#1 - April 13, 2020, 3:01 p.m.

Don’t forget blizz, with all the new options coming out

Farstrider for Blood Elves
Highborne for Night Elves

I’m impressed dwarves are getting the chance to play the fantasy of the Wildhammer through the customisation options and Humans better racial representation too. Which makes me excited and curious for two elven faves of mine getting customisations, they are the Farstriders in the Blood elves, and Highborne in the Night Elves.

Now I wonder if Blood elves would get a:

Blood Elf Farstrider customisation - with

Tattoos - as we see on Alleria. On body and face would be cool. Not like the Night elf ones, but completely unique,
More wilder , posy hairstyles - the Void elf male hairstyle that had half the head shaved with the other half flowing is the type of “wild” I mean
Deeper tanned skin options - as they are outside a lot, on tree tops usually so in direct sunlight, o r roaming on missions for Quel’thalas.
Scruffier and fuller beards - perfect grooming is not always possible and long missions outdoors, and as you’re not amongst high society all the time, there isn’t as much need.
Scars: As we see on Lor’themar, always fighting enemies in rogue missions, tumbling through branches, doing the elite hard stuff - unlike a caster from range, you’re gonna look more worn even if you’re pretty.

Which would do good for Farstrider types, but it’s not enough. Tattoos, rings, certain unique hairstyles and possibly locked to the hunter/rogue/warrior classes only.

Also the more adventerous darker type of blood elf.

Most famous Thalassians are farstriders, yet only Alleria seems to capture that look decently, the current BElf model seems modelled on the Magister and noble, which is fits priests and mages and DH on the fel elf, but the farstrider could be awesome.

Also if Night elves would get

Night Elf Highborne customisations -

Don’t forget that too, would be nice to see fancier NElves for a changed
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 that capture the look perfectly, ornamentation, star effects, beard quality, face quality etc. screams Highborne.
https://imgur.com/VbQUtfa
https://imgur.com/a/lA7CMa9 - by Beurghes/Iseijin

Notice the current in-game Nelf male is modelled on a druid, humbler pose, bushier beards/hair , females on the sentinel with their 4 packs and crooked eyebrow - we need options that scream highborne, elegant Moon Priest - the civilization side.

Can choose to lock to mage/priest class would make it obvious (some of the options anyway) like horns/eye masks are only availl on DK even though main NELf has an eye cover option, or make it accessible to all, just a bit obvious which ones are highborne - maybe link

What you guys want?

[EDITED heavily adding some good options given later on in post, will update when can]
EDIT ADD: Here are some Additional Ideas/Options: - like all things, do note, not everyone is going to like or agree, however that is the beauty of having options, there is something for everyone

San’layn Darkfallen Customisation

Red eye option on BElves
Potential fanged teeth
Skin tones similar to the san’layn /dark fallen elves in ICC and dark rangers

Illidari Warlocks

Blood elf warlocks have the option to get the Illidari DH skins in addition to the normal BElf skins (an Illidari can easily be a warlock - one that hates demons but uses them and their power completley)
Night Elf can have a warlock class option that uses only the Illidari models - the Fel Lord Demon Hunter or Warlock Demon Hunter (whatever lore name). I can easily see an Illidari Night elf as a warlock, but never a normal night elf. They would use the DH starting experience too, but as a lock.
Draenei can have the Eredar customisation in a similar way for the Warlock class - especially if blizz decides not to have them as an allied race, some Eredar are Illidari, like Night elf, no normal draenei would be a lock, but a Man’ari Eredar as an Illidari would. Blizz would have to decide. THe skin option could extend to the Mage class too or more, however they should share the DH starting experience. I see no trouble with a Warlock Demon Hunter (use another name though, like Fel Lord Illidari but it’s a warlock for class purposes)

Night Elves

For ALL Night Elves, first of all:

eyebrows and hairstyle should be customized separately
Normal Nelf male body needs HD textures like the DH version
facial tattoos and hair color should be customized separately
as a rule, the males currently have darker skins than females.
Make it so that both genders can access to both lighter and darker skin tones!
same goes for the eye colors: gold and silver should be available to both males and females, as well as emerald green Malfurion which should take over from gold as the go to for druids, gold remaining those of great destiny. And black reflecting the night warrior and New blackmoon order
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.

As for additions:

new hair colors such as anything seen in the Azshara video
(blond, red, black and/or darker shades of purple and blue)
electric skin shades like Azshara’s
extra light skin shades in the style of the Highborne NPCs
darker skin shades related to Troll heritage (such as a proper purple)
new eye colors: green (druids, like Malfurion) and purple (magic users)
new tattoo colors (a ‘glowing’ white/silver and arcane purple for highborne would be awesome)
a few younger faces (especially the males!)
jewelry (tiaras, earrings - both Blood Elves and Nightborne use them!)
fancier haircuts (possibly based of those created for the allied races?)

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

Trolls

Here are propositions for hairstyles:

https://i.imgur.com/yYc4S0K.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/XrxFGuy.jpg

Troll guys should have set of beards to pick from, especially goaties.

