Not a big fan of the smoke effect at least until I see it animated, and that it hopefully covers the whole eye instead of one side.
It would have zero problems if the smoke effect was entirely removed. Blizzard is not good at smoke effects, they’re just flat textures spun around.
It’s basically like crying but upwards instead. Look at the middle pic in the OP, the effect is just sort of garbage.
Not a direct gif but someone uploaded a short loop of the eye effect in the WoWhead dressing room on a Nightborne in a tweet.
Honestly looks legitimately good and the people saying the old ones look better are out of their freaking mind. These new ones are miles ahead of the old eyelamps.
With that said, looking forward to seeing what eye customization 9.0 will bring with eye options for DK’s and other races with glowing eyes 
I would also say that WoWhead’s dressing room is not always 100% accurate and these things usually look better in game than in their dressing room. I would also say that the eyes can still change from now till patch day, though these certainly feel close to a final product imho.
It’s definitely better, something I should have mentioned yeah. The pupils are amazing and the glow being part of the eye instead of being in front is 10/10.
I guess I won’t be looking at my character through the particular angle where the smoke effect is flat, so that’s good yeah after seeing it animated. Now like transmogs, it has to pass the time-settle-into-brain test.
A new problem I notice is that when they blink it clips, though.
Good catch, certainly worth bringing up!
Though, again, WoWhead’s model viewer is not always the most accurate but certainly something to raise concern over! 
I’m Felkar and this is my favorite spot on the Citadel
So, I hopped on the PTR to take a look and I have an assumption BUT the blinks are too quick for me to get a good closed eye shot to confirm it, I did however get a gif of the new animation.
https://i.imgur.com/ipwrkiP.gif
From the looks of it the eyelids hide the base eye glow but not the wisp effects. HOWEVER, I have failed to get a good “fully closed” shot which has my curiosity piqued…
Could Blizzard have changed the eyelids to have the glow penetrate the skin, through clever texturing, like a flashlight to your hand?
Eyelids are not that thick to begin with, and for anyone who has put a flashlight to their hand they have seen the light bleed through such as the above effect.
Could it be possible that is what it is? I can’t get a good high quality eyes closed image on the PTR so I am not sure and WoWhead is not always accurate. Could it be that when the eyes are closed it looks like the effect is shining through because it is shining through the thin skin that the eyelids are made of 
Id really love if someone can manage to get a good eyes fully closed image on the PTR and not through a model viewer. Not trying to invalidate the concern, I hope its looked into, but it now has me genuinely curious.
That’d be amazing if they did, but also the particular model you’re using seems to only be having the upper eyelids move, and the new animation comes from the under the eye, thus I’m unsure if it clips on the dwarf specifically.
Indeed, honestly I am really hoping someone with much better capture equipment than I can get some better shots because I really want to see it with the eyes fully closed now on some of these races haha.
well you spoke it and here it is https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/dk-eyes-update-on-ptr/387634
As usual, there are always a bunch of Karens who are never satisfied, ever.
Piss off, the lot of you.
The new eyes look brilliant. I can’t wait to see what’s in store (if anything more is in store) for other eye glows. Forsaken could use a treatment in this department (amongst like, everything else that’s on its way to being improved!)
Bolvar: “I nearly DID die, got some lousy BOE helm, and my ENTIRE body got set on fire! Plus, do you even realize what excuses I’ve had to make to the ladies after sitting on a BLOCK OF ICE FOR YEARS?!”
begins gushing blood from eyesockets
This is fine I’m sure…
Awesome, i finally get an…eye lift?
I mean, as a major horror fan, yeah I’d play that in a heartbeat, and I’m still STILL angry about blood dps being taken away. This would satisfy me.
New eyes are nice, but I really don’t like the smoke effect.
Nothing a blindfold mog can’t fix though.
Niiiiiice.
Looks like the DH treatment which is FAR superior.
Those are indeed the eyes of a worthy champion. So eager.
agreed
I’d be into additional DK eye colors, though I think there is a legitimate reason why there aren’t: They’re not frost colored–it’s some sort of spirit energy. The same blue that the Eternal Traveler’s set has, for example.
Dark Irons need an option to change the fire effect of their hair to blue for DKs only.
Now if they just fix the Undead DK reverb I’d be happy.