Mega threads are all the rage? right?
Let’s make a nice list of all the OPTIONAL customization features we’d like to see added to the game to improve our overall enjoyment of the game.
Changes to ALL Races
More haircuts and hair colors.
Make it possible for Inscription to create a one time use hair dye.
Quests to unlock a race specific haircut once you are honored with them.
Scars for everyone. This is a war we’re fighting!
Tattoos for everyone, as well!
Eye color separate from face options.
Jewelry for everyone! Perhaps quest items can be made by Jewelcrafters which unlock these new customization features.
Proper beards for everyone.
Hairstyle requests (or beard styles)
Afro
Handlebar Mustache with curls
Bald for all genders and species
Mohawks for all genders and species
Cornrows
Mullets
High top fades
Fades
Dreadlocks
Beehive
Bald
Military haircuts like a buzzcut and more.
Wrathion’s hair.
Blood Elves
Same as for the Void Elves; some old face options.
Eye color separate from skin color and let us change the saturation.
Possible questline to remove their fel-taint to have blue eyes once more?
Black Hair.
Different ear options, longer, curved, damaged.
Draenei
Tail size options.
All female faces are pretty much the same, let them too show their age and wisdom with more wrinkled options.
Archimonde hair style.
‘Damaged’ looks to mimic the Broken.
Actual horns for males like the females.
Man’ari skin tones.
Dwarves
Questline to recruit the Wildhammer, opening up their tattoos and looks. Getting the tats!
Frostborne Customisation.
Questline to remove the curse of flesh.
Forsaken
Posture options; Bones showing, or not. Stand up straight, or not.
Red glowing eyes like Sylvannas.
Pristine face options for males.
Jawless ‘tongue out’ version for females.
Beards.
Actual shoes.
Females to get the skull face back.
Gnomes
Questline to remove the curse of flesh.
Goblin
Have an actual idle animation, they move far too much.
Fat Goblins ala Gallywix.
Gilblin customisation.
** Kul Tiran**
Option to have the normal, skinny or large model.
More face options.
Mechagnomes
Toggle to have pants and sleeves show.
Nightborne
Bodyshape options; Nightborne for the NPC model, Nightfallen for the current player model.
More pristine face options for males as well as females.
More of the NPC hairstyles.
Different ear options, longer, curved, damaged.
Skin Color: Dusky Black, Dark Purple, Greyish and Grape-like (latter two are existing npc skin colors)
Below some picture example of the missing skintones and difference in face styles. https://imgur.com/a/smphkwC
Allow Nightborne to purchase the various different outfits available in Suramar.
Night Elves
More pristine face options for the males. Give them their eyebrows back.
Wisdom wrinkled face options for females. Old wise elf should be possible for both genders.
Eyebrows for males without the need of facial hair.
Face markings separately colored from hair.
Black hair.
Antlers.
Dark grey/black skin.
Different ear options, longer, curved, damaged.
Orcs
Eyebrows.
Younger looks. Face wise as well as hairstyles.
Pandaran
Tails for males, tails for everyone regardless of fur-color!
More actual faces, currently, they are all the same face but different markings.
Better textures on their paws and necks.
Starter sets to be moggable!
More hairstyles.
All White and all black skin option.
Tauren
Mane color separate from fur color.
More options on beading, feathers, ect.
Posture option to stand up straight.
More face options for both genders. Closed mouth for females.
Taunka customisation.
Void Elves
Surely not all of them were young, add some older face options.
New Hair Colors: Black, White, Pale Purple
More options for skin colours. Alleria’s perhaps.
Different ear options, longer, curved, damaged.
Trolls
Posture option to stand up straight.
Questline (like Nelf Night Warrior) to unlock other troll tribe skintones and hairstyles. Perhaps body types. Getting more skintones, at least.
Worgen
More options for fur colors.
Posture option to stand up straight.
Have the worgen form and human form have separate customization.
Classes
Death Knight
Glyphs for undead companions. An undead gryphon? wynaut? Those pig-zombies in BFA? ew… but sure, wynaut?
