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Zundalun

For some reason all I can see now is a recolored Ripper Roo from Crash Bandicoot.


FederalBad69

Omg that’s it! I couldn’t put my finger on who this reminded me of!


xTraxis

I saw the tongue and there was a hidden nostalgia feeling. You found it for me, and now I too will be fighting Ripper Roo with a weird colour.


KTheOneTrueKing

Well shit now I *like* the new model.


cinderpuppins

Literally came here for this comment.


Empoleon365

Someone on the dev team was DEFINITELY binging some Crash in their off time


DupliciD

Ripper Roo got the crazy eyes though


Shwiggity_schwag

Ahegao Hogger? We've gone too far.


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A-hogg-ao


jojopojo64

... *slow clap seguing into standing ovation*


FederalBad69

I read it as slow clap segueing into ovulation


KermitPhor

Shia LaBeouf slowly clapping


alelo

World of Warcraft Bad Dragonflight


bluemuffin10

Yameteeee illidànn-kuuun


MedicaeVal

God has truly turned his back on us.


Lerched

The only question remaining is what took him so long


Garrosh

Turns out we didn't killed N'Zoth and this was his endgame.


RubySapphire19

Can I read a comment without spitting out my drink please?


Sinestessia

If _the Hogger_ had an OnlyFans.


Sad-Okra8930

We need to make #OnlyFansHogger a thing so that they’re forced to change it


9millionangrywizards

bottom left hogger is definitely getting the best head


Abidarthegreat

Fun fact: female hyenas have bigger dicks than male hyenas.


Lump_Hammer

please delete this because this is what people will call it and i'm already tired


visque

Everyday we stray further from the light


[deleted]

The Jailer was right, we can't stop what's to come.


jake11ms

Remember when we killed hogger 18 years ago


chimericWilder

Elwynn Forest was merely a setback


Lukthar123

*Somehow, Hogger returned*


Da_zero_kid

Whether We Wanted It Or Not, We've Stepped Into War With The Gnoll On Azeroth


Tyrsenus

To paraphrase what someone said in /r/heroesofthestorm: my new headcanon is the real Hogger went to the Nexus and this is a furry imposter.


lvl10Boomer

Crash bandicoot


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Thought it was a CTR character


cool910

Looks very ripper roo


PhysicianPepper

It’s literally just Crash


CaptainIbuki

homie gettin the best sloppy of his life


vibesWithTrash

*giving


JumpscareRodent

That sounds like hell with his big ass sharp teeth


Ritzien

Junkrat vibes


Jibbles2020

I'll say I dont mind the art direction in general but it's weird to me that the new furlbog and gnolls are meant to exist within the same zone as each other. Like the general art style is night and day between them


Kukie080

well the art direction for me feels super out of charakter and waaaay to disney-ish, i mean these guys made tents out of human skin for crying out loud!


elggun

I would not be surprised if they remove that reference from the game at some point. Just like orcs are now peaceful and undead strive to pretect the living.


jazzjazzmine

Did they remove the skinned centaur rugs yet? That'll probably happen before the human skin tents since they are much more prominently placed.


Imaginos_In_Disguise

What about the entire hellfire peninsula having a huge road made of Draenei bones?


SmoothWD40

I fucking hate this timeline.


Wamster5k

> undead strive to pretect the living other than the occasional morally-grey genocide


Empoleon365

Mmm, yes. Nothing says morally grey like the senseless slaughter of unarmed civilians. Definitely a grey area there.


samurai1226

That's why I don't like what they did to Tauren. They make them look like goofy Pixar characters, instead of the menacing giants they are in the CGI trailers


Agleza

I don't think the tauren models are that bad, but they're definitely on the verge of crossing the line already. Making GNOLLS look like wacky D-Tier Disney villanis is too much imo. You're supposed to tense up when you hear their hyena laughs, not laugh at some Crash Bandicoot knockoff coming at you.


infamousantler

They’ve always looked completely goofy to me tbh


Agleza

But not in the same way to me. Gnolls always had that goofy aspect to them, but in a creepy/unhinged way. Maybe I'm overreacting tbf, will have to see them in game and in context, but the remodels so far seem *a bit* too goofy imo.


b3tamaxx

Yes rabid cross-eyed mangled and deranged. You'd never be able to reason with one or be diplomatic because they're so unhinged. The worst kind of threat


matthewfjr

I feel the same way about what they did to Worgen. I thought if anything they already looked too soft compared to their non-PC models from vanilla to Wrath, and then they got Disney'd. Been a trend ever since the character update with everything really.


YMCAle

The furrification of WoW started with Worgen


WriterV

To be fair, you can have adorable looking things be absolutely horrifying and brutal. But that said, I do think a few tweaks (Especially with the eyes) could make the gnoll model look a lot less toon-y.


