I wish we didn’t lose the option of using the old character models
all the characters now look wack running around all bouncy like they just came straight out of a Disney show
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I can’t go back to the old blocky, low rez one expression models.
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Same here, and I would be fine if it was like WoD where it was a toggle again but the issue is Blizzard decided the next expansion to make all of the animations only for the new models so they had to remove the old ones.
Undead Male comes to mind here and you saw it if you used Noggenfogger to become a skeleton which used the old rig. Every Sinister Strike or whatever dumb gimmick name it had in Legion was just the eviscerate animation, pistol shot wouldn’t have the pistol and instead make your character awkwardly try to shoot their sword like the old gun shoot animation, etc.
Considering the beginning of Wod you wouldn’t want to go there ,humans looked like troggs and they were in structure. Please ,don’t.
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This is the single overwhelming reason why I can’t bring myself to play classic.
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Its why I don’t wanna play classic. I’d lose my facial hair >:(
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I could put up with that. But I’d feel like I’m playing minecraft with the crap models.
I waited YEARS for this facial hair dangit. I can’t go back.
Not even sure my skin tone is in classic
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I like both tbh. Plus us Belves are always bootiful no matter what. 
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Three cheers for exaggerated sensationalism!
Fun fact: Disney often doesnt use original character designs. Most are saved designs from decades older than you would think due to Don Bluth creating a stockpile worth of designs during his time there and Disney claiming copyright to them before he left.
Most modern character designs share very similar to even same design aspects of Don Bluth’s earlier works not associated with film animation, such as Dragon’s Lair and Space Ace.
This is often confused as “Disney” despite that it is sometimes a singular creator that helped mold and push the boundaries of modern design and animation while often being forgotten about.
While the old models are there and have their own unique nostalgic charm, those designs could not then, nor now express the depth and detail of the artists and devs’ inspirations. Which range from Jim Henson, Julie Bell, Boris Vallejo as well as Don Bluth to even yes Dan Hansen.
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I like my character not having a broom up is back hole
I don’t miss our elven flashlight eyes that clipped horribly against our models 
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Your skin tone is not in classic.
i been playing classic again and the models are just terrible with what we got today it’s just horrible when you see old models again this is one change i fully stand behind blizz on.
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Ugh…the character models is the biggest drawback for me with classic. Im glad they arent in retail.
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I’ve been playing a Night Elf DK in classic, and I truly prefer the old animations to the new, for at least this race/gender. The new walk/run STILL bugs me, and now I have the ability to compare the old to the new in real time again, so I know it’s not just “rose colored glasses” taking over.
Sure, the female human walk/run was an improvement, but I don’t play many of those anyway. Night Elf females I have a lot of, and I look at them on retail and hate that they’re so bouncy, and their hands are weird when they walk/run.
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we tried to tell you lot in wod beta but all you did was mock us. now your stuck with them.
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I’m playing classic now and I see what you mean. Some of the new models look too modern and clean for the Warcraft universe. Plus the eyes see, too big and cartoony. I like the aesthetics of old WoW player models for some of the races better like undead and human.
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The old models was really bad. The new models was a huge improvement in many ways.
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unless your a blood elf and now you have a permanent sneer on your face like you step in dog crap or a draenei who have permanent duckface when they dance. YEAH A REAL BIG IMPROVEMENT. totally worth losing racial specific animations over. also the night elf males look like hot garbage. specific faces are gone forever. the forsaken lost several of them.