The Dracthyr Spread their Wings to New Classes

[Geckoo]

It's cause making the evoker class work with the visages form would be a lot of work, a lot of animation work for the various dragon based abilites like flying, breathing, soaring, hovering. etc.

Not really. Most of the people asking for pemanent visage don't actually want 'permanent' visage, they want that 'chosen identity' works in combat and automatically changes back to visage after using skills that require the dracthyr animation. They could do that with barely any effort on their part and a lot of people would already be happy.

Now, the issue with that is that devastation does have almost all their rotational abilities forcing the dracthyr form, so they would indeed have to work on some visage animations, but not for the abilities you are thinking about. The true issue with devastation comes from shattering star, eternity surge, firestorm, pyre and azure strike. It sure is animation work, but i wouldn't call it a lot considering that most of them would just be ensuring that the body looks cool while the already existing effect happens.

Augmentation and preservation would not have this issue because most of their abilities do not force the dracthyr form.

So to reiterate: flying, breathing, soaring and hovering would still use the dracthyr animation, but with 'chosen identity' toggled, it would automatically go back to visage as soon as the cast, buff or travel time is over.

[Lahis]

But what about different races being Evokers?

If you read the post, you might notice this passage:

Dracthyr Evokers will continue to use Dracthyr form during combat, as many of their abilities emphasize their draconic nature. With the addition of new classes to Dracthyr, we are making some further adjustments to their racials.

Evokers will always be Dracthyr only. Unlike other classes, their abilities come from biology, not training.

[Lumicide]

It's cause making the evoker class work with the visages form would be a lot of work, a lot of animation work for the various dragon based abilites like flying, breathing, soaring, hovering. etc.

It wouldn't be that hard. The flight itself could remain a disgusting scalie racial as its ultimately superfluous. The gust of wind, and whatever stupid ability "uses" wings can be used with the levitate animation and an addition of wings akin to that of pally/priest wings. The breath abilities are little more than the roar animation + the spell effect. I'd really not care if it were done in such a lazy fashion. Further, they don't need to give it to every race, just to a better looking race.

The only reason I don't play preservation is that godawful dragon-form, it's a fun healer otherwise. And, for the little time that I've forced myself to play it, I just used the atomic toy to make me into something that wasn't a "dragon", or constantly toggled visage.

If you read the post, you might notice this passage:

Dracthyr Evokers will continue to use Dracthyr form during combat, as many of their abilities emphasize their draconic nature. With the addition of new classes to Dracthyr, we are making some further adjustments to their racials.

Evokers will always be Dracthyr only. Unlike other classes, their abilities come from biology, not training.

Who cares about their "lore" for this hideous race? It's an exceptionally stupid video game with a bunch of superhero quality writing for its characters. At very least, they just shouldn't require the dumbass form. It's a shame to waste an entire class behind how goddamn ugly it is. At least DH are locked behind elves.

[Ereb]

I'm still waiting for them to add more race options for dracthyr visage form.

Im still waiting for them to actually let you use the visage form and not force you into dragussy form in combat. The "change" they made does nothing in reality since half the evoker toolkip hard forces you into dragon form anyhow

[Hellfury]

Shamans in beta asked for new up to date forms since the actual ones are from cataclysm iirc. Or atlerst a glyph to hide the ugly form.

Blizzard does forms that noone asked for.

[druvirus]

Couldn't agree with you more. After waiting for a new class/race, we get this crappy,moronic lizard form

Whats wrong with it, exactly? Other than "it's dumb", that is.