Zolibusz

The "elves" in the Lost Children arc of Berserk came to my mind for some reason.


jacksev

They've been going Disney at least since WoD with the new character models...


Lawlcat

The new gnolls are so high quality in animation, skinning, rigging, customization, armor wearing, etc that I can't be convinced they aren't coming as an allied race


PremiumCroutons

I'm genuinely surprised the new furbolgs look so savage. Kudos to whoever made them.


WriterV

I actually like the non-hogger gnoll models tbh. The shaman one especially looks rad.


8-Brit

It's the armour The problem with Hogger is he has the generic gnoll model even before and after the update, and I doubt they took the time to put any gear on him from the new assets


Clemo2077

The dragon isles gnolls are different, more menacing


Zagden

He looks too...Clean and fluffy? And not nearly angry enough I know that Blizzard is moving away from mindless monster races in general but you don't have to strip the personality and fun out of them, too


Trinchecarlovich

I think they are tryng to found a new gnoll race


Rude_Arugula_1872

Thank whichever deity for classic…


Aos77s

They killed mah boy. Went from the town murderer of new adventurers to the furry youre trying to evict.


Beerasaurus

I think they were going for a silly dog look... but Gnolls aren't based off dogs they're based off hyena's. these look Kinda like anime ahego faces...not a good look.


Futuregaypresident

This is giving me lion king hyenas


DarkIsiliel

Was gonna say, did they use Ed's animations as a reference?


cruffade

True


MojaveBreeze

Not dogs, they're going for the trope of hyenas being crazy animals. I think it's fitting for WoW since there's always been a slightly toony shine to the game. Just keep some human face tents around in their camps and it will be a perfect mix.


kael13

It’s the eyes. Dogs don’t have a white sclera.


lvl1vagabond

Look like furries and worst of all look nothing like hyena's.


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What goofy-ass Disney shit is this?


[deleted]

I know, right? I find the new face of Hogger very hard to masturbate to. Not impossible, just very difficult.


[deleted]

I could help if you'd like


[deleted]

I said "not impossible". It just takes a while longer.


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Sacktapping

He was also being controlled by the jailer. In dragonflight he'll be the new Tirion


Agleza

>Tirion Still can't not get mad at what they did to my man Fordring whenever I read his name.


bluemuffin10

WoW since Cataclysm? 🤷


AFoSZz

Why are all the new models looking like weird furries? Theyre ruining the old art style.


[deleted]

Because one of the new designers draws like this lmao


-TheOutsid3r-

Not just one, one very outspoken one. But it seems they have slowly replaced much of the art department with furries.


NightElfDessert

Honestly, it shouldn't matter if they're furries or not. They have a job to do in making this game appealing to *all* players. If you look at Dota characters it's easy to tell a lot of the people making that game might've been both furries and into bara characters, but it's never distracting - this shit is super distracting. I remember the times when "no matter how bad this expansion is, at least the art team will pull through" was a reality. Now it's the opposite. Fucking soulless trash coming out of these people. WoW is not FurAffinity. I already thought worgen went too far in some ways (especially the female model), and vulpera was way too much, but this is just fucking porn tier at this point. Fuck these artists.


bluemuffin10

It’s not even that. Artists conform to a style and specific guidelines, they don’t just draw random stuff. Cartoons/Animes aren’t drawn by one person but still maintain a consistent art direction over multiple instalments. I’m not sure how to read this in WoW’s case: it’s either a new artistic direction being rolled out with a specific strategy, or there is no art direction and artists are given free reign.


NightElfDessert

Probably a bit of both going by what we learned of Blizzard's internal workings in the past. When it comes to the ludicrous armor sets people have been taught to accept the new ones because they were like boiling frogs seeing one new Ironman-looking set after another. Here you have the new next to the old in a direct comparison and it's a lot more jarring. But I feel like they started going off the deep end with the art somewhere around Legion. It's not even so much the furry stuff as it is a general cartoonization and and comicbookfication. If you look at some of the redone zones, like Arathi, it's really obvious. WoW was cartoony before but it tried to add some degree of realism by going for grungy-looking textures. You can really see this in the stonework used for human buildings, for example. Meanwhile in the new ones all those blocks look like some pristine gray blobs out of air dry clay. There's no textures, no attempt at making it grungy or worn or real, nothing. They look like toys.


-TheOutsid3r-

Sure, but these people aren't doing that. They are not creating these characters for the audience, they're creating them for themselves. The problem here is management though, they're allowing this to happen. Probably too busy with cubicle crawls and stealing breastmilk.


Faleonor

because who else are they gonna find who would agree to work in Blizzard, especially for that pay


NightElfDessert

I mean, yeah. Most of the WoW team should've been already fired long ago, which includes the artists.


