MMO fashionistas rejoice as Blizzard finally allows World of Warcraft players to assess their collections properly after an almost 13-year wait
Aug. 7, 2024View your transmog collection with ease
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It’s been a long time coming, but World of Warcraft just became way more accessible for the MMO fashionistas and completionists out there, as Blizzard has allowed players to view their full collection of item appearances and transmogs on third-party websites without using add-ons.
For the uninitiated, transmogrifying in World of Warcraft allows you to change the appearance of your gear to take on the look of something else, essentially allowing you to create stylish, coordinated outfits, which is obviously the most important part of the entire MMO. Given how many different options there are, many players love collecting transmogs, but up to this point, keeping track of them on third-party websites that tell you what items you’re missing has been very difficult since they required external add-ons to work, and even then the “process is kinda wonky"according to fans.
Thankfully, that’s now set to change. As spotted byWowhead, in anew poston the Blizzard forums, the dev has announced its new “Item Appearance and Character Transmog Collection APIs” – APIs being ‘application programming interfaces.’ It sounds a little confusing, but what it essentially means is that going forward, third-party collection-tracking websites like Data for Azeroth and Simple Armory can add support to show you which of those specific item appearances you own.
Fans are thrilled, too, and are calling the change"huge.“One Reddit user and self-proclaimed collectorwrites: “Currently you have to manually upload your appearance collection second-hand via All The Things, but it doesn’t work well honestly. Having appearances straight from Blizz like all the other collections on there will make a huge difference!”
It might take a while for those third-party sites to fully integrate support for appearance collections – Data for Azeroth, for example, has “added basic support” but is still working to improve it.
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