0.65% damage increase per artifact point spent.
• Player Taunts now increase all threat caused against the target by 400% (was 200%). Should be easier to grab threat and hold it after a taunt, even if your cotank has better legendaries than you.
• All tanks no longer have a 10% damage decrease in PvP.

Artifact traits

At 35 points and after a questline you get after starting the Broken Shore, you unlock the 4th trait on older 3-rank traits and the new traits. The order to unlock new traits should be something like (with some variation depending on whether you focus on raids or mythics or personal preference):

The new traits unlocked in this order:

• Endurance of the Broken Temple (1 rank) Increases damage by 10%, Armor by 35%, and Stamina by 10%. Standard compensation we get for “losing” our former paragon traits.
• Draught of Darkness (4 ranks) Increases the damage of Blackout Strike by 5/10/15/20%. Pronounced “draft” for reasons. Clear damage boost, Blackout Strike still #2 in our single target dps rotation, same as before.
• Stave Off (1 rank) Keg Smash has a 20% chance to trigger another Keg Smash. Both damage and defense boost. When Keg Smash procs, use it. It procs from Keg Smash itself, so it shouldn’t change your rotation too much, just Keg Smash x2 then continue onward into Blackout Kick and the rest.
• Quick Sip (1 rank) Drinking Purifying Brew grants Ironskin Brew for 1 sec. Drinking Ironskin Brew purifies 5% of your Staggered damage. This is one I’m looking forward to playing with a while before I really understand the subtleties. On the surface level, it’s clear that both brews will continue to play into each other, such that purifying while taking lots of damage is especially valuable, and Ironskin while staggering will be more potent.
• At 51 traits, you unlock the paragon trait, Concordance of the Legionfall, which grants a versatility proc.

Legendaries

• Bad luck protection based on spec, so if you main brewmaster, getting a windwalker legendary will be more likely and won’t hurt your chances at getting another brewmaster legendary.
• New BoE legendary crafted by Leatherworkers The Sentinel’s Eternal Refuge. If you don’t have many legendaries, this is a solid choice. Not the strongest, but if you primarily do solo content it’s just fine.
• Sephuz’s Secret: Now always grants 10% increased movement speed and 2% Haste. When triggered, this bonus is increased to the current values of 70% movement speed and 25% Haste. Movement speed bonuses now stack with other movement speed bonuses. Makes Sephuz’s an even more solid choice for mythic dungeons, especially if you’re like me and frequently forget to CC enough to activate it. If you don’t have many legendaries, the passives make it at least passable in raids even if there’s nothing to CC/interrupt.
• If you have either Cinidaria, the Symbiote or Gai Plin’s Soothing Sash, your odds of getting the other belt are significantly reduced. I’m not a fan of this change (mainly because I already have Cindaria, and I want Gai Plin’s), but the goal is clear: you won’t have to worry about getting two legendary belts.

Brewmaster Aesthetics

Artifact Skin

Once you unlock your empowered artifact weapon, you’ll become eligible for the solo artifact skin. You can access it via the Mage Tower (if it’s up) on the Broken Shore. Find more info on Wowhead’s guide. Here’s what they look like (pictures from Wowhead):

Class Mount

This won’t unlock for another 11 weeks, after you complete the Legionfall campaign. You can read about the questline here

Once you unlock the mount and all traits on one of your artifact weapons, you can purchase the pet Ban-Fu.

Transmog

Tier sets will be cataloged in the UI, along with accompanying achievements for collecting the whole set. (more info)

T20 pvp recolors available via battlegrounds/arena strongboxes.

T19 pvp recolors available for Mark of Honor purchase in Dalaran (Broken Isles) from Lieutenant Surtees and Apothecary Lee.

Generic Content

Dungeons

• Cathedral of Eternal Night — Brand new 5 man! Available after a short questline, in heroic, mythic, and mythic+.
• New mythic+s: Lower Karazhan, Upper Karazhan, and Cathedral of Eternal Night
• Difficulty increased, max item level gear increased  (details)
• Longer mythic+ dungeons (e.g. Arcway, Halls of Valor) reward proportionally more artifact power than shorter dungeons (e.g. Maw of Souls).
• Changes to affixes:
  • Bolstering reduced to 30 yards (was 45 yards). The intent of this change is to allow more opportunities for crowd control.
  • Necrotic will now expire after leaving combat. Duration reduced by 1 second. (This has been in the game, but it was hotfixed so you might have missed it.)
  • Tyrannical damage bonus has been lowered to 15% (was 20%).
  • Fortified damage bonus lowered to 30% (was 40%).
  • Skittish threat reduction has been lowered to 75% (was 80%). This is a bigger buff than it seems, so skittish should be a bit easier on your less offensive tanks.
  • Sanguine radius increased to 8 yards.
• New affixes:
  • Quaking: Periodically, players will “Quake”, inflicting damage equal to 20% of the player’s maximum health pool and interrupting spell casts of themselves and nearby allies. This will probably require spreading out and being prepared for interrupted healers.
  • Bursting: When slain, non-boss enemies explode, causing all players to suffer 10% of their max health in damage over 4 sec. This effect stacks. You’ll want to limit killing trash all at the same time.
  • Explosive: While in combat, enemies periodically summon Explosive Orbs that will detonate if not destroyed. This will require quick target switching, so be prepared to drag mobs to new orbs.
  • Grievous: When injured below 90% health, players will suffer increasing damage over time until healed above 90% health. Tanks will have to try extra hard to keep their health high, either with extra self healing or extra preventative damage reduction.

