Night Elves, Orcs and Humans made out like bandits, getting the most customizations of any race. But for me, it’s not really just the quantity of customization that each race got, it’s also the quality. The love and care that the artists put into Night Elf customization was evident with clear attention paid to certain parts of the racial fantasy. Female night elves finally have golden eyes, and leaves in their hair as depicted on the iconic box art for WoW classic.
It was very apparent that the artists who worked on Night elves had a love for that race. That being said, even the night elves had some odd decisions on how customization was allotted, for example, no body tattoos on females. After they were done with Orcs, Night Elves, and Humans, the quality and enthusiasm behind the project seemed to dwindle pretty quickly. I’m not saying the rest were all bad and low effort, I’m saying as they went down the lists of races they lost interest and passion.
Blood Elves didn’t get any customization that appealed to their wider racial fantasy. They received customization that stereotyped them. There is much more to blood elves than being pretty and vain. Blood elves are survivors just as capable of fighting with skill and ferocity as the rest of the Horde. They are magisters, battlemages, Farstriders and Blood Knights. None of the customization save for one blind eye suggests any of those aspects of Thalassian culture. Vain, snotty rich white people is what we got. I mean no offense to people actually liked what we got.
However, the weirdest part about what Blood Elven customization is the fact male blood elves received little of the customization the females got. No jewelry for men. But this issue isn’t isolated to Blood Elves, it’s pretty pervasive throughout all the races actually. The customization we got was really skewed and maybe a little random which tells me they were not operating on a system.
I grade them a D- on their “try.” The Allotment for customization among races was very unequal.
A few? That depends on your definition of a few and whether you count all the old customization in with the new, Blizz. I don’t count the old in with the new because customization was sold to us as new and improved. Let me see…
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Gnomes: Very few
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Worgen: VERY few
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Goblins: Very few
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Trolls: Lacking
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Pandaren: Very few
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Tauren: Lacking (They have like five faces to choose from.)
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Blood Elves: Few (even fewer for males.)
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Dwarves: Few
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Forsaken: Very Few.
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Maghar: None
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Nighborne: None and holy hell do they need it.
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HMT: None
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LF Draenei: None.
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Mechagnome: A couple
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Vulpera: None
So really not just a few.
I’m struggling to believe that.