In my brain all I saw was Gouda. So now I see you as just 
and 
If you also had a dwarf named Pretzel, youâd be the personification of Brewfest.
Kalenspar has a P in her name, anyway.
Thereâs worse and less accurate things I could be the anthropic representation of.
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You are a walking anthropomorphic sledgehammer made of cheese.
I first read your hunterâs name as Karenspark.
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Sceo LOOKS a bit like a pretzel, though.
Donât disrespect my dwarf granny with her shotgun, devilsaur, and motorcycle. She is aspirational to me.
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I am a druid!!!
A druid named a Mali!!!
This is Alynsa, but Maliastre.
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Bromero the undead warlock, Ashfall the night elf warrior made back in Legion who I shrugged and made a death knight after BFA, and of course, Sledgehammer herself are far and away the best of my names.
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theyâre good names, brent
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It only took mods 24 hours to close that thread. 
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When it comes to RP, I find it easy to let myself know that Iâm doing something that everyone else is also doing, so thereâs not much reason to be shy. If youâre trying to RP publicly, there are many other people trying to do the same, so thereâs nothing wrong with it unless youâre being very obnoxious about it. Sometimes youâll get to play with people, sometimes you wonât, but it definitely wonât happen if you run away from them. If someone does get mad at you, much of the time that will be the only interaction you have with them and can move on from the situation. Such situations are often temporary.
One time I was hovering my Blizzcon airship mount over Lionâs Rest watching people, when I saw some emotes that looked to be people fighting. I landed in an unoccupied section of grass and asked if everything was fine; the next emotes showed the characters were just playfighting. But one of them responded to me OOC in say, cussing at me about trying too hard for having that mount and to leave them alone, that anyone using that in RP is bad at it. My character is an engineer and built it herself, she has a justified reason for using it. But I donât want to play with an ugly person like that anyway so I left; it annoyed me someone would be like that, and while I was angry, part of me also felt good to know that Iâm a better person because I know I wouldnât respond the same way if I were on that side of the situation, and I know most other people wouldnât either.
When it comes to whatâs fine to RP and what isnât, most things should be fine so long as you arenât something like the child of Arthas or Kaelâthas, which Iâve seen too much of. A student of Nobundo is reasonable, itâs not like being his spouse. Iâm fine with most things so long as itâs not incredibly lorebreaking, which has become more difficult to do as time has gone on, due to the amount of worldbuilding that has been done. I donât think Iâd be fine with someone RPing as a fox person before BFA, but Vulpera exist now so itâs fine. In my experience, Moon Guard is pretty relaxed when it comes to people accepting RP characters, Wyrmrest Accord seems to be more stringent about that sort of thing.
I usually get compliments about my characters, people seem to like them even to the point of having some creepy interactions as Iâve shown, but there are people who will get onto you about the smallest of things. Havenât had many complain about my character concepts or backstories, have had some question them which is fine, but the maddest Iâve seen people get at me is when I made my High Elf bald. I was getting whispers from random people telling me how ugly my character looked and how insane I was to make my character look like that. People were demanding I give her hair because somehow making her bald was a stupid move (to them). The entitlement some people have is bizarre, theyâre my characters to do with not theirs.
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Man I wish they would let Drakthyr use other classes, I want to make one as a Shadow Priest and have them be one of a few later experiments before the labs got shut down, basically a prototype for what in the far future became the start of the Twilights.
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I think Dracthyr wouldâve been a lot more successful (for me personally) if they had been introduced as a drakonid race that has always been part of the Dragon Isles similar to how Pandaren were living on Pandaria/Shen-zin Su until we âdiscoveredâ them. It wouldâve given a lot more depth to their lore and given the Sundered Flame a bit more leverage against the returning Aspectral flights as both a believable and sympathetic antagonist group. They couldâve done this and still spun up the whole âChildren of Nefarianâs experimentsâ thing, just not had them forced into stasis.
This couldâve also lead into more class options for them as the story progressed with the Dragon Isles awakening and being exposed to the mortal races.
Iâd have loved to be a Dracthyr Shaman for this expansion!
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They absolutely should have been drakonids. They look better, theyâre already an existing race in the game instead of pulling something new out of a hat, and it would have tied nicely into the rebelling drakonids story in Thaldraszus instead of that being kind of an afterthought as it is now.
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wild guess: the main reason they werenât drakonids was because a winged race was an excuse to test out the flying tech as part of a character and give the playerbase time to try out the new form of flying and hopefully not rage against it.
Drakonids with wings would need to be obnoxiously wide to look good flying.
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The issue is (until it finally will become so next patch) dracthyr soar isnât full dragonriding. It just has two speed boosts that are one time use per flight only, no vigor and no talents.
So Iâve spent the entire expansion as a dragon riding a dragon, which would be less awkward if I were something without wings like a drakonid.
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Hello Folks. Iâm sorry I am late for the party but yea Thank you for bringing this back!
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I think Drakthyr were largely an example of self expression from the art team, which there was (at the time) no creative director to slap their hand and say âthis is not warcraft-y, it needs 400% more musclesâ.
Not that I mind. It is nice to be able to be a pretty twink with lots of fabulous hair and jewelry if I want.
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I can appreciate the general interest in being a twink and not having huge muscles. Thatâs like my whole deal. But I feel like the Drakonids are much better executed on concept than the Dracthyr, though Iâm not a furry and tend to dislike where the WoW model team leans on furry-style aesthetic so Iâm not the best judge for what people will actually play in that niche.
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I feel like a happy medium would be to have made a Drakinoid AR. Fewer customizations, no Visage form or evoker class access, but beefy dragon daddy to go whack things with a big stick if that is your jam.
It was probably a mix of âtheyâre only casters so they should look frailâ and wanting the dragon form to be somewhat androgynous in shape.
I remember being so utterly let down by their reveal, though. Because yeah, drakonids were right there, something I had wanted to play for almost 15 years, and really if you told someone WoW would have a playable dragon race, thatâs most likely what you would have expected based on what weâve seen before.
But, welp. Add the god-awful visage choices and almost total lack of real transmog and uuugh.
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Dracadactyls are just⊠Meh. Evokers do not evoke much from me at all. I donât think Iâd want draconerds either, because I am dragon-ambivalent.
Just sharing my ten cents.
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