Transmogolympics Post 3

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gnomeregan, leather, mail, musketeer, paladin, plate, rogue, shaman, transmog, transmogging, transmogolympics, transmogrification, tyrael's charger, warcraft, world of warcraft, WOW

Believe it or not, the Transmogolympics contest has come to an end!

I don’t think the host, JD Kenada, or the judges knew what they were getting themselves into a few months ago.  What started as a few WOW bloggers competing against each other’s transmogs ended up being 47 contestants and over 450 outfits.

The winners can be seen here.  Even more awesome is that JD has made a website just as an archive of this event (still in progress)!

Ok so here are pictures of my outfits from the last three categories that were featured:

FENCING (1h sword)

Pally set…or is it?!

This was the most frustrating outfit I had to make, mainly because my husband’s toon not only had full bags but also a full bank and full void storage.  I think I spent two hours sorting gear sets and deleting/DEing/selling anything possible. (he ended up having duplicates of several items)

I was really proud of myself with the finished result- this outfit looks like a matched set, but it is actually about 1/2 level 70 gear and 1/2 level 85 gear.  I finished it off with a weapon enchant and a shield off the auction house that matched.

The criteria for this category was “best use of a 1h sword,” but I did notice that all three medalists used a fencing-type-sword, not just any sword.

Items used for this paladin outfit: Brighthelm of Justice, Overlord’s Spaulders, Pillager’s Cloak, Breastplate of Fierce Survival, Gloves of Radiant Glory, Dragonfracture Belt, Legguards of Radiant Glory, Pillarfoot Greaves, Brutality Blade, and Stonewrought Shield.

FREESTYLE (Make up an NPC)

For Gnomeregan!

I got the idea in my head from the beginning that my NPC needed to be a musketeer.  Then I ended up only having a male gnome left as far as gender/race combinations that I had at a “decent” level (I actually had to level this toon to equip the crafted musket). I came up with this description, which I sent the judges:

A musketeer was an early modern type of infantry soldier equipped with a musket.  Musketeers were an important part of early modern armies. They sometimes could fight on horseback, like a dragoon or a cavalryman. The musketeer was a precursor to the rifleman.  The Gnomeregan musketeers are steeped in tradition. While technology for the gnomes and types of military fighting have both progressed, the musketeers prefer to guard their home in the old ways of gun and sword. Being a Gnomeregan Musketeer requires a code of honor and loyal service to their race.

This was the hardest outfit to put together gear-wise because I had almost no gear saved on this toon, and the toon was not even level 70 yet.  At one point I even got Model Viewer out just to figure out what gear I needed to go get.

I was a little bummed because I was not able to use the Gnomeregan tabard as part of my outfit since I was Gilneas faction (one of the rules).  I did find, however, a purple chest to represent one of the Gnomeregan colors.

This leather outfit included: Cabalist Helm, Stormshroud Shoulders, Cloak of Healing Rays, Vest of Vengeance, Wicked Leather Bracers, Mighty Gauntlets, Wanderer’s Belt, Bard’s Trousers, Sure-Step Boots, Dazzling Mithril Rapier, Fel Iron Musket, and White Tuxedo Shirt.

EQUESTRIAN (outfit matching a mount)

Kossuth with Tyrael’s Charger

This may have been my favorite outfit entered.  This was one of my lowest level toons used, but for some reason it came together really well.

The mail outfit uses the same gold, white, and blue/purple on the Tyrael mount.  I used: Bonelink Helmet, Crusader’s Pauldrons, Durable Cape, Lord’ Breastplate, Ornate Gaunlets, Lord’s Girdle, Myrmidon’s leggings, Lord’s Boots, Ebonclaw Reaver, and Bone Slicing hatchet.

Thanks for the contest guys!  It was really fun and gave me a reason to make more outfits for my blog!

Transmogolympics Post 2

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deathknight, dk, hellreaver, hunter, mail, paladin, plate, shaman, transmog, transmogging, transmogolympics, transmogrification, vishanka, warcraft, warrior, world of warcraft, WOW

The results of Transmogolympics are flying in very quickly lately.  I looked tonight and realized I needed to do a blog update because I had missed so many results postings.

Some of the awards have been given without naming the scores for everyone, so I don’t know my scores in some cases.  No medals so far though, and I have been scoring pretty low when it has been listed.  A lot of competition out there though!

So here are my pictures from the new categories posted- hope you like them!

DISCUS (shield)

Cassie in Loch Modan

I was going for a black and gold look.  The items used were: Mugthol’s Helm, Field Plate Pauldrons, Hydralick Armor, Glorious Bindings, Stonegrip Gauntlets, Alabaster Plate Girdle, Golem Shard Leggings, Obsidian Greaves, Serpent Slicer, and Blackskull Shield.

WRESTLING (Use of an Oversized Belt)

Magdakine Flexes For You

This is the first outfit I did.  I put it together really quickly, and I love how it turned out.  I wish I had made the screenshot somewhere different… Here are the pieces: Renouncer’s Cowl, Burden of Lost Humanity, Defender Tunic, Southfury Gauntlets, Belt of Shattered Elementium, Sundered Legguards, Tsunami Boots, Hammer of Sparks, and Goblet of Anger (not shown).

ARCHERY (bow)

Natural Woman (erm elf)

On this outfit I was going for a natural look.  Some of these pieces are no longer available in game…. The pieces are:  Cormorant Helm, Blessed Pauldrons of Undead Slaying, Myrmidon’s Breastplate, Eradicator’s Bracers, Thornsnarl Gauntlets, Southfury Belt, Blessed Greaves of Undead Slaying, Amberpine Greaves, Massive Battle Axe, and Vishanka, Jaws of the Earth.

