The Future of Warcraft Announcements -- New Dracthyr Race and Evoker Class

As I said in the main topic, it honestly annoys me that you recycled the Worgen Skeleton, as that inherently gives a core race’s skeleton to the other faction.

Barring that though, my thoughts:

I’m glad they use mail and that they don’t have a tank spec, and they are ranged/heal spec. Though, as I said, it is a bit odd a dragon class can’t melee or tank, when they’d make most sense as one. (Though I do not want them to be, just that thematically it’s weird that they can’t)

I hope you guys will consider letting them equip bows and ranged weapons as well, because much like mail was lacking in users, so are ranged weapons.

The empower system looks… interesting. I can see how this might cause an accessibility issue for some users though, requiring them to hold down the button, so we’ll see how that works.


You did not elaborate on their humanoid form, and how it will work. Which is weird. We saw a humanish form and an elfish form. Are Humans locked to Alliance and Elfs to Horde?

Or will both be available to both factions? If it’s the latter - this goes right back to my issue with worgen - you’d be giving Horde access to a second core alliance race’s skeleton if they can create a human. Without giving Alliance access to a horde one they don’t already have access to.


Are the Drak’thyr going to be locked to the core 5 dragonflight colors? Or will we have options like purple, pink, etc.?

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