As you may, or may not know, Worgen actually come from Druids who practised the forbidden art of “Pact Form”. Their chosen appearance was that of who they worshipped, the wolf Goldrinn.
So why do we transform into a lion? Don’t get me wrong, I love Worgen and all, but you’re basically turning a dog into a cat here, and that’s just weird.
I’m also aware that there are many who still enjoy the cat form, so my suggestion is pretty simple. Give Worgen an ability toggle which allows their cat form to keep the appearance of their Worgen, so they can shred enemies with those claws they have, and finally stop disrespecting Goldrinn by turning into a cat.
We’re quite aware you have humanoid animations for all feral abilities. A good example is Kalythia’s Haunted Locket, which is probably the greatest disguise of all time because it doesn’t break on combat, and its duration is over twice as long as the cooldown. If we could get something like that in the form as an ability for Worgen I would realllllly happy.
Rename it to Feral Form instead then
I just don’t see the point in being this ferocious Werewolf creature and not being able to make any use of it. And maybe some people would like to embrace their Goldrinn heritage, which they can’t properly do in Worgen’s current state. Druid is the perfect chance to make that happen.
For the animations I just want to say that I’m sure there is some sort of automatic system. Infact, during Legion, in certain periods I had a lot of lag and when switching to my cat form it did not change the appeareance. I’ve seen my shread as night elf that had the same animation of mutilate (in Legion we had double daggers). It was really satisfying for a couple of seconds… hit looking at myself with my armor… WOW!
Yeah it’s pretty neat for sure. It seems to use animations from other abilities. Like ferocious bite just looks like Shadowstrike in human form. I don’t think there’s any technical reason why they can’t just flick a switch and let Worgen play as themselves.