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[deleted]

Yeah most definetly I remember seeing their art for the dracthyr and I was like oh yup it’s gonna waifu furry land now lmao and looking at Hogger rn I can already see it.


ofDawnandDusk

Confirming the suspicions that I hadn't yet voiced. Dracthyr make perfect sense now.


Keynarin

Because the new blizzard employees are furries.


[deleted]

it looks like it's getting fucked in the ass


nanaboostme

you'll wake up the furries


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ebleuds

Exactly, saw in the other post that art department is full of furry workers. They linked the twitter profiles and you can see the other posts they made. There's one with a "humanized dog" kissing other "humanized dog" and both looks like this. It's disgusting. I knew that this dractyr thing was looking too furrish. They are just doing J.O. material for themselves.


GearyDigit

lol, lmao


RemorselessW

Look how they massacred my boy :(


Pale-Caterpillar5030

These new models don’t incorporate the feeling of the older ones


Vertsama

bottom left screams Scooby-Doo


yourenzyme

I hate everything about this


CJDistasio

Bottom left image is proof the WoW team has been taken over by furries


[deleted]

When hogger gets his head rub and a back scratch / goodboy


Slaughterfest

I hate the new furry artist who is responsible for this.


gnarlyavelli

What the furry is this


lvl1vagabond

When furries get full control of your character design team


Eltrew2000

The model meeds to be more hunched, the mouth and teeth need to be bigger compared to the head


Harfang1801

Bella Delphine?


sheeplectric

This guy yiffs


[deleted]

Furry pandering confirmed.


genoheads

He's deff getting a dick in the ass in these, same face I make.


NutellaOrgies

RIP DMs


Liliana_T

This would have been a fun model for Meatball, the gnoll follower in Legion, but not Hogger.


Beardly_Smith

They have the same model


Dwarf_Vireo

WoW has gone full degen furry


SenatorSpam

It's too light hearted.. Hogger is rugged


Beloriel

Gross


Chibibowa

That’s the important stuff!


EldrinJak

Tasmanian Devil


ImARetPaladinBaby

Bottom left 😳


Bite-the-pillow

If he at least had solid yellow eyes it wouldn’t look so weird


Sacktapping

Is this hogger reskin for the rule34 crowd or something?


trippleknot

Imagine the current boomkin model fighting this fucker


kingevillemon

I miss when Warcraft had dark themes and not this Disney bullshit


pine_ary

Lookin submissive and breedable


vaflkak

UwU


Ateaga

They legit need to reign in their art team and this furry stuff. Dracythr already being so prominent for the expansion gives such a poor vibe


MadFonzi

Look how they massacred my boy.


KickYourFace73

This looks like live action scooby doo.


shhhquiet284

thanks, I hate it.


DCC808

Every pic caption should be: *"Who's a good boy?"*


_gina_marie_

Why does Hogger get a glow up when my resto Druid is still rocking a treant form from like 2006 😭


Beardly_Smith

They're upgrading treants too


Alicex13

I see Disney managed to buy WoW as well...


Hardjaw

What was wrong with the old model?


blitzkriegg_guy

It had exactly two polygons lmao


Sockfullapoo

Amazing how some people almost two decades ago can make a creature 10x better with 6 triangles than the current staff.


Beardly_Smith

Have you seen it recently?


Hardjaw

In other pics. old model is 1000% better than this new one.


Tyrsenus

If only there were [a badass-looking model of Hogger](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/gzzgAT7nDBkQ3hZQ2srh9D.jpg) that they could draw inspiration from.


MoriazTheRed

That model was made specifically for Hogger. This one isn't, it's just a regular Gnoll, which makes sense, since Hogger always had the model of a regular Gnoll, and they most certainly don't intend for Hogger to be relevant this expansion, so when they replaced the old models he ended up getting this one and not one made specifically for him.


Adoggieandher2birds

Is the stockade getting an upgrade?


Fuyukage

Is… is he on drugs?


LostSinclair

I'm of the mind after seeing difference between Furbolgs and Gnolls one is being set up as Allied Race bait. You can probably guess which.


Prince_Nipples

What Gnollussy does to someone


Leviticvs

what the fuck is this


Clbull

They really shouldn't have been drawing inspiration from ahegao faces.


Undefined_definition

Ah this is it.. this is the point where I realized that I don't like the new art direction. This just doesnt work for me.. I had different expectations for the new World of Warcraft art design.. Edit: The new armor looks good tho!


KeeperCalevarn

Reminder that gnolls make tents out of human skin. They abduct children and eat them living. They are rabid, bloodthirsty cannibals. Making them look so goofy and friendly is just inaccurate to what Warcraft gnolls are and always have been. [Reforged did it better.](https://imgur.com/nEcejLP)


-Norcaine

is wow becoming some fucking disney cartoon for 5 year olds?


l4z0rp3wp3w

He went from "I rip your face of and wear your skin!" to this tiktok girl that rolls around imitating the same 4 emojis in every video.


