Race Model Changer

[Proudmore]

Hello,
The Idea/suggestion I am coming would seem bad and pointless for someone, but it is not so, if we think deeper about.

So Idea is to add a possibility for player to play a race they need but with race model they want,
Example , Lvl 70 Gnome Mage, but looking like human or undead. So there will appear more gnomes/dwarfes/trolls + more fun in game.

I saw that on some fun servers, they were using tabards, I think would be better to use maybe "Bag" instead of tabard if it works with wearing a item that transforms, so you dont lose tmog combination, or it would be better with token like mall flying, so you can get transformed(morphed) on an npc for which race you donated/voted for and if you get tired of it you remove it same there.

I know there will appear thoughts that many players will play some races, but I dont think that would have a big affection on player's race creation choice.

Also putting tokens/items(transformation item) for voting points will increase voting for Smolderforge,
putting them for donation aswell, would be great too , so server can get some more support.

Hope You will appreciate it.
Thank You.

[Mayore]

it's cool idea but i wouldn't want to see cross faction in that- i mean if you're alliance you should be able to /morph/ to alliance races only and same goes for horde.

and of course not in arenas :P

[Veselin92]

This would be awesome! I really wanna be Dwarf and to look like Night Elf! I totally agree with Mayore, it shoudnt be allowed in arenas! Nice idea Proud! Best regards!

[Apuclevercow]

Hen could put a morph panel with [TEST] morph buffs on Liron, one for Horde with Horde buffs and another one for the Alliance.
nice idea.

[Grael]

Yes, it is possible that we will add this feature soon. Some players suggested that and it already exists on our dev realm.



Why only these races?

This is what we have found so far and since you cannot make completely new spells only those already existing can be used. I am not really sure if it is possible to rework and replace spells with new model changing ones, perhaps that would be the best idea. So far the number of shirts is really limited.



This is an example of equipped illusion shirt.



This is an actual buff from one of the spells used to make those shirts work. Spells are really problematic because there are 2 ways of triggering them:

1. We can make them trigger on equip but illusion buff disappears every time you die and you have to re-equip it. This problem could be solved by using a macro like this:

/equip IllusionShirtNameHere
/equip AnyOtherShirt

2. We can make them trigger after using the item. The problem is I was able to apply the illusion buff on other NPCs (and possibly players) when using this method.

Another problem was connected with Broken Illusion which has 20 seconds duration and has to be modified to make it permanent.

What is yet to be discussed?

1. Should shirts be available cross-faction?
2. Should shirts be disabled in arenas?
3. Should Broken and Fel Orc shirts even be intoduced?
4. What should be the way of redistributing them?

[Henhouse]

I can make the buffs red, undispellable so they do not disappear on death. Whether or not they disappear when you remove the shirt is uncertain. Basically we have a lot more of researching to do into this feature before we would implement it. Hence the reason it's just still on the dev realm for playing/testing.

[Proudmore]

Well,
I think would be better for player to be able to morph into opposing faction, as long as I dont see the difference, for example: you meet undead druid, will it be less confusing than gnome druid?,
In bgs I understand its strange to see human vs human fighting, but that is the idea, this can get us out of this routine system, I think that is alot of fun.

About arenas , don't see why should not, since you see their race in info given by targeting,however.

About fel orcs/broken, I think would be amazing!, but I think would be better to be restricted, for example only orcs ca ne fel orcs etc.

About redistribuiting them, I think both voting and donating will be fine.

Best Regards.

[Wacco]

I can't say that I would like or support this idea and we need Cross-Faction Battlegrounds before this feature so it can make some more sense. My guess is that this would just be annoying to have here, and it would be better to fix this completely than implement it half done (from what I can understand)

..and personally I wouldn't want to meet an Undead Druid when there isn't any reason too it whatsoever, even if I don't really would care who I kill if it's targetable anyway, but it feels just wrong and too custom.

1. Should shirts be available cross-faction?
- No, only if (read WHEN) Cross-Faction Battlegrounds is here.
2. Should shirts be disabled in arenas?
- Yes
3. Should Broken and Fel Orc shirts even be introduced?
- No
4. What should be the way of redistributing them?
- What about like 50 Legendary Tokens, hard, annoying and plain boring yet rewarding.

[Proudmore]

Rare, can you please write about your massive idea of cross-faction battlegrounds somewhere else? since it is another topic, and your feedback its like, yes thats not a problem but no thats not good.

[Imperium]

fuck you henry

how many times

HOW MANY MILLIONS OF TIMES HAVE I ASKED SINCE I STARTED PLAYING HERE THAT I WOULD DONATE FOR THE ILLUSION SPELLS


sweet, nice idea though, but I agree more with mayor.

I think it should be faction-only and not usable in arena.