So when are we getting the option back to choose between current character models and the classic models??? I’ve been hoping for them to come back for soooooo long, I really cant stand how hoppy the new undead models are when they run, that and the old undead models just looked better period. With all those cosmetic stuff coming out and blizzard seeing that cosmetics and stuff are the name of the game for most people now, I really feel like it would be awesome to have the old models come back as a customization option for our characters. I dont know about you but I personally would probably never be using the current undead models again lol
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You’re not.
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It’s not coming as far as I know.
I don’t think it’s even on the dev team’s radar IMO.
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Blizz, when do i get classic lara croft look for humans?
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IIRC the reason they removed them is that a lot of the new spell animations don’t work with the way they are coded. Bringing them back would require a lot of extra animation work for an option I think a lot of people wouldn’t bother with.
Also at this point I think a large portion of the playerbase plays races that never even had “old” models.
You still can.
When you start up Battle.net, choose “WoW Classic”.
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I miss some of the vanilla animations, (the Forsaken male walk, for one, I just really like how lurchy it was) and I loved the models at the time. But I’m used to the new models, and the new animations weren’t possible with the old rigging on the vanilla models. It wouldn’t be worth the investment for Blizzard now to try to fix those issues-- almost no one would bother to use the old models, charming and nostalgic as they are. They just look pretty bad now.
Why don’t you ask for an updated Forsaken model with what you want? Let’s not go backwards on quality.
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A lot of trolls today. Is it a troll holiday?
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They were in the game when the new models were originally introduced, and then they turned that off… So I’m going to say they probably aren’t.
Yes Blizzard, can we go back to having 3 whole polygons and 5 pixels?
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This week’s Time Walking if you get Blackrock Caverns, watching the giant Raz model slow mo running is hilariously hideous.
I don’t even have an old model, and this look demands high resolution.
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Um, never? You could just play classic.
a Troliday? 
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Complete with lack of shading or it’s not authentic.
I spend quite a lot of time on classic lmao, whenever i relog retail and see those new models and watch my character hop while walking its just… ugghhh its so awful to look at, makes me wanna just log out and go right back to wrath.
I do prefer the original look of the NE female vs the new Botox Barbie look we have now.
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I 110% agree. I can’t even play my undead characters because of how bad they look now. The model revamp looks good for some and terrible for others, they really really really need to bring back the toggle. Especially if they want to entice the classic players to try retail after Wotlk is over
Edit: A word
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Believe it or not, I THINK they might be doing Cata Classic. I personally would love to play Cata again, I absolutely LOVED the pvp in Cata AND destro was probably the funnest it had ever been to play in Cata, despite being undertuned as hell.
Yeah I share the sentiment, like there’s several mogs i used to wear before that look absolutely horrible now on the new models because the shoulders are just all kinds of screwed up and don’t sit on the new shoulders properly like they did on the old models. I USED to rock the hell out of those guldan regalia shoulders from trial, and I occasionally still do, but they just look so awful on the new models when you do anything, omni casting like when you summon dreadsteed or a pet, yeah you can really see how awful it is and how badly they sit. That and the hair, omg the hair looks so awful, I’ve complained about it nonstop since the new models became forced on us. The new hair looks god awful, its literally looks like really poor quality rubber. Ill be honest and say yeah the OG hair wasn’t anything amazing, but man it definitely looked WAYYYY better on undead. This new rubber spaghetti noodle crap can go tbh, I hate it. The slouch is horrid too, have you seen an undead now cast chaos bolt or soul fire? Jesus christ it looks bad lol. I know it’s supposed to be this like super powerful and all and they’re trying to make it look extremely menacing and stuff, but man that slouch is something bad, that and you can also see the shoulder problem I was talking about clear as day in that.
Theres some stuff thats definitely cool about the new models, like the bones that show, now those look incredible, I actually like those. But then you see them run and you just… yeah you wanna delete your toon because of the extremely hoppy run, it’s so painful to watch LOL. I’ve resorted to using the nogginfogger elixir quite often just to have those old animations and stuff.