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Suggestion: Allow players to hide their tabard
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Greetings, fellow forumgoers!
There has been something that has been annoying me ever since the transmogrify feature was put into the game, well, actually prior to that feature being put into the game. The tabard. My point, I want to suggest to add an option to the interface options, that just like you can hide the helmet and cloak slots if you want to, Blizzard adds the ability to hide the tabard. It's quite pointless, when you find a nice set you want to get, you spend a lot of time getting it, just to have some ugly tabard cover most of your characters upper body. The whole point of having a tabard and getting reputation, is, represent that faction by showing off your tabard. Sure thing, that is obvious. Though, ever since the transmogrify feature was implemented into WoW, I just find that, finding and getting nice chests to transmogrify is pointless (if you are like me and prefer to keep putting on new tabards because you still have factions you can raise to exalted.) Sure, you can just get the reputation from the factions you need / want and then stop wearing a tabard. Still, personally, it takes a looong time to run out of factions to grind to exalted, even if you quest and do dungeons like crazy, it's gonna take quite some time. Merely my personal opinion, but a lot of the tabards in-game, are quite ugly. So if this could get forwarded to Blizzard's dev team that'd be grand! Thoughts? |
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Edited by Ghostile on 22/02/12 12:59 (UTC)
No. and use the search function.
Would it make sense, if you represent a faction without wearing their colors? no. "Hey, want to sponsor me?" "Sure, wear this" "How about you sponsor me without me wearing your emblems?" Don't like tabbards? Don't wear tabbards. Tho, they could make it so you could choose wether you wear the tabbard as a tabbard, or as a cloak or as a banner. |
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Use Search function Been suggestion many times, and was also suggested yesterday. And for the topic - no. If you want their rep, then you gotta represent them, by killing bosses in dungeons, while wearing their tabards. Simple solution. Jump in a dungeon - equipt tabard for the wanted rep. When finshed - jump out and take off, the tabard. |
Let's not forget that this is a game, not real life. The reality of real life doesn't need to be enforced in video games, hence, why in some areas video games can be made fun, while real life can't. Wearing tabards defeats the point of transmogrifying your chest slot, seriously. As to the, don't like tabards, don't wear them. That was more or less the first answer I thought I would get, but for a game this focused on getting reputation, you'll miss out on a lot of stuff if you don't wear tabards, it's more or less, not an option. As for Orcpaladin's reply, I have tried to put on the tabard when going into dungeons, and taking it off when going out again. Though, typically, at some point in time, I always forget to put it back on. If I've had a busy day, get back home, want to run a dungeon, it's not everyday it's possible to remember wearing the tabard. Hence, I don't get the reputation I need. |
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As for Orcpaladin's reply, I have tried to put on the tabard when going into dungeons, and taking it off when going out again. Do their daily quests then |
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Edited by Ghostile on 22/02/12 13:20 (UTC)
Hiding tabbard defeats the point of tabbards. Also, who forces you to wear a tabbard when not doing instances? No one. Just stop being lazy and unequip your tabbard when not needing it. Not like you'd be able to look at your char in the middle of combat anyway. Or in shapeshift form. |
Not like you'd be able to look at your char in the middle of combat anyway. Sure, I'm posting on a druid but I have every class in-game at level 85, so I can just pick and choose which class I want to play depending on my mood. So the shapeshift form point is moot in this example. Also, as I said, it's not always possible to remember putting the tabard back on. |
That's the beauty of online games, if you are strong in the spirit of RPG, you can just keep your tabard equipped. Those that do not want to, have a choice not to. That's what massive multiplayer online games should get more of in the future, choices for different players and their playstyles. I'm fairly certain that quite a number of the WoW playerbase would use this feature if it was implemented into the game, as they would rather want to show their transmogrify clothes, then some "general" dull looking tabard. |
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Do you remember before Wrath of the Lich King? You didn't get a tabard from a faction before you became Exalted. I don't see why you could fight for the faction you want without weaing their colors, you used to have to earn them after all.
I think you lot should lightn up a little, stop being so stubborn, I don't think any of you have a real good reason to be against OP's suggestion. In TBC, you had to do specific instances to get reputation with the wanted faction, and there wasn't even an LFD tool, wanted the tabard? too bad if you where not exalted. I like his idea, don't bother with rep because it forces a tabard on me, so a hide function would be welcome in my book. |
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Edited by Ghostile on 22/02/12 13:33 (UTC)
Not like you'd be able to look at your char in the middle of combat anyway. So blizzard should put this on cause you cba to check wether the tabbard is on? Also, it sounds outright stupid to hide the tabbard, even if this game does not require realism. Just think about it. "I am champion of the Wildhammer clan, tho I refuse to wear their colors and they don't look good on me" Since when have fierce warrior turned towards fashion before honor? |
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The transmogrify feature was implemented to have a strong focus on letting you look as you want, but being forced to wear those tabards to take up certain factions for some of the goodies just messes up a lot of that point.
Like Therazane for shoulder enchants, let's be real, if you only did the dailies because you didn't want to wear the tabard, it would make it a lot slower then the person that does the dailies, and on top does a few dungeons per day wearing the tabard. |
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Edited by Parathorn on 22/02/12 14:02 (UTC)
I don't think so, for the reasons already stated above: It makes no sense that you should get reputation for proudly displaying the Faction's symbol, while hiding it.
However there was a thread earlier on the forums which made a good suggestion. Perhaps the tabard could be toggled to show in the Cloak slot. Of course in this case the "Hide cloak" option would be disabled, but you would be able to see the rest of your gear without the tabard in the way. I think that was a good suggestion. |
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Do what I do, equip all my players with my guild tabard. I design it etc, and only swap to a different one when I need rep etc.
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Do you remember before Wrath of the Lich King? You didn't get a tabard from a faction before you became Exalted. I don't see why you could fight for the faction you want without weaing their colors, you used to have to earn them after all. This. Also, bring back tabards that look nice. I wear my Scryers tabard a lot because it looks badass. I don't wear the Therazane one because it looks sh*t. |
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I support OP.
If we can hide our head and cloaks and still gain benefits from them, why can't we do the same for tabards? Also the people trying to apply logic to this game make me lol. |
Since when have fierce warrior turned towards fashion before honor? Since when were you a fierce warrior behind your computer screen? I don't think so, for the reasons already stated above: It makes no sense that you should get reputation for proudly displaying the Faction's symbol, while hiding it. Yeah, the NPCs care so much that you're "proudly" displaying their emblem. Half of them look like tripe anyway. |
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I always dress in loinclothes made of my enemies and paint my face with their blood when I play. |
