I don’t know if it’s the lanky/awkward animations, the elder old man/woman faces or just the overall lack of customization but every time I create a Nightborne I can’t get past the first few leveling dungeons with them.
They are hideous. They are stale and boring. Their lore is incredible and I personally love elves in the Warcraft universe. Nightborne customization needs to be a priority at this point. Blizzard, how dare you say you’re “proud of what the pre-patch brought”? Especially when you sold customization as an expansion feature, claiming there would be more coming for ARs later?
Nightborne players, I’m really sorry you got shafted yet again. Here’s hoping you get some love for an otherwise amazing race soon. 
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Female Nightborne are not so bad. You slap the heritage armor on her and she looks like one of Suramar.
The male, however… Is the only race whose heritage looks weird on. 
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While they won’t be thicker, what would the community’s reaction become if they could use the nightfallen skin?
https://i.redd.it/hnzpawyjkrv01.jpg
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Nightborne are a joke compared to the NPCS. It’s night and day. The faces look like my grandpa mid BM when he hasn’t had his metamucil. Speaking of which, that’s about how much effort blizzard puts into their work these days. If it ain’t a atime sink, it ain’t going live.
I was really looking forward to more customizations. IN fact, someone at blizzard said that what we have now would just be the beginning! Hmm. Wonder how that will turn out. Oh wait, bait and switch. Lawyer double speak. Classic. It’s not technically a lie because we will get more at some point in the future. But come on, how much time and effort does it take to implement these hairstyles and other things for all races? not bloody much. It’s like a day’s work at MOST.
Their priorities are not fun, just as always. I’m still subbed cause i’m too lazy to quit and i keep praying.
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IF you happen to be a “I wear a helm” type player and don’t go skimpy on the armour…NB are pretty decent.
You can fix ugly with a paper bag…err helm here lol.
They get enough of the NE animations to be tolerable. I will admit to being irked they did not get NE flip on jump like VE got BE twirl.
MIne is a warlock. I jsut make her a very modest warlock and she doesn’t wear the common caster cloth mogs that show skin alot. I have a succubus for visual imrovements…so it balances out lol.
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if they ever will add those arcane infused/flow hairstyles i will be so happy inside
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Like I’d make one in an instant.
Well, the males would need different animations than the trash male nelfs’.
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That is so cool looking Calinila!
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Someone posted a picture a few years back, and it’s very much a ‘we have food at home’:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/nightborne-males/332343
I’m not sure if there’s any solution for this yet. 
I imagine a lot of disappointment since most people seem to wanna play a normal, non-withered nightborne. The withered would appeal to a whole other group of players. I’d say elf players (including myself) would prefer pretty elves 
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Been concerned we can’t thicken the model. Doesn’t seem to be a solution.
That’s what I do for mine. Robes and hidden face they aren’t terrible even though I’m not a huge fan of NE casting animations. I made mine a shadow priest so shadow form further obscures him.
If people are going out of their way to cover up and hide their character it should be a clear sign to blizzard that this allied race needs a lot of attention but they just aren’t in any hurry to do anything about it.
Wow all of that there is insane. I really wonder why Blizzard doesn’t put in some effort like that to add more customization when it would clearly make the playerbase happy. Ah well.
Thing is it should not be hard.
Apply NPC NB texture. If the mesh is not 100% right…tweak it. If this was a bgs game I can think of 3 tools I’d use to make this happen in less than 3 hours. and that be 3 hours since my sklls with tools like NIFScope are lacking. And when I use materials editor I get distracted and go ooh, what happens if I play with these values…
Females fixed. Males a bit complicated.T Their bodies are…yeah some work there.
but let me change color ! green leafs for my hunter <3
To be honest, that would be pretty cool, though the the withered are literally crippled by their ‘starvation’.
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/glances at blood elves and undead
