Please consider adding a "Dragon-form" as a Mage Tower reward for Evokers

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It’s super easy to miss, but Emmigosa appears in the Azure Span, and is honestly the PERFECT size and scale for a “playable dragon”, I think. She’s a bit shorter than a Human, so probably not much larger (if at all) than a Bear-form Druid.

If you could theoretically just remove the saddle, I actually think the options for the Highland Drake already has all the perfect customization options for a “playable dragon”, as well.

My thinking is, the NPC’s using that model APPEAR to have a ton of animations already. For any animations they don’t have or wouldn’t be appropriate (ie. crafting, riding mounts, etc), simply shift them into their Visage form.

It’s clear that Dracthyr aren’t getting the ability to wear proper Transmogs any time soon, and it honestly kills a HUGE reason to play the game, which is collecting cool new weapons and armor that look cool, on top of their raw stats. But as it currently stands, even if you want to transmog your Visage, you must also consider how said transmog will appear in your Dracthyr form.

By giving players an actual Dragon-form, even one that is purely cosmetic, it creates an actual separation, while also providing the AMAZING class-fantasy of “actually playing a m*fin’ DRAGON”, which is legit probably the coolest thing that would ever exist in an MMO.

And look, if you want to allow transmogging on the core Dracthyr later or something, that’d be awesome too. But me personally, I’d choose “actual dragon form” every day of the week, and that would instantly change the Evoker from “something I want to play, but feels hamstrung in terms of cosmetics” to honestly the coolest addition probably ever added to the game.

Just an idea.

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i want my dragon to wear purple panties

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But they’re not dragons. They were never dragons. So they shouldn’t have a dragon form.

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I mean. A flying form would be neat, but going full dragon, im not sure that works without some major updates to the drake model animations.

Ill take any cosmetic though. Cool weapons, maybe new armor formthe barbershop, heck maybe even a model that is thicc like those draconoids we see.

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Why Blizzard forgot about Mage Tower?. It should have been up since DF launch.

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I think I’d rather die on this hill, at this point. This is within the realm of possibility. They’d have to betray the core conception of the Dracthyr as a race, functionally retconning how they came into existence, to accommodate this request. That’s not going to happen. But making more transmog available on the draconic form? That’s still within the realm of possibility.

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This is Emmigosa:

And this is what Emmigosa looks like:

Those drake models are horrible.

Also: Dracthyr have their own wings and aren’t dragons. They shouldn’t turn into anything.

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Their status as Dragons or Dragonkin seems… inconsistent. But then, dragons in general seem to be fairly unconstrained in what forms they want to take, anyways. Other than proto-drakes (which are more traditional “animals”), it seems like Dragons are much more magically-inclined, with their physical forms changing and growing based on their own magical prowess. So it seems feasible that, just as Dracthyr can change their physical form through their Visage, that instead of “choosing to look like an elf”, they could “choose to look like a drake”.

It doesn’t seem like it would really betray anything about their race or lore.

My thinking is, if Blizzard truly wanted them to be a “normal race”, they would have treated them as such. But they didn’t; they chose not to let them wear normal armor, and that just kind of makes them this weird outlier.

Granting them the ability to shift into a form that doesn’t need to wear armor at all, I feel like that would make for a much more satisfying experience in general. And while we’ve not seen a Dracthyr turn into a traditional dragon, it doesn’t seem like there’s anything that necessarily bars that from being a possibility. But I could totally be mistaken.

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Is it not strongly implied that the Dracthyr visage differs from the typical Dragon visage in that it’s a “predetermined” inherent form that they’re simply born with and cannot be changed on a whim?

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Eh, it kind of seems another inconsistency. Sometimes, it’s referred to as a chosen visage, but there are a few lines that imply what you say, like “oh I didn’t choose to look this way, I wonder why we look different”. Considering a visage is simply that – a visage – it seems like that comment was added simply to try and explain why Dracthyr can’t choose any race as a Visage.

I suppose the most reasonable explanation would simply be that because the Dracthyr are new to using magic to create a visage, they’re just not that good at it to begin with.

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This already exists in a MMO, just not WoW. WoW went more the EQ2 route and made dragonkin rather than the full dragons Istaria has. I wouldn’t say no to a full dragon form in WoW, but I honestly just kinda like my Dracthyr form. So many more colours than the drakes. :slight_smile:

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It’ll probably be worked on for 10.0.5 or 10.1. 10.0.5 seems to be for releasing content they ran out of time to finish before Dragonflight’s launch.

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Honestly would love that even if it’s just a flight form like put this together for Vemithra awhile back after seeing someone else propose the idea
https://imgur.com/aw3KYc8

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Weird, anyone can be a dragon through the Sandstone Drake mount and casters through Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa’s Rest…

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That’s a very disingenuous take.

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Original poster wants a dragon form as a mount, and the Sandstone Drake and Tarecgosa’s Visage are dragon form mounts. Commentator says non-dragons shouldn’t have a dragon form, yet any player can use the Sandstone Drake and casters can use Dragonwrath… Where’s your disconnect?

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The degree of canonicity. There’s a difference between being able to transform into a draconic form and actually being a dragon.

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You are really good at jumping through hoops. Then it’s just a draconic form for Evokers then. Solved!

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Like I said, I just think it would be super cool to have that form as an option, the Dragonriding mounts have some incredible customization anyways, even if this was limited only to the “Highland Drake” model.

I’ll totally agree, another couple color options would be cool, but I would be 100% satisfied simply with the existing options. Might be cool to have like an additional “Prismatic” color or something to “represent” the flight or whatever the Dracthyr wind up becoming (honestly, something with that white-and-gold theme like the flags and statues around Valdrakken have would be cool, or a soft green like their class-color or the foliage around the city).

In any case… Like I said, I think that without proper transmog, the Dracthyr risk always feeling a bit “incomplete”. But if you had a full-blown DRAGON form you could unlock, with the added benefit of being able to transmog your Visage without worrying about colors that “clash” with their Barbershop-armor, I think it would just be super sick.

And to be clear, I am in no way against any other forms of customization. If they could also get full transmog working, I would be ecstatic! I’d probably stick with the Dragon-form if it were an option between the two, but that’s just me.

At the end of the day, the Evoker is limited to a single race. Having that limitation is restrictive enough, but it’s compounded by the transmog restriction. If I could go full-blown Dragon though (again, just very small, like Emmigosa in Azure Span), I don’t think I could even contain my excitement.

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We’re talking about the races form, not a temp mount. If you give them a fully dragon form you may as well give that to every other race too because it’s no different seeing as how Dracthyr aren’t dragons either.