Guest Post at Pretty Fly Draenei

Hey, I'm still alive, and I did a guest post for Draynee from Pretty Fly for a Draenei! Come on over and say hi! Be sure to check out all of Draynee's awesome posts about transmog and, of course, draenei ;).

I promise there are more posts to come! I've been doing a lot of transmogs with my shaman and a few other alts. I'm excited to show them to you!

Transmog with the August Celestials Tabard

One of the grindiest factions in Pandaria also has one of the best tabards: the August Celestials. A recent xmog I did with the tabard is one of my favorites:

Shoulders: Pauldrons of Surging Mana; Chest: Icy Scale Chestguard; Hands: Heroes' Earthshatter Handguards [Shaman only]; Waist: Necrogenic Belt; Legs: Black Dragonskin Breeches; Feet: Tsunami Boots; Duel-wielded Mace: Black Icicle. 

Cloth

For clothies, I know tabards can be hard to pair with robes,

but I found a match that looks pretty good (if I do say so myself). 

Shoulders: Lunar Mantle; Chest: Frozen Shadoweave Robe; Hands: Hands of the Light [I didn't realize until too late that these were Priest-only gloves from challenge-mode dungeons]; 

Waist: Sash of the Parlor; Weapon: Greatstaff of the Nexus.

Leather

This leather set might work best with Monk/Druid classes. For Rogues, the Tier 9 (Alliance-only) and Replica Rogue Dungeon 2 set look really good with the tabard. 

Shoulders: Hide of Chromaggus; Chest: Tunic of the Dark Hour; Hands: Replica Darkmantle Gloves; Waist: Eva's Strap; Legs: Trickster's Leggings; Boots: Charged Footwear; Weapon: Ghost Iron Staff.

Mail

This xmog set was something I was going to do if I still had an axe and a fist weapon :P. For Shamans, the Tier 7 10-man set looks really good with the tabard. 

Shoulders: Horrific Flesh Epaulets; Chest: Shroud of Rime; Hands: Mitts of Burning Hail; 

Waist: Naturalist's Preserving Cinch; Legs: Black Dragonskin Breeches; 

Feet: Dark Iron Chain Boots; Axe: The Decapitator; Fist Weapon: Fist of Fate. 

Plate

Oh man, Plate-wearers. They have several different options! Warriors, you can try the Tier 9 (Alliance-only) set. Death Knights can match with the Tier 11 Normal or Tier 13 Normal set. And, Paladins would look good with the Tier 11 Normal set. 

Shoulders: Pauldrons of Edward the Odd; Chest: Ornate Mithril Breastplate; Hands: Cobalt Gauntlets; Waist: Klaxxi Lash of the Doubter; Legs: Legguards of the Unseeing; Feet: Rock Furrow Boots; Weapon: Wrathful Gladiator's Slicer; Shield: Lost Pavise of the Blue Flight. 

Weapon Spotlight- Staff of Immaculate Recovery

Earlier this week we took a few family members through Black Temple for some transmog gear. The beautiful Staff of Immaculate Recovery dropped from Gurtogg Bloodboil and our lucky priest was able to snag it! I better start farming BT on my priest ;). This staff is 100 percent perfect with the Priest Tier 5 Raid Set, but I also got to thinking about other ways you could show it off...

Black, white and gold

Shoulders: Duskhallow Mantle; Chest: Runecloth Robe; 

Hands: Black Mageweave Gloves; Waist: Gossamer Belt.

White and gold

Head: Hood of the Avatar (Priest only); Shoulders: Swiftheal Mantle (Tailoring BoP); Chest: Vicious Embersilk Robe; Hands: Vicious Embersilk Gloves; Waist: Sash of Arcane Visions

I love these shoulders so much, but unfortunately they can only be used by tailors. An alternative are the Vicious Embersilk Shoulders. 

Transmog with the Lorewalkers Tabard, Part 2

Aaand I'm back! I hope everyone had a great holiday. 

There are several mail and plate armor sets that would look great with the Lorewalkers Tabard. Or, you can mix and match them. For a little while I had mixed and matched pieces of armor to match the tabard (I was improvising with what I had and didn't want to search after specific pieces :P). 

Shoulders: Harlan's Shoulders; Chest: Masterwork Breastplate; Hands: Masterwork Gauntlets; Waist: Tarren Mill Defender's Cinch; Legs: Erupting Volcanic Legguards; Feet: Grunt's Ankle Wraps; Axe: Doom's Edge; Fist weapon: Borean Smasher. 

After a while I polished off my transmog and ended up in a mix of the MoP Mail Agility PvP set and the Triumphant set. Both look great paired with Lorewalkers tabard. 

Contenders Dragonscale: 

Triumphant set with some extras: 

Shoulders: Coral-Barbed Shoulderpads; Axe: Crul'shorukh, Edge of Chaos; Fist weapon: Silithid Claw.

