As much fun as I’ve been having with the Evoker, and as fantastic as the creation experience was for Dracthyr, the lack of transmog on my draconic form has been a constant source of distraction and annoyance. It will only get worse as time goes on, and I’m not able to see the visual progression of my character as time goes on.
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Once people start getting some gear they’re invested in and find that they can’t display it, there’s going to be some rage. It’ll be a slow burn - everyone has a different limit for frustration - but a burn it will nevertheless be.
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“Hey its prepatch, which was after beta, which was after alpha, man!” Give them a chance!
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Unfortunately, I did give them a chance. Ion alluding to being able to “do more” with Evoker tier since it was specifically designed for this race/class. Honestly, displaying tier would have been enough for me.
Then we got tier.
And it’s the same as everything else, only showing the shoulders and belt buckle.
I should have been more passionate about this much earlier, but given the positive trends they were establising, I gave them the benefit of the doubt on this one. I’m saddened that I was wrong to do so.
Now, not only did they disappoint on this front, but they’re actually out there on the PR trail promoting the lack of options as a beneficial feature, saying that they wanted to show off some dragon skin. While contradicting themselves by already allowing you to cover up with barbershop armour.
It’s patronizing.
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I was being sarcastic. I agree with you.
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pretty sure the fact we even have those bits on dragon form is because of player outcry…
with that said? a fair bit of older armor pieces (chest, pants, anklets gloves) would look like complete and total dumpster fire when stretched out to fit dracthyr models. The weird half measure that we got involving us having specific bits work (we need more armor colors to better fit the bits we can show btw) and the barber feels more like a bandaid to correct said perceived problem than an actual solution
I know. 
I was just getting up on the soapbox a little more for the sake of it. We all know the dangers of the “it’s just beta!”-mentality. I fully fell prey to it.
Don’t stretch it, then. Just use the 3D modeled bits and let the scales underneath display instead of the body paint. Best of both worlds, really.
a lot of gear like that already looks like a dumpster fire on some races so i dont think that’s much of an excuse. i hope eventually we get to mog every slot as dracthyr
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Hunched Orc chestpiece crumples are looking right at you
But that’s also a valid line of thought. If something looks horrible, just allow the players to do for Dracthyr what they do for literally any other race: just equip something else, or hide the slot.
Let the players make the decision themselves.
Don’t make it for us.
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probably would be a great way of handling it if it is possible with the way the models and textures are set up. IDK enough of how blizzard code would handle this sans ‘spaghetti’
me either but that doesn’t change the idea that the ‘brand new race’ is going to and will look ugly as sin in the new form because old stuff not fitting their old body paint style armor.
It paints a bad picture from a business perspective and to fix it in a reasonable time frame would probably require a bunch of money for all the new art. The bandaid projects ‘our cool new model looks awesome’ and poorly attempts to sweep the glaring issues under the rug
We explicitly see them doing this already with the belts we do have access to.
I’d rather have had nothing, honestly.
The way it is now, it’s impossible to transmog your visage form without adding goofy, out of place shoulderpads to your dragon form.
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As much as I dig the built-in armor, I agree. If nothing else, there should be barber options for each armor slot that are like featureless breastplates, greaves, and such, which could grab the textures from whatever you have transmogged.
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Agreed 100%, I love how the class PLAYS so far (healing feels a bit wonky, but then I’ve never really played a healer), but it’s a major buzzkill to not have control over transmog.
Obviously, cloaks would almost certainly need to be disabled for them, and it would also be acceptable for only certain helms to display. But otherwise, I REALLY hope Blizzard addresses this. Because it just makes the Dracthyr feel kind of half-baked.
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Don’t get me wrong! I like that too! But as is, we can either have a “regal, draconic” look, or “nudist dragonkin” look. Both have their merits. But a few months down the road? A few years? The lack of visual progression is going to hurt, long-term.
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When everything is said and done, they should be able to be transmogged separately. Although it wouldn’t look as goofy in the first place if your entire look was able to be ported over.
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I haven’t healed seriously since Naxx40 burnt me out on the role entirely. But Preservation brought me back. It’s definitely unique and requires a great deal of preplanning and foreknowledge of the fights you’re in, so I can definitely understand how it might feel strange to a complete newcomer to the role.
But again, my enjoyment is hampered by the nagging knowledge that I don’t look the way I want to look.
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yes on belts. idk if the same code can properly apply to other stuff. I don’t code much because I dont have a job involving it and I have to assume with how Blizzard work culture seems to have functioned for years that the spaghetti is probably very much real and that it might be a legitimate problem leaving us with what we got.
I do agree that it would probably have been better than what we got but I can partially see how we got to where we were.
I think that adding more colors to the drac armor sets with a one or two more armor styles sitting between chain (plus plate bits) and stuff with bits of cloth that could have been alleviated. Personally I have always hidden helm, cloak, and often times shoulders unless they were on the smaller side and didnt clip everywhere (the giant pauldrons thing never appealed to me).
At this point I just have to match my shared xmogs thematically with what is in the barber shop and think that it would have been really nice (better) to have an option to prevent my mogs from showing on the other end or for everything to properly swap between forms.
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It would help, but it certainly wouldn’t solve it. The barbershop gear has a very specific aesthetic that just isn’t going to mesh with everything regardless of whether or not the colours match.