Minipost: The bizarre trick of half-mogging robes


I was playing around with mogs the other day and noticed something really strange happens when you start to mix robes, specifically chest pieces that are full robes (above waist + below waist) with leg pieces that are only the robe bottom half.

Now normally, when you have a chest robe mogged, who cares what your legs are mogged to, right? You never see them, so what's the point?

Well, turns out if you're mogged into a full robe and you then mog your legs into a legs-only robe piece...this happens!


Weird, huh?

Just a display glitch, you might think, right?

Nope! It stays like that, even on the character select screen!


I tried with some other characters, and same deal.


Interestingly, this glitch only seems to work if you are mogged into the full robes first, and then "add" a pair of leg robes. Rades' current mog already uses leg robes, and when I mogged his chestpiece into a full robe, nothing happened.


However, if I then mogged the (now hidden) leg robes into something else, then remogged them back into the blue leg robes, presto!


It's a pretty strange effect, and as you can see with these pictures, the exact cutoff line differs quite a bit depending on your race. Also, I don't think there are a lot of leg robe pieces in the game? Sadly, I don't have many characters with a lot of robes/half-robes to truly start mix-and-matching!

Regardless, it's a weird little transmog trick. I'm sure someone out there can come up with a cool dual-robe mog!

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    Anonymous

    I ran into this on my female human priests, with Robes of the Unknown Fear (T14 LFR) + Reformationist's Skirt of the Pious (from 5.3 Barrens event). No transmog was required.

    August 26, 2013 at 3:40 AM

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    Kamalia

    If you wear a robe with a kilt, this happens, with or without transmogrification. Quite a few of my most recent outfits for my priest have required me to mog a kilt into pants so that a robe chestpiece displays properly.

    This also happens if you wear the Blue Overalls with a kilt.

    August 26, 2013 at 4:35 AM

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    ambient

    I discovered this glitch on my very first clothie/second toon ever! Buying some extra lowbie tailoring gear, she put overalls atop her colorful kilt. The overalls not only magically get much longer, they sew themselves together.
    http://www.wowhead.com/compare?items=6263:10048

    August 26, 2013 at 10:57 AM

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    Anonymous

    The items bugging me lately are the belts like the Firestrike Cord. That extra flap of material is just not needed.

    August 28, 2013 at 8:15 AM

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    Navimie

    Huh. I never knew that. I will remember NOT to do that!

    August 28, 2013 at 5:22 PM