Dracthyr Red Flags

[Aderyn-hydraxis (Aderyn)]

@Solarion-wyrmrest-accord

The red flag that’s been raised here is the concern that one is forced to fight in their draconic form in battle.

If you want to play as a human or belf, play as a human or belf.

These are dragons.

[Meladria-zuljin]

I just hope they would rework dress looking. I want a pretty dress like Npc have not a boring cylinder that is 18 year old

[Jardz-area-52 (Jardz)]

the best solution to this is just have some abilities activate your dragon form briefly, like the one where they breath fire and fly forward. let dragon form activate briefly for stuff like that like Demon form for DHs. haven’t really seen anything yet but can the dragon form even use transmog? nowhere in the video did it look like the dragon form was wearing anything

[Kleora-moon-guard]

I completely agree with you, i want to play the new class, but I don’t want to tie my identity to a beast race, I respect people who play beast races, but they arent for me, and its not breaking their lore to just let the humanoid form do combat as a toggle.

[Shredow-moon-guard (Shredow)]

Lore should never bend over backwards in service of RP head canon. I agree with the rest of your post though.

[Bloodhawke-shandris]

This could be a good thing. They go all out on new armor, especially if they like the race it’s going for (improvements to leather for DH). Mail might be in for some better looking stuff.

[Fastrada-sisters-of-elune]

swoon Dracthyr, ruin my life~!

[Tiresias-moon-guard (Tiresias)]

@Solarion-wyrmrest-accord

The Dracthyr were created by Neltharion, AKA Deathwing, and seem to have been sealed on the Dragon Isles all this time. This is some INCREDIBLY limiting lore for your RP’ers. If you’re adding a race that could not have feasibly been a part of ANY of the game’s content, then you should be rethinking that race’s background and story. This race would have been sealed away for the events of Vanilla, BC, Wrath, Cata, MoP, WoD, Legion, BFA, and Shadowlands. MOST of your game does not make sense for this race to play through. Playing this race through MOST of your game will be immersion breaking, and your players will never feel as if their Dracthyr characters could have had a legitimate part in any of the events that they’ve played up to that point.

Giving your players as much creative freedom as possible with their game avatars will always be a big win for you.

The only one limiting lore for your character as a rper is you. Stating something as immersion breaking means nothing because immersion is so subjective. On reading this part my mind went right to Chromie Time, Caverns of Time, and all those bronze dragons that let you “play” in the past. As a Dracthyr the understanding that I will take part in Vanilla (well Cata because the old zones are gone), BC, Wrath, Cata, MoP, WoD, Legion, BFA, and Shadowlands by using bronze flight time magic. This reasoning fits well with the establish lore and systems already in game for people.

In the end their lore has given players a completely blank slate to work with. It is great for whatever rp you want to go with. They pretty much are on par with Nightborne in this because they were removed from the world at large for so long. Honestly it was the same for Worgen, Goblins, Pands, Highmountain, and BFA allied races. So if people can find a way to play all the other new races the same will be done for Dracthyr.

[Cäpslöck-proudmoore]

@Solarion-wyrmrest-accord

The Worgen Concern

Like Worgen, Dracthyr appear to have two separate forms to customize. In their race, one of these forms is more draconic, and the other is more humanoid. The red flag that’s been raised here is the concern that one is forced to fight in their draconic form in battle. While there is some logic in this, there is a simple truth I wish to impart to Blizzard right now.

Giving your players as much creative freedom as possible with their game avatars will always be a big win for you.

At the same time, If they have a spell that is to do a strafing run with dragon fire, does that really make sense to happen in human form?

[Solarion-wyrmrest-accord]

@Cäpslöck-proudmoore

If they have a spell that is to do a strafing run with dragon fire, does that really make sense to happen in human form?

1. Demon Hunters.
2. Mages (Dragonfire Spell).

[Nogrodd-zangarmarsh]

I think the biggest red flag is that their humanoid form are basically just reskinned allied races with a few bits and pieces picked from another race and forced together to create a kind of janky looking finish product.