I would love to be able to choose other races for my Visage. I feel like a Dark Iron Dwarf would be a particularly great fit for a Black Dragon-themed character.
But for combat, where you ultimately spend the majority of your time playing, I would like to see an optional dragon or whelm form.
In my mind, the “easiest” or at least simplest option would be to allow us to take on the form of a much smaller Dragonriding mount, minus the saddle. My thinking is they seem to have a load of animations anyways, it seems like it would be the least amount of work. Something comparable in size to a Druid form, so it doesn’t clutter the screen.
Minus that, I would even be down for the “Whelp” form that was supposedly being added for Evokers for Nefarion’s class-callout. Obviously, those don’t come with a great deal of customization, but even just being able to choose your overall color would be pretty great.
Ultimately, there is a very real issue with the Dracthyr which is that their barbershop-armor options – while impressive – will simply never be able to compare to the flexibility of all the various transmogs at your disposal. And since your transmog appears in both forms, it means to have your armor actually match, you are working with an extremely limited palette of colors.
But also, wouldn’t it be awesome to actually play as a dragon, even if you’re just a lil guy? And seriously, who wouldn’t love more races to choose for your Visage?
While I agree with the idea of having more visage forms, I still don’t see why transmog is so limited on Dracthyr… capes being the only thing that doesn’t work.
I personally think they should go the opposite; ditch the Visage and implement full transmog options on Dracthyr characters. Then again, I also hate Two Forms with a passion. ‘But they can shapechange into more attractive races’ feels like such a cop-out; if I pick the dragon or wolf race, it’s not so I can look like a Human when I click a button.
I actually agree, that would be fine. Blizzard seems kind of wishy-washy about “what” the Dracthyr are even supposed to be. If they give them full transmog, then they can actually start building an identity for themselves.
That’s still kind of lame though. Two Forms isn’t a button I want on my bar, and I don’t want development time and effort going toward buffing it (Calm the Wolf, toggle states, etc). I think it would make more sense as an optional questline to get that ability instead of just going ‘oh you can shapeshift now.’ Then again, I’ll happily take a questline that gets individual Worgen tail options so that’s just me.
How Dracthyr and Evoker are treated is such a waste; not only was the race gimped at the start by only having one class, but then Visage Form came around to finish the insult by saying ‘oh we know you probably don’t want to actually be a dragon-person, so here’s your escape button’. Evokers meanwhile are a class that should be explored by other races; the spread and interpretation of those skills are made interesting by each race approaching draconic communion differently.
I’m not sure I would agree on the last point, about it being a class that should be shared with other races. I think the problem right now is that, because Dracthyr are humanoid, there really isn’t a lot of reason against it.
That’s one of the reasons I’m actually disappointed we didn’t get a physical Black Dragonflight spec (Tank or Melee-DPS), because I think that COULD have filled the “playable dragon” fantasy. Because I still think that’s such a cool, bold concept for a class/race hybrid, where you’re playing something that is just fundamentally different from the other mortal races.
Dracthyr just feel like an unnecessary half-measure. They’re not THAT different from every other race. They have wings, and that’s about it. I don’t even understand why Blizzard pulled them out of thin air to begin with; why did they create a HUMANOID race, if “playable dragon” was the goal? And why did they make a HUMANOID race, if they weren’t going to let them wear armor? And also, why does this humanoid race not have two models, like every other race in the game does?
Honestly, I think Blizzard kind of landed on “the worst of all worlds” with their current interpretation. They don’t feel like “playable dragons”, they don’t look like playable dragons, but they also have an insane number of restrictions as if they were.
I’m of the opposite mentality; run animation aside, I love the look of the Dracthyr (though they need hairstyles). I want to see them in plate mail. I want to see them shooting guns. I want to see them casting magic that isn’t a variation of a breath weapon. Considering that every class in this game is taught, and the Dracthyr are literally in the learning phase of reintegrating into the world at large, it makes sense they’d pick up every discipline they could. Especially since these disciplines defeated Deathwing.
Ironically, the Visage Form would actually be how you solve the problem of how the non-dragon races do dragon things; slap wings on them and bam, Humans and BE can do everything a Dracthyr does as Evoker. Expand visage to all other races and suddenly all races can do Evoker things. Easy!
I feel like full transmogs will come eventually. I see no reason why not. Their forms, aside from wings, are not much different than Draenei, Worgen or Tauren. There is not reason they couldn’t wear all armor currently in the game minus back slots.
It’s possible that maybe the lack of transmog for them was for lore/immersion as Dracthyr just emerged from stasis with that they had? Or maybe something to do with buying time for them to code transmogs to work on Draenei. Who knows.
But yeh, I really don’t see why Dracthyr can’t wear armor.
Ah yes, the most customization in the entire game… and wants more customization. Talk to demon hunters, see how they feel about spending 90% uptime in fights always looking exactly the same
Dracthyr transmog is a joke. It might as well not exist at all. On top of that, mail armor in this game that isn’t directly tied to a Shaman set is horrendous. It’s the worst of both worlds.
I can certainly appreciate the sense of optimism, but it’s clearly misplaced here. Blizzard has clearly willfully ignored any player feedback on the race from the start, and are hoping to skate by as they are currently implemented.
I think full transmog should be something that comes to the Evoker at some point, but it’s absolutely not happening unless players make a ruckus. Considering they only even gave players one model (as opposed to four that normally come with two genders to a race, one race to each faction), it is absolutely baffling they shipped them in such an incomplete state.
They still can salvage the situation, though. Like I said, give them “dragon forms” as an option (would make a great reward for completing the Mage Tower), or even just a Whelp form. Let us choose other races for our Visage. Those should not be major issues to implement.