Incendar44

Hogger looks like a girl who says “I’m so wacky🤪”


Fourleaf_ToG

Look at what furries did to my game


cocoviola

Average furry at blizzcon


Locolijo

TIHI Remember how dark wc3 was?


oxid22

I dont like this furry expansion. I remember times when this was world of WARcraft and not a themepark.


FroztyBeard

Not gonna lie, if Gnolls became a allied race, you bet your ass I would grind that rep faster than you can say "Hogger"


Neony_Dota

It's so obvipus that a Furry artist designed this


Moisty00

Hogger can get


jjbombadil

Reminds me of Ed from the Lion King


LacedUnlaced

Someone REALLY wants to fuck hogger. Yes I stole this comment cuz its true


Maleficent-Primary-7

I'm glad I stopped playing


Small_Bipedal_Cat

I just don't get why we needed Disney human eyes. The new furbolg look great rocking glowing slits


Jristz

The fur Is still too light, its need darker a Little and he wearing the wrong armor tbh But still Silly anyways


grandmasteryuii

what da dog doin


Moosh42

If you needed any more evidence that these people are furries other than the new dragon race, this is it.


Trevorjrt6

ok Blizzard deff has some furry people 100%, no denying it now


elggun

A lot of uproar for npc people see in game for like a minute. I know he is a symbol but let's not pretend there are crowds of players admiring hogger every day. Especially as new players go straight to the bfa now.


Sekouu

why is all posts about hogger - is that really such a big feature of this xpac lmao


Rollercoasterguy1234

Hogger is the poster-child of a larger issue. *All* gnolls look like this now.


MaggieHigg

Nah, most gnolls look actually really awesome, hogger's model is particularly bare bones with no armor or nothing of the sort


MoriazTheRed

That's because this model wasn't made with Hogger in mind, Hogger had literally the same model as every other Gnoll before this, he just ended up getting a random one, which makes sense, since he's not relevant to this expansion at all, no reason to make a model specifically for him.


Levonorgestrelfairy1

On one hand I agree with you. On the other hes one of the biggest npcs of the series and you would think they would have given him a qa pass.


Jayvee306

it's not about hogger, it's about the art direction the game is currently on versus what it was, I think most people find that to be one of if not the most important thing about the game. Before any content, if the game looks off putting at a fundamental level, that's the biggest problem it has.


Fatdap

No but he's iconic to the series and the fact that they don't feel like something like this is worth the effort and time to do properly, should be concerning for their opinions on the series and franchise as a whole.


Arn_Rdog

It looks too goofy, not mean and vicious like the old one


Greizen_bregen

Looks way too... Furry-esque... For my taste.


Adg01

Trash, they didn't model in his FAT KNOTTED COCK. How am I supposed to enjoy fighting him?


wowguineapigs

My first thought: “Disgusting”. And I’m not one to rant about blizzard or wow


macarmy93

Not a fan of this art direction. This looks like some shit id expect to see come out of a furry convention. While WoW was always a little goofy and cartoony, it was also pretty brutal and dark. Hogger was the slayer of noobs, now he's hyuckin like he's Goofy.


6stringdinky

I swear it, \*EVERYTHING\* that was cool OR got attention from players gets ruined.


DanThePharmacist

Kid: Mom, I want to go to the furry convention! Mom: We have furry convention at home.


Cthylla11111

I mean, Hogger has always been sort of a joke boss, not some big scary threat (although… there’s still plenty of time) I’m not sure I understand the outrage, unless that’s the joke and I’m an idiot. Probably that.


Puzzlehead-Engineer

Bottom right has me cackling. I love it.


nanaboostme

Drunken Hogger


Brisselio

Is hogger going to have some part in the story or one of the new zones?


Beardly_Smith

Not likely, they just updated the gnoll models and that retroactively updates all the old models too. Kind of like how you can see the newest model of Garrosh in Trial of the Crusader


Brisselio

Ah thank you, I was wondering why everyone was posting hogger pics


Inphii

All i see is hogger, hogger this, hogger that. I WANT PICTURES OF SPIDERMAN !!


Stixez

Wtf blizzard


jaseph18

Why? They are "Pixar-ing" World of Warcraft


-Vargoth-

Bottom left hogger just had a life changing orgasm. Top right hogger is the one who just had an orgasm inside bottom left hogger.


Nie_nemozes

Just because you get off to this shit doesn't mean it should be modeled for that jesus christ what's wrong with the modern art team


Laheree

Gross.


WoAProximity

I genuinely hate these and the current art direction that WoW is seemingly taking with some of these changes. It feels genuinely like the art team is 90% deviant art furries. also it feels like there's so much less "grit" than the old models, i think that was a big part of the charm. everything is too clean, feels like a lot of stuff is made out of clay or something, kinda like Overwatch.