Option to have the DK voicelines. They exist in the game, why can’t we have them?
Demonhunter
Option to always have wings visible.
Druid
Glyphs to update the old forms into more current models.
A moonkin glyph to just be a big fluffy moonkin. (in case you don’t like the zandalari or kul’tiran forms nor glyph of stars)
Glyph for Moonkin to appear as either Dryad or Keeper of the grove. (Cenarius’ offspring)
Separate Artifact weapon appearance from shapeshift forms. Perhaps in the form of an NPC in the Druid class hall?
Big maybe; the ability to learn another race’s looks after becoming exalted with them. Questline? buyable glyph?
Hunter
Give each race their own special tame;
–Kul’Tiran; wicker-beast-constructs.
–Dwarves; rams.
–Humans; horses. (sorry)
–Night Elves; feathermanes.
–Pandaran; serpent dragons. (many are marked as beast, not dragonkin)
–Forsaken; undead beasts.
–Not sure about the other races, please suggest things?
These can be purchased as tomes at revered reputation, NO LEVEL RESTRICTION!
Mage
Questlines to change the color of your spells, much like green fire for warlocks.
More polymorphs! There’s so much new creates added, we want them all!
Monk
Glyphs to make it less ‘Pandaran’ to fit in with the other martial forms in lore like the Auchenai Monks and Burning Blade.
Priest
Spell color customization to represent Elune, Void, Sun, ect.
Shaman
More Ghost Wolf options that are more suited for the races that don’t culturally have raptors or wolves. (Draenei and Kul’Tiran come to mind)
Glyphs to change the looks of the totems.
More hexes!
Warlock
Those /poor/ demons left behind when the legion fell need some love. More glyphs or quests to form a contract with them.
Not just green fire, but purple fire is also neat! (like the class mount has 3 versions)
Option to have class specific customisation like fel eyes.
Animations
Option to switch base animations around to further customize our character. See it as stance? Warriors have a different walk than say, a monk or mage. Base animations being walk, run, sit, jump, ect.
Option to disable idle animations. Looking at you, Tauren butt-scratch and Night Elf boob-bounce!
Transmogification
Legacy engineering goggles should be cosmetics, so all armor types can mog them.
Fishing rod mogs! Let us mog our fishing rods, it’s part of the RPG!
Option to hide Off-hand.
New category for facemasks and eyewear, let us wear them with hats!
Re-evaluate which hats should and should not clip haircuts.
Let us mog legacy legendaries, perhaps, have them only be available to the character who earned them.
Remove restrictions on Legion artifacts IF they are in the same group. Say; Gun/Bow. Staves, Dagger/Wand, ect.
All starter outfits should be buyable as cosmetics if they aren’t already in the game somehow.
Heirloom Weapons! Buyable once you get the heritage armor achievement.
Lower level requirements, everything under 90 from the start.
This is all about customization. To make your character the perfect way you want them, nothing game changing. Just increase our immersion and fun. Please share your ideas.
Blood Elves - more eye glow options, such as reducing the saturation to a far more subtle level, more hues would be lovely too.
Panda - tails for all fur color choices, not just red.
Goblins - a choice for smaller hands. I’d hoped the remodel would help with this but nu, nu it didn’t. The hands are just silly.
For everyone - some options for how we run. I have an undead female priest and the sproingy gait just kills me. Yes, there’s levitate…and now that’s about as spooky as unicorns chewing up pop rocks. Something that’s crawled from the grave should have the option to move in a more sedate way. But for all classes/races, getting additional choices for our walks and postures would be terrific. Well, now we’re dreaming, but it is fun to imagine the possibilities!
I think the big hands on Goblins are part of their… charm. Same with the Nelves. I don’t think requesting fixes on the models will ever be nothing more than daydreaming.
But I did add your other suggestions as well as an animation option.
I’d love for Panda’s to walk less bouncy for example. Or for Tauren to stop scratching their butt!
Draenei need an archimonde hair style.
