They really are quite pathetic looking for one of Azeroth’s most ancient races. But I mean, Blood Elves are also drug addicts and they look just fine. Should 10k years take a physical toll? Yes, but it shouldn’t make them look like jokes either.
They definitely need much more customization options and make them meatier like the ones in Suramar. I recently unlocked Nightborne, and I just realized the NE casting animations changed during the years I stopped playing the race. The female had a regal both hands up in the air casting animation that is gone as far as I can tell. And I’m guessing NB females share the animation so they only have the updated one. Maybe give NB the old one to differentiate, or just return the old animation. It looked more powerful.
I love the race’s storyline but visually they could use a ton of work. I’d like to think they are working on it seeing as all the other races seem like they are getting waaay more customization options.
honestly? I kinda like the playable ones better then the prebuilt NPC ones. Only critique I can think of is maybe put some more meat on them bones
also fun fact the npc nightborne are built the same way as Saurok, Hozen, Jinyu, Gilgoblins, pygmys, mantid, draenor arakoa, saberon, mogu, those dragon men bosses and a few others are in that they have a prebuilt number of customizations in their model that can be toggled on and off to simulate differences. I believe they started this in Cataclysm with the pygmys and dragon men (original gilgoblins were a basic creature model) . . . just a fun fact for ya have a nice day
I mean i’m happy with the skin/eye options plus different hair/facial setup between the two thalassian elves now. But I for sure want nightborne to get some updates to reflect the npcs that the players fell in love with and looked really good. More options is always better.
Their body model right now is somewhere in between Night Elves and the NPC Nightborne. It looks less weird on the females, but on the males the shoulders and chest are a little too wide and it looks slightly off. That said, at least it’s better than the Night Elf model. Their stance is pretty similar to the NPCs and is still better than the Night Elf default stance. They could stand to be a little taller though. I’m a good head shorter than pretty much anyone in Suramar. But yeah, their bodies are not perfect, but I can live with those.
What bothers me is their faces, and the lack of general customisation. Female faces are better than the male faces, but neither look like the NPCs. I also really miss things like mana hair, mana hands, mana feet, metal beard options, etc. Hair that has physics would be nice too. Also, the skin tones the NPCs have that we don’t. As for their tattoos, well… I actually like the way they look, but I wouldn’t say no to more options of brighter tattoos for those that want them as well.
I’m joining this thread because, I sure do hate the nightborne. Bunch of backstabbing petty traitors, betrayed us once by locking themselves in a bubble and leaving us to fight the legion, but then we forgave them when they needed our help, gave them the benifit of the doubt and risked our lives to save them with our leader on the front lines… and then they backstabbed us again by joining the horde and helping genocide the very people who just saved them. Ungratful rats.
Now that’s out my system…
The models really do feel rushed, they just don’t hold a candle to the flame of the NPC nightborn, which is a real shame because of all the allied races they are by far the most rich in culture and asthetics. Adding in the NPC options would be a big help.
But, For me the bigger issue is the lack of transmog options, the clothes and weapons are a big part of what gave them the feel of who they are and we simply don’t have acess to any of that. even in those images posted, its the clothes that stand out.
The racials really are weak, the origional arcane pulse sounded so much better, it kept going for a duration pulsing several times each tick doing more damage and reapplying the slow, which would have made it an amazing tool for sticking onto people in pvp.
TLDR:Nightborne are dirty traitors, spit on them. But they do need more customisations, and more importantly, they desperatly need Nightborne themed transmogs.
That is no joke probably the best racial Nightborne get. I wouldn’t change that, its a nice thematic quality of life racial.
And I don’t tend to pick a race based on racials either, but having good, usable racials is definitly more fun than having weak racials that arn’t worth the global CD.
