Appearance changing effects

A variety of appearance changing effects are available in World of Warcraft. They change your character's visual appearance beyond what a barber shop can do, often by applying a buff that alters your size, race, or gender. These effects can be gained from items, objects, spells, or even by being in a certain zone or phase. Though some appearance changing effects come with additional gameplay uses, they're most commonly used for vanity, fun, or roleplaying purposes.
Appearance changes have been given many names by players, including transformations, costumes, disguises, and shapeshifts.
==Items==
Item name 	Source 	Effect 	Buff duration 	Charges
Dire Brew 	Blackrock Depths 	Turns you into a Dark Iron dwarf. 	1 hour 	1
Savory Deviate Delight 	Cooking 	Turns you into a ninja or pirate. 	1 hour 	
Noggenfogger Elixir 	Sprinkle Noggenfogger, Gadgetzan 	Can turn you into a skeleton or shrink you. 	10 minutes 	
Orb of the Blackwhelp 	Wyrmcult Provisioner, Blade's Edge Mountains 	Turns you into a black dragon whelp. 	15 minutes 	3
Pygmy Oil 	Alchemy or Bag of Fishing Treasures (Dalaran) 	Shrinks you; stackable. Turns you into a female gnome at 8 or more stacks. 	10 minutes 	1
Winter Veil Disguise Kit 	Mailed after completing A Smokywood Pastures' Thank You! 	Turns you into a snowman. 	Until canceled	Infinite (toy)
Hallowed Wand 	Found inside: Treat Bag, given by innkeepers during Hallow's End. 	Depending on the type of wand, it can turn you into a skeleton, bat, ghost, leaper gnome, ninja, pirate, or wisp.	1 hour 	5
Hallow's End Pumpkin Treat	Free at Last! and Stop the Fires! (Horde);Katrina Shimmerstar, Dun Morogh;Rachelle Gothena, Orgrimmar	Makes you "larger and oranger" or turns you into a human, goblin, or undead pirate; a human ghost; or a skeleton.	20 minutes 	1
Weighted Jack-o'-Lantern 	Drops from: The Headless Horseman
Found inside: Crudely Wrapped Gift 	Places a pumpkin on your target's head. 	1 hour 	
Blossoming Branch 	Quest reward of:
*The Great Egg Hunt (Alliance)
*The Great Egg Hunt (Horde)
Sold by: Noblegarden Merchants	Turns your target into a rabbit. 	?? 	
Spring Flowers 	Sold by: Noblegarden Merchants
Found in: Brightly Colored Eggs 	Places rabbit ears on your target. 	2 minutes 	
Faded Wizard Hat 	Quest reward of: Farewell, Minnow 	Turns you into one of Xylem's apprentices of (fairly) random race and gender. 	30 minutes 	
Stave of Fur and Claw 	Sold by Meilosh in Timbermaw Hold 	Turns you into a Furbolg. 	3 minutes 	
Iron Boot Flask 	Sold by:
* in Storm Peaks for 10 
* in Storm Peaks for 10 	Turns you into a Iron Dwarf. 	10 minutes 	
Gordok Ogre Suit 	Made by:
*Knot Thimblejack inside Dire Maul North.
*Leatherworkers and Tailors who've learned it from Knot Thimblejack	Turns you into a gray ogre. 	10 minutes 	
Orb of Deception 	It's a world drop. 	Turns you into a member of the opposite faction. The race you become depends on what race you are. 	5 minutes 	
Orb of the Sin'dorei 	Drops from:
*Selin Fireheart
*Vexallus
*Priestess Delrissa
*Kael'thas Sunstrider in Heroic mode Magisters' Terrace	Turns you into a Blood Elf. 	5 minutes 	
Hook of the Master Angler 	Quest reward of: Master Angler 	Turns you into a fish. 	Until canceled	
Time-Lost Figurine 	Drops from: Terokk 	Turns you into an Arakkoa. 	5 minutes 	
Murloc Costume 	You needed to attend Blizzcon 2007. 	Puts a poorly made murloc costume on your character. You also hold a Blizzcon flag! 	1 hour 	
Frenzyheart Brew 	Sometimes made from Ripe Disgusting Jar. 	Turns you into a Wolvar. 	5 minutes 	
Darkspear Pride 	Was earned by completing the Zalazane's Fall world event prior to the Shattering 	Turns you into a Darkspear Warrior. 	30 minutes 	
Gnomeregan Pride 	Was earned by completing the Operation: Gnomeregan world event prior to the Shattering 	Turns you into a Gnomeregan Infantry. 	30 minutes 	
Rituals of the New Moon 	Made by: Scribes who have obtained Technique: Rituals of the New Moon 	Turns you into a wolf. 	2 minutes 	
Carved Ogre Idol 	Earned through the TCG. 	Turns you into a red ogre 	10 minutes 	
Bones of Transformation 	Rare Night Elf Archaeology Reward. 	Turns you into a Naga. 	20 seconds 	
Wisp Amulet 	Rare Night Elf Archaeology Reward. 	Turns you into a Wisp. 	20 seconds 	
Blessing of the Old God 	Rare Nerubian Archaeology Reward. 	Turns you into a Silithid. 	20 seconds 	
===Teleporter malfunctions===
Engineers can use their teleporters, Ultrasafe Transporter: Toshley's Station and Dimensional Ripper - Area 52, in an attempt to disguise themselves with a debuff that lasts an hour. Unlike other disguises, these can stack if you logout then log back in after 4 hours, but people prefer just to have fun with the malfunctions while they have them.
