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Transmog is the Flyist Thing since Draenei

One night I was standing around Stormwind looking at options for my next transmog outfit while waiting for the Raid Finder queue to pop.  Suddenly, I was dc’d, unable to log back in due to an “issue affecting the authentication servers”, to be fixed soon™.  The lull in dragon killing action got me thinking about how amazing the transmogrification feature is, but how expensive greens have become.  I spend many hours viewing gear with the MogIt add-on trying to plan the perfect look, but actually going out and trying to farm the gear, or dropping the gold at the AH keeps my outfits pretty stale.  I decided to start a blog cataloging the looks I’d like to put together, and the ones I actually do.

The name of the blog comes from my guild, Pretty Fly for a Draenei, on Proudmore US (A).  It was 100% ripped off from Nyhm’s awesome video, a cover of the song “Pretty Fly for a White Guy” by Offspring.   At the time I first saw this video, I played mainly Horde, but after rolling my first draenei, I was hooked.  I make no secret about how the waggle is completely mesmerizing.  All of my draenei’s are named after how I originally thought the race was pronounced “draynee”.  A good friend of mine, Indora, got a kick out of that, being an original alliance player herself.

Well, now that all that history is out the way, I just have to say that transmog is the most wonderful feature implemented in World of Warcraft since the Draenei themselves.  Transmog was introduced around the time that Star Wars: The Old Republic was released.  I was pretty excited about transmog, but WoW had gotten a little stale, and like everyone I knew at the time I was pretty stoked on SW:TOR.  I played around with transmog a litte, and then spent the next month perfecting my light saber skills.  SW:TOR has a nifty feature that attempts to replicate transmog.  They have gear that is ‘mod-able’, meaning you can wear it at any level, and the gear gets its stats from mods.  The character I leveled in TOR wore the same outfit from 15-50 thanks to mod-able gear.  It was a pretty cool outfit, but when I got to max level and tried to find an outfit that really fit my character, I found the options to be pretty limited.  Chalk it up to it being a new game, but every time I tried to change my look, in the back of my mind I kept thinking about all the awesome gear WoW has to offer.  Long story short, I shelved my magenta light saber, and picked up a Hellreaver.  I couldn’t be happier to be back, well maybe if they allowed 2-handed maces to be transmogged into 2-handed swords, but I’ll take my gun-to-bow feature and just be quiet about it!

Draynee

-- Draynee
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