I can agree with this although idk how well their spaghettis code can handle it.
Btw (since people are saying right or left) I’m ambidextrous lol so I can swing either way! (Yes… pun intended!)
I’m a lefty. My Warrior is right-handed though. Only one of my characters is left-handed. I’d love to be able to customize that.
Not sure how easy it would be to implement. I observe from my time in the SCA that lefties tended to be a bit more successful in battle simply because the right-handed fighters learned how to fight each other and had little practice against lefties
I doubt it’d all be that hard to put a ‘toggle’ in the interface, or even something in the transmog menu or something a rather, that simply swaps your hand-equips around. 
As a lefty I’d love the option since representation is sorely lacking, unless mirroring animations is too big a feat or something.
Fun fact: it’s not just the grip, true left-handed scissors have their blades switched around too. Picture yourself cutting out a drawing on a piece of paper - the blade you see over the paper should be behind the cutting line as to not block your view.
Honestly I never noticed my character’s dominant hand, and with that logic I’d rather they give us a way to further customize our character that is more impactful. Even with all the new features SL added WoW still falls behind other MMO’s. A height slider would be nice, and other body modifications that are not just skin alterations.
But left handed vs right handed, I just don’t care, and the idea that lefties are an unrepresented minority doesn’t really sway me, even if it’s true.
Female trolls cast left handed iirc
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They would have to create a lot of new battle animations
I guess my Void Elf casts spells with his left hand.
Have to check, never looked closer. But if that’s so, likely every Belf caster might do the same.
It’s. A. Video. Game. Who cares?
When I first saw the title I was like oh boy this will be fun ya got me on that one.
Yes I agree. I Identify as a lefty so I’m totally Appalled about this! hopefully they put left handed people in the game because we are special also. I want to be a they thee left handed body 1/ it plz.
Especially if ye right hand is a hook!
I wonder if there’s a quick way to tell the model rig to mirror the animation to the other side of the rig. I don’t do the beep boop programming… sounds like a worthwhile addition though, I’m a rightie but I’d make some lefties just for variation of visuals.
Handedness was never a controversial topic. It’s not the type of ‘inclusivity’ that Wowhead will post locked articles about and in the same vein, it’s probably not even going to be acknowledged by Blizzard let alone be added to the game.
Wow, this thread made me surprisingly bitter for some reason. Maybe it’s because I’m a lefty and never thought about how the game isn’t. 
In all honesty, would it be super terrible if they just mirrored the whole model (animations included) for lefties? Yeah, it would mean that blood elves would lean the opposite way when AFK or monks would spin in the opposite direction, but shouldn’t they be doing that anyways if lefties? Hairstyles and such would be flipped, but they wouldn’t look out of place.
The only things I could see need reworking would be what the in-game client deems as “left” or “right” for things such as single-shoulder transmog and strafe.
It would be significantly less work than trying to reanimate the whole model.
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Is it that high? I went most of my life not meeting another left handed person until about 4 years ago when I started working with 3 of them.
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Apparently, yes. In the USA, it is 13% nowadays. Both figures have risen significantly in the past century.
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Interesting. I had no idea.
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