In other words, if I use SH armor as a "skin" and later find better armor that I want to have SH skin on again, then this should be possible.
Exactly!
The problem between 3 and 4 appears, if your character change their equipment prefferences during the adventure ...
Lets say that you want Lae'zel (or Shadowheart, dont really matter) to wear their armor through whole adventure, k?
Roleplay perspective is quite obvious ... Githyanki are proud people, who believes that all they do is allready prime example of perfectionism > therefore this particular Lae'zel would have very little reasons to wear anything except Githyanki gear and weapons ...
Feel free to invent any other headcannon you wish for any other companion you wish ... the point is:
You want them to keep *this* they just have.Now ...
If Transmog would be created as described in 3 ...
No matter the gear, Lae'zel would still wear Githyanki Half-Plate and Githyanki Longsword, or Greatsword ... depending on your prefferences.
Bcs even if you find the best Heavy Armor in the world ... no matter, it still can be transmoged into Medium Armor ...
And if some boss drops supersweet Axe, or Mace ... no matter, it still can be transmoged into Greatsword, or Longswrod, depending on your prefferences.
If Transmog would be created as described in 4 tho ...
In order to keep Lae'zel in Githyanki Half-plate and swinging around with Githyanki Longsword, or Greatsword ... you would be forced to only use Medium armor and Longsword, or Greatsword with her.
It may not be the problem really ...
We dont know what Artefacts have Larian prepared for us ... and concidering EA, it seems quite likely that we will have more than enough artefacts to choose from.
But, to be quite honest ... to me it would seem pretty frustrating to be forced to choose between my roleplay of proud (read as: xenophobic as hells) Githyanki who only uses Githyanki equipment ... or best gear in game. :-/
