San’Layn could effectively cover a lot of the Dark Ranger options.
Not the Night Elf ones though. Still not thrilled about the Darkshore Warfront basically being about killing our own people.
They will probably give them Night elf options, it’s not like they are far off minded to be needed to be distinct from the San’lyn
I shouldn’t say the NPC model was better. I should say the player model was clearly not based on it, and is instead a Night Elf modified and painted to look Nightborne.
While the faces on NPC Nightborne are lacking, every other aspect I mentioned about them is something that they didn’t carry over and they add up to be a large amount missing.
Both were based on night elf model, Lydon, that’s the thing. The NPC quality is very subpar, which is why it was redone for the playable version. The NPC facial structure was simplified, which is why they had to redo the faces entirely.
I don’t find the playable versions bad, only lacking.
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It makes me wonder if the addition of Night Elven Dark Rangers is a stepping stone (along with Male Elven Dark Rangers) to giving each side Dark Rangers.
But then we’re back to a new class for Blood Elves/Forsaken, and Night Elves, a la Demon Hunter all over again.
I thought the same thing when Sylvanas started creating night elf dark rangers…
Each side? You think the undead night elves are going to go back to the alliance?
They were caught with edgy undead effect, and don’t care about their past and can only focus on revenge (which is weird, even tho it was Nathanos’s fault, they blame Maiev)
Maybe generic male NPC Nightborne look bad, but people like Silgryn or other character males evoke a very different face than what we got, which was fat faced, sneering Night Elves with out of proportion bodies.
I feel like Sylvanas is going Queen of the Undead eventually, and maybe a future expansion is about us teaming up with the Lich King to stop her from conquering the Frozen Throne and taking the Helm of Domination for herself…
I thought the same thing with Sira Moonwarden…
It annoys me that the villain of the Darkshore battlefront is an Alliance Ally…
But it gives both factions a chance to have Wardens.
I don’t think she’s gonna stop with undead until everyone is undead. Like Rommanath she wants everyone to think the way she does and everyone else is wrong
Speaking for Nyshant, it’s so weird that they resized the Night Elf arms. but not their shoulderpads. Shal’dorei are like 90% Shoulderpads.
Also I’ve killed so many wildhammer dwarves and they aren’t dropping
and I like Wildhammer Dwarves. Ugh.
Silgryn’s face appears slim due to the chin plate, which enlongates his head. This is why chin plate should be treated like part of customization and not tied to the heritage armor’s chest. Just make it be like a beard, disabled when we use certain helms.
They adjusted shoulder pads for males a little in 8.0, but yes, they need to adjust them more. Also, males’ leg armor geosets are still night elf-sided, which makes them really big for their thinner legs.
The gauntness of the face did not translate.
Player ears are also way way too thick. I’ve linked it before, but my Nightborne rant thread is this way:
I know some of you like Alamara have posted there already.
If you wanna play good-looking purple elves without misleading NPCs, the Alliance is waiting for you…
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At least the horde has an option
I’ve said it before, maybe more than once, but I really hope we will see improvements to allied races, and maybe even to main races, in 8.2.
Since the nightborne will have a role in 8.2, maybe this is the moment the fans have been waiting for?
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Dunno. Everyone told me to shut it about fixing Nightborne and that Goblins and Worgen have been waiting for model updates for years, which isn’t untrue.
Hopefully 8.2 wows me enough in some way to see they mean it when they want to do more for character customization in general.
Yikes.
Some people are just toxic and don’t understand that blizzard can work on multiple things at once and won’t affect what they want in the future…
We will probably see character customization improvements over patches and expansions, not all at once.
In that regard, I can totally see 8.2 spearheading it.