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Is This Possible?
Since the Tree of Life form first appeared in World of Warcraft, druids everywhere have clamored to find a way to avoid seeing that awful flailing treant run gaily across their screen. Although model swapping the Tree into the Lich King or Illidan is cool looking, it makes gameplay unrealistic in the Warcraft universe. The issue for some time has been to find a way to retain caster form while still applying the aura and buffs from Tree of Life. I have found a way around this.
The Easy Answer
You cannot stop yourself from Shapeshifting. It is encoded that way in the game files. You must shapeshift into SOMETHING...
The Hard Answer
So shapeshift into yourself! I have made model swaps of Tree form into each playable race/gender combo in the game.
The Catch
You cannot retain the look of your features or your gear (although you keep your weapon appearance). You are assigned the specific features in each screenshot below, and all are equipped with Dreamwalker (Druid Tier 3/7) armor and a Cenarion Expedition tabbard. Depending on which you download, ALL Tree of Life models in the game will become this specific model; so if you download the tauren male, then even night elf female druids in ToL form will be a tauren male.
The Future
If there is enough interest, I may continue to work with this to try and find a way to edit the features so you can look like yourself, and find the codes for higher tier gear. For now, this will do for anyone sick of looking at this joke of a shapeshift. Suggestions are always welcome.
The Models
Download the file associated with the race/gender combo you play.
Use WinRar to open the .rar file and extract the .mpq file into your World of Warcraft\Data folder.
Rename and shorten the file to have only one letter after the dash, such as either patch-n.mpq or patch-t.mpq.
Play WoW and enjoy!
Night Elf Male
Download Here
Night Elf Female
Download Here
Tauren Female
Download Here
Tauren Male
Download Here
Gratitude
reflex0rzor's guide
balky's work
wowhead for the tree screenshot
I hope this works out well for everyone interested. Let me know what you think!
Thanks!