Its clear in the 20th Anniversary Preview that you see all evoker in dracthyr form with shoulders and belts on. I think this along with no mention of transmog changes show that they do not plan to separate visage transmog from dracthyr.
This is the bare minimum Id ask for. I can stay evoker in combat, I can have limited transmog options in dragon form just this one thing is the issue. Is it some coding issue that prevents this for them?
I just cannot understand why the transmog cannot be separated.
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I usually keep shoulders invisible but at the very least I think they could solve a subset of the problem by removing belts altogether from the dracthyr form.
I’m basically using the Valdrakken citizen outfits 99% of the time specifically because they don’t have pieces for those slots.
That is 99% of my issue with the Dracthyr form as well. Just let me see my full transmog while in combat and I’d be fine.
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I don’t see why Dracthyr have to contend with no transmog. If they can make it work for Tauren, Worgen, Draenei, and Trolls then I see no reason why it cannot work for Dracthyr’s dragon forms.
People can live with some helmets and boots looking a little goofy. People have lived with it with various races for years. Even orcs have a couple goofy helmets, and it’s not like the world stopped spinning.
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Since giving full transmog is clearly a problem, they should give Dracthyr more barbershop armor options.
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I don’t really see why it is a problem though. The system for applying armor clearly exists already, considering they get 3d belt bits and shoulders.
It just needs applying to the rest of the body.
How is it that Nagas, an entirely NPC race, are able to wear more armor than our Dracthyr characters. Granted, does it look perfect on them? No. But that’s not at all to say it would look bad on Dracthyr.
Imo, if Blizzard wants to avoid it, then at least let players transmog gloves, chest, and legs. Everything would be preferred, but at least just let us match with our shoulders.
If I remember correctly, the main issue is certain Dracthyr body parts, like the head, wings, and legs. Also some of the customization options clash with spikes, fins, etc.
This. 100%. Common Blizzard, give the interns things to do! lol
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Right, but we’ve already been used to how races like Tauren are. Their mane is always present, as is their tail, their hooves, and their horns. Tauren and Worgen, like Dracthyr, are also digitigrade so that’s not a reason either.
I cannot see how any of the issues for Dracthyr are not already present on a race like Tauren. I really think people would be able to live with some body parts clipping.
Also, some armor pieces remove/fully hide certain body customizations. Something similar could be done for Dracthyr in regards to the fins, spikes, etc (if people truly cared enough).
The only “new” thing on Dracthyr is the presence of permanent wings, but I don’t think people would care all that much if they simply clip through.
The issues of Dracthyr not having enough visible transmog is only going to get worse as time goes by, because almost none of the armor sets in the game match with their racial armor - not even their own tier sets. I also don’t think it’s fair for people to say “just play in the visage form then” either, because ultimately that’s not what a lot of people signed up for when making this race.
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Or give us dracthyr Druids! So we could care less about transmog.
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That would only work for a portion of the playerbase, but I’m all for Dracthyr Druids. Nothing should come at the cost of transmog - I don’t see sense in it.
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Yeah they’ve worked with wacky anatomies before, we’ve handled odd stretching and shoes and the like on tauren and worgen for yonks. Like the ONE thing I can see them conceivably always hiding is the cloak, because that would probably actually always look bad. But everything else? Why not? [Effort/resources/money?]
The Earthen can have spikes sticking out of em and still wear clothes, Dracthyr’s spikes/fins shouldn’t be a concern there either.
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Oh I completely forgot about cloaks lol, I hide them a lot.
Yeah, that’s the one thing that wouldn’t work at all, but I think most people could live with that, purely because the wings would hide most of them anyways.
Easy solution. Just let it clip, or hide them.
Earthen gems clip
Elf eyebrows clip
Draenei shoulders REALLY clip
Dwarf beards sometimes vanish
Not a hard idea.
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The problem for me is not the clipping, it’s that I literally never want to see my visage transmog in trueform.
Show me one draconic NPC who actually wears a player outfit outside of visage, I dare you.
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This! It bugs me to no end that nothing matches the barber armour.
At the very least give us sliders to colour the various armour pieces. I could live with the limited transmog if I could just make things match
Also most offhands still sit 20 feet in front of us and I will forever be complaining about this lol
I love playing evoker, I just really wish the transmog situation wasn’t so bad overall
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Oh I believe it, I wanted that too. I’m just saying for those wanting full mogs. Just throw the male variant on, cut off fingers and feet like others, hide crests and ears, let the horns, tail, wings clip.
And let me mog dragon and visage separate. Thanks.
I get it, visage form is new to us. We haven’t quite mastered it yet. Still can’t be hard to hide the armor, too.
At least it should match the five flight color sets. That, admittedly, I can get behind.
Honestly I guess that’s fair. Half my alts are elves so I’m completely used to keep belts, headpieces and shoulders hidden because of the clipping nightmares with the lanky humanoids.
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Why wouldn’t you want to wear player armor, out of curiosity? And, even then, just don’t wear transmog in your trueform if that’s the case.
Although, as I’ve seen some suggest, it’d be nice if both Visage and the actual Dracthyr form had separate transmog, so you could have 1 look for each at a time.
Also, NPCs that haven’t had anything properly rigged to them for player armor aren’t going to have it. It’s a coding and artwork thing. There’s nothing stopping them, theoretically, from having even Drakonids be capable of using player armor, it’d just require work on Blizz’s end.
Case in point: Naga. Naga, despite their body shapes, can actually wear a lot of player armor. Check out the Wowhead dressing room to see what I mean.
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