🐍 Why should Sethrak be an Allied/Playable Race? 8.3 and beyond

Yeah but you play a worgen which is a furry, now that’s a minority thing, most normal people are attracted to something pure human as possible, that’s just my opinion, in real life people are not attracted to animals, if someone wants a bf or a gf they are after a human, not some mutant that’s what I’m saying, that’s why the large majority of people won’t choose to play an animal character as let’s be honest…

Highest sex appeal is with draenei/blood elf females, with humans and night elves second, nightborne elves probably third, with the uglier races like tauren at the bottom of the pile, I’m sorry I’m not saying this from a minority perspective but the majority perspective, i know it sounds a bit mean, but you know I was told in school by a teacher that you will find throughout your life you will be judged by how you look…I regret to say Draenei/blood elf are at the top of the hierarchy in this area, I know it sounds bad, but when you play a fantasy game you just want to be as pretty and sexy as possible…unless you don’t want any attention at all of course in which case roll a Mechagnome I guess.

I get what you’re saying, but I really don’t think your perspective is as universal as you think it is. There’s a difference between wanting to play something generally aesthetically appealing–whether because you think it looks badass, or pretty, or sexy, or just especially detailed, or what have you–and only wanting to play as models that you would want to date or to look like IRL.

Whether or not you’re a snake furry who’s attracted to sethrak in the sexual sense, a lot of people agree that the models appeal to them on an aesthetic level. They’re beautifully designed models that look both elegant and badass, much like the naga and the arakkoa, which are also heavily requested. That’s sufficient for a lot of people to want to play things.

Your reasons for picking races for your toons are your own, and they’re perfectly fine reasons, but you can’t project them onto everyone else and then argue that anyone who disagrees is wrong or being untruthful.

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This exactly, it’ll be surprising for some apparently but people don’t just play characters they wanna bang silly~

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Personally I really hate your idea.
You are making the Vulpera into the bad guys in the situation and justifying the faithless being massive (curse words)

The Sethrak the Vulpera didn’t get on with were the ones trying to end the world.
No need to make them sympathetic and make Vulpera the evil ones.

I cannot tell if you’re just a troll or just could not tell I was joking. While I have no issue with Furries, (in fact they get a bad rap because of this perspective you have here) I do not play a Worgen or want Sethrak made playable for any sexual reason. Not to mention not all Furries are into anthropomorphic characters for sexual reasons. And players are allowed to like, want or play races for whatever reasons they find them enjoyable.

Sethrak have a lot of promise, potential and they’re very popular to all sorts of player types. That says something in itself.

And it is not going to hurt anyone if they are made playable. Those who want them will play their Sethrak. Those who don’t care for them? Well they don’t have to play them, easy enough.

^ This. :heart:

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To be fair their heads creep me out.
They look like they have been chopped off and crudely glued back on.

Ideally they won’t happen because they make me feel uneasy.
But I still vote they do if it makes people happy.

The only races I really hope never happen are high elves and ogres.

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That wasn’t really my intention at all–its just a matter of survival and business. That’s the reason I framed it in terms of the zone getting worse in its ability to sustain in other ways.

Also it doesn’t justify the faithless in going too far in their brutality; rather its just the arc of the old saw about absolute power corrupting absolutely. Ask all the orcs who were held in internment camps about it. Things go downhill and get out of hand.

I mean, your preferences are up to you–I just wanted to clarify that those two things weren’t my goal, per se.

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I want them to be a race so I can name one Woody and spam “There’s a snake in my boots!” while I wait for my queues to pop.

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And I appreciate that you support those who want them! Because it’s fine not to like them.

But it is nice to see people who recognize there is a lot of love and support for something and cheer them on even if personally, it isn’t to their tastes.

Or would it be “There’s boots on this snake!” :thinking:
Would make a good /silly emote.

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I am willing to compromise, the Horde can have snakes if Alliance gets cat-girls

Are we talking neko type cat girls or full blown anthro cat girls?

I can tell you right now, I will not be getting along with the cat girls.

You could say us living together would be mass hysteria.

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Those should definitely be swapped. Cats vs Dogs was always meant to happen.

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I wouldn’t mind saberons, neko girls can remain quarantined to final fanservice XIV.

Already have a mammalian race, technically all our races are, so hard pass.

Saberon.

Sabertron would be a saberon mixed with a transformer.

…

Can someone please start a “Sabertron” thread?

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Oops, guess that would be the mechagnome x saberon hybrids… well actually I guess not hybrids since mechagnomes would have gnomish babies. Just mechanized saberons.

Thanks for the heads up~

I would be down for Sethrakk for an allied race not so relevant with the plot. It would be cool if it was one of the first allied races without much commitment to unlock. Perhaps a quest chain. And there faction would appear after recruiting them.

Some races can be brought back this way. Such as Taunka, Arrakoa, Tuskarr, Satyr, Centaur, Quilboar, Murlocs , Jinyu, Hozen.

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It’s interesting how vocal support for sethrak has been since the expansion launched. I can’t think of anything else that’s been relevant for the past year or so that’s generated near the amount of discussion and interest both here and on other discussion sites out there.

Except the Rajani mogu, because I’m seeing a lot of tentative interest in mogu becoming an allied race, too. I still think sethrak and mogu would make an excellent pair, regardless of which side either of them went to. Considering the Rajani seem to be a new faction, it’s not like they have all the baggage of empire and their relations with the Zandalari of old weighing down their decision.

Sethrak, on the other hand, have been definitively neutral since their first appearance, even though the Horde hero definitely did more to help them personally.

Either of them could really go either way, as far as i can tell.

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This would be an interesting way to go about it. Think it would be nice and maybe even easier for Blizzard because less work for the recruitment scenario. And then give the faction some goodies to encourage people to gain rep with it. Maybe something like how the Netherwing faction was done?

(But I’ll take a long rep grind if that is the only way they’re made playable)

I was thinking more unlock them first and then work your way through the faction for extra rewards/ more story. Like a sort of thing like the kliaxxi rep. It was when you got exalted with them that you learned they were servants of the old gods. It would be cool to have sonething like that in an allied race. Kliaxxi was one of my favorite reps. I looked forward to doing them.

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