Yes. You can hide your helmet in World of Warcraft: Forever at a transmogrifier: set your head slot to the hidden appearance and your character shows bare-headed, while the helmet stays equipped with all its armor and stats. It works even if you play with transmog switched off.
Blizzard’s deep dive recap spells it out: turning transmog off “does not prevent players from configuring and displaying their own transmog if they want to hide a specific slot such as a helm or cloak.” Below are the steps, where to find a transmogrifier, how it works with transmog on or off, what other players see, and what to do if you only dislike one helmet’s look. Checked November 12, eight days after launch.
How to Hide Your Helmet
- Travel to a transmogrifier in one of the cities (see the next section).
- Talk to the transmogrifier to open the Transmog window.
- Click your head slot on the character model.
- Choose the hidden appearance, the empty option, instead of a helmet look.
- Confirm the change. Blizzard has not published what transmog costs, so check the total in the window before you accept.
Your helmet stays on, with its armor and stats, and simply stops showing. Do the same with the back slot to hide your cloak.
Where to Find a Transmogrifier
Blizzard says only that transmogrifiers are in “certain cities” and has not published a list. As of launch week, these are the ones to head for:
- Alliance: a transmogrifier in Stormwind’s Mage Quarter.
- Horde: a transmogrifier beside the barber in Orgrimmar, in the Cleft of Shadow.
Use the same visit to sort out the rest of your look. Our transmog guide covers how you collect appearances and the armor type rules.
Hiding Your Helmet With Transmog Turned Off
WoW Forever lets you switch transmog off, and the first time you log in, your experience preset decides where you start. Blizzard’s new player’s starter guide lists “Transmog off” for the Classic preset and “Transmog on” for Enhanced, and you can change it later under Game Menu, Options.
You do not need to turn transmog on to hide a helmet. Blizzard says players who disable the system can still configure their own transmog to “hide a specific slot such as a helm or cloak or show a particular appearance without enabling the full system for themselves.” With transmog off, you keep seeing everyone else in their real, equipped gear, and you can still hide your own helm.
What Other Players See
Everyone sees your hidden helmet as hidden, whether they use transmog or not. Blizzard’s recap says “players who have transmog disabled will still see other players’ hidden helm and cloak settings, preserving the original World of Warcraft functionality around those display choices.” So a player in the Classic preset, who sees every other appearance as the real gear underneath, still sees your bare head.
Showing a Different Helmet Instead
If you only dislike one helmet, you do not have to hide the slot. Pick another head appearance from your collection in the Transmog window instead. Two of Blizzard’s transmog rules apply:
- Armor type matters. “Plate transmogs to plate and cloth transmogs to cloth,” so a plate helm can only take another plate look.
- Level limits apply until 60. Low-level characters “cannot use high-level appearances until level 60, when level restrictions are removed for valid appearances in the collection.”
To show your real helmet again later, go back to a transmogrifier and put an appearance back in the head slot.
Why Players Hide Their Helmets
- To show off the face. Character creation in Forever has a lot of detail, and the Skyborne alone have dozens of hairstyles plus feathers and face tattoos, which most helmets cover. Our guide to changing your appearance covers the barber shop.
- For roleplay. A bare head often fits a scene better on the roleplay rulesets; our ruleset guide explains the options.
- To keep a look consistent while you swap helmets for stats on the way to 60.
Every WoW Forever guide we have is on our World of Warcraft hub.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you hide your helmet in WoW Forever? Yes. Visit a transmogrifier and set the head slot to the hidden appearance.
Does hiding your helmet remove its stats? No. Transmog only changes how gear looks, so the helmet stays equipped with its armor and stats.
Do you need transmog turned on to hide your helmet? No. Blizzard says you can hide a helm or cloak without switching the full transmog system on.
Can you hide your cloak too? Yes. Set the back slot to the hidden appearance the same way.
Can other players see that my helmet is hidden? Yes. Blizzard says even players with transmog turned off still see other players’ hidden helm and cloak settings.