Also, double posting, buuuut
Maybe the precursor to other glasses and monocles bieng transmoggable?!
(As a side note, someone selling these for cheap? since they go for 500k on the auction house on our beloved server).
Edit: Seems Blizzard is damage controlling? Suddenly they’re working on mogging one shoulderplate, or on adding rhinestone sunglasses (and maybe others).
The loss of customisations really is saddening, even as someone who overall had a good time with Shadowlands this far. To this day, the only new thing I’ve had the chance to use is an eye colour.
I am still unpleased by this. Just didn’t want the thread to sink.
It’s probably a fools hope, but given how much anger has been generated, enough to make articles about, there might yet be a change of plan. Unlikely, though…
On my Hunter, I was getting about four or five renown levels a week. The trick is to not do the weekly quests until near the end of the week, since they apparently softlock you.
You get it from everything, it’s actually a decent system.
I still prefer Legion’s artifact weapons but Renown’s better than Azerite, Azerite 2: Electric Boogaloo and Azerite 3: This Time It Makes You Crazy
Doubt it. Tangibles are needed.
Given how little customer satisfaction matters over retention, nope.
But that was the first time. I’m still in the heart chamber, wide eyed with an empty stare just rocking back and forth, aren’t I?
Considering the fact that WoW is doing incredibly well with Shadowlands literally being the second best selling PC game of all time, Activision Blizzard is pulling in more money than ever and they keep shutting down offices and firing hundreds of people to cut costs you would think they would be capable of giving us more.
I don’t think it’s “entitled” at all to expect more from Blizzard. WoW is quite an expensive game. We pay 15€ a month and essentially re-buy the game every 24 months and the game is packed with microtransactions that seem to be selling.
Customization was one of the main selling points of Shadowlands that was quite heavily marketed and universally praised. People loved it and they themselves have actually said that it is now easier than ever to add new customizations and then they just settle with this? I mean, it’s not even just the allied races that got shafted even some of the core races got barely anything other than separating facial hair/face/eye color options. It really feels like they are doing the absolute bare minimum to keep players subbed.
It’s also kinda sad how tolerant and forgiving a lot of people are towards this titan of the industry that has all the money in the world at their disposal. They’re literally throwing us scraps.
Sadly no. The Shoulders have been in development since pre-patch, and the Glasses were datamined prior to BlizzCon. Blizzard’s still in the tube over it.
Having done some work on the models Blizzard has made, it IS pretty much that easy but the spaghetti code to make that accessible in-game is not.
TL;DR version of the problem: NPCs (unless they populate vast swathes of the world like nameless Zandas/NB did) have all of their armour pre-grafted onto what’s essentially the model’s ‘skin’, and then that skin-armour-texture is bent over the rig to give it shape. NPCs we’ve seen with the ‘one-shoulder’ fall in that category. PC shoulders were designed (largely) to ONLY be 2-part shoulders, so now they have to seperate them all and sort the spaghetti code.
The command string to access ‘Left Shoulder - Right Shoulder’ IS still accessible in-game, which is promising. But I imagine they’ve also uncovered a host of problems with every shoulder-model (see the ‘Nightborne Shoulder Twist’) in doing it too.
Broken game is broken, what else is new?
The way things are structured, working less employees harder, denying them rights in a perpetual crunch cycle while cutting corners and even content makes more money faster and that’s all that matters.
The path is flawed!
I just wanted my darn Emerald eyes for Night Elves(like Malfurion), Druidic customisation(Like Malfurion) options and Malfurion’s beard and moustache 
That moment when Zandalari got emerald eyes before you.
The gaming industry in a nutshell. There is not a single shred of consideration for long term prosperity, the people at the top just find an intellectual property and proceed to voraciously bleed it dry until nothing but a shriveled husk remains and then they jump ship and repeat the process.
It’s american captialism in it’s purest form.
Doesn’t Malfurion canonically have silver eyes? In most official art i’ve seen he has silver eyes and afaik his in game model has silver eyes.
People often point to Illidan and Malfurion when it comes to silver/golden eyes, that you don’t need to be special or naturally gifted in order to excel in druidism and even though you may be naturally gifted (born with golden eyes) that’s no guarantee that you’ll excel as a druid.
They aren’t just going to rehire all the layoffs they’ve done over the years because of our noise.
They’re stuck on their own plans - this sort of thing is decided a long time in advance. They just didn’t see fit to tell us.
Where is the dislike button!?!?
Right!
So Illidan was born with Amber eyes and Malfurion was born with silver eyes. Yet in all of his time as Druid, his once silver eyes turned Amber, because Amber eyes are a (sign) of (great mastery over) Druidism (Malfurion is the only canonical who changed eye colors), hence why all the Night Elven males suddenly used to have Amber eyes from vanilla up to the SL pre-patch!
Now! The thing is, when Malfurion returned in Cataclsym, he suddenly had emerald coloured eyes(both on his model and in every appearance afterwards like cinematics etc). Ofcourse one could attribute this to the same reason as to why he got animalistic limbs, etc… But I personally think it was an oversight, because then it would make emerald coloured eyes the actual sign of powerfull druidism(Like Antlers used to be).
Ofcourse Broll is another weird case where he is an exceptionally powerfull Druid but with silver eyes(who somehow don’t change colors like all the other males and Malfurion) and antlers.
TL:DR: Old lore about the Night Elven eye colours was cooler and Blizzard is just winging it, while destroying everything that set races apart from each other.
Also as a side-note; every Night Elf who ever had amber eyes became one of the most powerfull mortals on the planet, examples are Xavius, who was a exceptionally powerfull Mage and then an exceptionally powerfull Satyr with mastery over Arcane, Fel and Void magics at one point or another.
Azshara is the most powerfull mage in Warcraft, while Illidan went on to became THE Demon Hunter. Malfurion is the strongest known Druid in Warcraft and he changed eye colors to amber then emerald.
P.S 2: Blue-ish eyes also never were a thing until the one Legion cinematic where Ysera died. That was the first appearance of Blue-ish glowing eyes on Night Elven females. Ever.
They’re “supposed” to be silver, something to do with programming them.
because all silver glowing eyes sort of went blue.
Of course, people noticed it and Blizz gave silver back to us.
This is the one thing i dislike about a lot of the new customization options. Blood elves getting blue eyes makes zero sense since the high elves were essentially exiled from Silvermoon for refusing to take part in the fel magic usage and draining the life from living beings in order to feed their addiction, so their eyes remained blue and they remained an official member of the alliance under the silver covenant. Then for some reason blood elves can also now have purple eyes which also makes no sense. Undead also get a bunch of strange eye colors even though their eyes are canonically supposed to be a cool, eerie yellow.
I’m all for additional customization options but i would prefer it if they atleast tried to preserve the lore somewhat. Same goes for race/class combos. Troll/tauren paladins running around in armor and casting spells clearly designed for human/dwarf/draenei paladins for example is just such a bastardisation of the lore imo.
It’s okay for the races to be unique and have a strong sense of cultural identity and for classes to be somewhat exclusive to certain cultures that they have strong lore ties with.
I don’t think it’s ever mentioned that he had amber coloured eyes. In the WotA Trilogy he already had them (his original eyes) replaced with artificial ones, no?
To be honest, purple eyes should always gave signified Arcane magic. Purple >> blue