Yes. It was mentioned in one of the first subsequent interviews when people were initially complaining about the racial lock and visage forms that devs were trying to look into making combat possible in visage form.
https://www.buffed.de/World-of-Warcr...hen-1393543/3/
buffed : The change between human and dragon form - is it purely cosmetic, as with the Worgen, or does the humanoid form have any gameplay influence?
Ion Hazzikostas: It's something we're actually working through right now internally. We understand there's definitely desire to be able to be in your humanoid form in combat in a way that you can't be as a worgen. But of course, if you're doing a deep breath or using your wings, you can't do that in humanoid form. We want to give players as much flexibility there as possible. The dragon form certainly isn't like a metamorphosis for demon hunters. It is the innate form that the Evoker takes, and all their abilities will be usable in it. But we're looking to find ways to work humanoid form into combat. But ultimately, we want to let players do what they prefer aesthetically, rather than forcing gameplay based on mechanics.
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Regardless of where Teriz got the image originally, it's very dishonest from his part to heavily imply that the dragonborn race in D&D is used mainly by deviants who sexually fetishize the race into lean big-breasted lizards, which was his original argument in that post.
Not to mention he should have done his due diligence and track the origin/author of said image before going around making wild accusations, as pinterest and blog image dumps are not valid sources for pictures.
"Torturing someone is not an evil thing to do if it is done for good reasons" by Varodoc
"You sit in OG/SW waiting on a Mythic+ queue" by Altmer <- Oh, the pearls in this forum...
"They sort of did this Dragonriding, which ushered in the Dracthyr race." by Teriz <- the BS some people reach for their narratives...
Huh... that actually is EXTREMELY unusual. From a marketing perspective, this IS the centerpiece of the expansion; quite curious they wouldn't plaster it everywhere.
Maybe they actually ARE working on it...?
It would be hard to believe... but I suppose it was really the only "negative" I remember seeing from the community in the wake of Dragonflight's initial announcement. The community seemed very much "everything seems cool, if a bit safe, but the Dracthyr look kinda 'off'".
Not holding my breath or anything, but I suppose it's a shred of hope to cling to.
I want dragons, not lizards :< it doesn't have to be like the aspect dragon models but something like that would be cool
I could see Dracthyr surpassing the Monk and meme races (Pandaren, gnomes, goblin, etc) in popularity IF THEY ALLOW US TO USE THE VISAGE FORM 24/7, COMBAT INCLUDED.
The Human and Void elf models will carry this race.
People are really coping hard...
Do people think that if we determine that we can "techincally" classify Dracthyr as non-dragons we would get another dragon race/class?
Seems like a longshot... but dream on I guess.
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Tbh the fact the dragonborn females got breasts when it became a main book race in 4E was very much maligned. Ofc you can argue that the response was exacerbated by the general hatred (yes, hatred) a large part of the fanbase had for 4E. Playable draconic humanoids did exist much earlier ofc but they were always obscure, they only became a mainstream player race in the past 15 years. Still the breasts stuck. The intent always was to find a way to let people play dragons (AD&D had an entire setting with that premise in Council of Wyrms, 3E had half-dragons and added numerous draconic options as time passes but certainly with two splatbooks late in the development cycle). Interestingly the consensus among D&D minmaxers long was that playing a straight up Dragon from the Monster Manual would actually be UNDERPOWERED.
That said I don't really recall any overtly sexualized image of a female dragonborn in D&D canon. Ofc it exists in fan drawings but overtly sexualized ANYTHING exists in fan drawings.
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Again, I see it being top three alongside Druids and Hunters. The ability to be a playable version of Alexstraza or Wrathion is a huge selling point for this race/class.
And yeah, the visage form being up 24/7 is a pipe dream. Pretty much every ability shown thus far for the Dracthyr racials and the Evoker class requires the dragon form.
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Yes, people really do think that. I wouldn't be surprised if we still get threads like these in 10.3.
Keep hoping;
https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/pro...light-masthead
They're the FIRST feature listed under the new expansion.
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I just feel that if we're going to discuss, we should keep the discussion in the realms of reality. If you want an elf doing fire or arcane spells, roll a mage.
Anorexic?Also, I love how you unironically compared those anorexic lizards to Wrathion and Alexstrasza. Yep, don't see anything different between them.
There's pretty clear muscle mass present.
The char design is totally wrong imo.
Once you pick Dracthyr you should have been able to pick any sub-race (for the faction) in the char creation screen as your humanoid form, when you perform special/racial abilities you turn into different dragon forms. & All Dracthyr classes should have instant flight form into a dragon, just like druid.
Unlike Worgen, you can maintain your humanoid form in combat but only take on dragon form when doing racial abilities & Evoker does it more when performing its CDs/Specials.