Life protip: worry less about what other people want. It frees up so much brainspace.
Much of the gameplay is centered around using those basic attacks to proc the breath attacks and the like. When youâre âon a roll,â youâre casting them pretty frequently. At least for the DPS spec - I havenât seen too much of the healing yet, to be honest.
Would it not be better to play as a Dracthyr Mage? Priest? Shaman? With the ability to stay in visage form the entire time?
If people choose to take my questioning as an attack rather as an inquiry, that reflects on them, not me. 
Are you saying thereâs a way to use horns, scales, etc for Blood Elf customization? This isnât like Worgen whoâs second form is just Human, Dracthyr Visage form has a LOT of unique customization not available to the race it is based on.
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I breath fire for breakfast
I donât really see what youâre claiming.
Deep Breath - has a 2 min CD baseline. Not frequent enough to make the swapping so drastic.
Disintegrate - itâs just a blue beam lol. Could come out of their hands. Mages literally have a beam spell in frost. Drain life, soul on locks. Seems ez enough. The human and BE models already have those casting animations as they can be locks and mages lol.
Fire Breath (frontal cone) - 30 second CD. No different than a demon hunter eye-beamâing into demon form all the time.
Living Flame - A spell that is literally casted with their hands in the dragon form. Not even âdragonyâ coming out of their mouth. Just a dragon casting with his handsâŠ
Pyre - Just a lob of fire. Could come out of hands pretty easilyâŠ
Firestorm - A spell that is literally casted with their hands in the dragon form. Not even âdragonyâ breathing out of its mouth.
Could go on⊠but yeah, I donât see what youâre talking about. Any âcharged upâ attack could just take you into dragon form when you start charging it - again, like a DH. Most of the spells donât even seem that âdragonyâ, except the couple of dragon breath attacks? Hell, their utility spells seem more âdragon-likeâ than their actual spell abilities now that Iâve looked at them.
Thereâs nothing I see that makes it look like theyâd be swapping in and out so drastically. Looks like 2 of their spells are casted as if they were humanoids anyway, waving their hands around lol.
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If someone wants to play that way then so what? We just want it as an OPTION, not as a a permanent change to how everyone plays the race.
It is absolutely a distraction and an eyesore to everyone else. If this was a single-player game? Have at it! But it isnât.
Funny - no one complains about demon hunters going in and out of demon form pretty frequently being a âdistractionâ. Thereâs a talent that puts them in meta form every single time they eye beam lmao.
Or are you distracted by that too?
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You could repurpose any class to make sense for any race, if you really wanted to. We could retheme all the Paladin stuff as Elemental and give it to Orcs. We could have Lightforged Warlocks summoning Holy constructs. We could have Mechagnomes building minimechs to serve as Druid forms. But youâre completely betraying the core concept of each of these classes in doing so.
The same would be true for divesting the Evoker of anything inherently draconic. It is possible? Of course. But youâre kind of missing the point if you do so, and there are probably better options to achieve the same goal.
⊠how? There are enough other things going on that I barely notice other players individual spell effects at all during a fight, let alone someone like a DH or Druid changing form.
Next question. Do you really thing Activision âYou think you do but you donâtâ Blizzard is going to go out of their way to make these things usable in the Visage form.
Iâm being realistic. Having the option to do more in the visage would be cool, but i canât see blizzard making their dragon class step on mageâs toes thematically more than it already does.
The chosen identity racial is a very good addition, and itâs probably all weâre getting.
Youâre comparing 2 different things. No one in here is asking for Drakthyr to be warlocks, like youâre claiming about orcs being paladins. I get what the point youâre trying to make, but youâre really, really reaching high there. No one is asking for spells to be changed or to look different.
3-4 of their spells are already castable in humanoid form. Multiple of their other spells could easily be casted in humanoid form and not break the theme. Like I said, TWO of their offensive spells are literally casted like humans while theyâre in dragon form lol. Would you expect firestorm to come out of their mouths? Probably. But it doesnât. They wave their hands around like a balance druid.
I donât see why anyone would fight AGAINST a seemingly simple customization option. We know that once the class is released, there really isnât any going back. You claim itâll be distracting, and now itâs breaking fantasy⊠The precedent already exists in demon hunters. I just donât see the reason not to add such a simple option for a class and race that are both so limited already.
Sure, I see your point, but Iâm trying to be reasonable too with my opinion. The precedent is already there with DHâs. Like I said, only a handful of their spells seem to be âbreath from mouthâ dragon-like abilities. I canât believe a spell called firestorm from a dragon is casted by a dragon waving their hands aroundâŠ
I donât know⊠Again, just my opinion that the option existing would be nice. The race can only be one class. Open the table to more peopleâs preferences. Will we get this option? Probably not⊠But I can still dream!
Glyph of Stars comes to mind. I am probably in the minority but I do Not like Boomkin form.
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Love the idea of just going drak for drak abilities and transforming back in combat.
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Yes please. I use deviate fish or noggenfoggers currently XD
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