For plate, the possibilities are endless! Some sets that I thought matched great were the Conqueror's set, the Glorious set, the Immolation sets (both colors), and the Bloodfist set. There are many options. I personally love to mix and match pieces so I put together 2 sets seen below.

Red:

Shoulders: Spaulders of Manifold Eyes; Chest: Leonine Breastplate; Hands: Gauntlets of the Righteous Champion; Waist: Belt of the Sand Reaver; Legs: Leggings of the Ursa; Feet: Master Cannoneer Boots; 

2H Sword: Voldrethar, Dark Blade of Oblivion. 

Golden:

Shoulders: Spaulders of the Thalassian Savior; Chest, Gloves, Legs, Feet: from the Sunscale set; 

Waist: Glorious Belt; 2H Axe: Soul Cleaver. 

Replica Shado-Pan Helm

Has anyone hit exalted with the Shado-Pan yet? My helm is off to you! That is one grind I am still working on :P. I'm excited to buy their sweet mounts...and of course buy their Replica Shado-Pan Helm! I think it's a great idea to introduce items to the game purely for transmogging. Around the Proudmoore server I've seen a couple of people who have transmogged the helms and their sets look great!

Oh how beautiful Umarae looks! 

Fellow guildie Khelly shows that the helm can make 

the MoP blacksmithing set look perfect!

Who knew a simple mail set (Chief Brigadier) would look so nice 

with the Shado-Pan helm? Thanks Nyghtstorm for showing us how :). 

Have you seen any cool sets paired with the helm? Or do you have any ideas? :)

Transmog with the Lorewalkers tabard, Part 1

I chose to start with the Lorewalkers faction first since they're the easiest to get to exalted. In a few short hours you can go from neutral to exalted and get your sweet tabard! Then you're on your way to matching it with your awesome transmog ;).

Cloth: 

Cloth wearers are very lucky as they have SO MANY robes available to transmog! My mail-wearing shaman is pretty jealous sometimes :P. I think the details of this robe and the staff fit great with the tabard. 

Helm: Circle of Flame; Shoulders: Mantle of the Elven Kings; Chest: Bloodfyre Robes of Annihilation; Hands: Sunfire Handwraps; Waist: Mage-Fury Girdle; Feet: Fire Striders; Staff: Funeral Pyre. 

 This is a little more simple than the previous cloth set. I like how the colors are all similar: Black, red/orange, and gold/cream.

 Shoulders: Nightsky Mantle; Chest: Cindercloth Robe; Hands: Heavy Linen Gloves; Waist: Gossamer Belt; Feet: Fire Striders; Staff: Bloodfire Greatstaff.

Leather:

Okay, so, I had a difficult time getting an attractive leather set together! I'm pretty picky about making items match perfectly, right down to the same shade. I eventually came up with this nice set that could work for monks and druids (sorry rogues :P). If anyone can put together another leather set just let me know :).

Shoulders: Netherrealm Shoulderpads; Chest: Robes of Summer Flame; Hands: McCree's Sparring Gloves; Waist: Blackwhelp Belt; Staff: Staff of Trembling Will. 

Next time I will show the Lorewalker tabard transmogged with mail and plate sets (I'm super excited with what I came up with :P).

Mogolympics: Javelin, Fencing, Freestyle, Equestrian

I'm finally getting this out there, but here is the last of the entries!

Javelin, a look based around the pole-arm Ranseur of Hatred.

Look found here

One of my personal favorites was the Fencing. I plan to create a transmog look very similar for my warrior. I love how the white and gold of the weapon match up perfectly to the armor. P.S. This time around I will choose different boots to wear. Looking back, these boots do not match up as seamlessly as I'd like. :P

Fencing look book (haha)

Now on to the Freestyle! The idea behind this entry is to build your own NPC. I went with a troll voodoo priest. I've always been a big troll fan and I love their story around voodoo and such. Also, I love the fact that her dagger has a matching off-hand! It's very fitting and I was tickled pink when I found that.

Dis troll is lookin' da voodoo.

 Lastly, the Equestrian event! Wow, there were SO MANY awesome entries! When putting my entry together I chose to match up with the Human Paladin Charger. If I ever leveled up a Paladin I think I would create a transmog based around the shield and epic sword.

Paladin Equestrian 

All in all, the Transmogolympics were a success! It was so fun to participate in them and even more fun to see the results! Congrats to all the medal winners and kudos to everyone who participated  :D

Mogolympics: Hammer throw, Discus, Wrestling, Archery

Bah, how did I get behind on Mogolympics? A combination of RL work and sickness has put me under the weather for the past week. 

