Race Customization Master Thread

Hello forums and blizzard(if you happen to be taking a peek),

Due to the discussion in another thread it has seemed that customization in general has been an extremely popular topic. Here, we can provide ourselves with a voice and list to Blizzard perhaps a few ideas we can look in to according to the race of your preference regardless of faction.

Just to drive the point home, this is a customization option thread and not a thread to request new races but to compile a list of customizations. This thread will be updated as regularly as I can stick my nose in here with ideas people have brought up.

Feel free to discuss any ideas you may want to share and remember just because it isn’t legitimate to someone else doesn’t mean it isn’t legitimate to you. So keep your hatred and anger at the door.

Please post bellow what you’d love to see!


Over All:
- All current hairstyles universal.
- Heritage gear for those who don't have any.
- The ability to turn off the eye glow while still maintaining the original eye colour.
- More hairstyles!
- Scars
- Tattoos (not attached to Allied Races)
- Jewellery (For all races that don't have any and new ones for those who already have them)
- Hair Highlights
- Man buns!
- Separate bundled facial features (Noses, eyes, ear shape, etc)
- Unnatural hair colours
- More slender and narrow body options, particularly for the men

Tauren + Highmountain:
- Faux-hawks for manes
- More horn variation
- Accessories (feathers, piercings to name a couple)
- Different antler colours for the Highmountain, (black, white, beige, grey)
- White fur for Highmountain
- Actual hair styles
- More Faces
- Blonde & Orange fur colours
- Beards

Worgen:
- Insert mandatory new female worgen model request here
- Tails
- Customize worgen and human form seperately
- Make them taller than Night Elves like it is in the lore
- Fang Jewellery like Genn
- To be good boys like Genn
- Orange glowing eyes
- Tattoos like the Bloodfang Worgen do
- Actual glowing eyes on the female worgen model to match the male
- More Faces
- White Fur
- Brown fur for males
- Separate the ears and the beards in to their own options
- No perma-snarl on female Worgens
- Upright posture for the males, Worgen are meant to be strong, proud and fierce.

Nightborne:
- Dark purple skin
- Hair glow like the NPCs
- More hairstyles (I personally would love renaissance inspired hair, but everyone’s preference is different)
- Braided hair styles
- Male and Female faces that don’t all look middle aged (Youthful and regal faces)
- Different types of ears (Torn ears, frayed. different sizes, etc)
- Squinty eyes like the NPC
- Improved posture and animations

Draenei + Lightforged:
- Horns separated from beards
- Longer/shorter tail options
- LF hair on regular Draenei
- Different horn styles
- Base hairstyle with the purple hairband without the hairband
- Black hair for Lightforged Draenei
- Customize the colour of the tattoos on LF
- Red Hair
- Purple eye option

Blood Elves:
- New jewellery (Nose rings, brow rings, lip rings, ear cuffs)
- Eye colours (Purple, Blue)
- Different types of ears (Torn ears, frayed. different sizes, etc)
- More Facial hair (Beards, not Goatees)
- Darker complexions
- Asiatic features

Night Elves:
- Antlers
- Black hair
- Pink hair not exclusive to DKs
- Darker skin tones
- Modernized hair and Wild hair styles, current hair is sorta in the middle.
- Tattoos (Not just face markings)
- Accessories (Earings, earcuffs)
- Eye colours (Ember, Blue, Purple, Gold)
- Different types of ears (Torn ears, frayed. different sizes, etc)
- Nature based hairstyles, (Leaves, flowers added in, etc) and an Arcane option as well
- Face markings for males
- Prettier female faces
- Let males have eyebrows without needing a beard.

Humans:
- African, middle eastern and asian facial options
- Skin tones to accompany said options
- Scars and Tattoos
- Modern hairstyles, less balding men
- Smoother beards
- Face options that aren't just old or sad looking

Kul Tiran:
- Non thicc or super thin option
- Faces that aren't so soft for female faces.

Orcs:
- Full facial hair, not just chin beards
- Long hairstyles that don't look like they're balding
- Facepaint like Saurfang
- More than just brown eyes for Mag'har
- Eyebrows for orcs!
- Blood elf male hair on female orcs

Dwarves + Dark Iron :
- More beard options (To represent the dwarven clans)
- Wildhammer tattoos
- Longer beards for DI, skulls braided in to the beards would also be cool.
- Other variations of red hair

Trolls:
- More Tusk variation (Longer, Broken, tusks with accessories)
- Other hairstyles for the females
- Jewellery (A septum ring, ear cuffs, earrings sticking to the tribal theme)
- Tattoos (Perhaps some representing various Loa?)
- Beards
- More than a single eye colour for female trolls and return the vibrancy to the male trolls eyes.

