I want. Merging of similar races on the same faction. Mostly allied races.
Tauren-
highmountain mixed in with base tauren
Grimtotem customization (tattoos and unique evil horns) new class rogue
Feltotem customization and new classes like warlock
Yaungol bodytype and customization
Taunka bodytype and customiization
Orcs
Merging of maghar assets
Dragonmaw customization
Mok’nathal bodytype/customization
Trolls
Zandalari assets mixed with base trolls (giving males another bodytype option)
Blood troll tattoos/hairstyles
loa based tattoos
loa features/blessings
Forsaken
lepergnome bodytype/mini skeletons
undead rangers/high elves bodytype/ night elves bodytype
undead human dk bodytype (undead human skin tones at least), with Nathanos like skin tones as well
full skeleton models
Blood Elves
San’layn customization (Vampiric undead)
Dark Ranger Customization (undead high elf)
Fel Elf Customization (Varying degrees of fel corruption like the demonic elves in the BC raids)
Holy touched, light tattoos light/arcane based tattoos.
Runic tattoos, and magic weaved hairstyles
Goblin
Kelfin bodytype and or customization. - new class druids for aquatic druids of gral and coral ancients.
Eel based kelfin skins, aquatic kelfin that shock and use lightning magic/ as light magic. new class paladins
Cyborg goblin customization
new type of goblin, hellgoblins, Goblins with fiery molten skins (like the magma junkrat skins) and little devil wings
mud goblins skins (more brown/dark black and grey skin tones)
Pandaren
different fur colors like green, red, yellow, purple, cyan, sky blue etc. Some pink shade
Polar bear fur colors (mane options)
painted fur tattoos
Belly tattoos
Human
Kul Tiran body type options (combine available classes)
Skinny body type option
ability to choose accents
ability to pick different fighting animations/ smoother running animations
more artifical hair colors
tattoos
Dwarf
dark iron mixed customization (body type?)
Wildhammer druids addition
Metal dwarf skins/customization/ new voices
frost dwarf customization, icicle beards, cryobreath and blue liquid ice eyes modified dark iron models with blue, purple, white, grey, pink, dark blue skin tones
Night Elf
druids of the flame skin tones and customization
feral night elf worgen bodytype (you would unlock night elf worgen customization and choose the bodytype in the barbershop) with unique night elf twist
highborne customization improvements (may share assets with nightborne in stuff like the hairstyles/eyes.
Gnome
-Mechagnome mixed assets with improvements such as picking how many limbs are mechanical.
full robot customization (like the ulduar mechagnomes). Different metal types for skin tones, different colors for lights such as the exos from destiny.
Sand gnome/pgymy body type, more darker skin tone color variation, and sand like skin - these gnomes would value gold and stuff like sun worship which unlocks paladins for gnomes
Lepergnome custoimzation shared with forsaken leper gnomes. This would be a bifactional customization unlock for gnomes or forsaken.
Draeni
Lightforged mixed assets combining available class options. (finally light forged monks! T’paartos would be proud)
New bodytype and customization broken (normal), fel touched (eredar red/orange/dark green, grey, black light grey, light green), shadowtouched (argus).
Feralfen druids - new class druids
Worgen
add tails please
new bodytype gnolls
lizard cursed humans (like reptillian bulky lizard men) or different type of animal.
Vulpera
more fur colors like the foxes in the shadowlands (all those skin tones)
cosmetic features that feature skulls/tails of their enemies such as maybe some bone ornaments
more tail options including different types and many more then one tails (maybe up to like 9 tails)
Ardenweald fox spirit customization (like some unatural blues, greens, glowing eyes, shiny blue auras from silhouettes)
face tattoos
Nightborne
felborne customization
arcane hair (sorta like void elf hair with arcane tips and or changing colors such as purple/ white/ pink/ blue/ rainbow/ primsatic arcane)
arcane/fell silhouette magic border tips like the nightborne npcs.
foot jewlery (something like the blood elves but floating around the feet like rings or floating behind or in front of your armor.
new hairstyles please
metal face jewlery seperate from the metal earrings
new bodytype Moonguard night elves (nuetral night elf customization similar to void elves getting blood elf customization this would give many night elf hairstyles and maybe skin tones to night borne)
possible undead night elf bodytype and customization
Void elves
new identity tag (can choose to be called high elves) with new class paladins
high elf natural hair colors, void form instead turns into an arcane form where their tattoos glow instead
high elf tattoos
Void elf bodytype with more void customizations
star void black skin tones, basically a skin tone textured like the background universe with some stars inside, think the druid glyph but black/pink/purple/grey/ void colors
black hole bellybuttons
void tipped finger tips and feet
pitch black eyes, no socket eyes
With many customizations they would merge some races and add identity tags so you can unlock customization on the toons you already play. And change how you identify. For example my troll would get all the darkspear troll stuff and have more identity tags like changing my customization to look like a dark troll one day and pick the name I mouseover as “dark troll shaman”.
