Hello everyone, since both the forums were moved and Blizzcon had passed, I thought about bringing this up again while the expectations of model updates are still fresh on everyone’s minds (I expect glowing worgen eyes on my character)!
Here’s a list of druid forms I think need updating as of now. Productive feedbacks and other suggestions are appreciated.
Moonkin (just needs to be diff from actual owlbeasts; plus I recall that some in the wild (ex. Mooncrazed Owlbeast in Val’sharah) didn’t get the model update)
Night Elf: Has travel form’s jewelry on antlers and NE eyebrows or sentinel owl eyebrows
Worgen: Has flight form’s toothy beak; shorten the ears like the Taur moonkin form
Tauren: Has two streaks of blue face paint on beak
Troll: their color palette should be akin to the blue and yellow or military macaws; has a red cockatoo feather mohawk to replace the antlers, and has tusks on sides of beak with white face paint like bear form
Highmountain Tauren: Same as Taur, but the face paint on beak is red colored instead
Travel (update cheetah model for glyph; female NE, Worg, and Taur have the doe form by default and get the same color and style as the stag counterpart, therefore remove glyph of the doe)
NE: stag/doe; has the same original Alliance stag coloring and ornaments, but with NE eyes and eyebrows
Worg: stag/doe; takes appearance like the original Horde stag, but with dark grey fur, Worg eyes and replace tribal ornaments with Worg cat form ones
Taur: stag/doe; similar to original Horde stag, but no fangs and has light/dark brown fur and ornaments similar to HTaur travel form
Troll: Raptor like ZandaTroll, but is red or green colored and has skull/cat form ornaments
Flight (remove glyph of the sentinel)
NE: sentinel owl w/ NE eyes and original ornaments
Taur: same eagle model as HTaur but has bull horns and all brown color like the kalimdor eagles in stonetalon mountains; replace ornaments to be like HTaur, but in same color palette as original; has two streaks of blue face paint on beak, but no tattoos on feathers
Troll: update bat model to be like the Witherbark Direwing mount, while retaining its tusks and original colors/ornaments; also has white face paint like bear form
Treant (update model) & Incarnation: Tree of Life (should follow the same color/style as treant)
NE: original colored treant with purple leaves, and yellow eyes
Worg: Dark grey treant with dark orange leaves, and yellow eyes
KulHu: pale treant with thorns and green shrubbery, and green eyes
Taur: dark brown treant with pine tree leaves, and blue eyes
Troll: original colored treant with palm tree leaves, and blue eyes
HTaur: same as Taur
ZandaTroll: same as Troll
I would like to see for moonkins is like a hybrid model, kinda like how Malfurion looks, got feathered arms, maybe some hoofed feet and antlers but still retain your character model.
I am definitely in agreement that the forms need to be updated, especially with the new Allied races all having somewhat unique forms…seems odd for the older races to be stuck with outdated/less cool models.
I had a thought a while back that it would be interesting if they went back to the quest system to get your forms (though obviously not as arduous as they used to be), and then you decide which (out of two or three race specific options) to go for. Kind of like how as Horde you can choose Paku or Gonk in Dazar’alor. This could work especially well for Trolls, they could choose which Loa to follow and their forms would be based on that choice.
If nothing else happens however ( let’s face it, that’s a lot of art and skinning work ) I’d love to see a glyph introduced that makes Bear, cat and Moonkin form wear the armor they used to have when activating “King of the jungle” back in cataclysm.
For Moonkin form we already have Glyph of the Stars for those who don’t want to look like fat owls.
How about adding some other glyphs to give us more variety than just Glyph of the Stars. Similar to what they have done for Aquatic Form. More choices would be nice.
I definitely think they need to give more unique appearances for different forms.
Right now stag form for worgen is the same as is for night elves, and looks pretty weird shifting into a purple stag with jewelry. Just doesn’t feel right.
Treant form should be updated to meet the graphical fidelity of other forms and should have different colored bark and leaves depending on your hair and skin colors, like the cat and bear forms do. Same goes for moonkin form.
The Antlers are kind of a NE Druid thing and not a Moonkin thing. Night Elves that are born with Antlers (Malfurion, Broll Bearmantle) are supposed to be said to achieve greatness as Druids.
It’s not a thing that belongs to every race.
As for the wings… I’m pretty sure he just kind of… Tapes those on.
