I’m all for Nightborne getting glowing hand/hair options. The main things I want for them though are:
- Model overhauled to look like the NPC’s. Less scrawny/sickly.
- New face options that look less angry/ugly/aged for both sexes.
- Additional hairstyles. I’d like variants of the new Night Elf hairstyles but using the Nightborne’s hair texture (which I think looks nice).
- Additional hair colors.
- Additional skin tones.
- Additional accessories/jewelry/facial hair, and an option to hide tiaras/headbands from hairstyles that have them, as well as different color options for those in much the same way Draenei hair accesories work.
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Take your own advice.
The art department makes assets for content. But they do not make content. Content is not held up due to a lack of art assets. There’s also different parts of the art department that work on different things. Some work on landscapes, while others work on character/npc models, and others work on armor/weapon models.
In most cases, assets are made in large batches, especially as an expansion is first being developed. After that content is created, it draws from those asset batches. New content often reuses existing assets, except where the devs feel entirely new assets must be made.
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Yes it’s hand in hand. New zone, requires assets most of the time. Thus utilizing the art department. Not hard to comprehend. I never said the art team MAKES CONTENT.
You implied that working on customization diminishes the content we get. It does not.
Definitely. A toggle is exactly what I was thinking. It should be easy as pie.
Oh for sure. The overhaul is a given. I don’t want a single Nightborne customization until the entire model is redone. And I’ll pay Blizzard 100+ dollars to race change my blood elves to Nightborne. So it’s completely worth it for them.
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It does. It takes away time from working on the assets for future content because that is an ongoing process and not something they do out the gate since they 9 times outta 10 have little idea what they want to do on the mid xpac and end xpac content.
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Hey, Vash. Let’s assume all the art assets for the expansion are already created. Would you be in favour of more customizations from the art team if this was the case?
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Absolutely, but I like to be a party pooper.
Just for general topic banter, I think more races need customizations.
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Feel like watching Dbz now lol
New assets aren’t always needed for new content.
Take Torghast for instance. Blizzard already created a batch of art assets for it. They can add new additions to Torghast without requiring much effort from the art department. Some minor texture work could make existing assets look noticeably different.
Additionally, the people that work on level assets (land, structures, etc), aren’t always the same people who work on character/mob/npc art.
There’s no reason we can’t have both new content with new assets, and have new customization.
The real problem, in my opinion, is Blizzard’s obsession with making “systems” instead of “content” lately.
I’m not against new even Nightborne customizations, I think they need it. I think for an expansion touted as ‘customization’ focused, only a few races really got variety.
If they can split the time amongst it, sure.
But knowing how their development works, they really apply themselves to one or the other, as neither customizations nor NEW assets are quick to do.
Torghast is something else, but even that, I wish they do more unique flavor to it as it’s very bland if compared floor by floor.
I do also heavily agree that
But that won’t change. At least it doesn’t seem like it will.
Dude it’s annual for me. It’s so good lmao
Probably not any time soon 
I really wish Blizz would realize that “systems” is becoming a dirty word. In game development content is king. I want Blizzard to get back to that.
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Not a bad as the female KT imo.
edit: Got the nightborne allied race mixed up but still the KT female model is by far the worst by mile.
Wha? Since when are Nightborne an Alliance allied race?
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Oops. My bad. I was thinking of the other Alliance race 
You have opened a Pandora’s box and not realized it.
https://giphy.com/gifs/cheezburger-bird-popcorn-funny-gSRkSblDEjUuk
The races with the least custimizations should get the most attention.
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I haven’t watched in a super long time
Systems make the core of a game, they just over-do it and think we need it. I beg to differ, they tried in Legion to double down on it, they tried in BFA, they toned it back and went the other extreme and made it boring in Shadowlands.
Make specs feel full again, let them earn a freakin talent and take 4 or so yrs to trim off bloat. And spend time on more content rather then on the core power system that they iterate on 92850293458 times.