Heavily seconding all of this. A clarification of what you mean by “more serious options” might be helpful though.
More faces for tauren, especially females who only have four faces to pick from, are badly needed. Separating eye color is a wonderful start but we’ve been looking at these same four faces for many years now.
Additional suggestions/requests:
-More hairstyles!
EG Mohawks, or a mohawk tied into tufts, curly manes, etc.
-Make the new Foremane interact with eyewear where applicable. Goggles, most of which have rather chunky models, presently just sandwich shaggy bangs against the character’s face and you can see them poke out beneath, rather than be flopped on top or pushed backwards as would be more natural. Yes, tauren engineers do exist.
-More hair colors
In particular the current “Blonde” hair looks like someone spilled a bottle of peroxide on the character. A dirty blonde or strawberry blonde option would be lovely. Not “I wish to speak to your overseer” blonde.
-Hoof customization!
Big hooves, dainty hoofs, sickly/cracked hoofs, etc. Also just updating the character’s hooves to actually be cloven, and not simply a horse hoof turned backwards as it presently is.
-Separate Face/Snout options?
Presently for Tauren Females there’s only one face option in which the character looks sort of scowling and displeased, but it’s also one of the smallest nose options despite my always picturing the character with a pretty big snoz. Being able to separate face from snout, or at least nose, would be nice.
-Taunka!
If not given as an allied race (And boy, having us go back to Northrend sure feels like a missed opportunity for that) then at least a face option where the muzzle is shorter and the bridge of the nose is more prominent and sloped.
-DEFAULT IDLE POSE OPTIONS (Preferably selectable with / command)
Something that I have seen in another MMO And never realized how impactful it was to the perception of a character until I thought of WoW’s lack of it, is the option to set your character’s default posture. Standing normally, or straight with their arms locked behind them in a ‘commanding’ posture, or stooped over, or beleaguered. Almost more than any visual customization, the posture you see a character standing in is a big statement to what kind of character you’re looking at or at least what they’re going through presently. A warrior bristling with plate armor standing proudly? This guy looks in charge! The same warrior stooped over? This guy must have just lost a hard fight! Different sets of idle animations would add so much to the game’s character expressiveness.
-Height slider!
This really goes for all races, being able to vary my character height by +/- 10% or so would be huge, and a relatively easy thing since you already have the programming in place to handle characters scaled taller or smaller, as we find with Darkmoon Firewater or Pygmy Oil.
-More build options!
Again, more an ‘everyone’ suggestion. Not just Buff/Thin but also Chunky, Fat, “Skips leg day”, “Skips arm day”, “Mom/Dad bod” and blends thereof for the “I work out but I also really really like food” types. There’s a world of bodytype options to choose from. That said, a skinny Pandaren would probably be the saddest creature I could imagine.
-Amputations!
I’ve seen tons of fanart with characters who’ve lost one limb or another and this would be another relatively easy thing. Currently we can kind of haggle it with certain fist weapon models, though many of these look completely wrong when fitted to certain races (Again, poor poor Tauren females) and that completely leaves out someone who say, lost an arm up near the shoulder or down at the elbow.
-Prosthetics!
Following right on amputations, I’m really shocked that we didn’t get an armor set from Mechagon that gave characters the appearance of partially prosthetic limbs. You could pull this off with a good set of gloves for the hands and bracers for the forearm. Upper arm is trickier, and none of that covers legs. Overall it would be nice if this could just be built into character customizations.