“Don’t make me go in dere, mon!”
A young Troll Druid faces many unique challenges throughout their life. Unlike the other druids who seem to have limitless amounts of hair, we trolls suffer greatly at the hands of pattern baldness. Add in the struggles of managing technicolourkittybear-itis and suddenly a simple visit to the barbershop can be the stuff of nightmares! Luckily for you, I have no social life a lot of time on my hands this weekend, and so I have put together a “hair care” guide for young trolls just trying to make their way through Azeroth without looking like a complete joke.
Choosing The Right Colour For Your Kittybear
As any Blood Elf will tell you, hair style and colour can do amazing things for a transmog set. For Druids — and this problem is particularly prominent for Guardian and Feral specs — a seemingly easy decision can become a lot more complex thanks to the effects hair colour has on some of our forms. Druids who are not using Glyph of the Chameleon will have no doubt noticed that the colour of your hair doesn’t always translate to Kittybear in the way you would expect. Below are some images showing every single hair colour currently available to Trolls and how each how one affects Kitty and Bear forms.
Blue-Green:
Green, turquoise, blue and blue-black hair colours will result in a blue-green Kittybear.
White:
Grey or white hair will result in a white Kittybear with pink and yellow highlights.
Red:
Red and orange hair colours will result in a red-orange Kittybear.
Pink:
Pink hair will result in a purplish black Kittybear with pink highlights.
Yellow:
Gold hair will result in a fluro yellow Kittybear.
Hiding the Bald Spots
Once you have selected a colour that compliments your transmog set while not looking like My Little Pony vomit when you’re playing as a Feral or Guardian, it’s time to find a hairstyle. If you’re like me, you love the look of the long hairstyles, but are greatly saddened by the hairlines. As you can see in the pictures above, one possible solution that covers most of the bald spots while still showing off your long locks is to transmogrify your helm into one of the many headband styles currently in game. I have picked three hairstyles that look pretty cool, but are afflicted by a tragic hairline and taken a screen cap of what each one looks like with different headband styles (No helm, a Feathermoon Headdress, the Nordassil Headguard and a Scaled Leather Headband). You can see how each headband style helm works to conceal the bald spots without hiding your hair altogether:
Well, there you have it, folks, Neri’s Guide to Troll Hair Care is complete for this week! Now that you’re armed with the knowledge of what colour kittybear form you’ll be lumped with and how you can hide those unfortunate hairlines, you can breathe a little easier the next time you’re due for your weekly trim.
Happy ‘moggin’!
PS. Holy hell, Batman! I really should have finished my transmog set and perhaps picked a better backdrop and hair colour for those screenshots! Whoops. Hopefully my Mog Street Cred isn’t completely shattered! 
Are you a lover or a hater of the Troll Cat and Bear forms? Do you prefer to see helms, hair, or both? Are all people who play Troll Druids as pedantic as I am? Have your say in the comments below.
My first ever toon was a troll and I still love to play her. Troll hair can be tricky! There’s some really nice hair styles for other races that I wish I could have for my troll. My favorite troll style is, and will probably always be, the one you have for the feral color pics…but it does get in the way with some transmog gear when you want both hair and headgear (as I tend to want).
I don’t have a troll druid (got a tauren and a NE one), but my personal pocket tank is a troll druid so I spend alot of time looking at one. And I have to say I do like them, they are so colorfull. But it can be tricky to get the colors right, so it’s really nice that you’ve put together a guid like this.
Your idea with the headbands is nice as well, it does give a bit of softer look for some very angular bangs. I’ll have to do some experiments with it I think.
I know what you mean! I would absolutely love to have the Night Elf style where the plait sits over one shoulder. It’s probably a good thing we don’t have it, though. Bald spots would definitely ruin it!
I love troll druids! I’ve only seen a handful of them in game, unfortunately. I tend to follow them around, admiring their technicolour tresses, until they end up murdering my gnome self. Rather unfortunate, but it is what it is.
Many of my Druid brethren are so scarred from years of dealing with pattern baldness that they tend to lash out at innocent gnomes. Not this druid, though! This one is a pro at running away and hiding
My main is a troll druid. In fact, almost all my toons are trolls, so when Cata gave Druids to trolls I was quite happy.
I’ve got a male, though. While there is some baldness issues, I generally like the dreadlocks hanging down the back hairstyle the best.
When I first rolled him, I thought I picked a red hair color. When I turned kitty, it was pretty obviously not red! He turned blue! Had to get to a stylist to fix it.
To me, integrating the male face-paintings into a transmog seems really hard. Any ideas?
Hmm, I had never noticed the male troll facial paintings until you mentioned them! I went and had a bit of a play with the character creator and I can see how some of those would be an absolute pain to try and incorporate into transmogrification. The best advice I can think of is to try and match the colour of your outfit to that of your face markings.
You could probably also find more tribal style robes like Mystic’s Robe, Sanguine Robe, Stonecloth Robe, Gaea’s Rainment, etc may work with some face patterns as well, though as a male Troll you may not be keen to wear a dress!
Sorry I’m not more of a help!
That glyph … NOW I UNDERSTAND. I kept on seeing kittehs and beartanks who would magically change color every time they assumed form. I thought I was going insane. Nope. Those sly foxes just had it glyphed the whole time!
Maybe I’ll try druid again. (By “again,” I mean like, for the fifth or sixth time. Yeah … Baldness isn’t my issue though. It’s troll toes.
Haha, my husband is much the same. He just cannot seem to get into the Druid class, even though I strongly suspect the utility would really appeal to him.
Ugh our poor feet! Us Trolls really lost the genetic raffle *sigh*