I’d rather that Mok’nathal be added as a subrace to orcs along with green/fel/Mag’har orcs, like so
This is mostly because one of my two main characters is a Mok’nathal and I’d be peeved if I had to pay for a race change while a subrace system would ideally let me switch at the barber shop.
It’s also because I’d like for Mok’nathal and all 3 proposed orc subraces to be able to switch between the current orc model and the proposed Mok’nathal model, mostly because I have a pipe dream of playing a giant orc. https://i.imgur.com/T6trrBS.png
Seriously, could you imagine a fel orc with that model and size, deep red skin and giant body spikes all included?
I got one too, gonna update it someday… I got a lot of bookmarked posts with great ideas I’d like to add, someday I’ll add them… when work isn’t so overbearing and if my subscription is still active anyways.
For all races
Heterochromia options, the option to pick each individual eye color.
universal black option for races with warpaint or tattoos
Covenant visuals.
Unlocked temporarily by joining, unlocked account wide by reaching exalted with said factions.
Kyrians
Blue or purple skin with wings to use as a flying mount or as a self-propulsion ground sprint animation (IE you run faster than 60%, you grow wings and fly visualy).
Blue hair.
Blue spell shaders
Necrolords
Living dead options: unlocks dark ranger styled skin options such as pale white or dark grey along with red or green eye colors.
black/green hair option.
Black/green spell shaders.
Venthyr
Vampiric options: grey, tan, or pale skin options with glowing red eyes. sprint or evasion effects turns you into a translucant red ghost like Sinrunner Blanchy.
Red spell shaders.
Night Fae
horns with optional ardenweld glow effects akin to the covenant abilities along with fur or treebark skin(would players enjoy this?)
*Blue/black spell shaders.
Individual races.
Blood Elves.
Ranger attire and warpaint such as armbands, headbands, wristbands used as protection for archery and varied camouflage and solid color options for the warpaint.
Glowing and non glowing runes, scars, and tattoos. Glows: light, fire, arcane, fel, and shadow.
Reflective metallic skins options such as bronze, gold, copper, and silver (I consider these light options).
Dark Ranger skin tones, ghostly white and dark grey; along with new red, green, or pitch black eye colors.
Magic hair with varied colors and effects from sources such as light, fire, arcane, fel, and frost (how would this look?).
Multiple color options for hairpieces.
Select able gem color and hairpiece toggle.
White sclera option for all eyes.
Multi-colored eyes (with optional flicker maybe), example; green sclera and blue or gold iris’ and pupils.
Eye colors for common magic.
Options: fire, arcane, frost, fel, light, and shadow.
Darkiron Dwarves.
More flame colors for hair and eyes.
Colors: blue, green, and ash grey.
Dwarves.
Dwarves seem fine to me but reply with ideas and I’ll put them here.
Draenei.
Slimmer body type for males.
Longer tail options.
More eye options.
More jewelry.
Gnomes.
Gnomes seem fine to me, maybe more mechanical accessories, like necklaces?
Goblins.
Facial hair reflecting the trends of robber baron types in 19th century America.
Bling, large gaudy rings,etc.
gilgoblin options.
Highmountian Tauren.
Jet black fur
Shared fur and fringe options with standard tauren.
Carved antler options, maybe with totemic features?.
Humans.
The ability to pick any skin color for any face.
A less muscular body option available to males of the wizardly types.
Different ear and nose options.
Kul Tirins.
Skinny option.(I don’t see this happening but I know some people would want it so here it’s listed).
Visibly more muscular females.
Lightforged Draenei.
Slimmer body type for males.
Longer tail options.
More eye options.
Precious metal colored skin tones like platinum, gold, silver, and copper.
Optional light effects for non holy specific classes for example; Light infused fireball, holy arrows/bolts, and light effects like Smite on hitting a target in melee for warriors.
Model toggle to play as some other alliance races that can potentially become lightforged such as humans or dwarves while keeping lightforged racials.
Mag'har Orc.
