So basically, we should be okay waiting until 11.0? Not I! Blizzard needs to hit this one out of the park and the Dracthyr as they stand right now are a double at best. I am going to make a new character in a game I enjoy and not be able to play it how I imagine a dragon race would be able to be played?
Honestly all this is doing is making me simply not even want to bother making a Dracthyr.
[Neltharion] makes dracthyr to be the ultimate soldiers
dracthyr can only be range dps or healers of a single stripe
[also Neltharion] “I see nothing wrong with this.”
new race/class pitch meeting v
“so we have a new race and new class. How do we ensure people will play them?”
“Well we know lots of players will want to play the new race but not as the new class. Pandaren are a perfect example. Monk was their selling point but they weren’t limited to it.”
“Why don’t we make it so the new race can only be the new class and no other race can be the new class and when asked why we’ll say lore reasons? The nerds on the forums will surely back us up on this.”
“We see nothing wrong with this.”
“But what about all the players who will say they’ll just wait until next expansion then?”
“WE SEE NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS, YOU FOOL!”
Problem is the later pile still includes non-allied races that can’t be monks. The track record for opening up options hasn’t really been stellar from Blizz after a race is released.
Yeah every time I see Neltharion brought up as the reason I try not to sarcastically ask if they know he isn’t real.
Why would a dragon, with iron scales, teeth, and claws be a coward a stay behind those that have heavy armor?
Dude. Chill. Dracthyr is not meant to be a high elf. The females vesage form uses a human model even. Not the blood elf one.
Okay. But the male one is still a Thalassian. Considering the visage form can be used in combat, can be customized to be exactly like a high elf I mean… why not use it as one? It’s already a million times better looking than a void elf. They actually have decent hair styles, and will probably have a voice that fits the part as well.
Which would be unfair to worgen, and shouldn’t be allowed that.
With scales all over and horns?
Because it’s the dragon race and should be used as that?
As you post on a toon that looks 100% like a high elf…
Since when do high elves turn purple and have receding hair? I look nothing like a high elf, sound nothing like a high elf.
It’s not unfair to Worgen. Their worgen form is just a human form. No new customization in human form, and humans are already in the alliance as a playable race. Soon they will be able to become druids as well so it’s pointless.
Drackthyr visage form is said to be usable in combat. So clearly blizzard agrees. They said they are working on a way to use them in combat.
The scales and horns can be removed, they said visage is highly customizable and you can add or remove whatever. So you can have just a normal elf.
Sure, it’s a dragon race. But dragons have used High Elf forms for as long as they’ve existed. So it fits to me
You’ve been told multiple times how to turn that off by fen. Don’t get started with that here.
Then play a blood elf?
Worgen players wants to play in human form in combat. Their 2 forms is a human.
It won’t be fair to them.
But to you the voice is all that matters right?
But the voice lines! 
They said they want to try to have it usable. I disagree with the reasons above.
Not entirely, there will be moves that forces you to transform, so the graphics of constantly transforming is gonna be interesting…
In game they don’t fight in those forms. They fight in dragon form, as should a dragon should.
That then forces me to have no racial. Basically like having a trinket, proccing it, but then turning it off. I lose out on a lot of damage. I just want the effect but to not turn purple.
A blood elf is horde.
Well too bad. Blizzard is gonna allow visage form in combat. Clearly they feel it’s a different scenario.
The voice, the hair, the not turning purple racial. That is what matters to me.
I mean it’s sad they lose it but it’s still small in comparison to what you gain with a drackthyr visage form.
Only if you play evoker. If you were a warrior you’ll never have to be a dragon, right? Cause warrior isn’t tied to being a dragon like evoker is.
I mean Heroes of the storm has Alexstrasza fight in both her high elf form and her dragon form. And that’s an official blizzard product. So they see dragons as using both.
And? Learn to cross faction play?
Please the dud not give the legendary bow to lfr when would they do this it only one class fir now get over it
What dud and what do trees have to do with anything
Seems kind of strange for blizz to say that they want to let all races be all classes and then release a new race that can only be one class.
It really is just a baffling decision. Anywhere else, this would be called lazy, especially to tout it as an expansion archstone, but that Blizzard Magic™ seems to be enchanting people to think otherwise here.
The fact that the Dracthyr, in the entirety of their race, don’t know how a shield works is really, really pathetic.
Just seems an entire waste of resources to include ONE flipping class.
If they can wear Mail, there’s no reason not to have all the classes for cloth/leather easily within lore.
add priest and rogue to that list, they’re giving everyone access to mages, rogues and priests, might as well give the dracthyr them too.
In all fairness, I don’t really think this is that big of a deal. It’s basically just the reverse of what they did in Legion. Instead of making a new class that only 2 races could be, they made a new race that could only be one class. At least both the race and class are new.
That being said, I’m fine with them getting new classes in the future, in the same way I want more races to be able to be DH’s in the future. But I don’t feel like its the earthshattering ordeal some have made it out to be.
It will never make sense to me that a super-soldier program somehow left out lessons on ‘how not to have a glass jaw’ and ‘this slab of metal strapped to your arm will protect you from blows’.
It’s so, so stupid, and the Dracthyr fantasy as a whole suffers for it because it makes them and their creator look incompetent.
I feel like eventually, Blizzard will open up their hearts and give us more classes for the Dracthyr. I think it’d be cool to see Dracthyr’s being warriors or any plate class. In my opinion, I do hope Blizzard does give us more class options for the Dracthyr, they’re a cool race to play from the looks of it. And to be honest, I can probably see them being druids because they seem to function like Worgens.
Blizzard is waiting for a later patch just so they can pocket race changes if we wanna keep our progress