Gnomes:
- Darker skin tones (perhaps a half leper option)
- Mechanical parts (Arm(s), eye(s), Leg(s)
- Mechanically inspired Jewellery and hairstyles
- Seperate eye colour from faces, return the smile on the Gnome models
- Better hairstyles for male gnomes

Forsaken:
- An option to hide the bony joints
- Beards (Especially a long option)
- Revise the skull face option for females
- More appealing hairstyles
- Dead people are allowed to wear jewellery too
- More options to customize how their bones are exposed. Should be able to either have their bones completely covered or only certain kinds.
- A meatier option for Forsaken while still respecting their aesthetic.
- Eye colour variations
- Long pants that don't stop at the knees.
- A trip to the chiropractor (Upright option)
- Gothic Hairstyles

Pandaren:
- Please do something about their ‘same face’ syndrome
- Hair styles
- Black bushy tail option
- Muted fur colours for the females
- Aged faces for the females

Goblins:
- Insert mandatory new model request here
- Separate ear and nose options from one another
- Blue eyes for male goblins
- Hair that doesn't involve balding for Goblins and hairstyles that are sleek and buisiness like
- Mechanical parts (Arm(s), eye(s), Leg(s) but grungier

Void Elves:
- Black and proper white hair
- Warhammer dark elf inspired skin please
- Pitch black eyes
- Warpaint with void glow
- Hairstyles that are full tentacle
- Earcuffs and other assorted piercings (A nose ring would be cool)
- Tattoos
- Purple eyes to go with the voidy-ness
- Different types of ears (Torn ears, frayed. different sizes, etc)
- Hair Highlights
- More tentacles
- Tattoos like Alleria's
- More facial hair (beards, not goatees)
- Blue-black eyes (Example can be found on page 6 in Sibyl's post)
- Purple skin!


Potential Allied Race Customizations

Sethrak
- Druids
- Obligatory top hat, monocle and moustache toy in their intro quest
- Various sized and shaped hoods.
- Glowing eyes
- Various glowing markings that aren’t what is already present on their hoods
- Tail accessories
- Different types of rattles
- No breasts on the female model

San’layn
- Disfigured and undisfigured face options
- Option to have the fangs exposed (Think Venom)
- Masks, to hide the face if the player so chooses
- Torn ears
- An option to have visible bones, no visible bones or covered with bandages
- Ear jewellery akin to the Nightborne
- Black eyes, leaving only the pupil coloured (Red, Purple, Green, Blue, etc)
- Glowing red eyes, perhaps also with an option to change the colour of the pupil as well.

Vulpera

Jinyu
- No breasts on the female model
-Hair(Top Fin) options: Smooth Curve, Spiked Curve, Torn fins, Fins slicked back, two top fins that share these options.
-Facial hair (Whisker styles): long, short, none, braided, decorated.
-Skin: Jinyu already have a large amount of color options, being fish creatures they'll have access to a whole variety of colors.
Some examples of the current Jinyu colors (https://media.mmo-champion.com/images/news/2012/march/jinyu_recolors.jpg)
-Eye colors:Pupils (Brown, Green, Red, Green, Purple)
No Pupils/Solid color ( Brown, Green, Red, Green, Purple)
-Fin color: Changes top fins as well as arm and leg fins.

Hozen

Vrykul


Lets brainstorm!
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Wonderful! Thread's up again, +1 from me! Good to see some feedback and ideas.
Thanks for the support Fall, I hope I can get some more people in here with great ideas of their own.
Maybe if this list gets lucky the devs or something will see it and take some interest or inspiration.
Since Blizz loves to copy ideas from other games, they could always allow us to customize genitalia- and breast size, like in Conan Exiles!

LOL... the things some developers do to gain more players! xD
07/18/2018 11:09 PMPosted by Orronis
Since Blizz loves to copy ideas from other games, they could always allow us to customize genitalia- and breast size, like in Conan Exiles!

