Haranir and Nightborne males prove night elf male was fixable

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Dunno bout you but I’m finding my Haranir and night elf male toons actually good to play iwth and looking good - which begs the question, they managed to fix many issues with the night elf male model in their two sub-races - but still haven’t altered their models.

idle stances - Haranir and nightborne male idle stance looks cool, - night elf male looks goofy
Faces - the nightborne and haranir actually got good looking faces, young options too, yet the night elf ones are all snarly old ones
Neck - that weird neck on the night elf male is totally fixed on nightborne, haranir and zanda male models - but still not fixed there.

So thanks for the improvements on the sub-race models, but will blizzard fix the original ones?

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You drank too much cactus juice
The Shal’dorei male face is horrible
But agree with the Haranir, you can make handsome devils

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TL;DR: I want night elf males not to look like night elf males.

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Once I dislike night elf male, how they stand and body tiny move like drunk.
I wished it stop move. Awful animation.

Both male Haranir and nightborne was better stand animation

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They got 3 new faces, which were much better than the original lot.. but yes the ugliness was finally fixed with the Haranir.. well having more than one niece face.

I never understood why the art team made the night elf male model faces all wrinkly and snarly - it doesn’t really fit the lore - these guys have arcane energy from Moonwells and the Well of eternity that boosts life and longevity plus they have all that pure nature energy that is nourishing and rejuvenating - they should be healthiest specimens - not to mention they were immortal all the way and they mostly slept for the 10k years, while the females and the nation did the guard duty.. they just worked with nature.

Whether you’re a Highborne male or a druidic male - you would have optimal health and youthful looking faces.. which they gave all the females ofc, I think there is only 1 old-ish looking female night elf face.

I can get doing snarly expressions, but literally all but one face? I don’t get it.

These night elves remember gained immunity to weather effects like heat and cold etc, so we know that roaming around in the sun ain’t gonna crack their skin, especially if you r few waking moments are mostly spent in animal form or deep in barrow den caves -

the old appearances for NElf males makes no sense.

the old appearance for Nightborne also don’t make sense, because of the nature of the arcane - unless you add that the over abuse had effects, clearly the Nightborne immortality is from using arcane magic, this was the same way the night elves during the pre-sundering era were immortal - and is why the Dragon blessing on the tree making the immortal was a good thing because it removed the temptation to use the arcane to keep immortality - which they obviously thought would bring the Legion back.

I bet the art team wanted to give the impression that night elves were old geezers and the lore team consultation was very poor. Lore team should have picked up on that and corrected it. Remember Malfurion in Terror of Darkshore cinematic, he looks extremely youthful which fits the lore - all that nature nourishing magic, all that arcane infusion /suffusion from the Well of Eternity and Moonwells

but notice how they changed his model to all wrinkly in 10.2 did you notice? Malfurion becomes all of a sudden wrinkly?

Are they modelling them after themselves? I wonder ? I hate when they do that though. obviously the solution is not to change the lore, the solution is to actually give about 6-10 more night elf faces, making all of them youthful/young so that the old faces are minority.

I’d make the Haranir and nightborne new faces available to the night elf male rather than design a new set of faces.. but if they want to design a new set of faces, they should go for it.

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compared to regular night elf males the Nightborne are surley a downgrade. It is no wonder most nightborne players use the female model.

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vulpera drink cactus juice ? :dracthyr_a1:

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Canonically?
Yes
Vulpera actually make and consume their own strong liquor
Vol’dunshine , it is a potent desert hooch brewed in dried gourds
And Rikati is just bottling and selling raw wasp venom to unsuspecting customers as a “premium drink”
And the Vulpera fremented Cactus Juice is legendary

These are all from quests and buyable consumables and flavor texts from the game

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There’s lots of stuff that’s fixable.
The question is: When will they finally do it.

Pandaren need a model update for example.
They clearly can. The question is: Will they?

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Last time all races got a model revamp was in WOD mind you. That was 12 years ago.

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I’m sorry, you think the Nightborne Males have good looking faces? Excuse me whilst I die of laughter :dracthyr_lulmao:

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I can’t look at the nightborne model without laughing too like it is by far the ugliest model even before the trolls.

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I think player models should have the highest priority for art upgrades if you ask me. It’s what you see the most,

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After armor sets, probably. But yeah.

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Half of population seems to be running around as half-naked Blood Elves, so mmyeah. :sweat_smile:

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We are contractually obligated to not wear any pants when playing an Elf, and stare their tiny thongs
It is in the ToS

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I knew there was an actual reason I didn’t like elves. :sweat_smile:

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Explains that one Blood Elf Mage I saw earlier. :smirking_face:

Had every single armour piece visible, including cloak - but pants were made invisible.

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True but I do like you can now have situation outfits - which is kinda good

For example head pieces.. outside dungeons and raids, I almost never wear a head piece, I wish I could situationally toggle it on and off or just have it off outside and on inside.

I’d have it on for dungeons, raids, arenas and BGs, and off for normal adventuring

Or maybe on for combat off for out of combat in the dungeon/raids

They did this amazing facial texture upgrades but have grossly underutilised them

example.. why do we have static portraits and not 3-d reflections of your character’s face in real time? Your toon has all these animations and expressions on their faces when they cast and do certain things you almost never see because you are never really facing them and most of us play zoomed out so we don’t see them on other players.

That’s a lot of great work not appreciated.

If we could switch portraits to actually have a real time view of our characters faces we would be able to at least constantly see their expressions through most of the content and not just in RP situations.

AI is another thing grossly under-utilised there is so much they can do, voice quests, even have your character speak from its location when you use your mic, and you can even have the program use the voice of the original race character to say your words, which is what other people will hear if they choose that option, that could be fun to play with and have it voice all the quests.

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I would also love a system where we can pick animations, pick default stances, pick expressions for various situations. An entire extra layer of character customization.

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