The Dracthyr Spread their Wings to New Classes

[Skyslicer-steamwheedle-cartel]

One question do dracthyr warrior start at lvl 1 ?

[Cazwell-area-52]

They said that it likely would start as 10 in the allied race area instead of the starting zone as that zone is built around evokers and their abilities.

So, I have been preparing for this potential change and have an email thread to myself (too lazy to make a Google Doc), that I update. Actually, going to put it in a doc because I honestly didn’t think of it at the time. I took out the names so the letters are just placeholders. Anyway, it looks like this:

Dracthyr - L / I / F / E / H / G / F
Body Size - 2 / 2 / 2 / 2 / 1 / 4 / 2
Primary Color - 4 / 9 / 8 / 1 / 15 / 13 / 4
Secondary Color Strength 0 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 3 / 1
Secondary Color - 4 / 9 / 10 / 5 / 5 / 11 / 7
Body Pattern - 1 / 5 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 4 / 1
Body Markings - 5 / 5 / 2 / 5 / 2 / 4 / 1
Markings Color - 1 / 7 / 11 / 3 / 3 / 4 / 6
Chest Spikes - 2 / 2 / 1 / 2 / 2 / 2 / 2
Leg Spikes - Yes / Yes / No / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes
Horns - 19 / 19 / 10 / 15 / 15 / 10 / 11
Horn Color - 4 / 8 / 10 / 6 / 8 / 1 / 7
Horn Jewelry - 4 / 4 / 3 / 4 / 1 / 1 / 1
Jewelry Color - 3 / 2 / 1 / 1 / N/A / N/A / N/A
Crest - 10 / 9 / 4 / 8 / 9 / 9 / 9
Face - 2 / 2 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 3
Snout - 7 / 9 / 4 / 7 / 3 / 17 / 7
Face Pattern - 5 / 5 / 1 / 1 / 5 / 4 / 1
Face Markings - 5 / 5 / 1 / 2 / 2 / 5 / 1
Eye Color - 3 / 12 / 14 / 2 / 6 / 1 / 11
Eye Style - 2 / 3 / 3 / 3 / 2 / 1 / 2
Eyesight - 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1
Ears - 12 / 12 / 6 / 4 / 5 / 12 / 5
Brow - 1 / 2 / 1 / 4 / 1 / 2 / 2
Cheekbone - 1 / 2 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 2 / 3
Cheek - 2 / 2 / 3 / 2 / 4 / 2 / 2
Throat - 1 / 6 / 1 / 5 / 5 / 5 / 1
Helm - 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1
Shoulders - 2 / 2 / 2 / 2 / 2 / 2 / 2
Chest - 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1
Breastplate - 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1
Upper Arms - 2 / 2 / 2 / 2 / 2 / 2 / 2
Lower Arms - 3 / 3 / 2 / 3 / 3 / 3 / 3
Arm Spikes - 2 / 2 / 1 / 2 / 2 / 2 / 2
Armor Color - 3 / 2 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 8
Waist - 3 / 3 / 3 / 3 / 3 / 3 / 2
Breechcloth - 4 / 4 / 4 / 4 / 4 / 4 / 4
Thighs - 2 / 2 / 2 / 2 / 2 / 2 / 2
Feet - 3 / 3 / 3 / 3 / 3 / 3 / 3
Wing Decoration - 3 / 2 / 2 / 3 / 3 / 2 / 2
Armor Style - 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 2 / 2 / 2
Tail - 7 / 8 / 5 / 8 / 3 / 3 / 3
Tail Ridge - 3 / 3 / 2 / 3 / 3 / 3 / 3
Visage
Skin Color - 8 / 2 / 3 / 5 / 2 / 8 / 3
Face - 9 / 9 / 2 / 1 / 1 / 6 / 2
Hair Style - 17 / 12 / 6 / 12 / 11 / 13 / 5
Hair Color - 17 / 11 / 28 / 25 / 19 / 27 / 6
Hair Highlights - 10 / 18 / 7 / 1 / 10 / 1 / 7
Hair Decoration - Yes / ? / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes
Mustache - 3 / 1 / N/A / 2 / N/A / No / N/A
Beard - 5 / 4 / N/A / 2 / N/A / 4 / N/A
Horns - 19 / 19 / 10 / 15 / 15 / 10 / 11
Horn Color - 4 / 8 / 10 / 6 / 8 / 1 / 7
Horn Jewelry - 4 / 4 / 3 / 4 / 4 / 2 / 1
Scale Pattern - 2 / 5 / 5 / 4 / 5 / 3 / 3
Scale Markings - 2 / ? / ? / ? / 3 / 3
Scale Color - 4 / 10 / 9 / 1 / 5 / 11 / 4
Headdress - 2 / 2 / 2 / 2 / 4 / 4 / 2
Eye Color - 3 / 12 / 14 / 2 / 6 / 1 / 11
Eyesight - 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1
Ears - 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 3 / 1
Earrings - 2 / 3 / 3 / 9 / 5 / 3 / 5
Nose - 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1
Jewelry Color - 3 / 2 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 4
Chest Strap - Yes / Yes / N/A / Yes / N/A / No
Underclothes Top - 1 / 1 / 2 / 1 / 3 / 1 / 4
Underclothes Bottom - 2 / 2 / 2 / 2 / 2 / 2 / 2
Underclothes Color - 3 / 2 / 1 / 5 / 1 / 4 / 4
Body Scales - 3 / 2 / 2 / 3 / 5 / 3 / 2

Also, give dracthyr more color options for primary and secondary colors. I like the strength of it, but I’d like an orange skin for primary, and not on the same one, but could be cool for halloween I guess, a strong purple secondary. The colors we have are weak and I would like to have more options.