He never used to have them, and you can see that they’re actually connected to the bands he wears around his Biceps.
Would I love to have Antlers? Absolutely. I would love for all races that can be Druids to have the option of having Stag antlers. Much like how Death Knights have specific skin tones only available to DK’s, and how Demon hunters have their different horn styles. It’s in the game. Blizz has the ability to customize the class as well as the race.
I want Antlers.
Do I want taped on wings? Not really. I mean, they’re cool on Malfurion, but we have WAY too many clipping issues with gear as it is. Lets get capes working right before trying to do a crazy idea like having wings sticking out through the sleeves of all my chest pieces.
Edit: The talons on his feet and hands are also just shoes and gloves…
Dammit! I thought this was a topic telling us details about some new updates not an opinion lol. Oh well since we’re sharing I’d love to see some updates too, starting with moonkin form. I hated this form and haven’t used it since glpyh of stars came out but now i’m sick of being blue all the time. It messes with the color scheme of my transmog lol. As others have said I’d like a hybrid version with anters and such.
i agree but hoofed feet, I’m a Kal’dorei not a satyr.
Next the fearl form. First we should be larger, in lore the fearl druids are as large as nightsaber mounts. Secondly why do we Night elves get the basic version but Worgens look like lions? Not fair lol.
Im not sure that’s correct. His current condition is explained during childrens week
(Orphan:Wow, you sure don’t look like any night elf I’ve seen before!
Orphan: Our orphan matron says druids can turn in to birds, cats, and bears, but you look like a combination of all of them!
Orphan: I see what you’re doing. You’re gonna take all of the druid forms and make them into one super-form!
Malfurion Stormrage: No, little one, it’s nothing like that. My spirit spent many years in the Emerald Dream while my body slept, and it started to take on attributes of our animal forms.)
Also I’d like to be able to use my owl glyph again, I hate that stupid purple crow and that Lunarwing form is annoying, we should have gotten a mount. Lastly I wish like bear and cat form, flight form’s color changed depending on your hair color.
For myself the only update I would like to see is the symbol that is on our Lunarwing forms gets added to our Moonkin forms. The crescent druid symbol could be silver for Alliance and gold for Horde.
It is a small change but at least it shows the difference between A druid form Moonkin and the often feral Owlbeast.
A less likely idea would be to add that glow that Cenarius has to some aspect of the Moonkin even if it is only during celestial alignment or Incarnation chosen of Elune.
But really any updates are good.
I would formally like to second this motion. I would say take the hybrid idea that everyone has been talking about with the antlers and maybe feathers and give us the moon symbol floating between the antlers.
IDK what possesd Blizz to make the KT moonkins look so dumb… I wish they’d hit up the community for art inspiration. This isn’t my artwork–but… holy damn is it 1000000% better than what their art team came up with. I’m not normally so critical of their art style–I really do like an appreciate a vast majority of it. But with that being said–we have enough fat moonkin. Blood trolls get their skinny form, I’d like mine. Like ruhkmar or w/e that toy is.
I also think travel form (the deer one) should default to whatever gender your character is! Why am I (a female druid night elf) transformed into a big stag when I go into travel form? It should be the doe form by default.
Gotta say that Worgen/Darkspear Troll got the biggest shaft as far as some druid forms go. For my suggestions:
Get a more distinct Moonkin form for them. Give the Worgen a more dark, terrifying feeling and the Darkspear a more colorful look that their Feral/Guardian forms got.
Give the Worgen a better Land/Aquatic Travel forms. The current versions are a joke. You gonna copy-paste the Night Elf versions? Really? I’m encouraged that the default Worgen forms are getting an update soon but seriously they need their own land/aquatic travel forms that are more distinct to their race. The Feral/Guardian/Flying-Travel forms are great but the rest needs a MASSIVE improvement.
I still don’t understand why a werewolf would need to transform into a feline in order to “do damage”. In light of what is going to happen with the Kul Tiran and Zandalari druids, another look at those old design decisions from Cataclysm seems warranted.
I also think Guardian druids mage tower appearance should have the unique overhead jump and slam animation on some of the attacks again. It was a combat animation during the BFA beta that never made it to live. Looked really cool imo.
I would agree if the doe form didn’t look so bad. >_<
As much as I’d like to see new forms, I’d be just as happy if we could “transmog” the dozen or so new forms we got in Legion without the specific spec and weapon limitations.