Changeable hairstyles at last! Long live new dances!

by David Bowers Aug 9th 2007 at 9:09AM

I was talking with some friends of mine the other night about the new expansion and we were giggling to ourselves about how the expansion video presents us with the amazing new features to be revealed in Wrath of the Lich King. "New Continent: Northrend!" it announces, "Destructible Buildings! Siege Weapons! New Profession: Inscription! ....Changeable Hairstyles! New Dances!"

It does seem rather incongruous that in a game called about warcraft, changeable hairstyles and new dances would be a big deal, but it's true! This is something we've been wanting for a long time, but I never for the life of me imagined it would be an expansion feature. I always thought it would be like voice chat and guild banks, added in with some patch or another just like so many other things.

It begs some frightening questions: Are we going to have special hairstyles and dances only available to those who have bought the expansion? Will we have to quest for that really epic hairdo, or spend hours and hours grinding for the reputation to access that one faction haircut we want? After all, we do it for special mounts whose only claim to fame is looking cool, why not for hairdos too?

I suspect there won't be such thing as an epic hairdo quest, nor rep-grind barber shops, but really any which way Blizzard manages it will be fine with me. I do hope there will be new skin colors, faces and other characteristics be available too, though one could argue that should those be set in stone. Also, one would wonder if it's just new hair and dances which they have in store for us, or are there going to be a whole slew of new social features? Dare we hope for a proper /hug animation?

Tags: afro, dances, expansion video, ExpansionVideo, french braid, hair, hair gel, hairspray, hairstyles, mohawk, wotlk, wrath of the lich king, WrathOfTheLichKing

Filed under: Expansions, Humor, Wrath of the Lich King

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Todd Aug 9th 2007 9:20AM

Chances are, once the expansion is done and out, everyone will have access to these subtle features... regardless if you bought the expansion or not.

People who failed to buy the expansion still have access to those TBC enchants, gems, etc.

Pook Aug 9th 2007 9:21AM

Wow, look that dude has the Legendery [Flock of seagulls] he must have killed the Litch King.....

daniel Aug 9th 2007 9:55AM

So...can we expect sex changes for expansion 3..?

FireStar Aug 9th 2007 9:57AM

I hope we get a whole lot more emotes. I like using them to talk to alliance. Depending on my mood, i'll either help them with quests or slaughter them.

Todd Aug 9th 2007 9:58AM

@Daniel

Heh, while that is pretty funny, I understand completely what you mean. Customization is a blessing to have, so why not go the distance. How about custom/changeable tattoos, while we're at it?

bwest0526 Aug 9th 2007 10:14AM

Barber Profession should be added and Hairstyle scroll drops to learn new hairstyles or epic Hairstyle Quests FTW!!!

Have to be Exhalted with Timbermaw for the Timbermaw dance! FTW!!!

haha that would be funny!

Niklaw

Sky_Paladin Aug 9th 2007 10:27AM

I'd love to get the whole range of skin colors, hair styles, and faces.

Why faces?

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n152/Sky_Paladin/veslove.jpg

Poor Malachiel. He cried for hours.

RSH Aug 9th 2007 10:30AM

Bah. In the distant future, there will be only one kind of dance: the robot.

And the robo-boogie.

Two kinds...of dances.

CauthonDM Aug 9th 2007 10:30AM

I know that a lot of people do, but I don't think I do want to change how my character looks. My main, with more playtime than I want to think about, just looks the way he does for better or worse. If I changed the hairstyle or face (or sex!) he wouldn't be the character I've been playing for the best part of three years.

Kalkran Aug 9th 2007 10:49AM

Just wondering, will they remove the blood elf female joke then?

"You mean I'm stuck with this haircolour?"

Qtips on Elune (US) Aug 9th 2007 10:51AM

I kinda agree with CauthonDM... we've grown used to how our toons look so radical changes can't be good. Too bad if we made poor judgement calls on creation, those guys were born with those faces. But hair grows, and so does beards and mustache for some of us. And if we can cast spells, we can surely dye or cut our hair. I know I've been waiting forever to change my hairstyle and hair color... Especially since almost no helms look good enough for me! ;p

DarkStar Aug 9th 2007 10:58AM

I could care less about my hair style I ware a helm..
But the dance that my Male BE doe's, well how do i put this with out offending people?

I cant, it's just really really gay! I would love to have a new dance.

cynthias Aug 9th 2007 11:01AM

I can see it now...the epic quest to gain access to the "celebrity" hairstylist of the game. Otherwise, it's Haircuttery for joo.

jlpknights82 Aug 9th 2007 11:11AM

I've very specifically chosen the look of all my characters so that it would be appealing to me. I just can't play an "ugly" character for hours on end. ROFL

But I do think that adding in moire customization options is a great direction for the future. Hopefully more things like this will come in the future, like tattoos or subtle battle scars and things which could make characters even more unique.

I would like to see more short hairstyles for male Blood Elves. Also, the addition of slightly more esoteric hair colors for ALL races. (I have a reason the other day that I really wanted to make a character with green hair, but no dice.)

If anything involves questing, I think the new dances are most likely to. Maybe it could serve as a way to explore the lore of Northrend that you have to go to certain places and do quests there before you can learn the local dance style. That could be really fun.

Wildhammer Aug 9th 2007 11:31AM

*Prays one of the new hairstyles for Dwarf men is a mohawk*

Pleeaasssseee, Blizz! Mohawk + Dwarf = Super Wildhammer-e. XD

Milktub Aug 9th 2007 11:51AM

I too want a Hairstyling profession.

[Enormous Beehive] : +4 Stam, increase Defense Rating by 12

Otherwise, I don't really need it. I like the way my toons look.

Erica Olson Aug 9th 2007 11:58AM

Ooooo, a new profession. Hairstylist. Can't wait to see how they make you level that one.

Sorry, but I feel people pay way to much attention and angst over how your hair/face/gear/etc. looks. Who cares, it's the stats that matter.

fealubryne Aug 9th 2007 11:59AM

@2 As awful as it'd be if they actually pulled something like that... it'd be funny as heck, too.

"Raid? Oh, I can't raid right now. Why? I'm grinding rep so I can get my epic [Bowl Cut], man!"

jorelius Aug 9th 2007 12:04PM

On one of the promo videos it was displayed as "New hairstyles for your hero" which lead me to beleive that only the deathknight would get new hairstyles, which kind of makes sense, yet would probably dissapoint a lot of people. That or it could just be a flub as "we're all heroes!"....

Jetles Aug 9th 2007 12:29PM

The going to have a SPACE CHANNEL 5 Tpye Dance quest

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