graphics are not the issue really. WoW has a good and timeless artstyle. What is needed is the models to be updated.
The engine isn’t a limiting factor at this point still. It is just how development resources are being used. Hopefully they take some design decisions from reforged in regards to future armor.
the engine does limit graphic potential though…down to how your character or “units” move…
I know!
I said that 
Itd be nice if they supported both types of models, kinda like Halo Anniversary and being able to use the original models or the Reach models.
wow they made a moonkin actually look like a fearsome guardian of sacred places and not an obese roadkill collage. That is worthy of a guardian’s form 
The engine doesn’t limit that as much as you think it does.
These are the same engine:
I’m hoping they one day update the engine and graphics but without having to do a WoW 2. Just rolling it into a pre-patch or something like a rebrand. The moonkin on Reforged looks outstanding.
only a matter of time till hogger becomes a champion of HoTs…
Don’t forget that Warcraft and WoW have different styles as well. I can’t put my finger on it but WoW always seemed to have a softer or cuter look from Warcraft. Maybe it was just the tone of the games?
Yea I agree we need them here. What if that is the big 9.0 reveal? Call it WOW Reforged.
Ive always said despite wow being so old I love its art style. I saw wc3 reforged live at blizzcon last year and it looked good but I was upset with the art style.
I was dead wrong.
The more I see the more I drool. The borde units namely the blademaster made my jaw drop
How does it look animated? And why so much detail when they will be zoomed out?
I dunno it looks good i just hope all their effort is going into the right places.
You have my vote. Never again Blizz. Never. Again. -_-
Quite honestly this reminds me of old-school Blizzard that put in the time and effort to do everything 110% and polish everything to an absurd degree. The WC3 Reforged devs are passionate about what they are doing and it shows in the models and even when they were doing panels at last Blizzcon.
Dear Lord id actually use my moonkin form if it looked like that /drool
I’d settle for just having the metal shaders they use in Reforged to be put into WoW. I want plate gear to look like plate gear…
Well yeah, Samwise is the art director of the RTS team. That should be expected.
Reforged is running on the exact same engine as the original WC3.
Yep, and a lot of people forget WoW’s Alpha was created using the WC3 engine also, so I’d say it’s definitely possible for a “Realm Reborn” treatment to come to WoW down the road. It’d be more plausible than a new MMO, which I suspect a lot of people would not try due to a reluctance to “trust Blizzard for another 15 years”.
Retaining players investment in the game to this point is how they’ll sell the next expansion. Asking everyone to trust them and start fresh… well that went well for Classic, now didn’t it? As I said with Classic many times before it was even announced; coulda, shoulda been a Caverns of Time Portal, Alternative to leveling in the Cataclysm era game world.
looking a bit generic tho.
It’s a Gnoll. A minor creep.
It’s supposed to look like a cartoonish hyena man. That’s exactly what it looks like lol