User:Beloren/Cosmeticly Featured

Well, I thought this some days ago. Races like High Elves, Mok'Nathal, Krokul, and Ogres have a very large fan-base. There is quite a bunch of players that would trade all their epic Mounts to look like an ogre all the time. There is also the group that never accepted Blood Elves, and have been keeping in their hearts the almost non-existant posibility of Alliance High Elves. Through a lot of forums, diffrent ideas have been tosed on the table, but none of them reaches a satisfactory result. I am not saiying that my idea will change the World of Warcraft, but, here are my two cents.

What is That?
"Cosmeticly Featured" It is the term i have chosen to describe my idea. It gaves the posibility to make non-playable races, playable for the ones that choose to. Through an Item, equiped in a new Equipment Slot, the character permanenty transforms into a diffrent race, until cancelled. One of the main pillars in this idea, is the option to see or not this change, through the Interface menu.

How Would it Work?
This merely cosmetic change, with no impact in gameplay what so ever, would be possible through the aqcuisition of a "Race Coin". This Race coin would be obtainable though a Quest-line related to the cosmeticly featured race.

For Example: The Krokul Race Coin would be obtainable thtough a quest-chain in Telaar.

Once you have your Race Coin, You will notice that is an Heirlooms, meaning that is Bind on Account. You can choose to equip it in the same character that got it, or transfer it to another. Once activated, your character would have changed appareance, just like other items presents in-game, only that the race coin is permanent until cancelled (Similar to the Hunter's Aspects).

The race coins would be class restrictive instead of race restrictive, given that its only a cosmetic feature, Racial Traits and Starting Attributes do not matter. Another important feature of this mechanism, is the option to see the changes granted by the race coin in game. From the interface menu, in the Display setting, you could chose to see the efects of the transformation or not, the same for your own character equiped with a race coin, or another player-character. This way, PvP'ers will not get confused in the battlefield(This was a joke, sort of).

An example of a Race Coin: