I do not think it is a case that it was incomplete, more that the final product is not aligned to what many people want out of a humanoid dragon. While I quite enjoy the ability to be a lithe guy, in a lot of ways what most people seem like they wanted was more of a chunky DnD Dragonborn. What we got was more of a Kobold. Thing there is that is by design, based on what the development team felt was cool to them.
The lack of armor was a sacrifice made on the altar of customization—Drakthyr UV texture maps are totally different from every other PC design. That was apparently required to get all the customization they want to work inside the constraints of the WoW engine but it means they are, again, by design incompatible with normal PC armor.
Customization, including transmogs, is an important part of the endgame for many people.
I even understand that dracthyr cannot wear armor, (let’s believe in technical limitations), but then why not simply separate the dracthyr form from the normal humanoid form?
You definitely can’t speak for everyone.
This is a game with many different types of audiences, for you perhaps the needs are different, but this is something for you, not everyone’s.
Everyone has their own needs, from spending weeks looking for an item to transmog, to completing some m+ 30 dungeons in time.
This is a game, needs here will depend on how each person wants to follow the game.
Not everything that needs to be done will be done, this does not mean that something is not necessary, it just means that that need is not met.
In any case, I will no longer respond to this conversation about necessity or non-necessity. This is not a post made for that.
Don’t worry, they’re working on it. It may be last in line since Dracthyr are the newest edition, but they’ve been slowly adding more cosmetics for all the races for years now. In short, Blizz agrees that we DO need more cosmetics. It’ll just take a while.
Yeah they definitely do feel incomplete. There’s is a weird lack of glyphs, Dracthyr form transmog seems to have been dropped halfway through development leaving it in a spot that it sucks for both visage and normal form.
We can’t show our visage in the forums so can’t show our transmog here either.
Soar took basically the whole expansion to even start being as good as dragon riding and it’s still awful for gathering professions.
A lot of NPCs in Dragonflight itself seem to lack racial reactivity to Dracthyr even though they have to other races, like Veritistrasz.
It does feels like the race was rushed as hell to get Dragonflight in time.
Is it really shocking though? Cosmetics are important in their own way, case in point, you have your alt wearing transmog. Unless you are a very specific kind of hardcore raid logger you probably interact with cosmetic in some way shape or form, be it through farming mounts, transmogs, changing your characters appearance, etc, you get the idea, the less people interact with instanced content, the more cosmetics are going to matter to them.
Besides, complaining does something, even if takes ages, you remember how Soar was when it came out? It was barely worth using, making the awkward dragon race with wings have to fly on top of a dragon. Now it works mostly like a dragonriding mount, do you think that would’ve happened if people didn’t spend the entire expansion complaining about it?
Sure, no part of my post said that cosmetics weren’t important. But people have been complaining on the evoker forum ad nauseum and clearly they give absolutely zero f’s about it.
You can’t get blood from a stone. If cosmetics are that important, the only way to make it speak is to cancel subs with that being the stated reason. And since people won’t do that, nothing will change.
I suppose in that regard you’re right, but seeing as no one is gonna quit over this issue, people may as well complain in the forums in the hopes that some Blizzard devs get fed up and do something about it.
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