I was putting together a new plate outfit and the gloves I liked best for it were the ones from the Nazmir quest set. I tend to like like having matching gloves and boots.. but I didn’t yet have the Nazmir quest set boots. This wasn’t the first time I’ve wanted to use that particular set of gloves and boots — and because this coloration is red & gold, I know I’ll want them for my Blood Elf Paladin at some point or another. So I looked them up on Wowhead, and the quest chain to get them didn’t seem to be too deep into the swamp, from what I remembered from doing the zone with Kamalia. So one evening, I took my Paladin out to get those boots. It didn’t take very long at all.
Briefly, I wondered, Should I really spend playtime doing this? It doesn’t advance my primary game objectives…
But I knew it would make me happy to have those boots in my collection, so I did it.
Then I thought, oh, I’ll go pick up the chestpiece, too — even if I have to quest through most of the zone to get it. But when I looked up Nazmani Warplate on Wowhead, no source was listed for the chestpiece… which means it probably drops from Azerite Armor caches from WQs at level 120. So I looked on the AH for the BOE lookalike (Torgashell) and was fortunate enough to find one for a price I could afford — but I’ll still have to level to 120 to wear it. And that will still have to wait until Kaelinda and Kaylynda and Kerisa have reached 120. Ah, well.
lol, does your toenail polish match your lipstick? You are not crazy or we both are, I’ve done some extensive gun hunting for my hunter and I found it fun to do because the satisfaction is really high. Sometimes it seems that the end game in WoW is showing off your stuff.
LOL!
I’ve read opinions on Transmogrification from folks who consider having gloves and boots from the same set in an outfit to be “too matchy-matchy”, but I think it really unifies the look of an outfit.
So the funny thing is, I’m totally not a fashionista IRL. I eschew pretty much all of the trappings of modern femininity — I don’t do my hair or my nails, I don’t wear makeup or pantyhose or high heels, and the only piece of jewelry I wear anymore is my engagement/wedding ring*. Even on Sunday, “dressing up” to go to church means wearing a skirt instead of trousers and dressy shoes (with socks!) instead of my everyday sneakers. I’d rather spend the money on chocolate and books and my WoW subscription, and the time on sleeping a little longer in the mornings. 😛
* I have a collection of necklaces that I rather like, but right now I have small children with grabby hands…