First up, Hammer Throw! I tend to favor clean, light armor looks if I use an in-your-face weapon. The plate set I used, Mithril Plate, is based around this awesome 2H Mace, Demise. 

Hammer Throw transmog set seen here

The Discus Event began week number two. This is one of my favorite sets I put together! And by reading the commentary provided by one of the judges I received a pretty good score! I think I tied for the bronze or something very close (a 5-way tie, probably). They just gave out a gold and three silvers. So far, this even is my favorite. There were a LOT of awesome transmogs that looked brilliant.

Transmog items used

Next we have Wrestling! I didn't want to do a normal-looking WWE wrestler. That created the idea of doing a Luchidor! (Nacho Libre may or may not have influenced that thought :P). 

Luchidor!

The most recent event was Archery! I loved looking at all the different sets! It made me want to play on my hunter and get her looking snazzy. I really liked the transmog set I came up with, even though it might be labeled as a "cookie-cutter" look. I would still use it on my hunter. 

Black dragonscale

Mogolympics: Cycling Event

The first event of the Mogolympics has been posted: Cycling! Here was the criteria for this event:
"Build a biker outfit to compliment the Chopper.  It must be either Leather or Mail."

I wanted my biker outfit to be black and red to match the Horde's Chopper. I also used leather.

Overall, I was really pleased with the look. My only critique was the black: are there ANY plain-black pieces in game? To go with the boots? I wanted to use the boots badly but I had a hard time finding anything to match. There were about 50 different shades of black (hehe). I was really determined to include the boots ;)

And for those wondering what the pieces are, I have everything set up on this Transmogger link!

My story and Seeking for leather

I started playing WoW 4 years ago this month and my first toon I rolled was a human rogue. She was basically my main up until Cata launched; that's when I rerolled a shaman on Proudmoore, Satsuri. At that point I was in LOVE with the playstyle of shamans and Satsuri became my main at that point. My army of alts slowly transferred over to Proudmoore, my rogue included. I felt a little guilty with switching mains, almost as if I was betraying my faithful rogue. My rogue has tons of achievements/mounts/other accomplishments, too, which made it a little harder to switch mains. 

I'm in the middle of a D & D campain right now, playing a rogue scoundrel. Playing a rogue in D & D put the bug in my head to dust off my rogue and maybe do some achievements. And holy cow, I forgot how fun it was to be a rogue on WoW! I missed the simple playstyle, not to mention it's just cool to play a rogue sometimes! She also looks cool; of course, I have her all mogged up. :P

I decided to start working on the Loremaster and Seeker achievements. It's something I attempted on my rogue about 2 years ago before Cata came out. A combination of real life stuff (moving across state) and a fear of world pvp (haha, I hate pvp servers) soon stopped my attempts at these achievements. 

I just accomplished The Seeker achievement this evening (3000 quests)! Woot! I also finished up all the Outland quest achievements. I have to admit, account-wide achievements were a HUGE motivation to get this done! And since the quest achievements are account-wide as well I can get Loremaster done easily. Satsuri has taken care of the Loremaster of Cataclysm. My rogue is taking care of Loremaster of Outland and Northrend since she is already almost done. My warlock leveled up through questing after Cata dropped so she has several zones done for Loremaster of Kalimdor and EK. She will be finishing those up. I'm hoping Blizzard won't change this perk; it would mess up my whole plan! 0.o

Well, that ended up being a lot longer than I intended. Now, on to the mogs...

My rogue had her set of Tier 9 (she's a Wrath baby), which I love and looks very rogue-like. 

Between all the quest rewards and mob drops I put together a new set for her! I love this black and blue set. I just love everything about it. It's perfect for a rogue!

Link to Armory:  http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/proudmoore/Lihona/simple

Edit: Dont' forget to check out the Mogolympics here! It started today! I'm looking forward to the coming weeks to see what everyone put together for mogs. Oh, and my flagbearer was the Consortium. 

Mogging faves of Proudmoore

With sooooo many players on the Proudmoore server I can easily sit back and just people watch (toon watch? eh, whatever). The mogging on this server is really great! Here are a few stellar mog outfits I've encountered. [disclaimer: the screenshots are not the best, it is hard to get a good one with a million people crowding around so I decided to go with "inspect" :P]

One of my favorite armor sets put to good use. 

I'm loving how the staff pairs nicely with the armor.

I adore this! These shoulders are on my wishlist.

I'd like to try this out on my own enhance shammy. 

This mog is totally awesome! He put it together very well.

One of the first mog outfits I encountered.
I love how the tabard is paired with the set.

Simple black cloth with a crazy awesome weapon. 

The entries are in!

I did it! I completed 10 transmog sets for the Mogolympics. The deadline was July 31. I have to admit, I might have procrastinated a tiny bit (editing screens/typing out armor pieces), but I made it. I'm so excited to see how everything goes! I'm also looking forward to seeing all the other entries. It is so fun to see what other people come up with in mogging :D

"How the crap do I balance on this thing?"

