Let's talk about the new design of each explorer

Hello, fellas and fellasses. Today, I'd like to ask about your opinion about how the four members of the League of Explorers look in their newest versions.

Personally, I'd like to analyze them each, starting with

The Best, Reno and Elise

What can I say? Reno looks perfect and in sync with what we know of his personality. He looks cocky, charismatic, I really, really think he is the best design of the four by far. Last we saw him was in Karazhan with... mixed opinions... mainly comparing him to a porno character. Here, I'll say Reno looks as much an explorer as he should, hands-down the more fittingly heroic and charismatic of the four. This version gets my thumbs up.

As for Elise, well, I can't say her design matches her previous personality, but I'll say I love it anyway. Who knows, maybe even the most negative, no-fun-allowed people become smiley when confronted by villainy? Besides, they made her even more beautiful than before, somehow. Maybe after 2 versions in the past we'll finally get an Elise version that smiles like her friends. No complaints here from me either.

Brann

I have a more neutral attitude towards Brann. He looks younger, and admittedly better, of course. However... Why does he look like he wants to rip everyone's head off? Don't get me wrong, I still think he looks cool, just a bit... insane, I guess? It's not a thumbs-down from me, but maybe I am alone in this. Also, as I got the two pictures together, I just realized he looks a lot scarier and less friendly in his original art than I thought, so there's that. Still, if we take his personality into account, we know he isn't a psycho, right?

Finley

Ugh... How do I say this? Finley looks... intellectually impaired? For a character whose gimmick is being the classiest and possibly smartest of his species (even if it isn't a hard thing to achieve), that is not a good thing. He no longer looks much like a gentlemanly explorer murloc, as much as a stupid murloc that happened to find a monocle and an explorer hat, like Murloc Tastyfin. I might get more infuriated than reasonable with his new design, but I haven't seen anyone else talk about this. Am I alone here?

So... that's all I have to say. Do you disagree? Is Finley actually the greatest visual update known to man and I just don't get it? Am I just terrible at reading cartoony facial expressions? Go right ahead and post your opinion.

I actually never realized that the bearded dude riding the dinosaur was Brann until people pointed it out. Never really imagined him to be so ripped.

well, i say that we shouldn't judge them just by what we saw in the trailer. I mean sure, Elise was way more smiley but she didn't change much personality wise, if at all (see this video). So assuming that the same is going to apply to the others, i give them all a thumbs up.

I think these are just their "action shots" and not necessarily saying anything about how we will see them in the set story or cards. Just think how many times you or someone you know has had a photo at a weird angle or bad timing that shows an expression that makes you look kind of stupid or psyco stalker. Happens to me all the time when a attempt to partake in the modern art of "selfies". These shots are just trying to make them look badass and really excited about what they are doing, with, as you have pointed out, mixed results. 

I'm just trying to figure out why Sir Finley's monocle switched eyes. . .

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I'm just trying to figure out why Sir Finley's monocle switched eyes. . .

He's just a hipster, it's not real

For the record, this is the art the actual Sir Finley card will be using.

Looks pretty kickass the me.

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For the record, this is the art the actual Sir Finley card will be using.

Looks pretty kickass the me.

Nice. That is much better than his "appearance" in the trailer, since it's much more similar to the old one, showing that he's not just a mrgl-ing frog with a monocle but an intelligent and fine gentlemurloc.

But I don't get why he has his old knife instead of the golden fish. Probably the fish was just an hint that he's a Paladin?

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For the record, this is the art the actual Sir Finley card will be using.

Looks pretty kickass the me.

From where is it?

Stuff I noticed from the four photos at top:

1. Reno has BRONZE eyes. For those who still believe he's a Bronze Dragon indulging in the vice some of these dragons have (gold hoarding) in human form ... which makes me wonder if this is true, what is Reno's evil future form as an Infinite?

2. Yeah, Elise smiling is something ... different. And there's her outfit in the druid art -- she still looks like she's in "when in Stormwind, dress as the humans do," mentality, and also has an outfit more in line with a human priest. Then again, most Night Elf females look like Amazon warriors or hippie innkeepers of a New Age bed and breakfast treehouse. But Elise does prove the elven tribalism theory: nail polish ID's your Elven heritage (Blood Elves red, High Elves blue, Night Elves purple).

3. Alas, Brann took an exploration team to Pandaria and got a good dose of the Sha of Chaos. KILL, MAIM, BURN, LADS!

4. As a proud former WoW warlock, I frown upon any of my peers using murlocs. YOU WENT TO DEMONOLOGY SCHOOL AND RISKED YOUR SOUL FOR ... fish training? I contribute to various causes that wean warlocks from murloc decks, chiefly DEM (Dust Every Murloc). I've also contributed to the Control Paladin Association and the BIG Shaman Fund, which do similar work. So I have no good view of this creature and the aggro garbage associated with murlocs, the original foundation of that play style. Get a priest over here to cast that new silence and kill spell and be rid of this filth.

PS I want Belloc Brightblade in the expansion, Harrison Jones' Horde rival. Battlecry: Steals your opponent's weapon and your hero equips it. "Nothing you can possess which I cannot take away."

I thought that the Sir Finley look in the trailer was the best of the four.  He’s even cuter, and since that’s his shtick, it works for me.  I’m pretty sure his golden fish (and Reno’s crystal bazooka) are new legendary weapons too

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For the record, this is the art the actual Sir Finley card will be using.

Looks pretty kickass the me.

Oh. I didn't know that was the art. I see nothing wrong with this art at all. On the contrary, I quite like it. Finley even has his jawline and machete back. Thanks for sharing!