I’m not saying it was done to allow for Naga, but it does ultimately destroy their arguments against Naga not having pants.
Their only problem now is mounting, and they’ve answered that already with visage forms, which we’ve at least seen Azshara do.
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I would say the biggest hurdle is the fact Naga are a purely evil race that have never been anything but villains. That and we’re getting reskinned Dwarfs over something like Tuskar, Ogres, murlocs, Vykrul, whatever.
At best, we might get a monkey paw version of Naga like we did with Dracthyr and all the requests to be dragonkin…
I agree with this thread, I highly believe dracthyr should have a toggle for shoulders / belt to hide in dragon form. I personally love both visage and dragon form. Would really love to use my pvp elite outfit from season1 but the shoulders and belt look weird on the dragon form. I was praying they would’ve fixed tmog back in bfa but here we are. Hopefully as the race expands to other classes, people will also vouch for the same thing. I don’t fully agree on having the dragon form wear all transmog as I find it might look a bit well, stretched… and glitchy. I would also love more barbershop armor colors.
Doesn’t have to be all, but most. More transmog on the true form is my chief concern. Whether or not transmog is shared between forms is a separate and secondary concern.
If they were gonna keep the super limited transmog then I wish they’d made more items with the colors that match the armors you can put on in customization. It’s so frustrating that everything is a few shades off and doesn’t truly match.
Even within the “draconic” items that are intrinsically tied to the Evoker gear. One would think that all the black or green or whatever dragonflight items would match each other, but nope!
Yeah, this I use a fair amount of the obsidian colored dragonflight vestments on my evoker, but it doesn’t actually match the similar armor colors they can wear. Very weird and feels like an oversight.
i think the relation you’re describing is intuitive in the sense that it is generally easier to create a cohesive structure, both aesthetic and thematic,* when there are fewer elements of the structure to manage; in other words, when you’re doing less stuff, it’s easier to do it tightly. but i actually think mages and warriors have pretty strong class fantasy, it’s just broad. that doesn’t mean it lacks cohesion, for the reason that, of course, simplicity is not cohesion’s enemy.
dracthyr seem to me to lack cohesion despite their narrowness: they’re ostensibly ‘draconic’ despite having virtually no similar origin point with dragons of any stripe, they’re OP super-soldiers who’ve sat out pretty much every conflict in azeroth’s history, they’re given perhaps the most slapdash reason for joining either faction in any race’s history…
as for the whole ‘made up’ thing, yeah i suppose i was too abrupt: the more verbose way of expressing what i mean by the phrase is, ‘they’re a novelty devised for the singular expansion,’ which stands in my mind in opposition to something like, say, the drakonids. even though their lore might not necessarily be much deeper, they at least enjoy an established presence in the franchise, which i have to imagine would inform the reception from the playerbase. i don’t think dracthyr hearken back to wcii (or just older draconic) lore with either greater depth or uniqueness than any number of other options—like i said, dragonsworn from the rpg would basically give mortals the option to play as what evokers currently are.
I think we look great, no notes.
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Visage has begun to feel like little more than a bandaid to this issue.
Not just the transmog, sadly. Dracthyr as a race look goofy as hell.
what i dont get is people having a meltie over people wanting to play dracthyr for their visage forms when 99% of the time when we see dragon characters they are in their visage form. visage form is what makes wow dragons special compared to your average every day dragon lol
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Worgen get tails you can have clothes. Sounds like a fair trade to me.
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Devs know that Dracthyr transmog is ugly. The issue is either they don’t care, or they don’t want to put the resources in to fix it.
A simple change is to prevent transmogs from showing on dragon form, but instead we get ugly for dragon form.
My dracthyr visage form is naked because why bother with a transmog when it just looks ugly on dragon form.
I’m my opinion I think it was laziness and Blizz not wanting to allocate funds to designing tmog for dragons. It’s been done with other animal-humanoid races, so it can be done with dracthyr too…
In an alternate universe, they just added actual dragons able to choose any race for their visage. Only in that world would I be placated by the transmog mannequin mode. I would accept the Druid deal.
But we got humanoid dragons.
They are able to - and actively do - wear armour.
We should be able to choose that armour and have something to look forward to as far as customization goes.
As a side note, I’m pretty notorious for transmog farming old raids. I didn’t do it once during Dragonflight, because why would I? But I miss having that motivation to log in. I want to participate.
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we’ve been vocal about it. blizz dont care. they are a completely different model
so its harder to get the mogs in right is my guess. we can barely get cc as it is.
youre better off askin for more visage things since those models are just belf n human
itll be easier to mog off of.
We aren’t full dragons, though. That’s why the desire confuses me. If you want to RP as a dragon masquerading as… anything, really, the option has always been there. God knows like 50% of RPers default to “secret dragon” anyway. I don’t personally enjoy elves at all, and the presence of an elf-adjacent visage is an actual detriment to my desire to play a Dracthyr.
To each their own, though. If that’s what people want, fair enough. But I’m not going to pretend that their calls to have separated transmog or never enter their true form would have any effect on my core issue: Dracthyr have only two-and-half transmog slots available, and that’s a choice Blizzard made that I wish they’d rethink.
I think it’s been well known by the devs that we want to be able to transmog. There’s been a huge uproar by druids for how long? And they didn’t think it wouldn’t be an issue with dracthyr? The reality is that they just don’t care.
Dracthyr aren’t bears. I wish we were actually full-fledged quadrupedal dragons instead. But weren’t not. We’re humanoid. We already wear armour. I just want some actual agency in choosing that armour. It can’t really be conflated with Druids. More of a mechagnome situation dialed up to 11.