It is cool to see all the new options that are being added in Shadowlands, but I also imagine that some people are quite attached to how their character looks now. And in some cases, you’d need to retcon yourself a bit if you wanted to say “aha, I was a Sandfury troll this whole time and you never noticed!”
Is your forsaken gonna go on a quest to find the chalice of elbow-regrowing, or were they boneless all along and the new options just let you show that in-game? Are we gonna want an in-character tattoo parlor event to justify all the new body art that is gonna be showing up? Or is your character already covered with tattoos in your mind?
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Still waiting on more updates for Draenei.
My hope is OG Draenei get the good beards Lightforge have. Which will finally let Juspion have a nice beard and fit in with all the dwarves in PnP. I’m also hoping for some neat humongo horn options.
Otherwise I’m not terribly attached to any of the existing features, I change Juspion a lot all the time but I’m also not super woo’d with the skin and hair options that have been revealed so far.
While I would prefer Versca to be MORE skeleton I am looking forward to turning off my knee bones so I am no longer cursed with wearing jort cut offs.
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So first I have to be petty; I race changed to highmountain tauren way back because they were getting heritage armor and because they got paint. Like the two most requested aesthetics for tauren. They aren’t so different that it was a big leap to tweak things IC (and I wasn’t really interacting with many people as is) so aside from feeling irritated and out a bunch of dollars that was something.
Then tauren heritage armor came out. And I was kinda miffed, cause it was much more the style I would have preferred but I wasn’t about to fork out cash again as well as give up my slick tats.
Well wouldn’t you know, now tauren are getting cool tats too and basically rendering the race change entirely meaningless because Blizzard had to go out of their way to gouge us on cheap cosmetics. I’m not coming back to wow any time soon so I’m not about to bother but if I were to play shadowlands I would definitely be going base tauren again.
The antlers were cool but I miss my horns and war stomp is just much more thematic even if i only use it once a year.
I’ve actually stayed away from certain races because of the lack of customization options. I’ll probably make one of each race now with all the new stuff coming.
So
Many
Changes
Gonna be revamping so many characters with the new customization options. My black characters can finally be black! Not thirty seconds too long in the most tepid tanning booth on Azeroth black!
I’m still waiting on a boob slider, but for like, the opposite reason of everyone else.
It really depends on how the customizations that draenei get look, but at this point, there’d have to be something really spectacular to get me to change.
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Ursuola, Teenage Russian Gymnast, confirmed.
I don’t think I will change Dawnblood or my DK.
All of my Forsaken are going to get different eyes, be boneless and have either the Devillock or Mohawk.
Dark troll skin being softly un-retconned made me really want to change Jan-Mak’s skin tone. But all his art has him as a nice smurfy blue. Besides the QoL customization options - i.e. blindness in one eye, eye color, scarring, tattoo’ing, etc - I’m sufficiently whelmed. Not spazzing about the ideas, but not disappointed.
The pandaren options have been…slacking, so I need more before I say. Although if the blind eye option comes over, I may consider retconning him to have a blind eye where the two scars are…even if that’s not good for shooting a bow and arrow.
Beyond that, the only thing that’s got me is the black/brown fur combo coming for the tauren and the new dwarf hair/tattoo stuff (getting dwarf slayer vibes). Everything else is “wait and see”, I guess.
Waiting for Horn options for normie Draenei. Will probably give her that new purple skintone if I decide to make her as a regular Draenei instead of LFD. Horns are everything.
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I thought you were coming to the Horde tho 
Dude I can’t even RP on my mains because I’m not sure if I’m going to be even keeping them the same races when all is said and done. Lol.
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I generally have an Alliance and Horde main. BFA was a rare one where I didn’t.
Still debating on who will be the top main. Leaning Horde this time around due to story motivations.
Though, there’s not much I’m looking for for Orc customizations, if they provide an elder face option that’d be great. The old one was updated and looks very young now.
Maelstrom generation is dying in SL, so I’ll be able to enjoy Elemental again.
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Regular draenei males have headcrests attached to their hairstyle, so you can’t get a new haircut without drastically changing the way their head looks. Tbh I think this takes the cake in what should be fixed out of all of the races; old goblin models used to take the cake but there are new ones now.
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That is fair. I’ve been leveling one of each class on each faction, but I know my hunter here and my vulperan brewmaster (Nose for Trouble helps me so much, and I like being a Little John character who is actually little) will be my mainplays in SL.
I have Alliance I like to play, but idk everyone I know plays Horde so its hard to gear/get motivated to play them, even if I’m just doing it for storyline.
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Looks great on my enhancement shaman as well. I am very excited about this change to the class as a whole
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I’ve been wishing for Wildhammer tattoos since vanilla!
Also, for this character, I will be glad that I can get rid of the weirdly pale skintone and still have red eyes.
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