Why the lack of Customization?

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Not saying it’s a bad thing, just that it makes things complicated, and most of the options step on somebody’s toes. I feel like some people are way too optimistic about how much will be given out compared to the track record so far.

Isn’t that kind of part of the wanting the legion models? And from what I’ve seen it’s a bit of a lame imitation of the legion hands…

I’m not telling anyone not to ask for what they want, just that there’s nothing in the story that screams out this is something blood elves should have. (Like I think a lot of the requests listed are more blood elf adjacent, like the undead options, so far the story doesn’t make the society as a whole sound like it is something they’re after, so I feel like a lot would be blood elf bodies but more in common with the forsaken in the story. This is NOT saying it shouldn’t happen, just that it would feel like a butt pull on Blizz’s part to make up for giving away their uniqueness to void elves)

We’ve got the awesome stuff that Ariel brings up, which I feel like would have been amazing for blood elves before the void elves got more. As those options expand the blood elves and explore more themes of their culture, but I think there’s now an expectation brought about by void elves that blood elves need something more than expansion of their culture (especially with how eager blizz has been to spread that around to Alliance too) and give them a new look that is all their own.

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I kind of agree with you, i can understand why you think this way, but at the same time, night elf highborne fans got nothing in the first run… literally nothing. Me and you, we are in the same situation tbh. You don’t have beards, i don’t have highborne customisations…

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This is so true, I still can’t believe how many customization options Night Elves have and more specifically female Night Elves but still ask for more.

This always gets a like from me because a lot of males of different races decent facial hair options and it bugs me.

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Blood Elf Customization Summary: Second Draft

Racial Identity Options

  • Dark Ranger (earnable via questline)

`https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EezL3cfXYAIGCLY.png

  • San’layn (earnable via questline)

  • Felblood (earnable via questline)

Ear options

  • Damaged ears
  • Notched Ear
  • Batlike/San’layn

Eyebrows

  • Long

  • Short

  • Medium

  • Human

Eye Colors

  • Orange Eyes

  • Red Eyes- To reflect Blood magic usage, Dark Rangers, and San’layn.

  • Red Eyes with Black Sclera

  • Pink Eyes

  • White Eyes

Eyes without glowing sclera- To portray the appearance of a half elf.

  • Blue

  • Hazel

  • Green

Skin Color

  • Undead White Pallor

  • Undead Grey Pallor

  • Undead Blue Pallor

  • Fel Blood Elf Skin Colors

  • Albinistic Skin Color

Hair Styles:

  • More Long Hair styles for Females

  • More Short Hair styles for Males

  • Sombra Hair from Female Night Elves

  • Undercut from Male Night Elves

  • De-tentacled hair styles from Male and Female Void Elves

  • Knowledge Bump Hair Style from Female Undead

  • Fiery Ombre Hair Style- With fiery accents in varying colors of deep, warm reds, cool blues, to dark, cool reds and oranges.

  • Curly Hair Style- Long, Medium and Short

  • Afros

  • Asymmetrical pixie

  • More braided hairstyles (like waterfall, lace, and ladder)

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Feather toggle- To reflect the Farstrider aspect of the Sin’dorei military, but with a glowy effect similar to Talon of the Phoenix in multiple color options.

Tiara Toggle- Some of us like the hair style but not the tiara.

Braid toggle

Hair Colors

  • Pink
  • Burgundy

Facial Hair:

  • More facial hair for the males, please.

  • Long- Wizard beard

  • Medium

  • Short

  • Two-day beard

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Scars/Burns: *Blood Elves took up the name Sin’dorei, which means “Children of the Blood,” to honor the fallen of Quel’thalas. They are both survivors and skilled, deadly opponents who have weathered many battles. Thus, they (and all races) should have access to scars. *

  • Scourge- Scars earned in the battle for Quel’thalas against the invading Scourge army.

  • Banshee Tear Burns- Think Sylvanas, the Forsaken icon of torment, or images of tear-streaked banshees.

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  • X Shaped Scar

  • Eye Scars

  • Nose Scars

  • Scarred lips

  • Runic Scarification

`https://twitter.com/handclaw/status/1305207634937737216/photo/1

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Tattoos/Warpaint:

Farstrider

  • Green

  • Red

  • Orange

  • Teal

  • Gold

  • Black

  • Purple

  • Pink

  • Turquoise

  • White

Examples:

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`https://smoda.elpais.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Charlize_Theron_-_XPUSJP_3.jpg

`https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1di48mvsQ1qdsjhwo1_500.jpg

`https://imgur.com/go3Ecgg

Magister

  • Green

  • Red

  • Orange

  • Teal

  • Gold

  • Black

  • Purple

  • Pink

  • White

  • Turquoise

Examples:

