Bal’a dash, malanore
It goes without saying that Nightborne are the least favored race in terms of customization options.
We’ve all seen this graph depicting this sad reality (TL3’s, please make your magic <3):
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/856252583722614786/858362001721786398/o2hytcxe3w761.png
Nightborne are in dire need of more options. Now, I understand Blizzard is busy with other priorities, and that COVID has probably represented a major obstacle for the development team these 2 years.
Considering we won’t be seeing more customizations for the next years, here I am, proposing once again to port Night Elf customizations to Nightborne in the meantime. I’m not saying Nightborne should get all of them, mainly because a few of them wouldn’t make sense in my opinion (such as vines or colored markings), but most hairstyles, skin tones, eye colors and jewelry would look fantastic on Nightborne.
In particular, I propose to port:
- All of Night Elf skin tones to Nightborne. All of them
- Eyebrows and male facial hair.
- Among the eye color options, the following: Glowing light blue; Blinded; Glass orange; and any combination of the above.
- All hair colors except the most ‘savage’ ones, such as green.
- All hairstyles except, again, the most ‘savage’ or informal ones, such as the Sombra female haircut.
- Among the jewerly options, I just wouldn’t port the nose piercings and such.
- Among the necklaces, the following: Chain (
https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/946443.jpg) and Choker (https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/946444.jpg)
- The “Circlet” Headdress (
https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/946441.jpg)
Last, but definitely not least, here’s a video showing how Nightborne would look with Night Elf (and Blood Elf) hairstyles and other options. Vines were included, but modified as a sort of Arcandor leaf (really cool in my opinion).
Let’s help the Nightborne get their well-deserved customizations!
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ew, no, that just looks like a night elf.
as someone who is a huge fan of nightborne, if they get more customisation it should pull them further from night elves if anything
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Are you referring to the pictures? Before those are LITERALLY Night Elves, it’s just to show the accessory options that they have that should be given to Nightborne.
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my bad.
even so, my point still stands, nightborne should be differentiated more, the only thing in those pictures that i’d be ok with is the necklace, as it’s pretty generic
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Exactly…. I was showing the accessories, not the model.
Look at the video below if you want to see how Nightborne look like with Night Elf stuff
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Nightborne are so depressing in the character customization screen.
Please give them some love.
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ok, i admit i was a bit rash, the stuff in the video is pretty cool and does a good job keeping that arcane nightborne feel
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I ran out of likes, so here’s mine:
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Nightborne have too many customisation options tbh.
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I take it you’re joking ?
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Have you seen the graph?
This one:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/856252583722614786/858362001721786398/o2hytcxe3w761.png
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After seeing that I think Nightborne should lose about 1/3 to 1/2 of their existing options, rather than 3/4 as I thought before.
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Yeah, I guess you forgot to change your avatar to a Troll Warrior.
No. Give them their own customizations but don’t make them copies of Night Elves.
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Let’s say we give them 10 more options, that jumps the females up to 240k, males to 210k. The thing is the original 4 allied races reuse a lot from their base races, the nightborned do not. LF draenei female have 10 faces that are all reused from base draenei model, nightborne have original faces, even if they aren’t the best, they were the only one of the first 4 races to receive this kind of option as well as tweaks to the original model and stance (unlike lf, hm or ve). The trade off for not reusing assets like the other three races did, was less combinations. If you take away the 10 reused faces for LF they drop below NB.
I think all those races need more customization, but the trade off for NB was they got special treatment over the other 3 races to look different from night elves, whereas the other 3 that have to use reused assets from their base races to bump up their customization options.
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I think we should consider deleting nightborne.
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I think the Nightborne could use more customisation options. However I believe they should get ones that define them more rather than bring them back to their roots.
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