Or I play my dwarf shaman, and some days I choose to be wildhammer, other days I choose to be dark iron, then one day blizz unlocks the ability to earn frost dwarf customization and I get it and then in the barbershop I can change my current dwarf to go frost dwarf! This would make it more appealing to stay as certain races and even still allow you to race change into other groups. And it would make older races more appealing.
I forget where, but I actually made a comment asking if Vulpera would get more eye options such as a red left eye, and a blue right eye. Lo and behold that’s one of the options I’m currently using, nifty.
And for my next trick I shall unlock Vulpera Paladins for everyone.
I mean … gonna have to disagree here on further HE options for VEs RP tools/ secondary minor theme.
It’s an in depth list for sure though.
For your Highborne improvements part on NEs they could stand to benefit from letting both males and females use tattoos and jewelry interchangeably… that goes for BEs as well off the top of my head for the jewelry part anyways. But accessories like that for all races should be accessible to characters.
I just put what I would like to see personally. And the community is asking for high elf paladins so I put it their as a solution. Blood elves would get San’layn which would be a win in my book. And night elves on horde by something like the undead night elves or moonguard night elves that helped the nightborne (who may have chosen to stay with the nightborne whether by convenience or some other drive).
Not really you would still unlock them. This is more akin to the old idea of subraces. And it would make it easier to justify adding more similar looking “allied races” if you can earn it for your main and use it right there. Much like we get a 400th mount we can only use on one toon. It would be another layer of customization usage. And allow for stuff like Frost dwarves, Ice trolls, Taunka, Yaungol fire mages, maybe ancient elune night elf customization with more primitive elune tattoos, white eyes, glowing moon tatoos etc. Instead of it being on another race you just earn it as if it was transmog for your own toon.
Allowing nuetral options would be counter acted by adding some unique and cool faction specific options.
so people who got a new race would just be grinding for a skin option?
Not only that but it would be VERY awkward with the old starting area when you have Amani/Zandalar trolls being treated like Darkspears
Yea but that’s old content. It’s already weird for some heroes like nightborne questing in cataclysm.
I also thought it would be a nice idea for shadowlands to introduce “soulshaping” or “fleshcrafting” allowing you to just change your bodytypes via barber to other races. Imagine by the end of the shadowlands you can soulshape your character into a Kyrian/Venthyr/Maldraxxi/Ardenweald creature. Which would be a cool way to finish the expansion with a permenant bodytype option in the barber.
So you could have started out as say a night elf and then shadowlands technology allows you to now be a Venthyr or Kyrian. It’s something that lore could be explained. And allow for stuff like the Ardenweald soulshapes to be used by druids and shamans for ghostwolf/ druid forms.
For some reason or another, blizz decided to dump the Warrior and ranger culture of the blood elves, and make them the soft bland arcane users.
Blizzard seems to have show horned many races into one “culture” in fact. Forsaken, trolls, orcs and night elves seem to suffer this affect. Like blizz can’t commit to the races original intent.
I’d say the blood elves got shafted hard. They had so many opportunities and routes to go, but they gave body jewelry and some already given changes that could have been base line additions and not features (beards and skin color)
I will likely keep playing off and on with little 30 day game time purchases but I’m not going to guarantee Blizzard my money at this point.
SLs is not fun for me. I don’t like the several borrowed power systems we have to needlessly grind for. I don’t like the story so far. I don’t like the lack of Alt friendlyness they said they were interested in.
I was really holding out for customizations to keep me interested.
I think you’re reading too much into it. A lot of those answers are basically “we can’t talk about this thing because it’s not ready to be talked about.”
It’s not even that it’s not coming in 9.1 is just when blizz says “no plans for the immediate or near future” usually means never.
We are playing the game that the devs want to play, not so much the players want to play. They are so freakin stubborn on systems that they will go down with their ship. So far I haven’t hated SL… but if the story continues to be bad, and horrible armors like what’s show cased for covenants and no heritage armor? I may take a longgg needed break.