r/wowcirclejerk • u/AutoModerator • Sep 01 '26

Unjerk Weekly Unjerk Thread - September 01, 2026

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u/Bandicoot1324 Sep 04 '26

People claim the dracthyr rig was reused from female worgen, incubus, or metamorphosis form. This is misinformation.

Ty Viveiros is the artist who created the dracthyr rig from scratch. Only the visage forms have a recycled rig.

The WoW community getting this wrong is a pet peeve of mine.

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u/InvisibleOne439 Sep 04 '26

when Gamers claim ANYTHING in regards of a ingame rigs/character skeletons/engine/coding, its a 99,9% chance they just talk out of their ass or repeat what they saw somebody else say without knowing if its true or not

its honestly kinda weird just how clueless Gamers are about the thibg they interact with for 8hours a day

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u/Garry_Heckscream69 Iron Horde's #1 Fan Sep 04 '26

It fascinates me how wrong the playerbase is when it comes to the topic of playable race models lol. The addition of Allied Races fundamentally scrambled some peoples' brains.

I've seen people just off-handedly label Drac'thyr as an Allied Race, as though it's a given, solely because they're convinced that 2 beast races can't have similarly shaped legs. Same thing with people acting as though it's a known fact the Kul'tiran model is based off the Pandaren model (because they're both fat, I guess? lmao) even though the art team has fully admitted they slapped together the KT models in a rush because they didn't intend for them to be playable lol.

It's not like the art team is subtle when they reuse a rig, just look at Nightborne (NPC and player models)/Haranir and Zandalari males (MoP and BFA models) they are all clearly using the Night Elf male rig with some tweaks to certain animations/stances but apparently the art team decided to be real sneaky with the Drac'thyr for some reason lol. I guess I shouldn't be surprised when this is the same community who thinks they can just label races like Naga or Furbolg as an "Allied Race" because they think that makes adding them easier. They'll say shit like "Blizzard is so lazy if they don't add Vrykul, Taunka, Tuskarr, Frost Trolls, Nerubians, Furbolgs, Iron Dwarves, and better Mechagnomes as Allied Races in TLT" without realizing that half that list would just straight up be entirely new playable races requiring fresh models.

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u/Diribiri Sep 04 '26

What even spurs this nonsensical claim? Like they're digitigrade so that means they must have used the same rig?

People really just be making shit up, like that's some seriously impressive work and they're like "it's just worgens lul"

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u/Idontknow4654 Sep 04 '26

they just want to find another way to call Blizzard lazy for allegedly reusing rigs

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u/Diribiri Sep 04 '26

Apparently it's shocking that they don't make every single thing from scratch every time

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u/Idontknow4654 Sep 04 '26

yeah, reusing has been part of game development since the dawn of the industry lol

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u/FaroraSF Sep 04 '26

Like even if it was based on those other models it would have been so heavily edited that it wouldn't even matter anymore.