JAVELIN (Polearm)

Deathknight Outfit

This is a red and black outfit for plate wearer on a nightelf DK.  It includes- Greathelm of the Titan Protectorate, Rescuers Shoulderguards, Illidari Cloak…, Demon Forged Breastplate, Warlord’s Iron-Gauntlets, Forgemaster’s Shattered Shackle, Legguards of the Shattered Hand, Warlord’s Sabatons, and Hellreaver.

Transmogolympics Update 1

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gear, hunter, mail, paladin, plate, transmog, transmogging, transmogolympics, transmogrification, warcraft, world of warcraft, WOW

As some of you may remember, I entered 10 outfits in the Transmogolympics contest last month.  First post here.

So far I am not doing so well.

The first category judged was cycling, which was creating a biker outfit to match the chopper mount.  This was one of my least favorite outfits I put together because I had to use a dwarf male hunter (and he is ugly), so I did not medal.  This is what I submitted:

Biker Dude

For anyone interested, the mail outfit is: Netherstorm Helm, Marshcreeper Mantle, War Torn Tunic, Grubbis Paws, Nightshock Girdle, Wrathfin Legguards, and Tsunami Boots.

The second category was hammer throw (2h mace shot).  I really thought I would do better in this one, but my paladin only scored a 344 from the judges (I think gold was 386?).  Was pretty disappointed, although I did originally have some concerns about the different shades of blue in the outfit.  Here she is:

In The Name of the Hammer!

Plate outfit is: Symbolic Crown, Pauldrons of Unholy Rituals, Adamantite Breastplate, Truesilver Gauntlets, Belt of the Sanctuary, Talonguard Legplates, Icebane Treads, and Sorrow’s End.

I am hoping as the contest moves along, they will get to my better outfits so I can win a medal and show them off here. 😀

My Transmogolympics Oops!

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biker, chopper, paladin, plate, transmog, transmogging, transmogolympics, transmogrification, warcraft, world of warcraft, WOW

So I have been working like crazy to get my nine remaining outfits for the Transmogolympics finished as early as possible.

I have read over the rules and criteria numerous times, but for some reason I didn’t  notice until today that I did the Cycling category wrong.  It was supposed to be a leather or mail biker outfit to match a chopper, and I made mine plate! 😦

Like I mentioned in my last post, I am doing almost all (or all… not sure yet) of my screenshots in-game, so I actually farmed or bought all of this gear for the plate biker set.  Not letting the outfit go to waste, so you – my loyal readers- get to see it anyways! ha ha

Here is Phillippa, my unused ret paladin, hanging out around the Blue Recluse in Stormwind City in her biker duds:

Outside the bar

the back view

Inside getting a drink

The Gear:
Helm- Tempered Titansteel Helm
Shoulder- Redsteel Shoulders
Chest- Boulderfist Armor
Gloves- Vice Grips
Belt- Deathforge Girdle
Pants- Warmaul Legplates
Feet- Warlord’s Sabatons
Weapon- Sul’thraze the Lasher 

Entering the Transmogolympics!

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gilneas, rogue, transmog, transmogging, transmogolympics, transmogrification, warcraft, worgen, world of warcraft, WOW

Amateur Azerothian blog is holding another WOW blogger transmogging contest!  This time it’s the Transmogolympics!

Here are some of the details he provided:

To participate in the event, you’re required to make TEN outfits.

The first outfit is for the faction you are assigned to have a flag bearer and is not judged.  The other nine outfits are medal categories, which are:

1. Archery – Build an outfit around your favourite bow.
2. Cycling – Build a biker outfit to compliment the Chopper.  It must be either Leather or Mail.
3. Discus – Build an outfit around one of the shield skins seen here
4. Equestrian – Build an outfit to compliment one of the horse mounts in the game.  (Faction limitations apply, so no Orcs on a Stormwind pony)
5. Fencing – Time for some swordplay.  Build your best outfit around the 1h sword of your choice.
6. Javelin – Build an outfit around the polearm of your choice.
7. Hammer Throw – Build an outfit around your favourite two-handed hammer.
8. 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.
9. Freestyle – Build your own NPC. Could be an innkeeper, could be the Green Orc Lantern.  Doesn’t matter.

Other rules 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.

I balked at this contest at first…I mean that is a lot of outfits to come up with.  If I were just using my main and maybe a few of my alts, I would have them easy.  But so far that gender/race rule is killing me.

Most of my toons are female, and I have a lot of humans, nightelves, and draneis.  I had to really decide which human female I wanted to use the most because it would keep the others from being in the contest.  (and believe it or not, Chatmay will not be participating in this transmog contest!)

I do not have a female gnome toon, and all of my horde toons are level 20 or lower.  I like to make my outfits and screenshots in-game as much as possible, so I am struggling to get as many different gender/races as I can.  Plus I have spent a lot on transmog gear at the current jacked-up prices.

I also have NO worgen toons, and I was assigned Gilneas of all things as my faction.  So I pretty much HAD to use WOW Model Viewer to make my flag carrier.

I decided to make my flag-carrier a male worgen rogue.  The Gilneas tabard was required.  Every piece of gear he has on uses titles/names that I thought best portrayed the worgen race.

Check it out:

Proud Representative of Gilneas

Gear used:
Helm- The Wanderer’s Cover
Shoulder- Shadowskin Spaulders
Back- Juno’s Shadow
Chest- Vest of Dark Rumors
Bracers- Madwolf Bracers
Gloves- Half Truth Handlers
Belt- Bonechewer Pelt-Girdle
Legs- Wanderer’s Leggings
Boots- Footpads of the Fang

That is all I can post for now.  The nine category outfits have to be submitted all together, and we are not allowed to post them anywhere until the contest has been judged.

So wish me luck!