You can say fuck in the internet, it’s okay… the Canadian can’t hurt you here.

I like when gear selection has impact and choice in my roleplaying games.

If you choose to value aesthetically pleasing characters you should just accept you’ll be playing with the non-optimal stats.

The ability to bypass this by transferring stats between items so you can have optimal build does make the game easier.

Ideally game developers and artists should be including ways to have balanced gear stats and aesthetics, but transmog and the like is just lazy on their part.