Shattered hand skin color.
Male eyebrows.
Clan tattoos.
Good looking/ more warpaint options and colors.
Jet black hair color.
Mechagnome.
Heritage armor part variety.
Different heritage armor colors.
The option to pick individual body parts and colors.
A-symmetric robotic parts and the option to keep some limbs organic.
Fully robotic option.
Some creepy options like hands with too many fingers.
Nightborne.
completely redo it please.
They look so bad and have so few options, the only cool thing they have going for them right now is the arcane tattoos.
More hair options and colors.
Mana-threads to decorate their hair; different shades of purple/blue, maybe green.
More eye colors: blue, white, and green.
Younger looking faces.
Felborne options.
Nightfallen options.
Magical ability effects for non magic specific classes.
I.E. toggle-able fiery/frosty/arcane effects for melee and ranged attacks.
More tattoos.
Option to have any visible veins glow with magic?
More everything.
Night Elves.
More highborne accessories.
Green eyes like malfurion.
Younger faces for females more in line with what they were in classic.
proportion options please! wider waist, elbows, and anti-slouch for males especially.
More happy male faces.
Orcs.
Dragonmaw clan options.
MU blackrock orc skins.
Male eyebrows.
Clan tattoos.
Good looking/ more warpaint options and colors.
Jet black hair color.
Fel Orc options.
Pandaren.
Varied bear options
Jet black fur
More tails with long versions, and ear options.
More facial variety; less happy faces.
Muscular males.
Sandal toggle for females.
Tauren.
Jet black fur
Grimtotem warpaint.
Carved horn patterns and runes.
Trolls.
buff troll body type.
Green forest troll skin.
Undead troll skin.
Facial hair.
More body paint, maybe stuff with rings and stripes?
Undead.
Upright idle posture.
Human facial hair options, but maybe a bit weathered.
Different nose and ear options.
Patched skin options with stitches, along with the option to pick individual body part colors.
stitching color: blight green, blood red, ghostly blue, and standard black or white.
Desiccated/skeletal body types.
Fully skeletal option.
Color options for bones including skinned and skinless variants.
Spectral body parts, phantom limbs.
Model toggle to play the other horde races as undead; such as trolls or blood elves.
Buff undead model based off kul tirans.
Void Elves.
Ethereal skin, bandages over raw void or semi-transparent void skin.
Tentacle color options.
Tentacle toggle.
Tentacle specific hairstyles such as the following.
Tentacle dreadlocks.
Tentacle dreadlocks with a ponytail.
Braided tentacle hair.
Darker and lighter skin tones with more varied voidy colors.
Cultist/dark markings.
Dark makeup.
Glowing scars and runes.
Glows: same as void elf specific eye options.
Warpaint or tattoos.
Twinkling star or spacey void hair.
More “normal” or bland hair. (vague I know, my own words.)
More natural with optional void highlights and more void hair color options.
White sclera option for eyes that have a sclera.
Orange N’zoth eyes.
Entropic embrace changes projectile spells and abilities with void effected ones
void flames, void frost, void arrows/bullets, etc.
Entropic embrace visual toggle.
Vulpera.
Jet black fur
Bright blue, pink, and green fur.
Not for lore reasons; for my own amusement.
I think every race should get tattoo or warpaint options. Gnomes/goblins could get gear and cog options for example. Gnomes could use some happier faces as well, they all are sad, tired, or angry.
So since someone has clearly been paying attention to my orc posts, I figured I’d go ahead an make a post I’ve been wanting to for a while containing every single idea and pipe dream that I have for orcs down to the very last grain of dust, that way you can scavenge whatever you want from it and also realize why orcs are easily one of the coolest races Blizzard has made.
To start, I’d want them to implement a sub-race system like such: https://i.ibb.co/CtQ5FKP/subrace-customization-mockup-foresttroll.jpg
I would want orcs to have four options that you could switch between at the barber shop; Mag’har, fel, normal, and Mok’nathal. These sub-races would all have stuff like voicelines that could be used on any of the other four (imagine being a green orc with Mag’har voice acting) with certain things changed to be more appropriate, like Mag’har not joking about how hard it is to be green. Diversity in things like class options and racials would also be a thing but should be restricted by sub-race, rather than be interchangeable like voicelines.