LOL... the things some developers do to gain more players! xD
Considering that saying "hell" can get you silenced, i highly doubt that.
lol the only changes they have made to character customization in 14 years have been straight back orcs and golden eye'd elves, you really think this stuff will ever make it into the game?
07/18/2018 11:09 PMPosted by Orronis
Since Blizz loves to copy ideas from other games, they could always allow us to customize genitalia- and breast size, like in Conan Exiles!

LOL... the things some developers do to gain more players! xD

Oh god please no.
That was literally the only feature that game has and it's pathetic. xD

07/18/2018 11:24 PMPosted by Adralorin
lol the only changes they have made to character customization in 14 years have been straight back orcs and golden eye'd elves, you really think this stuff will ever make it into the game?


Still nothing wrong with asking, sorry if you find it offensive.
Yes please!
07/18/2018 11:24 PMPosted by Adralorin
lol the only changes they have made to character customization in 14 years have been straight back orcs and golden eye'd elves, you really think this stuff will ever make it into the game?
You forgot Barbershop hairstyles, which are now available in character creation as of the Pre-Patch.

Also, the character creation icons for male human, male Night Elf, and male Draenei each use new customization options that are not currently available, and they basically implied that Worgen will get new customization options alongside updated models.

Overall, it's looking likely that more customization options could be coming.
07/19/2018 12:05 AMPosted by Albricksen
You forgot Barbershop hairstyles, which are now available in character creation as of the Pre-Patch.

Also, the character creation icons for male human, male Night Elf, and male Draenei each use new customization options that are not currently available, and they basically implied that Worgen will get new customization options alongside updated models.

Overall, it's looking likely that more customization options could be coming.


Glad to see I'm not the only one that spotted the changes in the icons.
Now let us hope that the female worgen wont look like wet, rabid chihuahuas in the future.
I really want to be able to make a grandma panda. Faded colors and "sleepy" eyes.
I'd really like more haircuts for female Trolls.
07/19/2018 12:10 AMPosted by Zhujii
I really want to be able to make a grandma panda. Faded colors and "sleepy" eyes.

OMG!!!!
YES! Female Panda don't have unsaturated furs which makes me sad!
Muscle sliders and height sliders! I know in some games muscle definition is a slider that adjusts the opacity of a texture over the base skin. And a height slider shouldn't be difficult to implement at all.
07/19/2018 12:15 AMPosted by Narcissus
Muscle sliders and height sliders! I know in some games muscle definition is a slider that adjusts the opacity of a texture over the base skin. And a height slider shouldn't be difficult to implement at all.

They wouldn't have to make new models for this either to be honest.
This could all be done by using normal maps on the models to give it the appearance of muscle.
The height slider I'm not sure they could do, they'd have to go back and redo every piece of gear I believe.
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For goblins I'd like new eye colors too. We have pink, purple, red, and amber. I wouldn't mind some green, green-blue, or even just blue.

Edit: nvm females have bluer eyes. Wtf why can't my male

Male goblin hairstyles I'd like more of. They're mostly balding or tied back but I think some messier styles suits their punk/mad scientist thing. Or on the other end, trimmer styles for both genders for the corporate look

Oh and maybe separate hair/horn styles for male draenei

Human variation might be tricky since they're not meant to be earth humans with certain ethnicities, theyre all part of one specific titan forged race. The dark skin tones are more..dark caucasian than actual african really.
The height slider I'm not sure they could do, they'd have to go back and redo every piece of gear I believe.


Frankly I'd be fine with perma-growth pot options, or perma-shrink options (within reasonable scales)
07/19/2018 12:25 AMPosted by Waternebula
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For goblins I'd like new eye colors too. We have pink, purple, red, and amber. I wouldn't mind some green, green-blue, or even just blue.

Edit: nvm females have bluer eyes. Wtf why can't my male

Male goblin hairstyles I'd like more of. They're mostly balding or tied back but I think some messier styles suits their punk/mad scientist thing. Or on the other end, trimmer styles for both genders for the corporate look

Oh and maybe separate hair/horn styles for male draenei

Human variation might be tricky since they're not meant to be earth humans with certain ethnicities, theyre all part of one specific titan forged race. The dark skin tones are more..dark caucasian than actual african really.


These are good suggestions for the goblins and draenei.
While I applaud any thread of deeper customization instead of shoe-horned in allied races.

The words "master" and "race" being in the title are making my human killing hands twitch.
I like what you've got. Good job.