Blizz, you made the dracthyr, please make them more better. I already love them.

[Tenebrys-gilneas]

most likely 10

[Mevanou-wyrmrest-accord (Mevanou)]

I would assume it’s a slightly tweaked version of the Forbidden Reach rather than dumping you in a faction capital at 10 with Wrathion or Ebyssian; alternately it might just skip straight to the capitals cutscene

[Nofaction-dalaran]

no monk. sad sober dragons…

[Alimath-malygos]

Nice. But the plural of shaman is shamans. I can’t believe they’re still digging into that mistake 20 years later.

[Bilehazard-area-52]

Please Blizzard let our Visage/chosen Identity be able to look like any race next. I really want mine to be Blood Elf or Void Elf because they are my favorite races in the game.

[Shaleraz-emerald-dream]

@Lemonbrew-moon-guard

@Shaleraz-emerald-dream

What else could they be? You’re not going to be able to perform something like Deep Breath without wings and a dragon head that breathes fire.

They could be anything, magic up some ethereal glyph of stars type wings/a tail for spells that require it. For a bit of added fun, add a bunch of glyphs so you can change your wings/tail to match the color of your dragonflight of choice.

Alternatively, we could just use the easy solution that people have been asking for since day 1 and give the option to make visage permanent and swap to dragon form for specific spells that require it.

But during combat you’ll be swapping to dragon form constantly anyway, so it won’t even make a difference between something like that and the toggle we have now that allows you to immediately switch to visage form when combat ends.

[Genjiro-khazgoroth]

I would much rather evoker being opened up to other races. I might finally play one then

[Zentgraf-tichondrius]

Hahaha! I can’t believe they’re actually going to do it! There will soon be more dragons running around than elves - Dracthyr will be mandatory for PvP and M+. Then after they make 500 million from selling race changes, they’ll get nerfed.

[Beltharion-eonar]

Would be amazing but sadly…Blizz isn’t that kind

[Mevanou-wyrmrest-accord (Mevanou)]

While it would be effort I do think they could expand races a bit and still keep the uniquely draconic options they put on the default half elven model.

Like if you check green flight visages a lot of them have obvious draconic features to keep them visually distinct from night elves (Ysera, most noticeably).

[Lemonbrew-moon-guard]

@Shaleraz-emerald-dream

But during combat you’ll be swapping to dragon form constantly anyway, so it won’t even make a difference between something like that and the toggle we have now that allows you to immediately switch to visage form when combat ends.

Dev maybe, but Aug wouldn’t. I don’t know anything about Preservation, but I can’t imagine they would much either.

[Lhaw-blackhand]

Can we please get a glyph to change the ascendance back? that is FUGLY.

I know some may like it, but to me, that is a downgrade from the current forms, in every concievable way.

Love the rest of things

[Zaibone-eranikus]

Idk how to frame any of this so here we go.
-Drakthyr using magic outside of the dragonflights doesn’t make sense.
-Tier created for Drakthyr Evokers unable to be worn in the actual races form is insane, I get old xpac gear but this is gear created FOR THEM specifically. Wild.
-The racials being given a longer cooldown does not seem enough. All those classes get two additional stops and every other class gets nothing in return.

[Erolyssa-wyrmrest-accord]

Bad priorities tbh.

We’re still waiting on promised expansion of all classes to all races. When are we getting more options for paladins and shaman and druids for instance? I want my elven shaman and elven druid please.

Also still waiting on playable high elves (the biggest player race ask of all time, the longest ask that’s unfulfilled excluding non-bipedal asks and ogres) that are available to alliance, not addressed by clergy as spooky heretics when they enter the church of the holy light, not called “void elves” in quest text and don’t turn purple in combat and oh don’t have a basic lore inhibition against being a holy paladin or priest due to their corruption.

It would be the easiest thing ever. You could do it next month. Just copy and paste the existing assets you already have for an allied race and a major race into a new template and hit go.

[Mevanou-wyrmrest-accord (Mevanou)]

Pre has a special aerial breath heal, two breath conals but iirc also the most spells that can technically be casted without switching (and technically the red tree for pre turns just about every red spell into additional healing so fire breath obviously)

[Shaleraz-emerald-dream]

@Zaibone-eranikus

Idk how to frame any of this so here we go.
-Drakthyr using magic outside of the dragonflights doesn’t make sense.
-Tier created for Drakthyr Evokers unable to be worn in the actual races form is insane, I get old xpac gear but this is gear created FOR THEM specifically. Wild.
-The racials being given a longer cooldown does not seem enough. All those classes get two additional stops and every other class gets nothing in return.

Don’t forget they get a free slow fall and flight form as well via gliding and soar.

[Mitsunori-grobbulus]

When can Evoker be OTHER RACES???

Dracthyr are so ugly.

[Magnarok-amanthul (Magnarok)]

@BlizzardEntertainment

In addition, Shaman will get a new Ascendance form for each specialization with the release of the update!

They’re kinda gross, and I love them! The face is freaky and twisted, vaguely reminiscent of Ragnaros’s face. I love that they still feel like the ascended form of the twilight’s hammer.