Orcs need eyebrows
Forsaken with beards
Leper Green skin tones for Gnomes
Sub rogues as a 2 handed ninja spec
Hunter Glyph that shows throwing Spears/knives/axes
2 handed frost
2 x 1 handed Fury
Monk Glyphs that replace Pandaren themed spells, with those of a Medieval temple or Monastery
Yes, customizing animations would be fantastic! The human female exasperated, shoulder-heaving yawp always made me cringe. It’s the antithesis of cute. The actual death of adorb.
What would be marvelous would be to have more animations added and to be able to select which your character is capable of.
Oh, and another thing, blood elves and night elves can jump in more than one way. That’s something that all races should be capable of. It looks so…static and unreal to always position one’s arms and legs in exactly the same way when jumping. Even having two poses that can randomly occur makes it feel much more natural.
Thanks for collating the mega thread, Unian. So nice to see all those wonderful notions in a fine list.
Race appropriate height and weight sliders for all races. Not everyone is the same size. This will also give that frail, skinny option to sw humans since blizz will never give that option for kt. I say appropriate because there should be no fat elves. The options should be a bit thicker than current down to frail looking. And no skinny kt. The slider should be from a firmer, muscular model to the thicker, fuller model that exists currently.
Decay options for forsaken ranging from undead human down to mostly skeleton.
Upper ear ring options for all elven races.
Still waiting for race specific titles. That could have been given with the heritage armor questline. A missed opportunity really. Along with a racial weapon.
More color options for Worgen fur. Like white, light brown, dark drown, red, etc. Like whatever color you choose on your human form hair should be the color of your fur at minimum if they don’t want it to be a separate option.
As much as I do love the option for a height/weight slider, I’m not sure if that would be doable with the current modeling system without a complete redo.
Specifically for druids, which would apply to all, not just tauren, of course, I would love for the nifty artifact versions of our shapeshifting forms to NOT be tied to transmogging the weapon appearance as well. When Legion was current, we could transmog our weapons and have the feral look we wanted, for example. Now that’s impossible–if you want the form, you have to display the artifact weapon. I ended up just going back to my scrawny original cat.
I’d definitely be on board for getting rid of these fleas we’ve had for so many years. No more scritching!
And a hump-reduction surgery would be on my wish-list. Lift the head a bit, lower the hump, have a more upright-ish posture.
Also have mane color options that are separate from the skin colors. And, I know it’d be asking for a lot, but feathers, beads, ribbons and such for decorating the mane would be so cool.
All in all, for each race, I’d just be thrilled to see more and more options so that everyone’s characters can become more unique and tailored to show their own personality. Character creation time is usually my favorite part of every game I’ve ever played.
Hmm. Tricky… perhaps… In the druid hall a special NPC which grants you the form of the artifact you once possessed. Talking to them to switch between the forms, applied to your skills much like a glyph?
Currently, artifact appearance is in the drop down transmogrify menu, under weapons. Just a slight tweak could have allowed for this to be shapeshifting form selection, independent of weapon displayed, I think.
I only see four choices at the moment, not nearly as many as I had access to in Legion but that’s probably something one has to go to the artifact table and fiddle with. But I’d be more than happy to go back to the druid class hall and do a lot of sweet-talking the shrub that gave us our terrifically colorful kitty forms in order to have both the forms and the transmog of choice. Said the incredibly untransmogged bull…I’ve just been throwing on the Benthic gear to see where it’s headed with the coral and barnacles vibe.
Really good job with your sugestions, i dont know what else to ad.
-I will say that i hate the goblin animation, he doesn’t let you look at him when you want to try some transmogrification, he just… moves TOO MUCH.
-Option for FAT goblins, like our leader.
-More body types for Darkspear Trolls, something bulkier.
-Also, blue eyes for Blood Elves, its just time now.
-More fur colour for all the furry races, maybe some tails options.
-New nightborne model, cause its nothing like what we saw in legion.
-Older faces for all races.
-Just new undead models.
Tail size options.
