Edit: It was pointed out that I am dumb; I misunderstood the meaning of what was said to be that we would HAVE to use visage form, not that it would be optional. I am glad it was just me being stupid, though, and I’m glad that everyone will be able to get what they want out of Dracthyr!
Source: Ion interview, skip to 3:37 for Ion to start speaking.
It was pointed out that I have misunderstood, though, so I do hope that is the case!
I didnt see such news, explain?
Hmm, I thought they only said that you can play in visage form. Not that you will be forced.
Have there been some news that I missed?
No as I’ve seen any news about this, and you’ve offered no source to your information.
I was just looking for the clip for Taranoch and he does say “focus more on playing in visage form if they want to” so, perhaps my roommate and I just misunderstood and you’re correct that it will be an option and not forced?
Source to this news please?
It’s not forced , it’s optional.
Im going to go with things that Blizzard never said for 500 Alex!
Edwina points out that I may have misunderstood what was meant when it was said, but Ion answered the question about Dracthyr as other classes here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAzgZtQazWQ&t=0s
Skip to 3:37 for Ion to start talking. Specifically he says “focus on playing in visage form if they want to” so, I may have misunderstood that it is indeed optional? I do hope so.
What dragon? Those things are walking geckos.
I gotcha fam. 
One thing we do want to make happen is dracthyr of a wider variety of classes. I think it makes sense as the events of Dragonflight come to an end, as the dracthyr emerge into Azeroth as a whole, that these ancient, battle-scarred warriors can learn how to wield an axe or learn how to cast a frostbolt, or other such things. That should be cool to have, and obviously they would focus more on playing visage form if they want to, so I think there’s a cool aesthetic there to being able to just be a visage form drachtyr mage…
As early as possible in The War Within. I don’t believe it’s happening at launch, but early on in the cycle. There’s animations we have to get done for dracthyr that are required for them to play as other classes, because dracthyr were originally made just to be evokers. They don’t have the ability to do a variety of the required animations. We’re working on that actively right now, so I can commit to it, but it’s not going to be complete in time for The War Within at launch…
edit: I was late.
And your a short elf. Hello glass house lets see them rocks.
Hush you talking rug.
(Shakes the stick and throws it)
Thank you for this, you are much faster than I.
Chases the stick and brings it back only to find the Elf has Zoidberged off…
Hey…
you know what, you’re not wrong but I stand by what I said even if we change out dragon for gecko!
New classes for dracthyr and being able to keep them in visage if desired will definitely make them much more popular than they are now. 