Why do you design your characters the way you do?

I prefer grayscale personally

This is my pretty face.

I think so? Thatā€™s why I want more options. Mustache, muscle, weight, height & boob sliders would be great.

I donā€™t know, it just feels right somehow.

I just for the appearances, in context of race and class, that seem to have the most implicit character/personality behind them.

Thatā€™s easier for me to imagine from some appearances than others, though, so a lot of my characters end up variations on a similar theme.

A couple dwarfs, a couple femgoats, Void Elves of either gender, a couple male Blood Elves, and a troll, an orc, an undead, a couple humans, and a ton of Night Elves (the rest all male; the female human faces make them look in their 40ā€™s and the NE fem face poly-meshes always lookedā€¦ really odd to me in ways longer hair can only kind of cover up).

I try to design my character on the way that I would look like. So as an orc, this best represents what I would or want to look like.

I sometimes switch it up whether I grow my beard a little longer in real life or trim it a little short. My orc does have a mohawk as his hairstyle of choice, which I would never have in real life, but for some reason it looks the best on an orc and itā€™s my favorite hairstyle for them.

For my characters itā€™s some kind of rough theme of sorts. Some people do a really good job on their characters with the flash and flare but I like to keep it simple. I saw a priest in Boralus the other day that looked like a glowing angel, very cool what they did.

In BfA I went on a character creation binge, for a variety of reasons. I wanted to get AR heritage armor sets. And then later I wanted to have a max level character of each class.

I wanted to make a warrior, so my usual process is to start out with an armor set that has the aesthetics that reflect my take on the class, and then make it work by going through all the various races and customizations and choose the best one. This can take a lot of time usually, and sometime a bit of trial and error is involved.

But not this character. Encarnita looks exactly like I planned before I create her, except I was a little uncertain about the eye color - blue or violet? Turns out I only had to wait a day and a new eye color became available that works perfectly for me.

As all of my max level characters have done, she is going through the Legion Class hall campaign to get her artifact appearances and mount. And then gear up and hopefully be ready for SL next week.

I should also add that the artifact weapon appearances and mount aesthetics play a big role in what armor I choose, along with my vision for a what a class should look like. Thatā€™s why my 3 main colors are gold, silver and red, just like my weapon. The warrior mount, well we will see - itā€™s not a pretty beast, and wonā€™t be a good ground mount, and while I will get it anyway this may be the one character I have that doesnā€™t use their class mount very often.

I am a male lesbianā€¦I LOVE WOMEN!

I think thereā€™s another word for thatā€¦

Do you like dudes as well?

I have ā€œthe coolestā€ look in my head and i design my characters after it
mah main
https://puu.sh/GPtoj/02f86feba4.png

Nopeā€¦no bromances here.

I wanted to make my warrior here to look like a battlefield butcher. I like my warriors to look like theyā€™ll wade through an army of enemies with reckless abandon and leave a mountain of corpses behind them. I like my undead warriors to also look particularly evil.

In my head Melera is known as The Butcher of Brennadam.

Tbh Iā€™m still figuring everything out. Iā€™m a teenage girl, and I have no idea what to put in a 10 page paper, let alone who Iā€™m turned on by.

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I donā€™t like too much facial hairs because Iā€™m a twink IRL (yes I know Iā€™m playing a fur monster).

  1. Lore. Before the game launched, spouse enjoyed the dwarven riflemen from Warcraft 3 and wanted to play as one. I was down for it. We played as gnomes in a previous MMO and being the same race just increased the fun factor in ways I didnā€™t anticipate so I wanted to repeat that success in WoW. We donā€™t do dwarven content without the other such as the Bronzebeard Heritage armor, for one. I held off on the priest mount quest until he was able to sit down and watch alongside me because the Bronzebeard brothers summoned me to investigate a Titan vault.) Just stuff like that. Lore drives our overall choices.

  2. There seems to be a tendency to provide child-like faces (wide eyes, constantly surprised expression, pig tail options) to the shorter races. I sidestepped all those and picked a no-nonsense face. Thatā€™s it.

I realize this is old but itā€™s still relevant. I was searching one of my photos and this came up

These days, it depends on the character. They all have distinct styles

This toon has the most effort put into it - for the mogs I mostly follow seasonal colors, and belf/nelf hunter felt like the most obvious class choices for either besides mage or druid.

My nelf mage was designed around feloā€™melorn, she was basically a ā€œDathā€™remar sounded like the coolest guy ever to walk Kalimdorā€ type as a kid, even her style is basically belf-like.

Troll DK was complete happenstance and my first masc toon, my partner wanted to level a DK and I figured we could do it together.

My dracthyrā€™s visage look the entire run of DF was meant to go for a ā€œhandmaiden of the queenā€ look - generic Valdrakken civilian clothes and the most jeweled horns imaginable, basically

I have a few others but the degree of thought I put into them varies tremendously.

I customize my character to fit the mog.

Holy necro batman.

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