FFXIV - Maduin (Dynamis DC)
I expect to see Humans and Dwarves at the very least, hopefully one or more races on top of that.
Most animations work and have been updated but just look bad. Like applaud/clap, which you mentioned. The rapeface is bad -- but it is an animated face and thus updated. I hope they change it for the orcs though. It's horribly creepy and hilarious.
And dance studio might still happen. Small chance, but it might! xD It would make sense for them to do so after the model updates.
3D armor isn't too unrealistic either. A Blizzard tier design artist spoke about wanting to do it sometime in the future. On top of that, NPCs in MoP have used a lot more unique armor models than before. They could add the same for player chars. Of course they wouldn't do it before the model updates, because they'd have to do it all over afterwards.
The rest, though -- is pretty unrealistic. Like I said: GW2 graphics aren't Blizzard's style to begin with, and they seem adamantly against height/weight sliders.
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Humans, dwarves and orcs.
I hope to see at least one more though. Would probably be troll. Can't wait to see gnome/draenei (later on)/forsaken and tauren though. Can't wait to see the huge change.
To this day I wonder why they ever wanted to implement a dance studio in the first place. No matter how you look at it the idea is horrible. The use is next to non existant, there is no gameplay involved and the customization is limited to when people stop and actually use /dance. Then because of the way models work in wow a dance studio would requite every single move of every dance to be animated for every single race (and gender), which would make this feature a ever growing development resource hog. It would work if all races would use the same human skeleton, but because of all the diffrent skeletons this is just a hilarious fail from a design and managment PoV.
As for the 3D armor models: Wanting and actually doing it are completly diffrent, don't you think? What unique armor models are you talking about btw?
Edit: Darn someone necro'ed that thing ...
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What we won't get with new models:
-Sliders.
We're not going to get models of different sizes and fatness for every race. Game wasn't made for it. Clipping issues will occur. A whole lot of time needed to do something problematic to the game as it is. I don't see it happening.
-Armor coloring options.
There are plenty of games that have this, but there are some things about WoW Blizzard cannot change. Like the main backpack's standard 16 slots. WoW evolves, but it's easier to add stuff than change stuff. In this case, it would require the game to see armor color as a code that can be changed. But it is an actual colored texture in the game files. Every different color has its own texture.
-Custom animations.
Marvelous idea. But I really doubt it.
What may may get, if lucky:
-Sub-races.
Last we heard, Blizzard was considering it. Cross your fingers! Because if they'll scrap anything, it'll be this.
-Upgraded NPCs.
People seem to forget, even if your character will be hidden beneath armor, the rest of the world won't be, and will look great.
-Better animations.
I don't need to explain this one.
-Legs below robes.
It was long long ago, but I'm very confident this was mentioned at some point. If they're still going for it, it opens interesting new armor options.
-Shaped chestpieces.
Gear won't instantly become as great as NPCs. But with so much more points to a character model, they can change the basic body shape depending on the gear you wear, without it looking like crap. You already see this with some pants, that change leg shape. But these changes are simple and it's tough to make it completely match the texture. With better models, they can start experimenting with chest pieces that have different shapes, rather than just being a texture.
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I know it's semi wishful thinking but I am expecting at least four new race models. Humans and Orcs would be the first to get done, and evident by Garrosh/Thrall there is progress made there. They mentioned Dwarves being almost done during Cata I believe, and Trolls between the Zandalari and Vol'jin have a good chance too. Maybe Tauren with Yangoul I guess too but my some what realistic hopes are those four, even though my two main characters are Orcs, and that's the one I want more than anything I overall want a better looking game.
I hope night elves look like Tyrande's update from a couple years back (i.e. the End of Time instances). She looks much nicer than the Classic nelf model.
I would bet on better newer armor, though redoing what already exists... like trying to reform every star in the sky, there is just so much of it it's probably impossible and unreasonable to even put it on the to-do list.
You know, I would really like this! In the "Fantasy" world scenes on Once Upon a Time, one of the female characters wears pants with split skirts open in the front, and it's a really nice look. If you chose the female character in Fable awhile back I think she had a costume with a split skirt and pants. For example see this costume: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l30PPmKUsL...T203-00721.jpg
It would be cool if they could really do something new, instead of just re-patterning/coloring the existing robe styles.