Solo content

• Broken Shore – new max level zone, like Suramar. Read more in Wowhead’s guide or the official guide.
• Flying (Broken Isles Pathfinder Pt 2). The requirements are:
  • Complete a Legion Invasion in each zone – available the week of April 4th (Defender of the Broken Isles)
  • Explore the Broken Shore (Explore Broken Shore)
  • Hit Revered with Armies of Legionfall (Legionfall Commander)
  • More information: Wowhead’s Broken Isles Flying Guide
• Legion Assaults on the Broken Isles (more info)
• Paragon Reputation (mounts!)
• Order halls
  • Save up on order hall resources! There are a couple of new researches that you can invest them into.
  • Artifact Knowledge: it can go higher than 25 now

For the latest patch in late March.

Vengeance Changes

• Demonic Wards   Your tattoos reduce all damage taken by 20%, up from 10%, and increase your Stamina by 55% and your Armor by 75%, down from 120%. The end result of this change to our tanking passive means we’ll have same amount of physical damage reduction, and about 10% more magical damage reduction. This should help us with all that magic damage in Nighthold.
• All tanks now get 0.65% damage increase per artifact point spent.
• Player Taunts now increase all threat caused against the target by 400% (was 200%). Should be easier to grab threat and hold it after a taunt, even if your cotank has better legendaries than you.
• All tanks no longer have a 10% damage decrease in PvP.

Artifact traits

At 35 points and after a questline you get after starting the Broken Shore, you unlock the 4th trait on older 3-rank traits and the new traits. The order to unlock new traits should be something like (with some variation depending on whether you focus on raids or mythics or personal preference):

• New traits unlocked in this order:
• Illidari Durability (1 rank) Increases damage by 10%, Armor by 20%, and Stamina by 10%. Standard compensation we get for “losing” our former paragon traits.
• Lingering Ordeal (4 ranks) Increases the duration of Metamorphosis by 0.5/1.0/1.5/2.0 sec.
• Erupting Souls (1 rank) Soul Cleave deals (100% of Attack power) additional damage for each Soul Fragment it consumes. This trait gives a nice little damage boost for consuming Fragments, giving you at least a dps reason to spend them all at 5 stacks.
• Flaming Soul (1 rank) Damage from Soul Carver and Immolation Aura extends the duration of your Fiery Brand by 0.5 seconds. Fiery Brand followed by Soul Carver and Immolation Aura is standard for our dps rotation, and now it will increase our defense too!
• At 51 traits, you unlock the paragon trait, Concordance of the Legionfall.

Legendaries

• Bad luck protection based on spec, so if you main vengeance, getting a havoc legendary will be more likely and won’t hurt your chances at getting another vengeance legendary.
• New BoE legendary crafted by Leatherworkers The Sentinel’s Eternal Refuge. If you don’t have many legendaries, this is a solid choice. Not the strongest, but if you primarily do solo content it’s just fine.
• Sephuz’s Secret: Now always grants 10% increased movement speed and 2% Haste. When triggered, this bonus is increased to the current values of 70% movement speed and 25% Haste. Movement speed bonuses now stack with other movement speed bonuses. Makes Sephuz’s an even more solid choice for mythic dungeons, especially if you’re like me and frequently forget to CC enough to activate it. If you don’t have many legendaries, the passives make it at least passable in raids even if there’s nothing to CC/interrupt.
• The Defiler’s Lost Vambraces: Now has an additional 539 Avoidance (@ ilvl 940) as a bonus tertiary stat. As is the theme, the extra stats doesn’t make this legendary amazing, but if this is the one you have, it at least gives you a benefit in situations where you might not need many sigils.

Vengeance Aesthetics

Artifact Skin

Once you unlock your empowered artifact weapon, you’ll become eligible for the solo artifact skin. You can access it via the Mage Tower (if it’s up) on the Broken Shore. Find more info on Wowhead’s guide. Here’s what they look like (pictures from Wowhead):

Class Mount

This won’t unlock for another 11 weeks, after you complete the Legionfall campaign. You can read about the questline here.

Once you unlock the mount and all traits on one of your artifact weapons, you can purchase the toy A Tiny Set of Warglaives, which puts a demon hunter Pepe on your head.

