World of Warcraft Releases Adorable Dracthyr Emojis for Dragonflight
World of Warcraft is in the process of developing Dragonflight, its newest expansion pack. The World of Warcraft development team just delivered a bit of Dragonflight joy by sharing a collection of hilarious dracthyr emotes, as well as the unfortunate-but-funny event that led to their creation.
The dracthyr are a new draconic World of Warcraft race being added in Dragonflight. The dracthyr come as one part of the new Evoker class – a wielder of dragon magic who devastates foes and restores their allies. These new creatures are the subject of the two-dozen emotes players can download for use on Discord, Twitch, and other social media platforms.
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These emojis have a comically tragic origin story. Apparently, one of the character artists for Dragonflight missed a features team meeting due to technical issues, causing them to draw a sad cartoon dracthyr superimposed over a screencap of the dilemma. The World of Warcraft development team fell in love with the cartoon character, which eventually became part of a series of emotes on the Dragonflight slack. Finally, the devs decided to share their collection with the community.
The emotes themselves are adorable and hilarious. A mixture of static and animated emojis, the comical cartoons depict tons of recognizable memes, from the Bugs Bunny “No” meme to the Laughing Lizard. The collection is a little piece of love from the dracthyr Evoker features team, and is free to download for all players from the official World of Warcraft page.
Fans loved the new dracthyr emojis, and immediately started downloading them for use in their social media. The hilarious story of their creation is a fun peek behind the
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