Eh, with the class itself being race-locked, I can sort of get it. But I think for me, it would at least be nice being able to also have way more choices for your Visage form, as well (even if they obviously wouldn’t have the “draconic” options). It’s the first new class since Allied Races were added, so a lot of those options are still fresh and new to a lot of us.
For myself, I actually really dig the idea of going for a Dark Iron visage to suit a Black dragonflight-themed character, or perhaps Nightborne for a Blue.
Although… I’m honestly REALLY hoping Blizzard will at least CONSIDER making one (or both!) of those options above playable. The existing Dracthyr just look way too soft and effeminate, not very “Warcraft-y”.
I would agree, I’d still love to see them get a Tanking spec. It seems like building them specifically around Black Dragonflight powers would make a great fit.
Worst part is look at the Black powers we got the trappings of it just seem to be hanging there like it was considered and then dropped. I mean armor boost and magic damage reduction on a heal dps only class?
Like I said, I would honestly be completely happy if that first option were added. Even with the armor limitations. I would settle for the second.
Or at least something CLOSER to those options, more draconic looking. The current options just look goofy and very “cutesy”, even their running animation. And colors aside, they really all seem to bleed together, even in the VERY limited videos I’ve seen. That’s only going to get worse over time, because unlike ANY other race/class in the game, they aren’t able to transmog armor.
I mean… why draw the line at shoulders and belts? Why wouldn’t you just allow them to wear armor?
Obviously, like tons of other races, they wouldn’t wear proper boots, and I could even see them not doing cloaks, and MAYBE not helms. But… shoulders and SOME belts?
Even with their “built-in” armor, there is NO way they’re going to have enough options to match EVERY PAIR OF SHOULDERS IN THE GAME. So it remains a very, very bizarre restriction.
Especially when only two classes even WEAR Mail armor. Collecting those transmog pieces would likely keep a lot of players VERY busy.
But like I said, if they’re going to be so restricted, then some additional options would go a long ways.
That’d be something where you actually need artist input on why the decisions were made, because that’s generally a group discussion sort of thing where you hash out details of what works, what doesn’t, how can this look better, what can we do to bring this out more, and the like.
I want a muscleboy option for the evoker. How do you make transforming into a dragon super soldier not look menacing? It’s like they went out of their way to make them look skinny because of ‘toxic masculinity’ or some nonsense like that.
I think it’s due to how textured Drac’thyr are. When you’re dealing with modeler scales and spikes, painted on armour would look absolutely horrendous. But any armour with 3D bits that would “float” above the skin? All those are fair game.
Yeah, it honestly doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
I genuinely feel like it was done to try and avoid the very obvious complaints of “what can’t Dracthyr wear armor?”, or even have the basic ability to mount?