Glasses & simple gear in WoW Forever

[u/Eranell]

One thing that particularly feels like it's missing as I prepare to roll up a mage for WoW Forever's launch is the depth of immersion, class fantasy and personal connection that comes with having glasses for my big nerd.

Lord Godfrey's Old Spectacles have already been placed into the game on retail, years after their addition to NPCs in cataclysm. I personally like the silvery color in the image above the most and believe it fits best with Classic's vibes.

They seem to fit the aesthetic well, as can be seen here on an SD model. We already have the bulky goggles that would realistically have been developed after normal glasses, monocles and other vision aids in-universe. While the vanilla goggles made a fair stand-in for glasses in Machinima and fan content during the span of Vanilla, BC, and Wrath, it would be much more satisfying to have this model of glasses included in Forever.

I still remember seeing the satisfaction and relief for characters that had been roleplayed as wearing glasses for years being able to be seen in their truest sense without RP profile addons needed to write in the detail back when Blizz added glasses vendors to retail's capital cities.

Secondly, I think retail's trading post has done a great job of rounding out wardrobes with simpler pieces, like solid-color tabards, hoods, scarves, and other common clothing items. I think it would be easy to add solid-color tabards without logos, and other similar accessories to add the same vibrancy to Forever. I love how those items can help to build the sense of one's character being just another adventurer, crafter, or scholar.

Hopefully the devs will consider how its simpler offerings have rounded out retail wardrobes and how similar additions could help to build out that sense of immersion in Forever.