Chasing down the last Piece...

Though I've been searching for various armor sets since the Transmogrification announcement was made, there are still pieces of armor that have eluded me on the auction house and as drops. Sometimes I do find the piece I want- for way more than I want to pay. Sometimes I see it drop in a random dungeon finder group, and watch as it gets disenchanted by someone else who won the greed roll (as you know, items now bind on pick-up if they are rolled "need" in LFG). If my time in Trade Chat has taught me anything, it is that I'm not the only one. My friends lists have at least 10 people at any given time who have asked me to keep an eye out for particular items, in exchange for them doing the same for me. So far I've only located items for one person- they were looking for the Outlander's Facewrap, and I sent it to them free of charge- I picked it up for under 5 gold (I've since sold 2 of those for 2.5k gold each).

The point I'm making, though, is that it can be an incredibly frustrating thing. For my paladin, Cornelladin, I had decided to build an outfit around the Barricade of Eternity, which I picked up last year some time when our guild retro-raided Eye of Eternity. Eventually I may end up using the Vanguard Plate, but right now I have her in the Reinforced Sapphirium Battlearmor. Now, because I don't raid current content much, and definitely not with my paladin, I couldn't get a shoulder token (i.e. I was too lazy to PuG for a raid) and I had to track down a shoulder slot item that matched (I used goggles for her head, as she is an engineer). Thankfully, Pauldrons of Edward the Odd look exactly the same as the tier shoulders, and are BoE, so I could get them from the auction house (or trade chat!).

It took me about a month to track down these shoulders, and during about 2/3 of that time there was a pair of the shoulders on the auction house for 28k gold- way more than I was willing to spend. I barked in trade chat, offering 5k gold and enduring numerous whispers from people telling me I should just run a new heroic and get a better set of shoulders. Eventually I found a pair for 1k on the AH and happily went on my way.

That's the success story. The truth is, I'm still trying to track down pieces of the most sought-after sets, and I don't see an end in sight. Slowly but surely, though, I am outfitting my characters in the way I've always wished.

Transmogrification and Me

As seems to happen lately, I did not get a timely start on this blog and so am kind of behind the times when it comes to up-to-the-minute news on Transmogrification, but you will all forgive me, right?

On the day that transmog came out, I did have most of my outfit collected, as you can see at the left. The chestpiece/robes are the Robes of Insight, a lvl 42 BoE that happens to be my favorite robe model EVER. I would have preferred something like Robes of the Guardian Saint, but since there are NO pants that match or don't show underneath, I decided to go with these because they match Ancestral Woollies in color, and therefore the tiny amount of cloth that does show looks like it is just part of the dress. Here are the rest of the items I'm sporting:

Head: Archmage Headpiece (I would love to have been able to use Forever-Lovely rose here, but alas, it isn't eligible for transmogrification)
Shoulder: Greenweave Mantle
Bracer: Agamaggan's Gift (any tiny bracer would work)
Gloves: Soulcloth Gloves
Belt: Ruthless Gladiator's Cord of Accuracy
Boots: Silksand Boots
Main Hand: Life and Death (prettiest sword in the game, IMO)
Off-hand: Penelope's Rose - Evidently this item is no longer available in game, which is a shame, but there are other flowers and "simple" off-hand frill to be had.

And there you have it, the PvE outfit for my main. Oddly, I've not come up with anything for her PvP getup because I'm having trouble getting attached to any of the other outfits- the problem I have with cloth is that I tend to get attached to specific robe models, and then find that there's not much to match them with. In my next post, we'll take a look at my Paladin, whose outfit was born of a desire to match her Shield and Mace.