Paid Character Customization

[Lissa]

So you can now re-customize your character. For $15 real world moneys you can change your character's gender, skin color, and name. You can also change your hairstyle & beard/horns/etc. but you can do that in the barbershop already, so I don't count that.

You CANNOT change your race, which is the big restriction. I am not much of a roleplayer so this may sound kind of dumb, but after doing some of the quests in Howling Fjord & Dragonblight I would actually consider changing to a race other than undead. They're jerks! Plus (and this may sound even dumber), male undead only look good in certain boot models- the chunky ones (of which there are none in WotLK, but I kept Edgewalker's for FAR too long because of this) and the "swashbuckling" ones. On the flip side, I've played this guy as undead for years and have grown quite attached to him, so there's some sentimentality there.

They removed the race restriction on mounts also (with the next patch, maybe?), so perhaps there's hope for paid race changes in the future? From a systems analysis perspective, I'm trying to think of what kind of database changes they'd have to do to swap races; there's the obvious racial spells change, and maybe a few quest items (Undead can't do a particular Scarlet Monastery quest, for example). I can't think of anything else off the top of my head.

How about you? Are you going to swap genders?:)

Skin tone change should have been part of the barber shop IMO, powder for lightning skin tone, pigments and oils to deepen skin tone.