Indeed. The majority of existing mail would look weird painted onto Dracthyr with their textured scales. I get that. But it’s not unreasonable to ask that the 3D modelled bits render in for the true dragon form. Particularly for armour that was directly developed for the race.
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They need to just allow us more visage combat options. I wanna just see my gear and especially my tier. 
No thanks. I play as a dragon to play as a dragon. Blood Elves are my least favourite model in the playable roster.
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I’ve completed three of the new mail sets this patch. Only noticed because I was on my shaman, who can actually use them.
I would happily accept the painted option, perhaps as a toggleable alternative to the existing armour textures. It may not look ideal without the additional meshes, but the current colour selection is severely limiting.
The thing with the painted on armour is that it will take on the scaly texture of Dracthyr skin. I entirely understand why they wouldn’t want it to look like a toddler fingerpainting an alligator.
Perhaps we’re using the term differently. I’m referring to how the other races have armour textures overlaid on top of the main body texture. This would work fine on Dracthyr, just as it does on Naga; they would merely need to hide the arm and leg spikes.
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Id love for the option to have a human male and blood elf female visages added. Gear just looks bad on BE males.
Dracthyr could of had armors show just like worgen can. No one can convince me otherwise, blizzard is just lazy. Only problem I see them having is cloaks which could be auto disabled. Boots can be cut like Tauren/trolls/worgen and worgen males have similar shape heads to dracthyr, it might look silly but it would fit. Bare minimum would be to have tier sets fit and they couldn’t even do that. And none of the tier set colors match barbershop armors. Even naga males can show transmog, come on now…
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Females too, and they have four arms!
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Yup, naga female as well. https://i.imgur.com/V7RO1vU.png
And now that Dragonflight will be over soon, there is no chance we will get any updates on dracthyr and it will get left in the dust.
My guess is that, if Evoker texture maps were indeed made with a different UV layout, it may have been for the sake of making their scales look better and more continuous. But I really hope this isn’t the case because it would make transmog nearly impossible from a production perspective.
Still quite possible by rebaking the texture maps, but they likely won’t want to do it because of this prior design decision.
Morgan Day said that it was a philosophical choice, not a technical limitation.
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That’s reassuring at least. Hopefully they’ll change their minds.
It is and it isn’t just like Dracthyr being locked to only being Evoker and thus not being able to be tanks is only a philosophical one. But it’s also one they don’t seem to be in any hurry to remedy.
To be fair, we’ve seen WoW surmount technical challenges much more often than shift design philosophies. 
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Welp… if Blizz won’t do it, I can always just draw armor for my Dracthyr myself and then commission/draw art of them with the armor.
With all due respect, that’s not a solution. 
Okay, I never said it was?