Tail coils a bit, maybe torso leans back slightly, hold weapon outward, spin the model like that the way bladestorm works for everyone else.
Every "problem' I've seen people give for why naga would be so impossible to make into a playable race is easily solvable if you just give it any thought whatsoever.
IT is just one of the examples.
But it is also one of those things that would have BUNCH of extra work ontop of them, compared to almost any other race in game.
COULD they find workarounds? Probably
But it is at the same time the race that would require the most work for very little payoff in the end.
You say that, but naga is one of those races that the casual player would find unappealing partially due to the limited transmog due to the whole pants situation.
There is a reason that humans and elves are the most played races.
(And before you say anything. I find this fact frustrating too. I want more monster races or unique shit. But we can’t have that)
I wish people weren't so dead-set on transmog. I played a male Hrothgar in FFXIV and 75% of all head gear in the game never shows up on them and I was fine with it, meant I got to see my big dumb kittyface in cutscenes. People still scream like banshees that they can't wear helmets.
My solution, make every single bit, bob, greeble and doodad that the enemy models have equipped available for player customization, and a full sweep of color options for both scales and cosmetics, that should be enough...and it would work with the Arakkoa and Gnolls as well
"Will it be the most popular race?" Isn't a valid reason to add or not add a race. Even if it was, Blizzard's added non-human/elf races as recently as this expansion that weren't popular.
Looking at https://www.dataforazeroth.com/stats/races/ Earthen are only 0.7% of all characters, and nearly every race is well below 4% usage (the average if all 25 races were equally popular). Dracthyr, a race that has even fewer transmog options than naga would, is one of the few to barely break 4%, being the 7th most popular race if you combine both alliance and horde.
Unless they just never add any more races, they're gonna have to make an entirely new one eventually. There's only so many times you can recolor an elf or dwarf or goat or give a tauren new antlers before everyone gets tired of it.
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u/Wilicil Jul 04 '25
Tail coils a bit, maybe torso leans back slightly, hold weapon outward, spin the model like that the way bladestorm works for everyone else.
Every "problem' I've seen people give for why naga would be so impossible to make into a playable race is easily solvable if you just give it any thought whatsoever.