Wain wrote:Personally I’ve ignored artifact appearances on pretty much all my characters and just transmogged to whatever matched my gear. I wasn’t sure how many do that. Probably quite a few because regardless of the weapon looks, it’s restrictive to be stuck to transmogs that match them.
Hmm, let me think about it actually, I'm curious. For ease I'm only gonna talk about my, er... primary alliance alts, because I'm character capped again and I can't deal with that much thinking, haha. Twelve classes at 110 means 36 specs (3 specs/class except for druids and demon hunters, which balance out the numbers).
Using an artifact appearance of some variety: MM, Balance, Feral, Resto (druid), Prot (pally), Ret, Outlaw, Subtlety (hardly counts since I don't play it), Elemental, Resto (shaman), Vengeance, Havoc, Holy (don't play it), Disc, Affliction, Arcane, Unholy (don't play it), MW (don't play it)
Transmogging over their artifact: BM, SV (don't play it), Guardian, Holy (pally, don't play it), Assassination, Enhancement, Shadow, Destruction, Demonology (don't play it), Fire, Frost (mage, and only within the past few days, to be fair), Blood, Frost (DK), BrM, WW, Arms (don't play it), Fury, Prot (warrior)
So for me, and only including my "primary alts" (because again, let's not go crazy here lol), I'm using 18/36, or
exactly half of my artifacts As Is. Subtlety, Holy x2, Unholy, Arms, and Mistweaver are so infrequently played that spending the 200-500g to mog over a weapon felt kind of pointless (though apparently I did spend the money on my paladin, warrior and warlock at some point), so if you take those specs out of both sides of the equation I'm looking at 12/28, or 43%. Still pretty close to half, actually.
How many of the characters using an appearance are using a hidden artifact, though? Prot paladin, Outlaw, Subtlety, Holy, Unholy, Mistweaver. 6/18 (33%), but 2/12 (17%) if you ignore the specs that never get played (since the vast majority of them are using the HA skin due to pre-patch tint unlock behaviour). The vast majority of my alts using their artifacts are using either a Balance of Power skin or a variation on the base artifact skin (my druid is using the purple version of the base scythe to match t5, my lock's rocking her base scythe to match t4, I'm using the current PvP set on my ret paladin and one of the second tier Ashbringers matches it almost perfectly, etc). The one exception is my hunter as MM, because she unlocked the mage tower skin relatively recently, but she was using the purple version of the base bow (or maybe the t2 bow? it's been a while) that matches the mythic Nighthold set.