08-01-2013, 12:55 PM
So, for anyone that may have visited the list of 300k custom items which is linked in one of the stickies in my blog, you may have noticed that I enhanced it a bit. It now has a sheet for all 300k-range items, 100k-range items, and other sub-100k-range items which may still be custom. It now also has a sheet for any 200k-range items which may be edited from their normal item template.
The big thing, here? Changing the subclass of a 200k-range item. We've heard/seen it many times before, requesting changing an item (or copying an item) from something like mail to leather, or leather to cloth. In the past it hasn't been a huge problem because the original armor-wearer could still use it. With transmog, though, it was more of an issue because then the original armor-wearer wouldn't be able to use it for transmog.
Recently, I got a PM from Psychyn requesting changing some hoods from leather to cloth. Right when I saw that, I was preparing to respond with a denial for the reason above, but then I visited the link (http://www.wowhead.com/item=22273/moonsh...e-model-as) that he provided. Now, Wowhead only very recently changed their "same model as" page so that it actually shows models of the items that have the same model. Before, it was simply a list of the items and you had to go to each page to hopefully see a screenshot (or click the 3d model button). With the ease of that, it certainly provides some awesomeness in trying to find transmog items. It also acted as a catalyst for this idea.
We all know that there are often several items that have the same exact model of an item. We really don't need multiple .addrp versions of the same model. Therefore, the compromise that I send to Psychyn was that I would change one of any of those hoods from that page that had duplicates to cloth. In order to track it, I decided to enhance the spreadsheet I linked at the beginning of the post. I also decided to include all other custom items as well for easier tracking.
What I'll probably do is start a sticky thread in GM Requests/Suggestions that will be available for requests for similar situations. A request would be given, as well as a link to the appropriate "same model as" page so I can verify that there is more than one available .addrp item of the same color-scheme model. This part is important considering it will also include MoP items which do not exist yet in Cata. Further info regarding that would probably be included in that thread.
So, thoughts?
The big thing, here? Changing the subclass of a 200k-range item. We've heard/seen it many times before, requesting changing an item (or copying an item) from something like mail to leather, or leather to cloth. In the past it hasn't been a huge problem because the original armor-wearer could still use it. With transmog, though, it was more of an issue because then the original armor-wearer wouldn't be able to use it for transmog.
Recently, I got a PM from Psychyn requesting changing some hoods from leather to cloth. Right when I saw that, I was preparing to respond with a denial for the reason above, but then I visited the link (http://www.wowhead.com/item=22273/moonsh...e-model-as) that he provided. Now, Wowhead only very recently changed their "same model as" page so that it actually shows models of the items that have the same model. Before, it was simply a list of the items and you had to go to each page to hopefully see a screenshot (or click the 3d model button). With the ease of that, it certainly provides some awesomeness in trying to find transmog items. It also acted as a catalyst for this idea.
We all know that there are often several items that have the same exact model of an item. We really don't need multiple .addrp versions of the same model. Therefore, the compromise that I send to Psychyn was that I would change one of any of those hoods from that page that had duplicates to cloth. In order to track it, I decided to enhance the spreadsheet I linked at the beginning of the post. I also decided to include all other custom items as well for easier tracking.
What I'll probably do is start a sticky thread in GM Requests/Suggestions that will be available for requests for similar situations. A request would be given, as well as a link to the appropriate "same model as" page so I can verify that there is more than one available .addrp item of the same color-scheme model. This part is important considering it will also include MoP items which do not exist yet in Cata. Further info regarding that would probably be included in that thread.
So, thoughts?