I would like all four variants of orcs to be able to switch between 3 models; the current orc model, a larger model very frequently proposed for Mok’nathal, and the dire orc model (made friendly for players, of course), with all models having skin tones and other features like fel orc body spikes supported for whatever sub-race is using them
In the case of males, make all current styles have two versions; one with a receding hairline for those freaks who want to use it and one that looks normal
Separate tattoos and war paint from skins and made them a separate option only useable by certain skins (creation screen QoL thing)
Clan specific features
Blackrock rock growths and smithing scars (WoD announcement cinematic showed off some smithing scars and rock growths are already used a bit on the player skin, but some diversity in how they look would be nice)
Burning Blade tattoos/markings that are actually on fire
Gouged/cut out eyes and glowing orange-white tattoos for the Bleeding Hollow (those tattoos were also in the WoD announcement cinematic)
Gruesome jewelry for the Bonechewer, stuff like bones, tendons, flesh, etc.
Laughing Skull skull/bone jewelry (more than just masks)
Shattered Hand piercings (some of their WoD NPCs used vials as piercings, for example)
Shadowmoon astral eyes and jewelry
Blue warpaint for the Frostwolf (also in the WoD announcement cinematic)
(All of this could be expanded to green/fel orcs as well, but it’s most impactful and makes most sense for Mag’har)
Demonic tattoos, heavily corrupted limbs or facial features, glowing fel eyes (imo, fel orcs should be locked into using glowing green/red eyes, maybe purple) as can all be seen here
Voicelines
Unique, fel orc only voiceline option(s) that sound more fel corrupted
For Mok'nathal
Various skins tones instead of just 2-3 beige ones, some more grey, brown, and green skin tones to represent the half orc part of them, and more blue, red, and yellow skin tones for the half ogre part.
Some animal related features, like pelt and/or bone jewelry
Faces that look more ogre or orc specific in nature and faces that look like more of a mix of ogre and orc
An option to have a single horn and some non-fel body spikes like some ogres do
Some extra more ogre looking options for ear styles
Split body/face paint as was done for regular tauren
More paint styles and jewelry not shared with regular tauren that make use of the different IRL inspirations for HMT
Large antlers for females
Expanded antler decorations like feathers, at the moment all we have is horn markings and some feathers at the bottom on one or two antler styles
The sub-race system as shown above I think would be particularly good for tauren as well, with Kalimdor tauren, Highmountain tauren, and taunka being the sub-races. I personally would also really love if Blizzard decided to make a tribe of yaungol join up with the Horde and made yaungol playable as a sub-race as well through said tribe.
The female gnomes use to have a cute face option too, but now it’s all the same angry/sassy bug-eyed look with the WoD model update imo…
I really don’t like what they did with night elf female faces and the males necks either.
The update didn’t feel like a “update” for a few of the races so much as a…
re-imagining of what the races would look like if designed with modern game industry ideas of beauty in mind.
Thankfully most of the updates were just that, updates. and humans look good without a mustache now, but for nightborne the writing was really on the wall wasn’t it?
what were they thinking.
From what we saw other day asking for any customizations is clearly too much which is BS because a lot of races still need more customizations and Nightborne need a complete rework but it’s whatever.
Also I understand your pain because I eventually changed my Blood Elf and Night Elf male Demon Hunters to females since I can’t use the jewelry and stuff on them and made them more dressed it was depressing. Lol.
It worked well within Warcraft 3 Reforged when you see the Blademaster hero doing just fine with the armor on with some spikes in terms of Fel Orcs that is.
Hey I’m still waiting for Gazlowe and Rokhan to get models. They were relatively major characters in WC3 and are faction leaders but still look like goobers walking around in Cata mogs.
