I agree it does look really awful. But when I use Orb of Sindorei. For the orb that transforms you into a Belf my player uses a fist-like punch animation instead all they would need to do is modify the animation for the Evoker-Visage. Let us be honest it is more likely for them to do this than customize an entirely new set of Evoker visage races.
I think the development of separate animations would make the community happy since there are no words on anything regarding transmog or more visage races.
If they were to do more visage races and allow the Dracthyr race to be a race open to all classes the issue would then be why is this race allowed to change into every race perma in combat and be almost every class.
They are passionate about voicing their opinion on the game they spend money on like you and me. This change is not game-breaking or hurting anyone or gameplay in any such matter. The fact it pisses you off is very strange.
Great idea, lets retcon something related to dragon culture/how they interact with mortals that is associated with dragons since classic and has lore support to exist instead of giving players options to play around the customization options that they emphasized so much when selling the class.
What could go wrong ?
Sarcasm aside, not being able to make use of transmogs is also a downer, most moonkins use glyph of stars because they either dont like the appearence or just want to be able to see and play around transmogs. Same principle here.
I didn’t read your whole post. But I think we should be able to stay is visage form permanently if we want. We’re not worgen. Even with worgen it doesn’t make sense to have to switch forms for ranged combat.
And Dracthyr are a dragon creation, and inherithed much of their culture including the aspect of using magic to turn into visage forms of their choice, (particularly the evokers, who are recognized for their domain of draconic magic) and speaking draconic.
Thats not really the point. They can do it because it is something that dragonkind has been able to do for ages, and they just needed a little guidance from Wrathion/Ebyssian to be able to master that magic which is again, something iconic to the dragonflights , which they are related to and share much of their cultural aspects and magic.
Worgen have an extra complication since theoretically theyr worgen form is activated by rage (as far as i recall, they might have retconed it in recent years), so in a combat situation unless they have an imense emotional control, they would end up turning back into the feral form, since it is the nature of the curse.
Doesn’t make it impossible though, since the player character is an exception to many rules, and blizzard made lamer excuses for far worse scenarios.
Again not really what i meant, i was talking about the hability to use visages itself, not the races we currently have.
The choice of the appearence itself should have been a bigger selection of choices racewise, but i agree with you that blizzard first choices were probably related to ‘‘its pretty, so its gonna sell’’ and probably didn’t added more because of some time/technical limitations.
Though i do believe that it is on their plans to expand the race selection on the visages, since the Evoker class likely wont be avaliable to other races because of the anatomic requirement of many of their spells, so allowing to choose any race would be a fair compromise.
I would absolutely prefer the Visage be permanent during combat. Reason being is that the dracthyr form looks utterly ridiculous. Visage form is way cooler!!
Everyone wants to be cool right?
A more important side discussion should be: why don’t I see many dracthyr players anywhere??
Most likely because no one likes how they look in their dragonkin form.
Blizz needs to do something.
Evoker ‘class’ is fine as is.
The ‘race’ is unappealing at best.
I think because the metamorphosis form of the DH’s is NOT their normal form, you’re assumption doesn’t compare.
You don’t see the dragons shifting back and forth and most of the time their use of their powers is limited in their visages. When they go all out it is in their normal form.
I think automatically reverting to visage form once out of combat would be good, otherwise you’d have to spend a GCD to do so, putting in the effort.
While I agree (and it was probably a ‘they need to look normalish at times’ thought), I think an orc for Horde and human for Alliance would’ve been the best obvious choices.
I am hoping that later on they allow us to choose a normal race from our faction as say a involved quest (questline?) that would be hard to change thereafter.
Because it’s not a “blood elf” or a “human” they were just lazy and recycled the model for it instead of designing a new one like they should have.
I think the vision with the visages is “generic looking humanoid with draconic features”. Hence fem human and male belf model being recycled for it.
It’s said in-game that their visages are visually distinct from a normal dragon’s for a reason yet unknown to them, as if they were to serve a different purpose. Because they can’t choose different forms.
Since the dracthyr were to be the future of the dragon military force, one could speculate that they held some combat purpose originally. Neltharion was going to train them how to use it, but they were locked in stasis before the chance came.