Roadhog getting a cute skin in Overwatch doesn’t pull more egirls/eboys to the role than Dva as an actual character.
I don’t care if i can make a death knight or warrior look cute, their actual spells aren’t cute.
Just like how i can make a priest look dark and brooding, their spells aren’t dark and brooding…
Transmog solves nothing.
I wouldn’t call the tanks the same as they play quite differently. The only thing they have in common is hold aggro, use cooldowns as needed. A Brewmaster is night and day different both in playstyle and look from a Vengeance Demonhunter Or a Prot Pally.
Prot warrior, death knights and demon hunters play differently but they’re fitting the same asthetic.
Before Lilia, there was really no cute jungler
If you remove Dva from Overwatch you conveniently remove those players that play her cause of her asthetic from the tank role
If you want a cute tank then make one and Xmog it to some silly outfit.
I dont know… Gnome girl tanks are pretty darn cute and if eboys as you call them are looking for bad a@# tanks then drenai paladins are some pretty beefed up ol boys.
sure. I bet if they made a dark healer that you enjoy and pick up. You still won’t dps as a healer.
It’s an interesting concept that blizzard could theoretically pull off by doing 4th specs but it doesn’t seem like it is something they think is worth the time or effort.
So what I’m getting out of this topic is that Orcs should be represented in a wider variety of roles?
Something you only see on the character screen is a deal breaker for what you’ll play?
Orcs are pretty diverse
They got iron angry boys, dark brooding casters, nature loving hunters and stoic shamans
You’re comparing games where playing specific champions accords to certain roles to a game where your race and transmog are variables in their own right across all the different classes.
WoW has “cute” races already that can tank, with all sorts of non-tank-looking transmog options. It has plenty of dark, broody looking options for healers to wear.
Sure, people can start talking about cool class ideas and fun mechanics, but new class mechanics are not going to bring in some tide of a normally less-present demographic of players.
The tank shortage has an obvious reason, which is that tanks have a much higher pressure role than the other roles. They are the inherent “leader” of a group when you do M+, controlling the pathing decisions and when to pull and what to pull. And while they’re less of a “leader” in the raid context, the pressure balances out to still be higher than other roles on average because in a raid, they’re just 1 of 2 tanks and more rides on their ability than on a single dps or healer.
Yeah being basically a vampire seems pretty cool… you’re really saying then when you’re race is draenei
Ffxiv and ESO
AND WITH that statement your point is gone.
My choices for alliance pally were pretty limited, I don’t like short races, and playing humans is boring. 
Dark themed healer is a good idea. There are a lot of options.
Either tinker with a mad chemist type healer or necromancer that is taking life then giving it to his allies
Is WoW with Catgirls.
Is an FPS
And with that, your point is gone.
No sane person plays that game in first person
Uh, FFXIV is even more strict regarding classes. If you are Paladin, you are always a tank. If you are a Astrologian, you are always a healer, etc.
No sane person plays a Bethesda game in 3rd person.
lol, no, you drew your main point from the stuff about girls playing “cute characters” from Riot, and your OP focuses on heroes of the storm and overwatch.
Your points about ffxiv and ESO had even less ground when everyone pointed out you could easily make “dark” or “non goody-two-shoes” looking characters for healers in this game.
All you’ve really been left with in this thread is, “I can think of some nifty mechanic they could try for certain roles.” Okay. That’s a topic that appears elsewhere too, not dressed up in the silly attempt of, “and if you do this, it’ll attract more players outside your normal demographic.”