The centaurs are largely believed to be based on Scythians, a people from north of the Black Sea who were steppe nomads (a group of cultures based largely on the Eurasian steppe ranging from western China to Austria).
The centaur in WoW are based on generic steppe nomads, not Mongols. They don’t really have any features that aren’t common to all of those cultures.
So weirdly, they’re actually really faithful to the Greek myth.
but there would be armor.
Helms, shoulders, chest, hands, feet (anklets like taurens, etc…) leggings could become adornments or be hidden and the back could be on the horse part or on the human part…
All normal so far. By the way, in centaurs there would be even more adornments than in any other race, just look at the photo I posted before :
Let’s observe her:
She has a helmet, shoulders, hands armor, chest, anklets (feet), belt, probably a cape. It would only lack leggings, but it has adornments (shields) around the back. She has a kind of cell or leatherwork on her lower back.
I see this working very well with the possibility of xmog with today’s equipment and the possibility of new adornments and even special sets sold in the store for this audience.
They would automatically run like the worgen. There could be a Cenarios blessing for flight mode called “cenarian pegasus”.
There has already been a blessing from Cenarius for the high mountain tauren.
A similar story for centaurs to have wings out of battle is highly possible.
I don’t think the cows would be too happy if these guys got on board.
So do they have to farm two sets of boots? Or do they lose the feet slot entirely, on account of being hooved creatures?
Would look pretty bad with our current armor, imo.
The pictures you’re showing is armor specifically meant for them. Our current armor is going to look terribly awkward.
Also: did you address flying and how they’d never be able to use the entire mount collection?
Edit: so they magically fly with a blessing and would be the first race to never have access to a mount collection.
And how would the pants work?
why ?
the top would be basically human. The paws/legs are basically the same as those of draenei.
I agree that they would not access mounts.
…But druids magically fly too.
Except they’re hooves, not paws, and they have four. So again, how do they do pants?
Put a shiny, bulky plate chest piece on a centaur and tell me that doesn’t look hilariously awkward.
There’s a difference between armor created for them to look more grounded in nature and be mostly leather, than shoving some current plate pieces on them.
Druids are a class that aren’t locked to flight form. I use mounts myself when I want something different.
I already answered this one → the draconic form will hide some pieces of sets (in the dragon form I believe, idk in normal form) - In centaurs, leggings would be hidden or become shields for the back (as shown in the pictures)
the feet could basically be the same, you equip boots and the 4 paws get them. Simple.
None of what you’re describing is “simple.” LOL
The sheer amount of coding that would have to go into creating a race that can’t use half of its collections would be astounding. And not worth the complications.
I agree that the work is not simple. I said the ideas are simple, nothing too complex (the ideas).
I’m trying to find a video where an old player made a modification and made naga, ogre, centaur, etc, allied races. Armor became normal on centaurs.
Pants really need to be hidden…backs didn’t look so good either, but everything else worked very well.
Of course there would need to be adjustments. It would be a new skeleton race (although they added NPCS centaurs with full armor in DragonFlight)
edit : (ops , sorry about the other text lol)
Glad I’m not the only.one who has had thoughts of Centaurs as playable…
Doodle from a few years back on the idea
https:// imgur. com/a/BpBepKw
Dumbbells of not able to post link for pictures lol