To be honest ,their about as appealing as DHs and DKs .DHs can be only elves and Dks can only have two spec both are the have that same feel which make them seem the same.
I thought this was weird as well. the idea is to blend in
I thought on that ,I think know the reason is because of the islands influence maybe that would change when they leave the island.
A mythical aggressive carnivorous beast that breath fires . Dragons in wow however has been made too intelligent . Dragons should be like Death wing but without him talking and scheming to take out the entire world . Just surviving for his daily bread and protecting his territory.
looks to Malecgos, Nefarian, and Onyxia
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Don’t care for them tbh. Not bestial enough for my liking.
Huge, majestic scaly beasts that project an aura of dominance, permanence and acuity.
Basically, Surristrasz (located on the Amber Ledge in Borean Tundra).
The following line really grabbed me:
‘Even the halls of the Wyrmrest Temple, built specifically for dragons, are too small for their true forms (at least, as they are shown in-game).’
Because the first time I was flown up to the third floor, I was confused by the lack of dragons. Then I saw Chromie, realized what was going on and was disappointed. When I looked at the building later, I assumed it had been built by and for a different race and we repurposed it for the dragons according to our own ideas, not theirs. (Yes, I was unaware of a lot of lore at the time.)
For me, it is the in-game presentation that causes the disconnect.
And it is a disappointment. When I interact with a dragon I would like to interact with a dragon, not their ‘visage’. (I am also not thrilled with the ‘visage’ idea. They are dragons, they should be able to shape-shift to whatever at will.)
(And the whole I am riding around on their kids thing also throws me off so my head cannon is that drakes are the dragon’s animal cousins the way in RL, monkeys are ours.)
But the Dracthry aren’t dragons.
And their ‘true’ form is not a dragon, it is not a 'huge, majestic scaly beast that project an aura of dominance, permanence and acuity. '.
It isn’t even a human-sized majestic scaly beast that project an aura of dominance, permanence and acuity. Or a human-sized majestic scaly beast. Or a human-sized scaly beast.
It’s just a skinny scaly human-shaped dragonoid. And an ugly skinny scaly human-shaped dragonoid, at that!
And, worse, from my view, unisex.
No, dragons do not have any defining sexual characters but, again, dracthyr are not dragons. If they were, I would be fine with the unisex and happy at being able to play an actual dragon!
And I don’t have any interest in playing in their humanoid/‘visage’ form either as it is just Blood Elf part 3 and Human part 3 with some new ‘pretty dragon’ customizations. I already have three human characters and three blood elf characters, that’s more than enough.
What I would have liked:
True form: a 50/50 humany/dragony form to be used in all content with it’s own unique female and male models that include wings and can wear and mog all mail armor. The models wouldn’t have to be pretty just project strength and power.
Dragon form: typical or even smaller fully-customizable actual dragon to do the dragonflight mode thing as well as working the same as mounts do in the rest of Azeroth.
Or either of those things!
I love the majority of ideas put forth for the new expansion and, if I am still playing, I will still enjoy exploring the new zones, fiddling with my talent tree (can’t wait for that!), learning to dragonride and customizing my personal dragon.
I just won’t be playing the new race/class. Not because I see dragons as pretty elven humanoids but because the dragon part of either form is not actually very dragony to me but more lizardy or elveny.
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I wouldn’t say they’re ugly, I find them interesting and kind of cute.
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Vermithrax Pejorative from Dragonslayer
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I do not know that one lemme go look
Hm. How odd i have never heard of this movie before.
OOooo she looks lovely considering what effects were like at this time. Well puppetry and other practical effects I mean.
Watching scenes of her on youtube. I love that she kinda walks around with her wings being like bat wings. For the time in media, this was probably strange and different compared to other dragons.
Edit: THAT WAS STOP MOTION!?!?!??!? IT WAS SO SMOOTH I THOUGHT IT WAS A PUPPET
Ditto. The film was also a masterpiece of setting a surreal mood; and the battle between Verm and Ulrich was top-notch.
I also like the dragons from Reign of Fire, one of the few dragon designs that trail the wing membranes down the body instead of narrowing them near the shoulder, like WoW’s dragons do (and yet their bodies stay parallel to the ground anyway). More realistic IMO.
Dragons have no real purpose in WoW other than loot piñatas. WoW sparkle magic dragons are inferior to other games’ dragons because they talk too much and have humanoid feelings and inclinations. WoW dragons are to mythical dragons what Twilight vampires are to mythical vampires.
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Cata really ruined them for me honestly.
Vanilla they were closer to AD&D dragons, almost always dangerous and never happy to see a mortal on their turf/patrol path. They were the big bads, world and raid bosses while having their talons in both continents. Wasn’t till AQ that we really interacted with any of them regularly on a ‘don’t eat me bro’ level, if you were a raider. There was of course, Sindragosa if you made it up to that point in raiding - back to being eaten.
Little miss chromie not withstanding, but she always felt more aloof with her gnomish personality combined with a take on time travel so she was more of the odd ball back then.
By the time we reached cata, ironically having the biggest and baddest of dragons emerge would lead to them being all but wrung dry for thrall juice. Though various dragons and flights have made appearances in most expansions the feel had been greatly diminished with only a few outliers such as Yu’lon and Ysera keeping it interesting.
Well chromatic dragons. Metallic ones in DnD are usually chill.
( For context for those that don’t dnd. Ancient Dragons are the strongest dragons. This party was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too low level to face one hence why they’re panicking super hard with this Ancient White Dragon )
Amusingly , Caduceus trying to throw Platinum at it as an apology likely would have just angered the Dragon more. Just a “OH YOU THINK I DONT HAVE WEALTH!?!?”
Metalic? Oh right, quest givers. 
Or Bahamut if we’re talking Metallics
WoW Dragons are a weird mish mash of this lore which I kinda like. I like that it’s a little different. Since you got the helpful Bronze acting like your typical lawful good Metallic. And only the Black and Blue Flights had their villain moments. Altho with the blue it was mostly Malygos and whichever dragons followed him.
Any mention of “Chromatic” in WoW is more for the artificially made dragonflight that Nefarian made. ( Which makes the reveal that Neltharion kinda already did that with the Dracthyr HILARIOUS because it makes Nefarian look like an idiot )
It was a new technique called “go motion” by fx master Phil Tippett (Jurassic Park).
Where stop action records a single frame, move model, take another frame, repeat… go motion would roll film while making small moves creating smoother motion and adding motion blur in the process.
Dragons in WoW never seemed all that different from what I remember reading about in Dragonlance books as a kid. Some are evil. Some are good. But mostly they’re just another race of people with their own motivations and desires.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh I was not aware the effect went back that far. Been awhile since I watched behind the scenes stuff for jurassic park. So I kinda thought that technique was just started for jurassic park onwards.
I just love geeking out over this stuff.
Dragons are massive popular in any kind of media: games, movies, cartoons , anime, books. They are present in any medieval fantasy fiction. Is the most classic creature of this genre.
Dragons in wow can be boring many times, i agree, but this only happens in wow, and is Blizzard fault. They should never had a humanoid form and be so polite, dragons should be more wild. Also the combat animation blizzard gave to the dragons is just bad. See a massive dragon using his tiny hands to autoatack one target is depressing.