This is just terrible. I’ve managed to negate a lot of this by being Horde and spending most of my time on Kalmidor, but… ugh. Look, I know it’s 2004 and not everything is going to look great, but male dwarves are in their own league to the point that I find them scary to look at. Repulsive, even, to the point that looking at them makes me nauseous. It’s like someone punched them in the face and their skull started retracting backwards, then it snapped back in to place and that’s what we’ve got now. Also, their beards look like they’re not hair, but rather plates of armor that they spray paint different colors and attach to their chins. It’s too much. Imagine all the people that would raid for the Alliance, they get in group, and then they discover that their priest is a male dwarf! Instant switch over to the Horde, guaranteed.
I know #nochanges is a thing, but like… could you please include an optional graphic filter that puts paper bags over the heads of all male dwarves? It would be client side so they wouldn’t be aware of what’s going on, but I do think it’s necessary at this point. People who enjoy okay-ish models and graphics would like this as they don’t have to play in a world that’s too off-putting, and male dwarf players would like this as well because they can rest easy that people are actually queuing with them for reasons beyond the fact that they can fear ward.
And people wondered why we joined the Horde instead of the Alliance.
Honey, you should be thankful we did. We introduced the Horde to concepts like shampoo, deodorant, makeup… hoof pedicures in your case. It took a while, but we’ve got everyone in the Horde looking amazing now!
It’s like Rasputin stuck mashed potatoes to his beard.
So hear me out on this. I’ve seen people saying that classic should be its own continuum seperate from how retail went, right? How’s about this. When Kel’thuzad dies in lore, all the Alliance leaders get together. Bolvar takes a look at Magni and begins to vomit uncontrollably. We band together with the Alliance to destroy Ironforge, letting them keep the gnomes as refugees and allowing them to have ogres in their stead as compensation. Everybody wins!
How about this. You give the Alliance trolls, the Alliance gives you dwarves, and we end up joining the Alliance! All the decent looking races (we can still save some of the paper bags for the humans) on one side, all the uggos on the other! Perfectly balanced.
