World of Warcraftis making the ability to purchase Renown cosmetic ensembles an account-wide unlock inDragonflight. This is a welcome shift from the system for Covenants inShadowlands, and is an alt-friendly boon forWorld of Warcraftplayers.
This discovery came about due to a bugin theWorld of Warcraft: Dragonflightbeta. Renown vendors for the major factions ofDragonflightoffer cosmetic ensembles for each of the four armor types–cloth, leather, mail, and plate. A glitch in the beta allowed all four of these ensembles to be purchasable by a single character, allowing the character to unlock all the faction’s cosmetics for their account, rather than just that of the armor type used by the character’s class.
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In a recent forum post,World of Warcraftclarified this was an unintended glitch, and would be patched out inlater builds of theDragonflightbeta. However,World of Warcraftsaid it was making the ability to purchase these cosmetics account-wide inDragonflight. While buying the ensembles will still require a special currency, a player’s other characters can buy their cosmetic armor sets without having to grind up their Renown on again.
InShadowlands, players interested in unlocking the cosmetic armor sets for each of the Covenants would need to reach a high Renown level on a character who uses each of the armor types. With four armor classes and four Covenants,World of Warcraftplayers need to repeat the Renown grind16 times to get all the cosmetics. With the system inDragonflight, players only need to grind out their Renown once for each faction, a huge relief for transmog lovers and alt-aholics everywhere.
Players are glad to seeWorld of Warcraftis making this change inDragonflight. Grinding out Renown on multiple characters simply for cosmetics was not a popular decision inShadowlands, and few players will be upset to see it go. As an MMO which encourages having multiple characters, suchalt-friendly changes are appreciated inWorld of Warcraft.
That said, some players thinkWorld of Warcraftshould just keep the glitchand allow a single character to simply unlock all the cosmetics.World of Warcraftcited a concern players may accidentally purchase cosmetic sets their character can’t use. Some players suggested warnings or a buyback option to prevent these accidents, or account-shared currency to alleviate the grind to unlock these cosmetics altogether. AsDragonflightis still in beta, fans will have to wait and see ifWorld of Warcraftwill make further changes to this unlock system.
World of Warcraftis available now on PC, withDragonflightlaunching later this year.
