WoW introduced a Dragon race in their game. Yoshi-P, please...

[Recon1o6]

Another example of why the Au Ra got cheated from their concept art. Our draconic race is nowhere near draconic enough, though I doubt a full dragon look like that wow one would be as good in ff14's engine...and developer care if the viera/hrothgar is any example

Welp, this why mods exist.

perhaps in 4 years time or so when female hrothgar have come out and gotten fixed. Then we might see better character customisation inc properly draconic au ra not just hyurs with horns and a tail.

idk, i wont be playing then unless they dramatically reverse course on job design after 6.2 and start fixing some of the masses of long term problems they been ignoring.

[Larirawiel]

WoW armors change tho, they not looking now like cheap latex stretched with different texture.

Yes, because the armor becomes a part of the character model. But this approach is not very generic. And it gets one drawback from the "real clothes" approach: you have to make race specific adjustments. That is the reason why it is a rarity in WoW. Only some specific pieces of gear/gear sets are designed in this way. 90% of the gear is very generic and they only swap some texures.


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[Kolsykol]

Tbh the dragon race looks really bad and derpy imo, they manage to look too human and also too much dragon they just enter a bizarro territory.
Apparently they're tied to one class only too, if you can just focus on that ( and they seem to have no gear visually other than a chest piece? ) then yeah you can do some crazy stuff.
But imo the result is just bad.

Then again honestly I just don't care about dragons, they're the most overrated fantasy race ever imo.
I do like the story in Heavensward revolving around them but not because they're dragons but because it's a good story.
My biggest issue with Game of Thrones tho was how much of a focus the dragons became I felt like it kinda ruined the show, I just dunno what the hype about them in particular is.

WoW armors change tho, they not looking now like cheap latex stretched with different texture.

You don't think that's what the chest and leg piece looks like?
They do have more three dimensionality nowadays with some pieces but for the most part it still looks painted on.
ESO has this issue too.

[hagare]

they're the most overrated fantasy race ever imo.

How dare you! [/slap]

[SherlottaEryut]

Can we get a Dragon transformation for Dragoon, PLEEEEEEASE!?

If Estinien could do it while possessed by Nidhogg, then why not make a similar transform for the Dragoon job!

I do like this, it would be a nice detail to Dragoon and would make the class stand out even more.
+1 yes.

Yoshi p said IF they ever were gonna do another race after Hrothgals it would be Lizard people like argonians but that's if they ever have a chance (They don't want to make any more)

I may be wrong, but didn't Yoshi want the bangaa at some point? Anyway, I do think they should leave adding in new races... It's more work than they can cope with. But this thread's all about Dragoon having a transformation and I'm all for it. Sorry to change the topic of the thread.

[Shurrikhan]

Yes, because the armor becomes a part of the character model. But this approach is not very generic. And it gets one drawback from the "real clothes" approach: you have to make race specific adjustments. That is the reason why it is a rarity in WoW.

It feels like you'd need to make some pretty large goal-post jumps to make polygon-adding armor (even beyond the gloves, helm, boots, and shoulders) a "rarity". Since Wrath, outside of especially basic or leveling gear, sets in which every slot gets further polygons, rather than just texturing over the body, has been the norm, not the rarity.

And that's exactly why we've seen more recolor sets as race count has increased; they DO have to make many of those pieces race-specific.

That's not to say you're wrong about the advantages and disadvantages; it's just that the "XIV" system is also the norm in WoW.

If we're talking about the number of layers involved in a piece of armor, then, yes, WoW's armor sets tend to prioritize optimization more so than XIV. Chain mail in either isn't about to add a separate layer, but a greater number of the details on a given piece of WoW gear, on average, will be skin-level, with usually some 2-3 layers atop, whereas XIV might have up to a couple more and tends to use the skin layer almost only for tattoos.

(Though, honestly, when one zooms well in, the WoW sets at full graphics still often look better than XIV's likewise at full -- even if much of that comes down to a more forgivingly cartoonish style across that whole game.)

[RitsukoSonoda]

I'd rather DRG get a dragon summon akin to XI, particularly because it has precedent in lore as knights forming partnerships with dragons was noted as happening in the pre-Dragonsong War era.

Though I'd only want such a mechanic if it's more involved then the summons used by DRK and MCH and actually interacts with your other abilities somehow.

Only if they give us more freedom on naming them. FFXI made us choose from a pre generated list which did not contain the name Puffles...

[Erendis]

Imagine being able to independently choose horns, or scale patterns and colours for your Au Ra... Say what you will about WoW's art style (it's not my favourite either), but they've got that over FFXIV, at the very least.

Except in wow you need to choose from premade faces, that is you can't choose face shape, eye shape, eye colour, nose shape, jaw shape, mouth shape, lip colour separately.

Forgot about iris size.

[Aluja89]

They're literally Discount Au'ra LMAO

Au'ra's are discount Au'ra.

[Lecru]

Can we get a Dragon transformation for Dragoon, PLEEEEEEASE!?

If Estinien could do it while possessed by Nidhogg, then why not make a similar transform for the Dragoon job!

Edit: I meant an transformation equivalent to the Heretics in Heavensward transforming into dragons, not a full on WoW equivalent Dragon race-like transformation. xD



Ooh! This would be PERFECT for Dragoon right now, considering our relationship with the dragons!!!

If you want WoW shit. Go play WoW. Pretty simple