dreams, that might come true, or might not
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At first, when it was datamined, back in 3 months ago, I was assuming it will be Night elf themed, however, now that we actually got it, I do believe it is in the Nightborne astromancer theme as well.
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So sad Nightborne never got to be balance druids : /. The arcandor literally was a druid thing.
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For some unknown reasons, I think in 10.0 we might see Nightborne druids.
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I hope so. I hope they just remove the race/class combo restrictions. I wanted nightborne shaman/druid. I have one of each class so far.
Nightborne druids would be more like.
Nightborne shamans would be battle mages/elementalists. The Highborne had studied the elements and in Surumar and Nazjatar we see Highborne mages that are effectively doing elemental magics. The bridge between Highborne and Naga shaman.
Spellblade Aluriel utilizes both Fire and Frost elementals.
Highborne use of elementals (The Laboratory of Mardivas stuff)
https://www.wowhead.com/quest=55121/the-laboratory-of-mardivas#comments
Nightborne totems could use benthic crystals as technology that controls elementals. Or something like the blood elf sentry wards (mage rods).
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I’d have so many druids if blood elves and nightborne could have druids.
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Those are models of High Botanist Tel’arn, however, there are NPCs, called Shal’dorei Naturalists, they grow arcane trees on themselves, and yet make me wonder why did not Blizzard add them in the begining as druids, but they added warlocks instead, which make no sense, without the Felborne options.
And before someone comes and says, “nIGhTbOrNE dRuId mAkEs No SenSE!” please explain this then.
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There is another type of Shal’dorei, they are called Nightborne sage, they are using elements of water, to water their gardens. Perhaps, this will open access to the Shaman class of the Nightborne too.
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I hope this is explored further in the future. Even outside of the examples you provided, the Nightborne very simply have a strong affinity and curiosity for magic of all kinds that I could see a minority of the Nightborne population embracing druidism.
If that does happen, it would be cute for there to be a quest where we shut down the menagerie in Suramar and have the animals relocated/released. 
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I’m all for Nightborne druids. Why not? I’d play arcane kitty and arcane chicken.
And Highmountain Warlocks. Look Blizzard they were RIGHT THERE WITH THE BLOODTOTEM HOW COULD YOU MISS THAT?
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Their racial increases magic damage yet they have access to very few pure magic output classes.
There damage racial gets better use out of melee magic users since the aoe scales of attack power. The 1% magic damage buff is useless to like wartiors and mostly physical school users. The magic damage buff should be like 2% imo. Since others get better stats like hmt getting 1% verse which is 1% all damage buff and 0.5% damage mitigation to all damage for example.
I would love to play an elemental master nightborne, battle mage (enhancement), water sage (resto shaman), nightborne botanist - forcing nature through arcane magics and maybe taught form changes by horde allies and the valewalker.
I also think Nightborne paladins would be cool since they used to have Elune worship, it isn’t as prevalent now as the night elves, but the tomb of sargeras which is nearby shows the elune worship heavily.
The class skins idea would make stuff like paladins of say water or fire magics or maybe even arcane versions like the spellblades cool.
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The Night elves will say, the Nightborne do not respect nature, they abuse it.
However, High Botanist Tel’arn says the following, “I alone have mastered the delicate intertwining of magic into nature’s grand cycle.”
Meaning, he was the first to be able to grow the trees, and plants of Suramar, without sunlight, moonlight, but just with arcane.
Whenever a Nightborne player suggests giving the druid class to the Nightborne, other people start throwing rocks at them, without understanding that we already have so said “druids”.
The Nightborne has all the rights to be a druid, but druid not in sense of being druid like Tauren or Nightelves, who follow the ways of Cenarius, such as respecting the nature and etc.
At the moment, in-game we have more races, which does NOT match the ideology of the Druidism. However, they have access to being Druid as a class.
Darkspear trolls, are able to shapeshift to the looks of their loas. Gonk have taught the Darkspear trolls how to be a “druid”, not Cenarius, or any members of the Cenarion circle.
Kul’tiran drust or Thornspeakers.
Zandalari raptari- again, learnt their shapeshifting abilities from the loa Gonk.
