Which do you people like or prefer more when playing World of Warcraft? And how has it change your experience in terms of playing your character and game?
Classic model animations > new, #BringBackOldUndead
Idrc about the character model as much as I care about my casting animations, itās all hidden by transmog anyways 
Do people really prefer the original hair lip human models?
From a technical perspective the new ones are all vastly superiorā¦ vastly higher polygon count, higher resolution textures, higher quality construction.
The problem I have with the new models is that while some are excellent adaptations of the originals ā essentially 1:1 remasters ā others missed the mark significantly. Dwarf males for example are spot on, while others like gnome females and human males are a mixed bag.
Probably the gripe I hold most consistently across the new models are:
- Animation ānoodlinessā
- Pixar/Disney eyes
On the first point, the old models were no paragon of animation, certainly. Human guys ran infamously stiffly, like they had a broomhandle shoved up, uhh, somewhere. The new model on the other hand overcompensates by moving like a cartoon.
On the second, nearly all the new models have eyes that are enlarged considerably compared to those of the originals and are much more glossy.
Those two things combine to entirely change the vibe that the models give off. While the old ones were cartoony, they also had a bit of oldschool gritty fantasy illustration vibes mixed in, and thatās disappeared entirely in the new models in favor of a more generic hyperpolished CG cartoon look.
I think the new models are overall good, but also think that they could use some refinement to tone down the cartooniness a tad and bring back some of the fantasy-grit the game launched with.
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Overall, the new models are much better. Thereās a gripe I have with how they changed some of the faces, though.
Thereās no reason why every elf needed to have bulging eyes. We are all out here looking like we have graves disease.
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What I hate about the new models is that they look too similar to the old ones.
The art team obviously didnāt have the courage to make big changes and really improve the races. Instead they just made higher resolution versions. They replicated the bad haircuts, the awful postures etcā¦
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Male human paladins are hot either way
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Nostalgia is a dangerous thing.
lmao.
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The new ones, definitely. I hated selecting a face, only to get stuck with an eye color I didnāt like, or vice versa.
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For Tauren Females, the classic faces were far better than the current ones.
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I want the old gnome faces back, re-rendered to fit with the new graphics capability.
Blizzard clearly outsourced too many of the character model revamps. The human men look like Lupin the III!
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I donāt get the love for old models. Most faces were frozen on like one emotion.
New models are pretty close to the original but instead of being stuck on āresting angry faceā it now changes depending on the emote you use.
Iām glad I donāt have to look at my constipated make nelf anymore. I also like that they can have eyebrowsā¦
Only thing I miss is not having same face syndrome after the update.
With all the QOL updates to classic, not letting people use updated models are one thing that just bugs me too much.
Female elf faces/eyes all look 10000x worse now than they did in classic. Original Belf/Nelf faces and eyes were SO GOOD and now they are all kinda mushy and bug-eyed
Modern models are far superior.
The problem is they wanted to keep the original āEssenceā, so they left them with disgusting animations ressembing those from classic, which suck as much as something can suck.