Wanted to try a Druid this season. Could not get past the character creation screen. I know it’s a hot take this day and age but aesthetics matter.
I like dressing up my Barbarian in his Game of Thrones styled armor sets and looking like an all around that’s going to go full Hulk/Loki on some Lesser Evil by the time he’s done with them.
I like the sleek, deadly look of Rogues and the gothic appeal of Necromancers.
And Sorcerers are just the incarnation of power with the grace to match.
So why is my druid some fat, out of shape tenant in some suburb in Tennessee that I cannot imagine looking good in anything? Tried in vein to find one I liked… closest I got one that looks like a dirt farmer who has been going ham on McDonalds Combo Meals since before the fall of Tristram.
Can you add one option that can hold his or her own in combat without the physicality of a 300 pound 40 year old with tendinitis trying Beat Saber for the first time… or at least the option to look like an animal for 100% of the time for all builds, so I can at least pretend I’m just a really special Bear rather than the guy who finished dead last on The Biggest Loser.
Anyways OP, if it matters at all to you in most builds prior to s2, and I assume now as well, you can be perma-wolf more or less.
It doesn’t bother me on the character look, it really doesn’t impact anything for me but it does for others. We almost assuredly will not see sliding scales introduced for the characters as it’d force a loss of detail on armors. Everyone who cares best hope is more models in expansions for all classes.
As Vladrik says, the male Druids at least just look massive and proportional. Especially once you put some ‘rounding’ armor on them. Think Inuit hunter, trim Sumo wrestler or Maori warrior - big Polynesian build. Like, you gonna tell Maui he’s “fat”?
Female druid is shorter but almost as wide, so in that case they do look a bit chubbers to me, but again the right armor improves it.
I’m trying druid this season too and I do have to admit the design of the character is just kind of ridiculous. I didn’t really do barb on eternal either so maybe I’ll try one. I put the most time into sorc and necro so kind of looking for something melee.
Not gonna lie - Necromancers are a distant 4th for me. But you can cobble together a reasonable specimen if you look past the “I’m a 30-year-old who never stopped being 16 and mad at my father” vibe.
Druids though are in a league of their own. I feel like I should have another armor slot for my cankles.
Agree there. Māori blokes can be big boys, some of them with the power to match the frame too. See them at pubs working bouncer shifts in Sydney sometimes.
Well, if you had the KFC promotion, apparently there was a bucket of chicken, or something.
But seriously dude, this subject about Druids, has been flogged so much that even the dead horse that died from the flogging got back up and ran off, without a necromancer intervening.
Just either make a Druid and roll with it, or don’t.
Perhaps someday we will get what everyone’s flogged the poor horse to death and beyond over. Perhaps not.
I really don’t care what my druid looks like except only the player druids look that way. Not a single druid NPC, not out in the world nor in the enclave, looks the way players do. It’s easily one of the most jarring visual WTH moments in the game. So Blizzard has the assets for normal druids including combat animations (when you fight the ones retaking the stronghold). There’s no excuse for it other than some idiot with no concept of player enjoyment made a decision. Which is pretty much the entire problem with D4.