I have mentioned, before, those Shal’dorei naturalists, they are casting wraith, roots, thorns and etc.
At this point, I just believe, that they have missed that part, or they were lazy to give unique forms.
Farodin who is still a keeper, and who is still a proto druid, and a highborn, is with the Shal’dorei, and I would see him as a mentor to the new druid Shal’dorei.
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I unlocked the Nightborne a good while ago but I hit the back button and chose a different race as soon as I saw dem scowling, shriveled, ugly mugs that’s on every single male face option.
Anyways, after hearing of the new updates I excitedly went to try again, only to see that instead of 4 choices of frowny, scowling, withered looking male Nightborne faces there are now 10 choices of frowny, scowling, withered looking faces…
On the bright side, the jaw and chin jewelery is a very nice touch though! The upper face jewelry is kinda tacky looking and just… doesn’t look good but maybe that’s simply personal opinion…
The tattoos are also excellent but should have an option to be a bit brighter, I can barely see them even when I zoom all the way in.
Also, a few different colored eyes woulda been cool too. The only option is white. They don’t even have pupils. Seems like eye color would be a small thing to have implemented but who knows, maybe I’m wrong.
Anyways, I’d love to say excellent job on the updates, but dang, I’d love to play a Nightborne that doesn’t look constipated or super old.
Can we get some more youthful, dare I say, handsome face options?
Heck, I thought younger looking face options was the main thing we were gonna be getting in this update, with ALL of the majority of previous feedback asking for exactly that.
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The issue of the Nightborne is, their faces do not match those NPCs we have seen before, females, yes, they do kind of look like NPCs, however for the playable Nightborne males, to me, it looks like they have used the original concept of the Nightborne, rather than adding the existing Nightborne male face.
concept art:
https://imgur.com/a/OYDGQqZ
In-game NPC male face:
https://imgur.com/a/AmHQdhQ
As you may see, the nose shape is different on the concept art, than on the NPC face, the same applies to the ears and etc.
And yes Blizzard, I still have not forgiven you for not giving the most iconic hairstyle of the Nightborne male.
When the customizations were announced, I hoped it will be added back, even drew my OC with it.
https://imgur.com/a/iIWLFuh
But no, my astromancer stayed in her female form.
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Personally, I feel like the playable male Nightborne’s faces are too faithful to the NPC version. All Nightborne NPCs share the same model (nose type, furrowed/angry brows, nasolabial wrinkles, gaunt cheeks), and those specific features of that model have been incorporated into nearly every male Nightborne face with only minor variations.
The male Nightborne NPC’s appearance is actually very deceptive. Unless you’re scrutinizing their face using a model viewer, the wrinkles and haggardness doesn’t read at all when looking at them in-game from a normal view distance. I almost wonder if that’s why so many players feel like the developers performed a bait and switch with the NPC → playable model.
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I really hope they add the Druid class for them, it would make perfect sense with their lore especially since they were night elves to begin with. Who’s to say some of the night elves trapped in suramar weren’t already druids? And with Valewalker Farondins help he could guide them back on the druidic path and they’d be mana/arcane touched because of the effects from the nightwell. They already teased the mana saber cat form & arcane owl flight form when using the disguise in suramar, I can imagine the cool designs for their balance/bear forms too!
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Look at Shiva here from Final Fantasy 7 Remake, taunting us with her high ponytail hairstyle that would be perfect for Nightborne.
I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure Malfurion became the first Night Elf druid after the Sundering. Even if that is the case, there are plenty of avenues the developers could take with already established lore to make Nightborne druids possible without too much of a stretch.
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Her skin tone wouldn’t be bad either.
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I’ve been doing a lot of Legion content lately because I’m leveling professions. Seeing Suramar and the NPC nightborne make me so sad. Suramar City feels like a waste since nothing is being done with it although it’s the most beautiful city in the game. The NPCs look so cool and they have a completely different feel from the playable model. At least, that is how I feel when comparing the male models.
I just want the playble nightborne to look and feel regal like the NPCs and not like derpy grandpa elves. More customization please.
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