Nobody is playing Evoker. I think it's because Dracthyr and restricted transmogs

I think it’s because they’re not actually all that interesting. Also they’re not really played anymore or any less than any other class in my experience. Well, obviously there’s a lot of Hunters and Druids all over the place, but excluding those two I see plenty of Dracthyr. It has more to do with them sorta just… existing. I don’t think there were many people that were hyped to play them, they’re sorta like how Monks were. They kinda just… happened.

I’m not surprised. Drackthyr are the objectively worse avatars in the game from a mog perspective. A lot of people care about that. That plus the fact that they look just plain stupid on mounts due to the locked wings animation (or rather the lack thereof), is a recipe for a dead race.

Sure, once it’s opened up to more classes it’ll get a boost to playability. But no one would actually main a drackthyr. Playing a worgen or junker gnome is bad enough. If blizz ever allowed evoker class to be played on other races, you can guarantee that drackthyr would get deleted from the game much like worgen or junker gnome.

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I dont get why dracthyr would become other classes. They are, like the chromatic dragons nefarion made, dragons bred with all the flights genetics and powers. Its a race-class. the hunter dracthyr wouldnt make sense because dracthyr are all about having all the flights powers in one. Not about whatever they feel like being.

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There’s a lot of reasons related to looks that make me just not want to play it. I don’t like the way dragon form looks when I’m controlling it. So I usually just gather. No combat. But then I really hate the fact that they went with human frame for the female. The customizations are so pretty but the model itself is just something I can’t get into enough to play. I don’t mind that they don’t have like, a true dragon form. But what they do have is just such a miss for me. Playing and RPing with other people’s Evokers is fine. But mine is hard stuck as a perma gatherer for when I’m bored.

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I play Evoker as Main and i play her a lot :3

I also do RP with her and PvE. And i do like how Dracthyr look like.

What definitely could be better in fact is:

  1. Let us Transmog stuff

  2. Give us multiple choice for Dracthyr Voice. Cause I don’t like how my Dracthyr sound too much

I switched my main to Evoker the second pre-patch to this expansion hit, and I haven’t looked back. The limited transmog was actually a selling point for me (I like their barbershop armour), I don’t use Visage, and I like their lean body shape. My only real complaint is that they have giant wings on their back but they can’t fly.

That said, I do support additional choices in the future, I just hope that if Blizz adds them they add them in addition rather than in substitution.

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I see them fairly regularly and far more often than monks for example. But that’s obviously anecdotal.

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Idk…the spam of legendary text every 3 seconds shows there’s tons playing them.

for me its gameplay, th feel and rotation is just not a good playstyle feel for me

Theyre dumb looking and sound stupid. Emberthal sucks as a character and faction leader. Ill stick to my orc/undead/belfs

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It’s because all Evokers are Dracthyr, but not all Dracthyr are Evokers. Lore wise only the best of the best we’re able to master all 5 essences to be named Evoker by Deathwing. The rest only had mastery of like two or three.

So say you were a Dracthyr only really good at using Blue Dragonflight essence. You’re a mage with some extra steps. Only green? Druid. Red/Black? Warrior and maybe Shaman. Plus consider that the Dracthyr have been learning from the other races for months now too. Dracthyr aren’t just dragon people. They’re mortal race too. So their new allies and friends likely influences them in finding their own way since the Titan Artifact was destroyed and they all got their free will for the first time in over 20,000 years.

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For me it is because the class can only be that race. I dislike the race.

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They messed with their healing and I just didn’t feel like relearning it. And its my 13th character to focus on each week so it isn’t a huge priority since I can’t even see mogs I collect for them.

Almost every single M+ I’ve run this expansion has had at least one Evoker, sometimes two …

It’s perfectly normal for them to be the least played class considering they’re brand new, and considering each account can only have one per server (and creating an Evoker on additional servers requires an existing level 50 character).

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Im sorry but I can stand them i dont wanna play as one of those things cant stand looking at them, the class was ok but no ty

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When I can play a warrior, paladin or warlock, I will play one.

I haven’t done too many Abberus LFRs yet, but back in Vault I’d see 2-3 at the very least in every group (not counting my own). I see just as many Dracthyr in cities as any other class, if not even more

I doubt it’s because of transmog tho. I think it’s more likely that it’s because Dracthyr can only play Evokers. If you don’t like Evokers, why would you play a Dracthyr?

Evokers are getting a new spec soon tho, so a you’ll probably see a few more while everyone goes to check it out

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This is key. The rest, I agree and disagree with to varying degrees. But this point is unimpeachable. Dracthyr transmog options are unexcusable. Giving them an out-of-combat Blood Elf skin is not even adequate as a consolation prize. I love collecting and devising transmogs in WoW. I love playing as a dragon. These things should not be mutually exclusive.

This is particularly hard to swallow when Morgan Day outright said that this was a design choice, not a technical limitation, and Ion said that they would “do more” for Dracthyr transmog with Evoker-specific tier gear, which has never come to fruition.

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You just aren’t paying attention. I despise PUGing the raid on my Monk because I am stuck on the Zenith token with them and Rogues (and Warr) so every group has like 6 people on my token.

Excuse me. I play dracthry and love it. I don’t like anything on my dragon form. Im a dragon not a human. I hate visage forms! Pure dracthry all the way! I wish for a mire plus size dracthry body size. Like body size 6.