Might find out more tomorrow…
Looks like on WoWhead that there are some potential things listed for new hair styles of some kind for worgen, maybe?
That’s sure not much, but I guess it could be neat.
Gah, I just want that black fur if nothing else.
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It looks like some of the options were renamed
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Wow, how exciting. >.>
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Looks like they’re winding down on new customization options. The only “new” thing added in today’s build is a blindfold option for non-DH male Night Elves.
I’m going to call it now. We’ve probably seen all of the new Worgen customization options that we’re ever going to see for a long time.
Further, it’s looking more and more likely that Kul Tirans, humans, and Worgen are never going to get to choose scars separately from face options.
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I think MrGM mentioned on a twitter post that the build was half pushed. Could be more on the way
I was very, very afraid this was going to be the case. I really wanted to be wrong.
It could be that they simply don’t have any new customization options ready for implementation yet, thus the lack of customization updates for this week.
I do know that something like separating scars from faces and skin color textures would take time. The longer that doesn’t happen for Worgen, Kul Tirans, and humans, the less likely it seems like something that could happen, though.
It’s also just strange that eye shape options from the Blizzcon 2019 presentation hasn’t been implemented yet, as well as the black eyes intended to be used for the new Asian skin colors.
You literally can’t make the Asian characters featured at Blizzcon 2019 with the current options available on the beta. In fact, female humans basically can’t look Asian at all because of the very, VERY round eyes. The Asian skin colors’ faces look really weird on female humans as a result.
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I feel that just like the female models, male models need hairstyles to improve their customization and add more personalizations.
Fringes, tufts, ponytails and other complementary looks.
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That’s really not a look I’d go for, personally, hah. But I certainly wouldn’t say no to hairstyles to actually add more variety among males and females, since they often end up looking very same-y, unlike certain other races (orcs, trolls, tauren) will be able to.
But for now, I would be happy just seeing new options added to what we already have. Namely separating out the scars and such for worgen, kul’tirans, and humans, and adding tattoos for them.
And a solid black fur for male worgen, dangit. But I don’t think we’re getting that at all - again.
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Dreadlocks would be a good option.
The Alpha models had a lot of variety for the female model.
For the male model, I was thinking about something with a little longer hair, maybe something more Nordic?
The only thing I know is that the current male worgen models are very simple when it comes to hairstyle options.
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I’d love to see just very, very spiked hair for the male. Basically a mohawk, or maybe just a more extreme spiked mane. Something to make them look angrier and more feral.
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I think the problem is that because Gilneas has a climate that refers to Victorian England, something more sophisticated and civilized with an aristocratic fleuma, the image of a more brutal Gilnean, it seems inconceivable.
Or unwanted for the image that Blizzard may have of how worgen should be portrayed.
First, this paradigm needs to be broken or softened.
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Fat worgen please
I’m just gonna leave my vague support right here.
puts it down
There you go.
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I never liked that they put that on worgen. I appreciate a sophisticated monster as much as the next person, but it really cut out the entirety of the werewolf image way too quickly. The heritage armor, the accents - there are vague references, mostly with the NPCs, to worgen still at least having a vague potential to be savage, but we never see that remotely exercised with the player.
I want to be able to play as a more savage worgen, if I so please. That would be what the options are for. If all worgen went straight back to being sophisticated Gilneans, then the worgen became incredibly uninteresting very fast. There will always be individuals who embrace and/or at least retain more of that savagery from being a werewolf.
Of course, this is coming from me, and I dearly wish I had any option to be a worgen who was from Stormwind/Duskwood/Hillsbrad/anywhere other than Gilneas, so… yeah.
What I mean is, I picked “Worgen” in the character creator. I didn’t pick “Gilnean.” Otherwise… well, I wouldn’t have picked it.
The concept of a “savage Gilnean” should be conceivable now because they are not “just” Gilnean - they are worgen. And worgen are savage by nature, whether they got decent control over that or not. Supposedly that’s why our class variety is so incredibly stifled, so we might as well be savage and get fun savage options if they’re going to cut us off from being things like monks and paladins with that as the lame excuse. If worgen are so civilized, nothing stops them from doing those things (not that I think anything should be stopping them, anyway).
But that’s always been an issue worgen have faced for me. They tried to drive them very hard away from being werewolves and toward being British people who happen to turn into a different model in combat, but they don’t really see much actually change from being worgen. Their heritage armor quest is, in fact, begging the player to throw off the mantle of being a worgen and embracing just… being a Gilnean instead. That’s really not for me.
Blizzard flipflops with the worgen image too much. Are they savage? No, they’re sophisticated. So why do they hunch constantly? Because Blizzard is too lazy to give them a straight posture option. So why can’t they be monks and paladins? The players justify it as “they are too savage,” even though we don’t see that and in the same breath they will call them civilized.
They should pick one, add options for everything, and let people mix and match. A savage worgen paladin who stands up straight when walking around cities but loses control of himself for the most part when in combat, giving in to that savagery. That, to me, is a more interesting character than a Gilnean who got turned into a worgen, overcame it, and just became a fuzzy Gilnean who still hunches around and is too dumb to understand how to use chi or the Light.
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I guess we won’t see anything more on this front.
Straight black coloration and tail I so go for. and let the male worgen not look like shleps and have proper posture, if the player would like. personally, i don’t play males (usually) but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have it. and I’d never have my girls hunch over, but again, that doesn’t mean the option can’t be there for those that do want it.
I have no opinion on [ally and monk options, nor do i know enough about the lore to say whether its supported or not.
as for the druid forms… make it a glyph or something for wolf forms. i don’t think the shapes chosen have to only do with the need for claws and teeth. cats are naturally stealthy, and thats part of cat form, bears have the bulk that imply tankiness. i was happy when they changed the cheetah travel form to stag. deer/elk can travel long distances so that makes sense.
the druid forms, from what i gathered through hyjal questing in cata, also have a great deal to do with the different demi gods. thats why zandalari trolls druid forms are more dino based, as they are based on the loa, and the KT humans are more based on the Drust since thats part of their culture/religion.
again, not against wolf forms, i just want the ability to keep my lion form.
though i’d also like it if we could have all the travel forms separated again… Blizz, sometimes i just want to run around in stag form can we have a way to separate it please?
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Oh, and it’d be great if male worgen ears moved and could actually emote again. You know, like they used to, and like the females’ do more than ever now.
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Guess we aren’t seeing anything more on this front.