Why dont we have hood options?

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Is there any specific reason why WoW has not implimented hood options for cloaks? This is a feature that was in Dark age of camelot in 2001. Some npc’s even have hoods? Also on this same topic, why do we still have armor models where hair sticks out of them?

Sure it would be great to have crazy new features and overhauls of talent systems and this and that, but its odd how these small little things cant be worked into it? In my opinion, its immersion breaking having my gnome mohawk/beard poking out of outfits or not having the ability to use a /hood feature on a cloak. Lets be honest, the cloak game in and of itself in this game is below par, but at the very least maybe new cloaks in dragon flight could offer this?

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As much as I like the idea, the game has it’s own art style. Simple like a kids game, perfecting all these little things seems like back burner type stuff.

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The game really could use more hood and helmet options in general. I agree with OP.

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Cloaks have always been one of WoW’s weakest points. Compare the glorified safety-pinned bath towels to what even the major NPCs get. Hoods would be nice, but a small part of a much broader overhaul the “Back” slot needs.

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There’s hood helms…mostly in Vanilla content.

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Careful OP, you may get a Leprechaun in the Hood.

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Because ‘head’ and ‘back’ are separate armor slots.

I find the opposite problem. My character dons a helmet and their hair disappears.

Drives me nuts (so now they all wear circlets).

Blizzard doesn’t care about immersion as seen as the many anti-immersion ‘streamlining qol’ revamps they have made and praised over the years.

And, frankly, as for as I can tell from this board, neither do the majority of players. They just want fast, easy and convenient.

So Blizzard is not going to spend resources on something that is not going to improve their bottom line.

Personally, I love the cloaks in WoW, especially the ones from the oldest expansions.

And I love there size and shape as it allows me to still see a lot of my character/mog from the back.

My only gripe is the ones from MoP look paper thin. But I just headcanon they are magical auto-temp-adjusting silk.

You are welcome.

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My priestess have mogs involving hoods; they’re the ones from the tier 5 and tier 6 raid sets from TBC. Those are the ones whose textures got re-released for a set in BFA I believe…

There are others as well but they don’t hide your face like those.

If you’re referring to those looks where you have a hood with your hair shown while attached to a tattered cloak that you see in dark hunter and assassin character fanart, yeah…we don’t have any of those and would have to do a mashup.

Mogs here aren’t as stylish as those seen in eastern MMOs.

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More options that don’t clip or hide my dwarve’s beard are welcome.

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Want me to play some Eazy-E or Tupac?

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All helms look ridiculous on almost all models in this game. I would like to see more masks and color variations of that kind of thing. Especially for trolls and big-ear characters, laughably bad. More options in general would be welcome.

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Clipping issues with the hair, that’s why we turn bald with most helms… :rofl:

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I just wanna stop putting on a bald cap every time I wear a hood. I understand why it works the way it does, but I’d love for some hairstyles to still work with hoods.

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Goto the Runecarver and make a cloak leggo and you will see it as a hooded cloak but when you put it on its just a normal cloak… :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

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Me beard disappears if I wear certain helms… ones with an open face mind you.

A dwarf without a beard is like a Worgen with no tail.

throws dynamite
leaves

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I legit started thinking of our WoW characters being in the “hood”, with low riders and drivebys.

/facepalm

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/590006575905898498/975110538684145815/BeardlessDwarf2.png

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… :nauseated_face: Not a good look.

(looks like Wez from The Road Warrior )