Transmog

Tier sets will be cataloged in the UI, along with accompanying achievements for collecting the whole set. (more info)

T20 pvp recolors available via battlegrounds/arena strongboxes.

T19 pvp recolors available for Mark of Honor purchase in Dalaran (Broken Isles) from Lieutenant Surtees and Apothecary Lee.

Generic Content

Dungeons

• Cathedral of Eternal Night — Brand new 5 man! Available after a short questline, in heroic, mythic, and mythic+.
• New mythic+s: Lower Karazhan, Upper Karazhan, and Cathedral of Eternal Night
• Difficulty increased, max item level gear increased  (details)
• Longer mythic+ dungeons (e.g. Arcway, Halls of Valor) reward proportionally more artifact power than shorter dungeons (e.g. Maw of Souls).
• Changes to affixes:
  • Bolstering reduced to 30 yards (was 45 yards). The intent of this change is to allow more opportunities for crowd control.
  • Necrotic will now expire after leaving combat. Duration reduced by 1 second. (This has been in the game, but it was hotfixed so you might have missed it.)
  • Tyrannical damage bonus has been lowered to 15% (was 20%).
  • Fortified damage bonus lowered to 30% (was 40%).
  • Skittish threat reduction has been lowered to 75% (was 80%). This is a bigger buff than it seems, so skittish should be a bit easier on your less offensive tanks.
  • Sanguine radius increased to 8 yards.
• New affixes:
  • Quaking: Periodically, players will “Quake”, inflicting damage equal to 20% of the player’s maximum health pool and interrupting spell casts of themselves and nearby allies. This will probably require spreading out and being prepared for interrupted healers.
  • Bursting: When slain, non-boss enemies explode, causing all players to suffer 10% of their max health in damage over 4 sec. This effect stacks. You’ll want to limit killing trash all at the same time.
  • Explosive: While in combat, enemies periodically summon Explosive Orbs that will detonate if not destroyed. This will require quick target switching, so be prepared to drag mobs to new orbs.
  • Grievous: When injured below 90% health, players will suffer increasing damage over time until healed above 90% health. Tanks will have to try extra hard to keep their health high, either with extra self healing or extra preventative damage reduction.

Solo content

• Broken Shore – new max level zone, like Suramar. Read more in Wowhead’s guide or the official guide.
• Flying (Broken Isles Pathfinder Pt 2). The requirements are:
  • Complete a Legion Invasion in each zone – available the week of April 4th (Defender of the Broken Isles)
  • Explore the Broken Shore (Explore Broken Shore)
  • Hit Revered with Armies of Legionfall (Legionfall Commander)
  • More information: Wowhead’s Broken Isles Flying Guide
• Legion Assaults on the Broken Isles (more info)
• Paragon Reputation (mounts!)
• Order halls
  • Save up on order hall resources! There are a couple of new researches that you can invest them into.
  • Artifact Knowledge: it can go higher than 25 now

Why is it easier for me, a devoted pve raider, to get complete pvp transmog sets than complete pve transmog sets?

I don’t do battlegrounds. Wherever a Mark of Honor daily pops up, I do it on my three max level characters and get a enough tokens for a whole pvp set plus a little bit of progress to the next. It takes 15 minutes. Easy squeezy.

Meanwhile, 9 hours a week are devoted to raiding mythic and heroic, and you know how many complete transmogs I have? The answer is three sets between two characters. I don’t even have previous expansion transmogs complete, despite the fact that I farmed many of those raids for months while they were relevant. (And I’m missing more than bracers and cloaks, too!)

I also farm LFR for transmog, which takes about 2 hours a week. Luckily, I’m almost done with that, though I’ve been working on it for a few months. Thank goodness only one of my characters has a cool set from there.

Part of the difficulty is that there are so many leather wearing classes that many appearances only have a single source. Some non tier pieces don’t even exist, like boots for druids or bracers for demon hunters. I usually spend my bonus rolls on bosses that do drop these unique appearances, though that’s usually not enough.

Even farming old pve sets is much more tedious than old pvp sets. Lower difficulties are limited to personal loot, so you get one piece per boss. Because older raids still have pieces that only drop for the appropriate loot spec, you’ll have to switch loot specs between bosses to target what you want. A few hours of farming a week will likely still give you nothing. (See my long attempts at farming Siege of Orgrimmar, which is a slow raid to move through in the first place, where I have on multiple occasions forgotten to switch to resto spec for the final boss and missed my weekly opportunity at that stupid belt.)

At least if you’re farming old pvp sets, you can do it by doing relevant content (battlegrounds and world quests), so even if you’re unlucky with drops, at least you got prestige along the way. Even though my route of waiting for the right dailies is slow, but it’s a guaranteed set and only takes a small portion of my time.

I just get frustrated. I live for transmog but have very little control of the pieces I get in pve. I wish I could buy appearances if I’m unlucky, or unlock the appearances through achievements or something. I want to be able to show off my pve accomplishments in my transmog.