YOOOO I'm ready for my horde Gnoll character!
My advice on this one is to delete it entirely and then copy and paste the HotS model in.This just isn't Hogger and these aren't gnolls. They're plushies.Crushes my hopes for this expansion even further when a design like this got approved by multiple people all the way to getting produced and put in the game. The flavour and art direction feels more like the annual "WoW Killer" than real WoW.
We had Angry Hogger. Now we have Shy Hogger. Waiting for EMO Hogger.
While the new Hogger isn't bad, he does look a bit too soft. He seems to have lost the ferocity and beastliness he used to have. Here's a Redditor's version of what it could be.
I love the new Gnolls, they look like Worgen who shotgunned like 20 Five-Hour Energies then did a few lines of NoDoz.
Old Hogger: ME STRONG, ME SMASH YOUR HEAD, ME CHARGE YOU HARD! π ππ‘π‘New Hogger: I am worried about my new date, how do I look? I hope pretty enough! π¦π¦ππ
The job Blizzard has done is quite good but I think, and I'm pretty sure that you (reader) will agree with me, is that we've lost an important thing in this game... Fear. We don't see anymore an enemy and fear it like the old Hogger. Ok ok Blizzard wants to make everything good and pretty but this is not Disney, it's Blizzard. I love the game, I play the game and always will, but we need the see even the Furbog and fear them, menacing faces, long fangs, long nails, and dark power that drops from everywhere from the body of the villain. Bring back the horror component, bring back the fear like the fear that the Forgotten Crypts of Karazhan bring to anyone who stepped inside of them.We need more creepiness Blizz, we deserve it. <3
Looks gnarly 'n stuff, but this makes the gnolls stand out way too much in that 2004 32-Bit poly #$%^&in elwynn forrest.
Looks terrible. The regular gnolls patrolling around Hogger in classic look better. If they're not going to put in an effort to capture the old menacing vibe of classic world monsters, don't bother. At the very least give us the option (console command or something) to see the old models.I noticed the same problem with the updated Abomination and Ghoul models aswell. They now look more goofy than scary. The vibe is off. It's bad enough that 99% of world content is too trivial to care about (1% being max level patch zones). This isn't Warcraft anymore.
People in the Alpha/Beta/PTR , get in there and spam them for the change. Hogger is darker, and more menacing looking than this garbage. Tear thru the 'wall of astonishment' when you get in those tests and focus, or they'll think we 'liked' the new model, as it is.How the h**l no one at the company reminded them of the HotS model?
No.(minus the baby gnolls-- they super cutie)
I'm sorry guys but this wannabe furry hyena here looks NOTHING like the newbie killer menace we all know and love. His colors are all wrong, where are the scars? Where's the MENACE? If you really want to give him a glowup just import the damn model from Heroes of the Storm for light's sake...
What in the furry is this? This looks awful
Oh look how cute and fuzzy hogger is ....really blizz why ? I thought he was supposed to look vicious . if they were going for vicious they definitely missed the mark ugh.
Couldn't Blizz have just updated the graphics without making everything looks so boringly vanilla. Hogger doesn't look threatening or menacing. I really question who their current audience is or who they're targeting.
Something about the new models weirds me out. Idk what it is. Like too cartoony? Saying that feels weird, because WoW has always been cartoony, but these guys are just kind of weird. Borderline uncanny.
Oof Hogger looks awful. Sad WoW seems to be regressing.
These are awesome but Hogger needs the color that is closer to his previous cannon and HoTs colors, which is in the game already https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/1067532.jpg
They should've just used the HotS version of Hogger
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, now with anthropomorphized bestiality (aka furries).