Farming for transmog gear is a thankless task. There are a number of ways you can do this and none are efficient in terms of gold per hour, but there is a way you can do this relatively quickly especially if you have access to flight which is killing rares as almost all rares drop green items (or if you're lucky blue/purple gear).

But flying high above the crowds of mobs hoping to spot a rare spawn isn't easy, heck it is damned near impossible. Thankfully there is a tool that is perfect for the job, good old NPC Scan. 

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I love transmogrification in fact I think I'm actually addicted to it, there I said it!

Seriously, this feature is simply awesome,it has given me the greatest satisfaction in the game outside of raiding since I became unable to level my Shadowsong army.

The thing I like is that it allows me to have my characters looking good regardless of their gear sets. On Evlyxx that wasn't overly hard because a few weeks into a raid tier she had many items that even if not a set were part of that tier of raiding's theme. But my alts usually looked like they were wearing any old thing that came to hand (and to be fair they were!), however, now it is a completely different story!

Apart from looking good, it also allows me to remember what gear set they are wearing, a good example is of my paladin, Eusebian. I have 3 gear sets (1 for each spec) previously there was little visually to identify the set I had on and on more than 1 occasion I had gone into a fight as a holy geared tank or worse a tank geared healer. Now it is very obvious which gear set I'm wearing.

Eusebian in holy gear (left Judgement armour), tank (centre, Judgement recolour) and retribution (right, Wrath recolour)

There is more to the whole transmogrification scene than simply looking great. Firstly, there is the revitalisation of old content. The armour sets above needed to be collected from Molten Core, Blackwing Lair (Judgement armour) various Burning Crusade heroic and normal dungeons (Judgement recolour and Wrath recolour). Molten Core can be solo'd by most classes easily (some bosses are harder than others for certain classes) and Blackwing Lair needs 2/3 players for some bosses and the Outland Heroics are easily soloable by all classes. While this is good for everyone there are also some great side effects for you the humble player. 

From the vanilla raid instances, you can expect to grab a couple of hundred gold per run, in the Burning Crusade dungeons the average drop in coin and vendor trash is 70g (as Vile documented in his 2011, 3 part Outland Dungeon Runner Farmer 1/2/3), which whilst not earth shattering isn't bad for 20 minutes of work in trying to get your drops. 

There are also tons of greens, some of which are also potential transmog items so you really should check the way these look before blindly getting them disenchanted for the raw materials. While you can use the good old fashioned CTRL-right click a much more elegant solution is to use the excellent add on MogIt.

In addition to the greens are cloth and rep mats (Fel Armament, Arcane Tome, Mark Of Sargeras, Sunfury Signet & Coilfang Armaments) which can be sold, processed or used to increase your faction standing with the relevant Burning Crusade factions). Another trick for rep grinding is to equip the Horde/Alliance city faction tabards (sadly the Wrath and Cata factions don't get rep from the Outland dungeons).

So all told, you can make your toon look bad ass, have a ton of fun (especially if you take a friend) and make a crap ton of gold.

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At long last I have finally been able to complete my Tier 1 set for transmogrification. It was something I started work on when I heard about Transmogging back in August and being the proud owner of Benediction gained during Vanilla Molten Core days I have chosen this as one of the sets I'll use for my healing gear. Although I must admit I have cheated a bit because Garr still refuses to drop my Circlet of Prophecy so I have used the Crown of the Hallowed which is identical and is a quest reward from a priest class quest, Twilight Scheming, in Blackrock Depths.

The only sad thing for me right now is the fact that there are so few staves in the game for a healer that I can't actually show off my Benediction lollipop while in combat. Although I will admit I do equip it while in Stormwind and not in combat in the open world (I have even been known to heal 5 mans with it). So currently I'm disguising my mace with a Aurastone Hammer simply because it dropped from Garr this week and is a "period" accessory to match my outfit and if anyone out there can suggest a mace that matches/compliments the old Prohecy set I'll be eternally grateful.

Anyway, for those that may be interested on obtaining the Vestments of Prophecy here is a brief how to guide:

All 8 pieces drop in Molten Core so get yourself attuned to Molten Core, its easily soloable for anyone past level 65, even us Holy Priests.

Once attuned grab a friend to form a raid group with so you can enter Molten Core. They don't need to join you inside but if they want to it just makes it faster and more fun! If you can't find a friend get yourself a free trial account and level a character to level 10 (you can't join a raid pre-level 10), open up WoW 2 times and form a raid group with your trial account (if you have a low spec PC I would recommend disabling all addons on the trial account and also running the window at the smallest setting possible and keeping it minimized).

Now you're inside work your way around avoiding as much trash as possible and kill the bosses. The set has 8 pieces but the wrists and leg oieces aren't visible so unless you're a compulsive completionist you only need six pieces and the waist is a BoE which drops from trash so you may be lucky and find that on the auction house. The items you need are:

Head – Circlet of Prophecy – drop from Garr

Shoulders – Mantle of Prophecy – drop from Sulfuron Harbinger

Chest – Robes of Prophecy – drop from Golemagg the Incinerator

Gloves – Gloves of Prophecy – drop from Gehennas

Feet – Boots of Prophecy – drop from Shazzrah

Waist – Girdle of Prophecy – BoE drop from random trash mobs

Wrists – Vambraces of Prophecy – BoE drop from random trash mobs

Legs – Pants of Prophecy – drop from Magmadar

If you're unfamiliar with Molten Core don't panic it will just take a bit longer to find your way through there, its a maze so be warned! But to assist you on your travels I have included a map, free of charge,because you're worth it :)

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With Patch 4.3, we're getting one of the most exiting cosmetic changes ever introduced into World of Warcraft, transmogrification. Fortunately, the WoW community have christened this "Mogging" because quite frankly the word transmogrification is a horrible word to say. When I first heard it I though that it was a term invented by the folks over in Irvine, CA, but apparently it's been around for a while and the earliest recorded use of the word according to the Oxford English Dictionary was way back in 1656.

Unsurprisingly the word simply means:

To change into a different shape or form, especially one that is fantastic, grotesque or bizarre.

So, technically druids transmogrify!

But of course we're not here to consider that we want to make our characters unique little snowflakes and look cool at the same time by changing the appearance of our armour to look like another piece of armour. But the big question being asked is how do I get my lovely T12 stuff to look like my uber cool piece of armour? Hopefully this quick guide will help you do just that!

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