WoW’s new transmog system is live in the Midnight pre-patch, with tweaks after feedback

Blizzard’s updated transmogrification system is now available in World of Warcraft via the Midnight pre-patch, and the studio has outlined a couple of changes it made after player testing. The big idea is simple: your chosen look sticks to an outfit slot, so swapping gear no longer messes up your transmog.

According to Blizzard’s official post, you can apply appearances to specific Outfit Slots. If you’ve got a shoulder look saved to a slot and then equip new shoulders, the new item inherits the saved appearance instead of overwriting it. You’ll still pay gold when you update an outfit’s style, but you won’t need to run back to a transmog vendor just to fix your look after every upgrade.

Slot unlocks are still capped at 50 outfits. You start with two free slots, then additional slots cost gold. Blizzard also says it’s planning to reduce the gold costs for unlocking outfit slots after feedback that the original pricing was too steep.

Once you’ve unlocked slots, swapping between saved outfits is free, and you can put outfits on your action bar for quick changes out in the world. There’s also an automatic outfit switching option, letting you tie looks to situations like heading into town, entering a dungeon, changing specialization, or returning “home.”

If you had transmogs and legacy outfits set up already, Blizzard says they’ll be converted into Custom Sets automatically under the new system.