So, I know I play Horde and Worgen are Alliance but we can play cross faction now. The thing I seem to notice is that I never see any Worgen players. I honestly can’t recall the last time I saw one.
Is there some hidden community of them somewhere? Am I just lucky that I don’t come across them? Do people still play as Worgen?
People don’t play them often for a few reasons, some them being the forced transformation when in combat and the fact that they look really bad in most of the armor types.
My druiid is a worgen, there is no better combo for scavenging leather while others do 2x4 farms and you just hover arould and peck away at the corpses.
Unfortunately, he´s a Miner and Herbalist
Have to disagree on teh racials being bad, though, depends entirely on the class they´re combined with, as with most races… 1% crit is better for some classes than 1% haste or something like an aoe purge, and darkflight is still arguably one of the better movement cds in the game…
In my case as a resto spec druid the former is meh and the latter somewhat redundant (though still very useful for speedrunning old content even faster), but on say an assa rogue? Blind, vanish, and either he´s in the next zone before blind breaks, or somebody is about to have a really bad day
If female worgen looked like werewolves, I might have had one as an alt. No shade thrown at the players who like that look and vibe, but when I think werewolf, I think ferocious monster - and the female model just doesn’t deliver on that for me.
I swapped from worgen for time being after…however many years its been since Mists of Pandaria, the model update was suffering as was the heritage armor it was released alongside with unfortunatley voicing concerns only gets you so far, I don’t know many people who adctually “mained the race” who liked the heritage or even acknowledge it considering how lazy it is and how ugly the colour scheme is. They fixed some animations with the animation overhaul back in Legion(?) & Maybe Shadowlands but the animations are still a little wonky.
The customisation even after rework was really weak, cause alot of the issues which the default model had carried over, such as not being able to have a scarr on your face without choosing a certain face, or having a certain fur pattern without using certain fur colours. They ruined the proportions of hoods on worgen before Legion for some reason too.
I feel like alot of small trivial QOL customisation went under the radar entirely which both tauren and vulpera have, obviously they shouldnt have it to the same effect but I feel as if its still very applicable to the complaints I have with worgen as as whole, also the fact you can’t have a straighter / more straight back option is really upsetting or atleast some mane variety which only the females seem to have which is wild to me.d
The racial is really bad, its a trivial move speed which as of currently posting this thread overwritten by major movement abilities or stops you from using them entirely in line with said worgen racial
Alot of races had allied races, worgen were basically an allied race if you compare the amount of work done to them. Or you could even compare them to drachtyr, blizzard made a monster race but more work went into the humanoid form than the actual monster ( as per usual ) while the monster appearance is bare with little to offer.
also off subject theres faces and fur colours strictly locked to the death knight class still only, this is insane to me. How did this not get addressed in BFA when they had a model update.
I think they were also the only race in BFA which before & after the worgen model update in BFA had broken textures on several armour appearances from the LATEST expansion. for example the leather mythic uldir helmet appearance simply did not exist on the worgen form and the dread gladiator plate boots also just were broken and yeah…i dunno, its hard to speak good of the work blizzard have done on worgen when theres literally a mountain of bad nostalgia to look back on.
Rant over / everything I can think of which is wrong with worgen currently. Will edit as it comes back to me.
In their defense, DfA only actually parses about 10% of the currently active accounts, so while the numbers are generally more or less accurate, there will of course be some inaccuracies due to the randomness of which accounts get parsed. Basically the more widespread an item /race /whatever is, the more accurate the number will potentially be.
It’s a bit like the ending of the film ‘The Howling’ from the 80’s. The female newsreader turns, but she’s more Alvin and the Chipmunks than raging beast.
My absolute main, the one I always play first for an expansion, is Worgen hunter. I have have a Worgen Druid and a Worgen Warrior too. All male, don’t like the female model.
I just think werewolves are cool. Wish they didn’t yelp like a normal dog from fall damage though.