Can’t we already customize Grimtotem Tauren at this point?
Nope, but we can put red warpaint on black-furred Tauren and make them look grumpy. The Devs haven’t really done anything big with the Grimtotem in a very long time. They’re of too little a threat/value to pay attention to nowadays, let alone still interesting enough to make new customization options for. Unless the Grimtotem tribe develops more of their story and dimensions beyond that of just being a group of angry tribal Tauren who don’t like foreigners in their land, they will remain an unplayable variant.
No Grimtotem have there own tattoos. We have some in thunderbluff but a majority were kicked out because Magatha had some a terrible thing to Cairne. I would like Magatha back on the horde somehow, because I think she gives the horde a dark edge on the tauren side.
If you see many of my past post in previous customization and aliled threads you would know I support these allied race options as customization via bodytype options in the barbershop, so I would like tauren and highmountain to merge sharing assets /classes and allowing for future additions to be allied race like but accessible by all taurens. So any tauren or highmountain can try out the Yaungol or Taunka looks if they ever decide to add them. This would make stuff like grimtotem and feltotem attractive rewards in the future and could add some lore rp quests like allied races.
As a sidenote would be nice to get more bloodtotem and the riverclan looks imo. More colors like orange, white, brown for tattoos.
I support the requests and suggestions made “to enhance” High Moutain.
Because misery loves to have company in its pit of bitterness.
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Hi Highmountain folks, it looks like your customization is coming sooner than we thought!
As someone who doesn’t play HMT, I’m curious to know what your thoughts are.
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First off, no manner of Tauren bothers with actual tattoos. They use warpaint. It’s kind of hard to see a tattoo under a mass of fur and/or hair.
Secondly, I get the impression that most of what you know about the Grimtotem’s on-goings during the Cataclysm was acquired in secondhand fashion. The tribe has been sporting skeletal warpaint since that expansion started, and any WoW wiki-styled website can easily show you several pictures of it.
Though I haven’t read any of your threads, I get the feeling that I might strongly disagree with their contents.
When it comes to Allied Races, I hold the Kul’Tiran Humans as the apex example for my aforementioned pleas for Blizzard to convert the whole concept into “Allied Sub-races”. They weren’t just another lazy duplicate of the Lordaeronian models with different accessories, skin colors, and/or voice accents (like the Glineans). The artists lovingly distinguished the Kul’Tirans with their own unique height, shape, girth, and posture so they could walk the line between having their own identity while still be quickly recognizable as part of the Human species. That is the magnitude of dedication I dearly wish was bestowed upon every last playable sub-race in the game.
This method of feature-melding which you’re suggesting would squander all chances for true visual diversity within each species. I have ALWAYS HATED that the Tauren’s cousins are continually viewed as practically identical in all ways, due to them all having the same copy-pasted body plan with a few different head pieces thrown in. It’s important for each sub-race to have a special silhouette that reminds nearby players, whether in your faction or the opposite, which cultural origin shaped that particular appearance and what Racial Abilities are born from its physique.
I’m all for members within a sub-race deciding to share a VERSION of a haircut or body-art method to display unity within their kind/group. That easily feels like a practice that should have been in the game ages ago, and could be added to after surviving the main threat of each expansion. I’m even onboard for quests that unlock new class options for each sub-race after getting to know more about the ones that their allied kinfolk possess through some rep grinding. However, it depresses me to think of glancing across a rest area at the pointlessly muddied visage of a player with a Tauren’s hunched posture, a Taunka’s flat face, a Yaungol’s shaggy fur, and a Highmountain’s marked antlers while having no idea what they actually are without having to mouse over them first.
Plus … I’d say it’s fairly likely that merging all of the different sub-races onto just one core figure would probably result in Blizzard deciding to save effort by sacrificing most of the unique Racial Abilities for a singular set, rather than allowing players to choose a combination of traits that they want during character creation/alterations.
The HighMountain Tribe has made it pretty clear that specific colors represent specific clans. The Rivermane clan wears blue, the Skyhorn clan wears green, and the Bloodtotem clan wears/wore red. If colors like orange and/or white were introduced, they would probably have to be used as accessory colors to one of the main three. I don’t think brown would work out on a race whose body colors stay localized around brown with leathery Heritage Armor also sporting a lot of brown on top of that. Even if they recieved new fur-color options, it may end up looking more like mud than paint.