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
