Zaxithorne:
This has been a great discussion so far, thanks for sharing your thoughts everyone!
What other customisation options would you like to see based on what’s been shown so far?
Excellent, thanks for coming on here and showing us you guys are listening. There’ve been some great points in posts in forums recently that players have gone into some depths of what they’d like to see, here are 2 taken from another topic. 1 by Androsobi who makes a very key point I feel is relevant and the second was from me.
I first want to congratulate the Blizzard Art Team for a job well done!
That being said, I want to express my expectation for the team to address the remaining various issues with the WoD models (and the Community as well!) - especially the Male Night Elf neck posture issue!
Before I continue, I linked an image with a comparison between new and old Night Elf models:
imgur.com/a/CH3np8j
As you can see in the above image, the angle between the neck line and the vertical axis is much more acute in both female model iterations as well as in the case of the old Night Elf male model.
The new model has the head lurched severely forward, completely inconsistent with the old model. In my opinion, the new model does not feature the same quality as other races.
There are other notable issues eg. hand/feet/legs proportions, the walk animation etc. BUT the biggest problem is the neck posture.
Therefore, before spending precious time and resources on adding new detailed Allied Races for a small percent of players, I respectfully request the digital chiropractors from the Blizzard Art Team to fix (AT LEAST) the Night Elf Male neck problems
And this one here for Night Elves, the counterpart to Galavant’s reply to Sholah above detailing the Farstrider look:
I am hoping the males will get customisation to reflect the Highborne night elves.
Highborne Customisations
Some better looking and younger faces
Neater, less bushy and stylish intricate hair styles
Arcane features reflecting their mastery (glowy hands, arcane tattoos, glitter-type star effects for their hair)
Neater more stylised designer beards fitting a Lord or high nobleman
Musculature variations from a more toned down version of the current model to the more ripped DH option - although the robe gear do take care of this somewhat.
Ornamentation - extravagant, rich, wealthy gold and star sparkling silver coronets, bands, jewels, with effectively like floating round the face. (some moon jewelry for priests)
Different idle pose - the one they have in robes screams servant not Lord.
Make sure males can have silver eyes, and females golden eyes
Excellent example of how you’d imagine a Highborne. They capture the look perfectly
https://imgur.com/VbQUtfa
https://imgur.com/a/lA7CMa9
- by Beurghes/Iseijin
These capture the look very well, ornamentation, star effects, beard quality, face quality etc. screams Highborne.
Druid Customisations
While the current male night elf is modelled on the druid, with its wilder beards and bushier hair, tone of voice etc. Still more options would be good including
Malfurion level types of beards (males)
Hair effects with leaf & branches ornamention (highborne options have the star glitter and jewels) (male and female)
Mini antlers
More faces
ALL NIGHT ELVES
Eyebrows not attached to beards
Eye colours avail to all: Silver, Gold, Black, Emerald Green, Violet tinged
Low musculature skins, normal musculature, DH level ripped musculature options (males and females) it looks weird for a priestess or highborne to be have a 4 pack, but the option should be in the palyers hands, so they can be more muscular if they prefer or less.
Some new nicer looking faces for males (whether highborne Lords, humble druids, or aggressive sentinel/hunters)
Face/Body Tattoos (mainly male, but arcane ones for highborne types on both male/female)
More skin tones, especially darker ones for Night elves, whose spectrum seems tooo heavily on the lighter side.
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