The Shadowlands pre-patch goes live October 13th, and it brings some much-needed new character customization options for Draenei. While not as extensive as some other races, there are new skin and hair colors, hairdo’s, horns, jewelry and tail options. I’m looking forward to the pinkish skin and lavender hair for my warrior, she’ll be waiting at the barber shop for patch day!

The character creation screen got an upgrade too. It looks like 4, 13 and 14 are the new skin colors. Click here to see the old colors for comparison.

There are four new horn options, including ram horns like Yrel.

There are three new hair colors: 3, 9 and 13. Three colors that were previously only available to death knights are now also available to all classes: 6, 7 and 10.

Six fabulous new hairstyles with buns and braids, and a bald option.

You can now also choose to have a circlet, thick or thin tendrils, and change the color of your jewelry.

Lastly are the tail options. Short, medium and long, with or without ornate jewelry. The jewelry color coordinates with the tendril/circlet colors.

The male draenei also received some new options. Along with the skin and hair colors, they have new hair styles.

You can now also choose your facial hair and face tendrils separately, and have a circlet option.

Like the female, there is an option for a short or long tail.

Hope you guys don’t spend too much at the Barber Shop! Have fun in the Shadowlands.

Super exciting news Draenei enthusiasts!!! The latest beta build for Warlords of Draenor has the new Draenei models in it!! The male model was added a few builds ago, and I’ll get some pictures of him soon. Here’s a few pics I grabbed tonight comparing my ‘live’ toons with their beta counterparts. Standard disclaimer applies – this is beta, things are subject to change. Also, the art department has been very much letting us know the models are still ‘in progress’. You’ll notice the eyes are (hopefully) missing their glow, and shoulders, weapons and helms don’t show at all!

Old Draynee, meet new Draynee

Hearthing face

Drainee – one thing that’s really bugging me is the two tentacles on either side are sort of mushed into one.

Dreynie – with new chest a bellybutton definition.

Draynee front – her hooves have changed slightly and her arms curve at her sides differently. You can see her palms face more inwards and her gloves aren’t as flared at the top.

Side – you can see the posture is mostly the same, though her knees and uh, backwards knee are more pronounced. As is her breast muscle, which is a little odd.

Wowhead has the new model available on their model viewer if you want to check out more of the new animations.  I will try and get some higher-rez comparison shots from it, my computer wasn’t all that happy running the beta client, live client and Photoshop at the same time!  I am still digesting the new face, but I do like the new hairdos.  Although, from the front her croissant roll is a little flatter 😉

A folded hood? *swoon*

Howdy Draenei enthusiasts! I hope everyone is fairing the ‘end of xpac blah’ well.  I’ve realized I’ve been a terrible blogger since Blizzcon, there’s not very much posting going here! To be honest, I haven’t really felt the spark to get back to beloved Azeroth.  Well, I feel a spark, but then I log in and can’t decide what to do, and blah.  The slow trickle of Warlords news hasn’t been to great either. BUT!! Out of that slow trickle was some news we moggers actually care about! Wowhead posted a whole heap of armor/transmog sets they datamined.  I must say, there’s some pretty snazzy gear in there.  There’s also a few new ‘features’ on the gear, such as the folded down hood, and lots of dangly belt things.

I posted a few of my favorites on twitter awhile ago, but this mail set with the hood is definitely one of them! It would be awesome if the hood showed on your head if you have ‘show helm’ on, and down if not!  I also really like this cloth leveling set.  Yeah, bla bla, ‘pointless’ armor, but knowing I would never wear something like that in real life, it’s fun to dress my draenei in it!

Over on Mog Companion, I posted a preview of all the sets wowhead had up, on draenei of course!  The pictures link to the model viewer and the wowhead post, so head on over and check it out!  Warlords of Draenor sets Preview

Draenei enthusiasts!!! Unlike last Tuesday (which I’m not going to even go into), this Tuesday we got some awesome Draenei news out of the art department at Blizzard!
Yes, you’re looking at renderings for new, improved Draenei model! A disclaimer though – she’s still ‘in progress’.  She’s obviously not posed properly, and the hair looks like it could use some work.  That being said, she looks super fly!  It was so awesome for Blizzard to post a little ‘nugget’ for us, since she wasn’t quite ready, but they didn’t want us to think the joke model was all they had.

I must admit, my first thought was “phew, she looks the same, but better”.  I was nervous her face would get a complete revamp like the gnome and dwarf females, and I wouldn’t recognize my ladies anymore.  But, she has the same feel, just updated.  I had the same reaction to the male tauren that was posted on Monday. “Oh, he looks the same… but he has nostrils… and teeth!”  If you haven’t watched the animation videos on that post, they really bring the new model to life.  I am so excited to see new draenei all rigged up and moving around!  I also really can not wait to see gear on these models.  I’m curious to see if they’ll be able to set shoulder gear better on the new model.  You know how some of them look like they’re falling off behind her.  That was actually a major issue with my Draynee cosplay!  We attached the shoulders to my tabard, but they kept slipping off my shoulders.  Luckily, we had brought supplies into the convention, and during opening ceremonies, my husband was super-glueing a clear strap between the shoulders in the back.  They held up like magic after that 😉

My only bummer is that she doesn’t have amazing eyelashes like the undead female does, but at least she has some eyelash definition.  The nose has better definition as well, but it’s still dainty and not a major feature of her face.  I may also like the old hooves better.  I’m reserving judgment on the hooves until we see her standing properly, but I do hope they keep the little fringe of fur at the top of the hooves.  I’d hate to have to remake my draenei boots!

I am quite fond of her underoos, they are definitely more stylish then that cheapo bikini she was wearing.  I know ‘supportive’ and ‘strapless bra’ don’t really fit together in the real world, but it looks like there’s enough structure in that top to hold the gals up.  I mean, she’s an alien anyhow, maybe their ta-tas do defy gravity 😛

Check out the official Artcraft post here!