I love my dragon form and I have received several compliments about how pretty it is. There are so many options though, and it’s easy to end up with a mediocre/ugly form if you don’t know how to match things properly.
I think adding an option to let “Chosen Identity” only briefly shift you into dragon form when using a draconic ability (hover, breaths, eternity surge, flyovers, racials) would be a nice middle ground. They can also make disintegrate work like the mage ray when in visage and come out of your hand.
But I think making dragon form ~fully~ optional would kill the class fantasy and we are probably going to end up with tonnes of “evokers” who are just mages with different colour spells.
it’s pretty silly to post something like this and at the same time say
but yeah that’s the response i figured you’d come up with. how the poster above you responded to me is how to share your opinion without the condescending nonsense
Nah, I enjoy playing evoker for the class but still want to have access to visage form during combat. That was never confirmed in the post. Aside from during certain spell animations, it should be reasonable to play in visage. Which should, honestly, just be able to operate the same as DH eye beam. Love playing devoker, augvoker, and prevoker. I just do not like having to 24/7 be in a gecko fursuit when I play.
I would still look like a dragon in visage form because I picked up the mog from Mop with a red dragon head as a helm for the memes. So I’m cool with remaining in visage during combat.
Well for all those that want to play theyr Draktyr Evoker in a visage form only, there’s plenty of toys available as an alternative (for now). In TWW you’ll also have access to the Gleefull Glamour items which transform you into a race of your choice for up to one hour (though a 2h cooldown, I’m working on having the cooldown removed / lowered with alpha feedback).
Though its not perfect, its a start until we hopefully get proper changes for that.
My current hopium / copium is for them to be working on a small Draktyr patch which will open up more classes, enable more visage race choices, give us ground mount hover and much more in one of the “early” TWW updates.
i mean they’re working on the classes thing, but they’ve been pretty adamant about not adding more races for visage.
Reason being, the visages we have have a lot of options. They’re not going to do that for every race in the game, and they’re not inclined to just slap on some horns and call it a day. They went so far as to make it canon that Dracthyr can only look the way they do in visage, and that theirs is visually distinct from a dragon’s. Suggesting that their visage appearance is more innate than a dragon’s, and they have limited influence over how it looks
If they did go out of their way to give every race in the game the fancy visage customizations, that would feel terrible for the people who play those races and don’t get to see any of those new customization options. Feels bad enough that my male BE characters got left out in the cold while my dracthyr’s visage has more customization than they ever will.
The most i could see them doing going forward is add some non-human skin color options, more eye type options like the dragon form has, and maybe thicker and thinner body types (adding fem belf and male human model as options to match the dragon forms 4 different body sizes), and that last one is wishful thinking.
I understand where you are coming from and I agree 100%.
The thing is, most people I’ve talked with would be fine with them just adding the other races as an option as they are, without any of the special extensive cosmetics that our current blood elf and human visages have.
There would be no need for any extra design.
Edit: I’ve also included that in my alpha feedback from the beginning, just give us an option for the other races without the need to have all new cosmetic choices.
It’s not going to happen, because as soon as it did the forums would be flooded with people whining about not having those options on the other races. You can pretend they wouldn’t if it makes you feel better, but you’re only lying to yourself.
Yeah this makes sense- but honestly? I would be ok with them just removing the draconic stuff for the visage and just let us choose the race… I (personally) don’t like humans or elves- I find them boring and over done; I like the other races wow has. Why not just let us use the base race stuff for the visage but perhaps can still use the normal one if that’s what people want? The models are already in the game.
I spend pretty much my entire time in Dracthyr form, because a) I love the fantasy of the form, the animations, (and yes, even the running animations), and b) I’m not fond of the visage forms at all, and could care less if they add other races to the visage options at all.