The new race of Dracthyr in World of Warcraft has extremely many customization options. This should make almost all other races envious …
The next WoW expansion Dragonflight may not have many large features, but it does have a few fine highlights. One of them is the new race of Dracthyr, which will be playable on the Dragon Isles. A completely new race naturally requires numerous customization options and the bipedal dragon descendants really have a lot to offer.
What are the Dracthyr? Dracthyr are a new playable race in Dragonflight that can only choose a single class – Evoker. They count as a hero class and thus start at a high level to seamlessly enter the story of Dragonflight. Dracthyr have both a humanoid form and a dragon form that is always active in combat (like Worgen).
What has been shown now? In a small blog post, Blizzard has revealed quite a lot about the visual design of the Dracthyr. It was primarily about the cosmetic options, and they are indeed worth seeing. Some pictures showed that the Dracthyr (at least) …
- have 18 different horns to choose from
- can choose from 15 different colors for their scales
- can wear a pretty cool armor set
Dracthyr are the first race with different bodies: A small but quite interesting detail is that the Dracthyr can choose different body shapes. There are a total of 4 different options, ranging from “somewhat slender” to “quite muscular”. In a small video from Blizzard, you can see the different options. At first glance, the deviation may seem small, but especially when comparing option 1 and option 4, the differences become quite apparent.
Some hope that other races will also get such options retroactively, to play somewhat slighter human mages or somewhat stronger blood elves.
What do you think of the Dracthyr and their appearance? Do you like the race and will you play it?
Everything about WoW: Dragonflight and the Dracthyr can be found in our overview of the addon.