Playing with Plate

I was looking around on MogIt (big surprise) the other day and put together some incredibly sweet sets! I was on my warrior alt at the time so she is modeling every single one of them.

These first four are the same armor set but I have a hard time choosing a final weapon. What do you think?

Gavel of Qiraji Authority

Nightfall

Warmonger

Dark Iron Sunderer

I am in LOVE with this pink-themed set! I swear, the Bloodforged set was made for these shoulders. AND, even the mace is a 100% match. It's destiny ;)

My warrior has the plans to make these Swiftsteel Shoulders. I have two sets in mind. One is a silver-gold theme and the latter is full gold armor.

Mix and match pieces with Stormrune Edge

Conqueror's set with Cataclysmic Gladiator's Greatsword

 The guards in all the capital cities look great in their armor. Here's my (bad) attempt at a Darnassian Sentinal

This isn't a plate set, but it's a set I love very much! I put it together as part of the Mogolympics (Javelin entry) then decided to go another route at the last minute. It's the Dragonstalker recolored set with a few different pieces mixed in.

Dragonstalker with Hoperender

Mogolympics!

Yes, you heard that right: Mogolympics!

I was visiting Amateur Azerothian and saw the special mog event he set up to coincide with the Summer 2012 Olympics in London.

Of course, as a transmog addict, how could I not join up?!

Medal even rules are as follows (taken directly from the Mogolympics web page):

• Archery – Build an outfit around your favourite bow.
• Cycling – Build a biker outfit to compliment the Chopper.  It must be either Leather or Mail.
• Discus – Build an outfit around one of the shield skins seen here
• Equestrian – Build an outfit to compliment one of the horse mounts in the game.  (Faction limitations apply, so no Orcs on a Stormwind pony)
• Fencing – Time for some swordplay.  Build your best outfit around the 1h sword of your choice.
• Javelin – Build an outfit around the polearm of your choice.
• Hammer Throw – Build an outfit around your favourite two-handed hammer.
• Wrestling – We’re going to deviate from olympic wrestling and go to the sports entertainment aspect instead.  Using one of the “championship” belts, design your own Azerothian pro wrestler.  Think of the oversized belts, such as the Firemend Cinch seen here.
• Freestyle – Build your own NPC. Could be an innkeeper, could be the Green Orc Lantern.  Doesn’t matter.

 Rules and details are: 

• There is NO limit on the number of participants.
• 9 competition outfits.  At least 5 different races must be used, never repeating the same gender/race combo (if you use Blood Elf Male for Javelin, you can’t make a Blood Elf Male for Discus.  You could however make it female so long as you aren’t submitting a Blood Elf Female in any other event).  Your flagbearer combo may be used in a competition event.
• Your event entry must be able to use the outfit as a proper end-game transmog (so no Gnomes in Shaman gear or Goblin Rogues entering the discus)
• Include the gear you used for each outfit please (the judges can peg many articles from in-game, but can’t always tell what everything is).
• All entries are to be submitted at once.  Send the screenshots to arcanewordsmith@gmail.com
• As per Mog Madness, MogIt and ModelViewer entries are welcome.
• We’ll reveal three events a week for three weeks, beginning August 12th.  Medals will be handed out accordingly.
• I have set no criteria for fellow judges (still confirming who the official judges will be).  They will simply give their rankings based on their own thoughts.  However, they’ll not know who they’re voting on (it will be labelled as Outfit D, rather than “Tome,” for example).
• The winner will have received the most medals in the nine events.

After throwing my name in, my flagbearer will be representing...........

The Consortium!

Pic from Wowpedia

I am very excited to represent the smugglin' ethereal's faction!

My hubby, who also plays WoW, wanted in on the action so he's signed up, too. His faction is the Wildhammer Clan (an awesome faction to mog IMO).

Flagbearer and medal outfits to come!

Call of the Elements: Fire

When mogging was first announced I went to work immediately to set up a cool set. My main is a shaman and I thought how appropriate it was to base some of her mog sets after the elements. The very first mog I had was themed "Fire."

Fire!

The set is basically the Earthfury recolor, seen here on WoW Roleplay Gear. I made a few modifications to the helm and belt. The mace I'm duel-wielding drops from H Old Hillsbrad Foothills (true story, it took a whole month for it to drop >< ). 

Close up! That helm is one of my favorites. 

For flavor I love getting out the matching companion pets and mounts :) Core hound pup was my favorite match for a pet. The Flameward Hippogryph was an obvious choice as a mount. Plus, I worked hard to get that beauty! Of course I wanted to show him off.

3 core hounds! 

Goin' around Azeroth in this pretty baby :)