Hello! Blood elves are my favourite race, but i just can’t play them with these animations, their movements animations are extremely wonky and awkward, they move really unnaturally and as if their spine was constantly straight ( i don’t know how to describe it)
Their torsos are straight up broken, it’s as if their upper half and bottom half was glued together and left like that, it’s wonky and unsatisfactory to play.
Please, PLEASE, as a really big fan of these amazing beings could we get an animation rework of at least their basic movement animations ?? (their walking and running)
It would be really cool, please.
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what if they end up making it even worse like trolls vs zandalari…
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Yea blizzard mostly fails at animating basic stuff…
Don’t expect a lot of happen in that department of animation, especially since they fired a ton of people a few years ago.
All their unpaid interns are still learning the ropes 
But jokes aside, I imagine there will be tweaks and such done in the future, but right now, you’re just going to have to deal with it.
No wonder Erevian is so pissed all the time. 
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Dangerous to touch the most popular race ingame… and I definitely wouldn’t want you to touch it.
I’m going to pay more attention next time I go on my male belf!
I really hate the male belf run animation. Looks so janky! And my male belf rogue is one of my fave alts and it’s so annoying to look at that run animation. There’s weird stifness to it.
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I’d say player character animations are definitely one of the weaknesses on visual front.
Likely doesn’t help that a lot of our existing races still have the same skeleton/structure since vanilla. Unless they got updated slightly during the WoD old race revamp.
As far as I understand, animation is genuinely one of the hardest things to get right in video game design. Likely why they recycle whenever they can (for example mogu share the same frame as Draenei etc). I wouldn’t be surprised if there are technical limitations in the engine itself.
I’d like to see updates on all sorts of races. Forsaken feel dated, the orc although got the upright posture option a while a go, a lot of their combat animations are designed for the kyphotic posture. Male belfs feel so exaggerated, I guess they wanted to go for the whole majestic and dance like movement but it surely has aged now.
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I’m not a fan of their dizzy chicken head animation either.
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Their torsos are straight up broken, it’s as if their upper half and bottom half was glued together and left like that, it’s wonky and unsatisfactory to play.
Glad I wasn’t drinking anything, or eating. It would have been all over my phone. 
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One of the thing I hate about them (and my first main was a male blood elf rogue), is indeed the back and its posture, why is it also bent to the side ? Like, who ever saw that irl or in fantasy ?
So we got characters who can’t get a full beard and have broken backs. Then people wonder why the Windrunner sisters went for male humans instead of elves.
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