…really?
This is all we got? An off-brand red and off-brand purple skin tone?
I thought at the VERY LEAST we’d get that awesome red color that the main man’ari NPC had… and the fel scars…
I was hoping they’d give us the Kil’jaeden wings and the wings the female man’ari had… but they didn’t even give us the man’ari skin colors?!
What a joke.
You’re late to the disappointment party.
But yeah, it’s underwhelming, still like my manari lock though. Would like her better with abs and fel scars.
I consider this a lazy blow from blizzard’s end tbh. They literally have everything in game but chose not to add them. It’s sad when a toy “Jewel of Hellfire” makes you more like a real manari, than the ones we play
Wasn’t the Man’ari questline about cleansing them of all that Fel stuff?
Personally, I would still like to see Blizzard remove the Man’ari customizations and make them into a full fledged allied race (“Eredar”, that way “Man’ari” can still refer to those who are still evil).
Unlikely, sure, but I’d still say it’s the best course of action. I’d be much more inclined to change my Warlock to one if it felt like a real race. As it stands, they’re literally still just Draenei.
Dark rangers say hello.
This is the double edged sword with adding subraces to the base race. You collectively get more cosmetics, but your sub race option is more limited.
That’s why they should have been added as allied or core races, or implement a subrace system.
Forest Trolls, Sand Trolls, High Elves, Wildhammer Dwarves, Man’ari Eredar, Darkfallen…and the list goes on
I’d love for this to be a real system, but I don’t have any faith in this dev team for it. Customization is less than a drip feed.
I’d not be surprised if Furbolg and Tuskarr are added as Pandaren skins
Nope.
It was about them feeling they can’t redeem themselves but wanting to do good regardless and Velen accepting them back into the fold.
The Fel leans you out
The purple skin tone was already there from day 1. The manari got bright lobster red, darker brick red and that’s it. Those are the skins that will trigger the fel Gift of the Naaru forehead glyph.
The patch also added a very, very white skin, which I suspect was a mistake and was either supposed to be the orange man’nari skin tone or the very dark purple man’ari skin tone.
The white is nice, though and paired with the very white hair and yellow eyes options a normal draenei can be more or less indistinguishable from a Lightforged.
Woah, I didnt realize there was a ‘hidden’ appearance to this. How cool
Yeah pick a red skin and use your racial ability.
They also got new eye colors and a unique visual effect for Gift of the Naaru. This wasn’t supposed to be some big project.
There was absolutely no chance of them adding a slot for an entirely new physical feature alongside a few new color options in a minor patch. Wings wouldn’t even make sense because they’re limited to the most powerful man’ari while a draenei character with man’ari customization is just a generic grunt.
I hope they give us more options down the line. It’s worth noting that draenei still have fewer customizations than Lightforged. 
Here is a post with some suggestions for Man’ari Eredar customizations.
I still want this:
The fact that Draenei customization could be so much better yet it remains consistently disappointing is embarrassing on Blizzard’s part.
Two of the new hairstyles added to Draenei in SL have clipping issues and holes within the model where the crest and hairline meet on male Draenei.
The fact that we still can’t mix and match Draenei headcrests with different hairstyles is wild to me, when fan-lead projects have been able to get this working without much issue.
Beard, moustaches, and sideburns are still all tied together on Draenei, whereas on other races they’re separated out into different selectable options.
The tendril options for both male and female Draenei leave a lot to be desired. The large tendril option for female Draenei still clip into each other and male Draenei have yet to get a small thin tendril option.
Lightforged Draenei get to choose which Naaru headrune they’d like to have, whereas regular Draenei are still stuck with the single outdated graphical version.
Also, the fact that the Gift of the Naaru animation still clips into the male Draenei’s head should’ve been fixed ages ago… Yet it has stayed in the game since WoD.
Adding the new eye color options along with the new skintones was a step in the right direction, but Blizzard still needs to fix a lot of what’s already there.
Personally I wouldn’t like them to fuse LF Draenei options with regular Draenei, but instead focus on the more Shamanistic/Tribal themes of the Outland/Draenor Draenei so that they have a sufficiently unique niche aesthetic comparatively, rather than mimic the same thing that already exists.
Yeah, I wish they’d leaned into this way more from the beginning. WoD did a really poor job of selling “the lost glory of Argus” shtick.
I’d have liked to see horn and tail ornaments, distinctive Naaru symbols, and - to borrow something from LF that I actually really liked - broken and prosthetic horns. There’s definitely a whole lot they could do.
Continues to be absolutely mind-boggling that night elves are apparently the only race to have met the criteria for developing scars (and then only on their faces).
Man, if they really needed ideas, they could’ve scrolled through Isei-Silva’s gallery again.