Shadowlands Character Customization Speculation

But none of them give reason as to why they’d put customization options they’ve stated are just in the barbershop as store items.

Ok fine, add “Morally gray” business practices to the list. Also, this:

Is why I asked this:

In the first place. I haven’t seen any mention of it. Where did you get that information?

BlizzCon Shadowlands What’s Next? panel. When they revealed the customization options… Ion said “You can go to the barbershop to change to these” (not verbatim)

I feel like this whole topic was made as a veiled Blue Eye Elf request.

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I don’t expect anything but I personally would like.

Male Draenei full beards sans tendrils
Dark black fur for Worgen
White fur for Worgen
More human beard options
Undead beard options, even messy or half gone
More male belf beard options
Tattoos for all
Visible necklaces
New hairstyles for all
Upright standing for trolls, undead and worgen

Wish worgen could fight with claws, also wish they jumped higher naturally.

Lots of ideas really, but I’ll stop there. :smiley:

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I wish they would work on the Male Night Elf proportions, since i have 3 of those, it could get some tuning.

Highborne options as well, maybe some hairstyles, or tattoos to match the fancier shendralar highbornes.

I’m thinking we will get Broken for Draeneis, it would never do well as an AR, but there is a niche group of players that would love having a Broken Shaman playable.

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Dark Ranger model options for the undead or as Belf and Nelf Customization. It’d be nice for them to actually feel undead as well as look undead.

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High Elves are High Elves. They’re the same race as Blood Elves but they’re distinct in that manner.

I don’t think High Elves should ever be a race. They’re like the Dark Rangers of the Alliance. Just a cool race of elves that chill out and you see them around. You can’t play them though.

I think High Elves would be too bland of a race as well. They “could” make them have a bunch of different options but honestly as an Alliance player I’d rather see a new race put in their spot.

They confirmed there will be a plethora of basic options that will be expanded. Like the new faces, tusks/horns for all the races with those, beards for guys, jewelry for girls and guys, and hopefully lady beards for my Dwarf lady friends. There will be accessories and necklaces like that.

I pretty much agree with all of what else you said.

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Another customization I’d like to see is voice options. If I am to play a Dark Ranger, I want the choice of a voice that is similar to the ones in game now.

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I’d like my worgen to get her hairstyles from the back burner.

https://imgur.com/a/h3F1K

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None yet but it would be relatively safe to assume they will be at the barber shop. If you take for instance undead decay state for roleplay, allowing further decay as your character levels etc. Plus it would be very very controversial to make people pay further for a “feature” introduced in the expansion. If you xant customize w/o the expansion I could understand maybe still not agree with it.

I have read so little about the next expansion since I have already decided to pass on it to wait and see if they ease up on the infinite grind model.

So they are adding some sort of customization for characters?

I doubt I would ever use it since I have not even bothered to use the barbershop feature they added years ago.

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My fear is that because they fleshed out the Allied Races in BFA and this is the reason we’re not getting customization for them, maybe they’d decide this for the fate of Goblins and Worgen. :frowning: They did just only make the models and such. Let’s hope this isn’t true.

I hope Worgens get tails above all, as my personal preference. Also your imgur link is mind opening. I do hope for these options or at least similar.

Pretty much. Here are the confirmed/known customization coming.

On top of this there will be new hair options, tattoos (maybe), accessories, faces, and more for every single race. Also eye color options now.

The Forsaken Decay for example, you can now be a forsaken without bones sticking out of your armor. You can look like a full on Wildhammer Dwarf. For Humans the ethnic diversity allows you to actually have proper features for being of another race. Like you can be a legit asian now. There will be also black features too. It’s about time we had this for Humans. Honestly thank god.

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Upright posture for worgen would be the only thing I’m really looking forward to. It’d be nice if blizzard fixed their glowing eyes so that they actually glowed and maybe gave more non glow options for men and glowing options for women.

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Blizzard weakness is rushing out the product than taking time with it. That’s why Cataclysm was considered a hot mess hence why worgen models got hit hard when they reworked it.

Unfortunately the passion these so called developers once had with the franchise is no longer there. I do appreciate the Vulpera, Pandaren and other races that has came…except cyborg gnomes. It shows they do have potential, but for the wrong company.

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Human- Thankfully, different human ethnicities beyond European. more beard options for human. Actual curly and natural hair styles, dreads, cornrows, etc. A side-part shorter hair or shaggier styles (like the void elf males have) would be cool. Scar options for face, blind eye, etc. Earrings for men. Nose piercings, etc. Tattoos.

Orc- Dragonmaw (dark grey) and fel orc (non-spiky, but red) options. Eyebrows. Tattoos. Tusk piercings/rings. Broken tusk options. Scars on face. More hair and beard options. More faces with more distinct features.

Night Elf- Highborne, Shendra’lar and Ravencrest skin variations. Tattoos. Feathers/beads/etc braided into hair. More beard options. Earrings. Scars. Antlers. Golden eye color options.

Forsaken- Decay options- bones hidden or more skeletal. stitches on body. Face options. Missing jaw for females. Metal plates, rivets, staples and piercings. Eye color options. No eye-glow option. Full skeletal face. Broader range of skin tones. Elf ears?

Dwarf- Wildhammer. Beard and hair options. Tattoos. Piercings. Skin tone options. Celtic-style feathers, beads and ornaments in hair. Non-beard option for male dwarves.

Tauren- Grimtotem. Facepaint, bodypaint. More distinct face options. Hair options. Braids, beards and horns. feathers and beads. armbands, necklaces and talismans that go over armor. Hair/mane color options. Equal skin tone options for males and females.

Gnomes- More skin tone options. More hair styles. Eyebrows. Beards. More hair color options. I dunno. I hate gnomes.

Trolls- Sand, Forest, Ice, and Dark trolls. Tusk rings, piercings. Larger tusks for females. More face options with new geometry. Posture setting. Tattoos/paint. Face paint for females. More hair options. Beards for males. Earrings, necklaces, noserings, other piercings (bone, etc). Feathers and beads in hair. Scars. Eye color options.

Draenei- tail customization, horns/crest/hair separate options. Jewelry. Beard/tentacle separation. Beards without tentacles. More hair options. More skin tone options.

Blood Elves- Eye color options- Blue, teal, gold, non-fel green. Tattoos/facepaint ala Valeera. Earrings for men. More non blonde/red hair colors. Darker skin options. More face options with unique geometry for males and females. More hairstyles. A somewhat-wretched skin tone, with more gaunt features.

Worgen- Option for tails. Tails. Tails. Mane color-changing options. Eye color separate from face. Wider range of coloration for males (white/black/red) like females. More glowing/non-glowing eye options. More face options for males. More impactful hairstyle options for males and females. more beard options for males. Feathers/beads/etc for both. A night elf version of non-worgen form would also be very cool.
Also, let us have a tail option.

Goblins- Skin tones, face options with more geometry. Chin and nose separate from face. Eye colors. Piercings. Hairstyles. Mechanical gadgets/doodads on face as accessory (earpiece, mic, headphones, scouter, electrodes, eyepieces, glasses, etc).

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I think people setting the bar high on expectations for customization. Big disappointments when content is released. Just saying.

How dare you! The dance studio will be released any patch now!

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It’s a small thing, but I am really hoping for human hair options like, male graying temples…kind of a Dr. Strange white stripes above the ears. Or human females with a different colored stripe, like Jaina has, or Bonnie Raitt.

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I just wanna look like I had way too much power and got all weird and wretched.

Seriously. My warlock has had SO MUCH power through her adventures. Lemme look the part.