This is something I remember noticing with the BFA races, but also an issue with the Dracthyr.
This wasn’t so much an issue for the Vanilla races, as they seemed much more relative to each other. Humans are obviously the standard by which all other races are judged, High/Blood Elves were always meant to be pretty close (a smidge taller, I believe, but nothing noticeable), where Night Elves were considerably taller, as noted by Grom Hellscream in WC3 when he immediately noted that they weren’t fighting the elves they were familiar with, because they were so much taller.
Orcs were always meant to be larger than Humans (I never imagined as being giants, so much as “way more buff”), Trolls were obviously tall but lanky, and Tauren are meant to be towering minotaurs.
I don’t remember where the Eredar/Draenei’s height was ever referenced, but I would assume something similar to Night Elves in height. Worgen, I would assume somewhere near Orcs.
Kul Tirans and Zandalari, though, look like absolute giants compared to any other race on their faction. And now the Dracthyr look to be nearly twice the height of a regular human.
What I suspect happened is that during BFA, with the Kul Tirans, they were only looking at the Human for context. Since they wanted to have “tiny lil guys” (that use the Forsaken model) and “big bois” like we got, they figured the greater the difference, the more stylized they would look.
Which would have been fine – if Humans were the ONLY other race in the game.
Similarly, with the Zandalari, they probably just looked at regular Trolls and thought “well, if they stand upright, this is how tall they would be”. But because Trolls were designed to be hunched over, they were designed at one height, and with Zandalari standing upright, it makes them the largest race in the game, bar none. Which feels strange, when I feel like Tauren are supposed to be the largest race currently playable (would still love to see Vrykul one day).
Dracthyr seem to have followed this trend of what I’m going to call “Height creep”, being about as tall as a Zandalari, towering over every other race.
I don’t really know what the design intention for Dracthyr was – they seem decidedly “un-stylized”, neither big and powerful, nor frail and wiry. Because of that, it just leaves them seeming disproportionately tall, but their proportions are a bit alien to WoW anyways, so it’s hard to say what they’re “supposed” to be.
By and large, it just feels like the races could have a second pass just in terms of their height, in comparison to one another. Not suggesting any actual changes to the models, merely just adjusting the scale of their size a bit as needed (like I said, Kul Tirans seem the most egregious to me).
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