===Mount appearance changes===
Your mounts' appearances can be changed with certain items:
Item 	How to obtain 	Description of effects 	Buff duration
Fresh Holly 	Kiss a found in inns during the Feast of Winter Veil.	Turns your mount into a reindeer. 	1 hour
Fresh Brewfest Hops 	Sold by:
*
* 	Turns your mount into a Brewfest ram or kodo, depending on your faction.	??
Fresh Goblin Brewfest Hops 	Sold by: 	Turns your mount into a Brewfest kodo. 	??
Fresh Dwarven Brewfest Hops	Sold by: 	Turns your mount into a Brewfest ram. 	??
Preserved Holly 	Quest reward of:
* Metzen the Reindeer (quest)	
* The Hero of the Day
Found inside: Ticking Present	Turns your mount into a reindeer. 	1 hour
Preserved Brewfest Hops 	Sold by:
*
* 	Turns your mount into a Brewfest ram or kodo, depending on your faction.	??
===Quest items===
These only last until the quest they belong to are completed. Most are limited to a certain zone. Raene's Cleansing (6) is one of the only quests that you can abandon and keep the item forever, but you can never finish the quest or will be removed from your inventory. can be made continuously, but it's limited to its quest's zone.
Item 	Quest
Dartol's Rod of Transformation	Raene's Cleansing (6)
Tree Disguise Kit 	Tree's Company
Overseer Disguise 	Meeting at the Blackwing Coven
Sunfury Disguise 	Information Gathering (quest)
Blood Elf Disguise 	What Illidan Wants, Illidan Gets...
Orb of the Crawler 	An Innocent Disguise
Shabby Arakkoa Disguise 	A Shabby Disguise
Worg Disguise 	In Worg's Clothing (Alliance)
In Worg's Clothing (Horde)
Warsong Orc Disguise 	It Was The Orcs, Honest!
Overseer Disguise Kit 	Put on Your Best Face for Loken
Loken's Orders
Sandfern Disguise 	Crocolisk Mastery: The Ambush
==Objects==
Object disguises come from objects you can interact with in the environment. They can either be clicked on or you must walk on top of them.
*PX-238 Winter Wondervolt turns you into a gnome if stepped on.
*Brightly Colored Eggs sometimes turn you into a pink rabbit.
==Spells==
Appearance changes can be applied to players through spells. Both NPCs and players can cast them.
===Player spells===
Some classes come with spells which let them disguise themselves. They are normally used for combat, but they can be used for fun as well.
*Druids can use shapeshifting to turn into certain animals.
*Shamans can turn into a Ghost Wolf.
*Shadow priests can use Shadowform to turn themselves a dark purplish color. Some may argue that this is not a disguise, however, at one point it uses to share the same blanket effect as disguises. That means it actually removed disguises once.
===NPC spells===
If you interact with certain NPCs, they can provide you with a disguise. While there are a few NPCs that will give you a disguise just by speaking to them, a majority of NPCs will only cast spells on you for certain quests until they are complete.
*The Pirates' Day buffs alter only the appearance of the character's clothes, but are disguises in the sense that they bypass the normal clothes mechanic of having to equip the items to display them and overide the appearance of equipped items. The buff can be obtained through talking with one of the commoners that spawn in the capital cities. You can get a longer-lasting buff from Dread Captain DeMeza who's in Booty Bay during the event.
*During Hallow's End, sometimes innkeepers will trick you instead of giving you a Treat Bag by turning you into mini diablo, a cat, a miniature sand worm, or a frog. The debuff from being tricked only lasts for a short period of time, but some players like to run around with it.
* provides several short term spells; one enlarges the character, and one makes it a "ghost" - makes it more transparent.
*Using the item Brazier of Dancing Flames and then selecting the NPC that spawns, Dancing Flames, will allow you to interact with her through some emotes. The emote /dance will turn you into an enlarged version of her.
==Zone-related appearance changes==
When you step into certain zones, your character will become disguised.
*Caverns of time instances will turn night elves, draenei, or any Horde race into humans if the instance takes place in a time or place where they are not supposed to be in. For the Well of Eternity, everyone is instead turned into a night elf.
*After doing some chain quests and having enough reputation for the Netherwing faction, you turn into a fel orc in the subzones Dragonmaw Skyway, Netherwing Ledge, and Dragonmaw Fortress in Shadowmoon Valley.
*Storm Peaks has some subzones where you turn into a female frost vrykul. The subzones will only turn you into a vrykul if you're on certain quests or have completed them.
==Other==
*Elixir of Giant Growth and Deviate Fish (one effect is shrink) are on the periphery as they change the character's size but none of the graphic elements.
*You can trick appearance change buffs into swapping your character's gender. All you need is Pygmy Oil. Make sure you drink enough to turn into the gnome, then use any other disguise which adjusts to your gender. The disguise you use must have a duration lasting over what's left of the Pygmy Oil's buff. For example, if your disguise duration is 5 minutes long, you must wait until the oil buff duration reaches 5 minutes or below.
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==See also==
*Toy Box