I just realized something shocking. Alliance hasn’t gotten a real, original, playable race for its faction in total since the TBC. And when I talk about a truly original races, I mean:
those that aren’t complete copy and paste reskins.
aren’t shared with the Horde.
a completely different race.
The Horde since Cata got Goblins, Nightborne and Vulpera. Compared to Alliance the only major new thing they got, is werewolf transformation, which is defacto not even a race but a druid form. Even if you’re not a fan of these races, you can’t deny that they added something new to the game and its faction.
Heck, even new Earthen. For Horde is a complete new feature. For Alliance, this is just third reskin of the Dwarves who have finally caught up with Humans in this race of shame. Following this twisted logic, there is a risk that we will soon have a third sub-race of gnomes. (I have nothing against gnomes, but another reskin is just a waste of a slot)
Why, for so many years Blizzard hasn’t given the Alliance its own new, unique, playable race only for them?
Dude, Nightborne use the Night Elf skeletons and Vulpera use the Goblin skeletons. That makes them reskins. Same skeleton, different skin.
Even if Vulpera are technically their own race and otherwise would be a core race if they used their own unique skeleton. But they don’t and hence why they are an allied race. Meanwhile Kul Tiran humans use their own unique skeleton (when it comes to playable races) but they are still humans. Hence why they are an allied race.
yep, reskin is a bad argument, I’ll correct it. But the Nightborne still have many and visible details in the model that set them apart from their cousins. So I still think there are a new race.
Hard disagree… Nightborne are a minor variant of blood elves/night elves/void elves… not a completely different breed (and probably just a copy/paste reskin, not a new skeleton/rigging model).
Draenei are interesting as they did exist in the lore prior to TBC. Since WC2 in fact, although their first in game appearance was in WC3: TFT. They were also a native race to Draenor. However what used to be ‘Draenei’ were retconned to be the ‘lost ones’. The most deformed evolution of the new Draenei. Which are uncorrupted Eredar. Eredar used to be a full on demonic race until TBC / Rise of the Horde novel.
