A lot of people have been disappointed by the recently announced race/class combo and I haven’t seen anyone create a thread that collected everyone’s problems/critiques/ideas and put them all in one place so I thought I’d do it. I apologise if this in fact has already been done and this is an unnecessary repeat thread. Feel free to add anything I missed / forgot. For things that I thought could be contentious (like adding male/female bodies for the Dracthyr) I tried to provide alternative solutions/ideas. I’ll put a TLDR at the end:
Other Races of Visage Forms
Blizzard should allow players to choose their Visage Form from any of the existing playable races or perhaps only a selection from both the Horde & the Alliance that fit within the lore and that make logical sense. After all, we’ve watched dragons turn into a much wider range of mortal races than just blood elves & humans such as Chromie, who chooses to turn into a gnome or Ysera who chose to turn into a night elf so there really is no reason why players shouldn’t be able to do the same
The Visage Form customisation options wouldn’t necessarily have to be available for every race although having them available for every race would be within the realm of possibility for Blizzard if they pulled back on some of customisation options that they planned on giving us for the Visage Forms. I think many would agree that the head jewellery, cat eyes, pointy ears & face scales were excessive if not just a little bit ridiculous anyway
Visage Form in Combat
Blizzard could add a glyph that allows the Evoker Class to be played like a Demon Hunter where you could fight in your Visage Form with spells requiring your Dracthyr Form turning you into said form for the spells’ duration before promptly turning the Evoker back into their Visage Form
Male & Female Dracthyr Forms / Bulky & Slender Dracthyr Builds
Make distinct Male & Female Dracthyr models OR simply allow both genders to choose between a Bulky/Broad or Slender/Shapely frame. One solution provides the kind of sexual diversity that all the other playable races provide whilst the other solution gives players the most choice / ability to express themselves through their character
Reworked Dracthyr Form Animations
Rework the Dracthyr Form animations in order to make their movement less ‘bouncy’ and their demeanour less ‘goofy’. Many players want to play a dragon-themed race/class combo in order to be a brooding/mighty/intimidating beast like the dragons players have fought against over the years. As it stands right now, the Dracthyr’s wave gives off major Jar Jar Binks vibes and they skip like little kids when they run
More Visible Armor Slots for Dracthyr
As of the moment of writing this, the Dracthyr Form will only be capable of displaying Shoulders, Tabards & Waists. If we’re being honest with ourselves, Legs, Chests, Boots, Gloves & Wrists should also be visible at a bare minimum. In my mind, only Backs should be ruled out entirely due to the wings of the Dracthyr Form
Since Dracthyr players will be, as of this moment, unable to fight in their Visage Form, it seems only fair that Dracthyr players should be able to see the majority of the armor that they have equipped/transmogrified whilst in the form that they will be forced to be in for the vast majority of their playtime
Other Classes for Dracthyr Race
Allow Dracthyr to play as other classes that make sense for dragons, who are capable of wielding the powers of all five dragonflights, to be such as: Warriors, Mages, Rogues, Hunters, Druids etc…
The range of classes available to the Dracthyr can be expanded whilst keeping the Evoker Class exclusive to the Dracthyr
Dracthyr Flying Racial Ability
Dracthyr should be able to fly in the air using their wings that would function in exactly the same way as a flying mount just like how the Worgen ‘Running Wild’ racial ability functions exactly like a ground mount and whilst they’re at it, they might as well add this ability to Demon Hunters too
Changing Scale Colour With Specialisations (?)
I haven’t personally seen anyone else throw out this idea but I thought it’d be a cool (for those who want to) if you could make it so that your Dracthyr’s scale colour changes when you change specialisation so that your scale colour always matches that of the dragonflight/s who’s power you’re currently channeling/focusing on (IF that’s what you want, this would by no means be mandatory and you could even choose colours that don’t resemble any of the flights if it suited your fancy). I don’t actually know if specialisation-specific customisation options would even be possible in the same way it is with transmogrification or if enough people even care enough about being able to do so for it to be worth Blizzard’s time thus why I put a question mark next to this idea
Dracthyr Cross-Faction Capabilities (?)
So, as far as we are aware, as of Dragonflight, all players will be able to invite players of the opposite faction to groups in order to participate in dungeon and raid content together. However, they will still be unable to join the same guilds, fight on the same side in world PvP or hang out in eachother’s capital cities. Well, what if the Dracthyr, being representatives of a completely neutral party, the dragonflights, could break down even more of these barriers? Perhaps a Dracthyr of the Alliance could be allowed to chill out in a place like Orgrimmar and be able to understand the languages of the various Horde races as they go about their business. However, the reason I have put a question mark next to this idea is because there is a risk that by giving the Dracthyr too many advantageous perks, players could feel like now they have to play a Dracthyr in order to gain access to them
Evoker Tank Specialisation
Add a tank specialisation (themed around the black dragonflight) on top of the currently planned healer & damage specialisations, resulting in 3 total specialisations for the Evoker class. The black dragonflight seems to play an uncertain role in the Evoker’s toolkit based off the information that is available right now and a tank specialisation is (thematically) right up their alley
This would have the added benefit of granting the Dracthyr race access to all 3 roles (tank, healer & damage) since the only class that a Dracthyr can be is an Evoker (as of this moment). In addition to this, giving the new class a tank specialisation could hopefully promote ‘flavour of the month’ players to play as tanks in group content
TLDR
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Other Races of Visage Forms
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Visage Form in Combat
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Male & Female Dracthyr Forms / Bulky & Slender Dracthyr Builds
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Reworked Dracthyr Form Animations
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More Visible Armor Slots for Dracthyr
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Other Classes for Dracthyr Race
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Dracthyr Flying Racial Ability
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Changing Scale Colour With Specialisations (?)
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Dracthyr Cross-Faction Capabilities (?)
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Evoker Tank Specialisation
on top? You could put them on your cupcakes!