`https://gamepedia.cursecdn.com/wowpedia/5/52/Rommath_6.1.jpg?version=b6824b7b482b24657976bfb3a753bf90

`https://twitter.com/handclaw/status/1308134430641401856/photo/1

Phoenix

  • Orange

  • Red

  • Gold

  • Teal

  • Turquoise

  • Pink

  • White

  • Purple

`https://gamepedia.cursecdn.com/allstars_gamepedia/b/b2/Hanzo_Farstrider.jpg?version=8022912c235883a50d614e6799a9cba2

Fire/Sun

  • Orange

  • Red

  • Gold

  • Purple

  • Pink

  • White

  • Turquoise

Henna Tattoos

  • Green

  • Red

  • Orange

  • Teal

  • Gold

  • Black

  • Purple

  • Pink

  • Turquoise

  • White

Makeup/Nails

  • Ombre Lipstick

  • Gothic Makeup

  • Glamour Makeup

Jewelry:

  • Bindis
  • Tilakam
  • Chokers
  • Feathered ear rings/necklaces/bracelets (perhaps styled after phoenix feathers)

Jewelry Improvements/Fixes

  • Allow males to use Jewelry.

  • More colors for Jewelry. For less clashing with armor/outfits.

  • More Jewelry Types. (Chokers, Metal Feathers and Eye/Nose/Lip Piercings, Etc.)

  • Fix the bracelets so they aren’t pixilated.

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Lightforged and Draenei customization:

Finished editing this thread with a lot of new suggestions given to it, examples. And also many more suggestions for Draenei customizatio now, not just lightforged. As well as some stuff for both.

Also used the preview tool so the post doesn’t look as gigantic and it’s easier to read.

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Blood Elves should be able to interchange eye color more, if one wanted to see their green eyes fade back to blue, or into golden. Where it would be one blue and one green, or one golden and one green.

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Thanks for putting that together Avery :smiley:

I’d like to see more robust eye colors for LFD. Hyperia reminded me of how awesome Aurelia artwork is in MTG. She has a warrioress appeal that Blizzard should consider. Yellow is cool and all but there are a lot of other colors to be explored for LFD. Maybe the radiance of the Light should be explore further :thinking:

https://i.ibb.co/cFYnCv3/aurlia.jpg

Those red eyes and I was talking about sunburst ones in your thread as well. You also discussed the Naaru and how they are beings of the Light but vary on colors. Those are all great colors to explore of the LFD. Being strictly yellow does the race a disservice.

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Mag’har orcs need more skin colour options too. Would love the Shattered Hand grey skin with the blood red eyes.

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I’d love to look like one of those corrupted pale orcs as well

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Yeah and the Glenn Danzig hairstyle lol. They also need to mix and match Mag’har and regular orc hairstyles too, zero reason for not doing that.

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For LFD maybe reference the Holy Priest artifact weapon for colors to explore!

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Love Aurelia :heart: :heart_eyes:

She definitely represents Red colorations being used for a divine/light based customization well.

This is how they could look with a shade of red hair;

I’d also love to see the color purple on LFD as well, in the same manner shown on their alternate heritage color;

I agree :100: that LFD should have different colorations outside of gold and their pallad colors.

Also adding the Holy artifact appearances for color reference, as Autai did in the other thread;

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Yiss, look at all those potential colors!

I would settle on them focusing on the warm colors while focusing on cool ones for Void Elves. They have a fun yin yang going on.

You’re making me want to build an angel deck :confounded:

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Yeah colours of the stars, fiery light like fire would be awesome!

They could leave the cold ones for normal draenei too, like the rune that appears when we use the racial.

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This is great!

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I love this list. I’d also love freckles, as well as more skintones that are midrange between the dark and light we have now.

There aren’t really any in between tones, it goes from pale to dark olive and darker olive, and then two dark skins with really warm undertones.

It would be nice to have really dark skins with cooler undertones as well as some tan and midrange colors with both types of undertones.

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They also need actual body jewelry that’s not badly painted on. :sob:

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This is also why as a Void Elf player, I really like LFD as we’re different sides of the coin, so to speak :hugs:

They’ll be my new go to for Alliance Paladins once the patch drops. My Draenei Pally will be Lightforging ICly.

Oh goodness, I made either a modern or pioneer angel deck revolving around Brisela(the double card Eldrazi angel meld), but it’s been about 2 or 3 years since I worked on it, as War of the Spark felt like the beginning of the end of my Magic era, as the new set system doesn’t please me.

Alas though I also loved the idea of having an angel deck :innocent:

LFD definitely feel like Wows equivalent.

Indeed, there’s lots that can be done with Light/Holy themes!

:hugs:

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Lightforged Highlights that actually shine.

With the talbuk, they will be best paladins TBH.

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