Troll females should have more facial paint options, I always wanted simple stripe over the eyes - with black paint. And ofc jewelry. Not just bone one, but for example ear-rings shaped like snakes.

Regarding model The troll fans would like for texture on troll male to be revisited. Both Troll male and nelf male were likely done last and it really shows. When you campare troll male to troll female or Zandalari the quality in texture is huge.

It would be also great if their arms would be by tiny bit buffed as from the side they look reasonably muscular but from behind they look very thin for some reason.

https://i.imgur.com/cQKav0v.jpg < for example

And those are imo ideal changes:

https://i.imgur.com/68gTtZJ.jpg (borrowed from mmo-c thread)

Edit:
And I feel this hairstyle would fit more a troll female :

https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/928340.jpg

Gnomes

Paxmillian:

Gnomes

First I will say I won’t discuss some of the following: eye colour, skin colour, makeup, as there’s evidence these areas are already being developed. I’ll add a few notes for some of them though.

Skin Colour
Happy with what i’ve seen, but for OG Gnomes, I think it would be great to see a few Leper Gnome skin tones - Distinct green, yellowish-green and brownish green for example.
We know the Gnomes can cure the radiation poisoning from the start quests in the Gnome experience, it’s plausible that since then they’ve worked out a way to restore the sanity of Leper Gnomes where rather than being ostracised, they can begin to be incorporated back nto Gnomish society, even if they can’t be fully cured. I think a lot of Gnome fans have actively mentioned they’d like this option as well.

Hair Colours
Gnomes have a colourful array of hair colours, but a few more wouldn’t hurt: electric blue, gaudy orange, sunflower yellow, magenta, lilac, dark grey to mention a few. Trolls have a good rainbow of colours in bright tones, for Gnomes aside from the green and pink, some of their “zanier” colours are quite mute, brighter options would be welcomed.

Hair Styles
I won’t go into an individual thesis for each gender, but some more styles for each gender would be good. Males would benefit from shorter hair that isn’t necessarily receding and doesn’t have a quiff/cowlick at the front for example. Females would benefit from some longer hair options that aren’t a ponytail and incorporate elements such as long overly complicated plaits etc.
Both genders would have a copule of options that are “explosive genius” type options, scuffled wiry hair like a bomb went off in their face, with parts of the hair singed to black, irrepsective of the original hair colour. This could even go as far as to give them bald patches signifying where hey lost their hair when a device blew up in their face.
Also, some hairstyles that aren’t necessarily wacky but incorporate accessories in the cut. E.G hairstyles with a pencil behind the ear, or tied in the hair in the case of longer cuts. Maybe a ruler/protractor nestled in the hair for quick measurement, nog cogs or gears however as these are clearly Mechagnome accessories and they need to be kept different.

Eyes
Eye colour seems largely fine, however giving gnomes a “glazed over” option to help support the Leper Gnome fantasy would be good. I see their is evidence of this on datamining so looks promising, just wantto say i hope it goes live!

Faces
Males need more variety in their faces. Their faces are either very young looking or they look extremely old and either worried/angry. Some more moderate middle-aged faces would be good. As well as faces with happier expressions
Also can males please please please get eyebrows on their faces whether they have beards or not. This would really reduce how samey some of their younger faces look.

Facial Hair
Male Gnomes should have a couple more full beard options as they only have one. Also more facial hair options that don’t have moustaches but have burns for example. There is one Gnome facial hair option that gives eyebrows and doesn’t shroud your face in moustache, but if you don’t like that beard, your only other option that doesn’t obscure your gnome’s face is to have no facial hair at all.

Accessories
Female Gnomes would benefit from a few more piercings, like studs for exmaple. Currently they can pick larger hoops, small hoops or have their ears absolutely riddled with piercings. A couple of more modest options that result in just dual studs for eample would be nice. Also option of nose studs would be nice. I don’t think they should get nose rings however.

Details
It would be nice to be able to pick additional details on the gnome’s face such as small burns or smudges of dirt etc to show how they’ve been getting dirty tinkering. A really cool option might be a slightly ashy overlay to their face which leaves a clean “goggle-print” over their eye area like industrial workers tend to end up with.

Worgen

Night elf skins options replacing humans (if they don’t become a worgen based allied race later on)

Popular Features Across the Board

Body size sliders (even if that’s too much - it is hugely popular)
Sliders for nose/mouth/eyes etc
Set a different default expression [frown, smile, grimace, sulky, angry, happy, peaceful, snarly, proud, mocking]

don’t the new models have some incredible facial expression capabilities would be awesome if each face could vary its expression.

Live action 3-D portrait instead of a 2-D portrait, the option to actually see your characters real time expression - catch the change in face when it’s casting, striking, being hit, dying, healing, laughing - it basically is a full time live camera of your characters face, so you can enjoy some of those details you guys worked so hard on in 6.0 but players seldom get to see because they see their character’s back.

Farstrider and Highborne customisations for Elves - PLS