Which is sad. Draenei should have been what the Broken are. Current Draenei could still be in the game, but as some type of renegade Eredar, totally unrelated to the Draenei.
Having everything be so closely tied together has always been an issue with mine with the story. It’s like if Star Wars went from Luke & Leia being siblings to Han also being their lost brother, the Emperor being their grandfather, and Obi Wan being their uncle.
I mean… Rey Palpatine. It’s not so unbelievable, is it?
Honestly I like the TBC Draenei more than the WC3 form. It was an incredibly massive retcon, and indeed almost all the base Eredar/Draenei lore has been retconned, but ultimately they gave us something rather unique and interesting. I think it was a good move.
I think they could have given us basically what we have now without retconning the actual Draenei. But it’s not my story, so I can’t control how “convenient” everything always ends up being.
Maybe minus the heartshape, that goes a little too far into the “cutesie waifu” look for me.
I’d still love a good skirt though, that’s actually a skirt that’s built for Draenei and not hacked off so they don’t have to worry about the tail. Not that there’s a lot of skirts in the first place, and then there’s one that’d go with my planned transmog. The BIGGEST thing I’m hoping for I think for the Draenei heritage armor though is a good circlet.
I’d like that they gave us a headpiece that took advantage of the horns. At least the base of them. I find it really bad how these race-specific armors don’t take advantage of the races’ unique features at all and are still made to fit humans.
I’m pretty fond of some of this guy’s ideas: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/588Gkg
I especially like his mage one.
Incidentally, this guy has done a lot of cool concept art for racial armor. I always like to plug his work https://www.artstation.com/handclaw/albums/1137119
On the top one, the chestpiece has a heartshape in it.
And yup the headpiece with the horns is one of the things I also really liked about that design. Sadly there’s a lot of horn shapes so that makes it harder.