Hey! Greetings from Finland. I’ve come here in the US forums in the hopes of reaching further than I can in the EU forums.
Evokers got one of their day one wishes granted; soar with the dragonriding feature as a full package. It seems like they’re open to more changes. So, what about the second wish? Permanent visage. It’s widely debated subject on both forums and some are against it and some are rooting for it to happen. I’m talking about the permanent visage form in combat. There have been many suggestions how this should be implemented, but here are my favorites:
- Rip the assets from DH wings and port them to dracthyr. I’m mostly talking about animations here; wings popping when levitating or hovering. Personally, I don’t think you should be able to soar or deep breath in a visage form. In those cases, you could transform in and back to your dracthyr form to keep the sense of the race.
- Breath based abilities are the most difficult to do. The most basic and shortest route to the goal is to use brewmaster’s fire spitting animation to breathe out. To achieve the build up animation is harder, but it could use shamans lava burst animation where the hands are raising while adding the breath effects on your characters face.
Being able to use visage form in combat has practically no arguments against it:
We’ve seen from HotS that dragon aspects, which dracthyr reflect, can fight in a humanoid form. In the context of WoW there is a cutscene where Fyralakk (Butchering the name I reckon) hits Alexstrasza and she turns into a humanoid when in deep pain. The evil chromie fights as a gnome in one of the dungeons. Lorewise it could be explained that dracthyrs have mastered their illusion magic now that they’ve awaken and can hold it even in dangerous situations. I’ve heard that evoker players in MDI(?) used appearance altering toys to avoid being a lizard, so the demand can be seen in practice, not limited to MDI players though. And the list goes on. Only possible argument against the permanent visage could be that someone dislikes the idea. That alone is a valid opinion, but I can’t see why it should come over at the expense of other players especially so that some players are already trying to change their appearance with toys or are appearing as a humanoid when idling.
Permanent visage should absolutely be opt-in in order to maintain the feeling of choice as I can recognize that there are players who favor lizardness and good for them! I just hope the other side is recognized as well in the future updates.