Eh. Beggars can’t be choosers.
I want my snakes. 
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I find there seems to be a great deal of Worgen players (on the forums anyways) who want to have both claw animations for melee and an upright posture option. Also optional tails.
All good things in my book.
Right?
I want em neutral but at this point I’ll take em how I get em.
Sethrak Sethrak Sethrak!
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Real, not pretend, High Elves.
(Although I still like my Faerie idea.)
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A ner race isnt going to fix the decline of the alliance. The population will continue to snowball until faction exclusion to play with others ends.
People like the athstetic of alliance but have to go horde to get most things done. Until they do remove faction limitations the alliance will continue to decline.
Before I rallied for the claw animations in the big tails-topic, not many people really wanted to have them. I did not understand them. When something comes to mind playing a werewolf/worgen, then its being a stalking slasher monster.
But it will give the Alliance back some dignity which was lost for our cause.
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I have zero issues with appearances as what we were discussing was unbalancing racial abilities. I’m a druid. How you swing your arms doesn’t phase me 
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No, I mis-selected.
This was what I meant to quote instead. Because you responded no, to my:
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Alliance should of gotten Drust instead of KTs and Mechagnomes should of had better, more robust customizations which deviated more from standard gnomes.
But other than those two things, the ARs they got were pretty on par with the Horde.
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Sethrak, logically, could only go Horde.
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Not going to have near as big of an impact as you think it would. Almost all the dps racials are within 1% of each other with mostly just mechagnomes being the biggest outlier. The game will continue to be 90% elves and humans.
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I don’t see how we have less dignity then the horde. It is more clear than ever that the horde can never beat us in a fair fight. In Bfa, the only time the horde beat us was by being like 10 race against one. Even prior to that, the horde can only use bomb against us in order to fight.
Meanwhile, we destroyed them in Lordaeron, beat them at Dazar’alor, nullify their whole campaign and beat them at both warfront.
Problem with this game is that we are way to strong for the horde so we can never fight them fairly. The allied race didn’t help. We got intergalactic soldier that fought the legion for 25000 years while they got some mountain moose. We got the whole might of the DI while they barely got a few surviving brown orc that can’t even hold a single building in Orgrimar. We got the whole might of Kul’tiras 3 zone while they got the remaining Zandalar who’ve been raided 2 time and barely hold one zone out of 3. Finally, we got the most technological advanced race on Azeroth and all of their force while the horde got a few homeless fox people that have no real talent at fighting.
It seem obvious that we must have some useless and weak allied race while the horde get some powerhouse allied race to make it more even.
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I think that just getting the skinny version as a option and getting paladin could have been a option. The current big model is awesome for plate wearing melee class but aren’t great as caster. The current problem was that DK was also not available at first so warrior and monk were the only two good option with druid and shaman for lore fantasy. Having DK at the beginning with paladin would have make the big model a better option and the skinny model would have been great for mage, priest and even be better for druid and shaman.
For the mechagnome, i love them but i just wish we could have more option along with the option of customising each part separately and same for the colour.
And i agree for the 3 first allied race. LF and HM are pretty much the same. Each side got the other faction elf model in a way the both of them didn’t want and then each side have got a great reskin of a popular race that both side love. Mechagnome vs vulpera is the only unfair one that could easily be solve with fish people vs gilgoblin. Zandalary vs KT is mostly a miss marketing choice as the horde didn’t had that many race with a normal model so getting a tall race which gear fit so well is awesome while fat race always have problem with chest gear. Plus one have dinosaur.
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Arakkoa would be a really good slam dunk for the Alliance.
Since in lore other races can’t tell what gender the Arakkoa is, then I suggest instead of having male/female to have hunched/unhunched as customization.
Not to mention that the Arakkoa of both timelines hate Ogres and Orcs, both of those being in the Horde.
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I always see Arakkoa in the alliance as a good match up for horde Sethrak. One side get bird race while the other get snake people ( Sethrak make less and less sense in the alliance).
Personalty, i think that the physical distinction could follow a real life pattern with the bird which mean that the female model have tern colour like brown while the male are the coloured one that have to look ‘‘beautiful’’ in order to impress the female.
That could also break the current pattern of always having the female model to look more pretty and more feminised in the human eye.
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I think that there should be no difference in customization options at all, since as I stated earlier it’s impossible to distinguish between the genders in current lore, so I don’t see the need to add “gender” locked customization, just don’t even have a gender option and just make it so there’s hunched/unhunched version in the same race.
This is true to an extent, yes on NA Horde is very dominant but I still believe there is a lot of players that pick Horde or Alliance strictly because aesthetics.
I’m from Oceania Region, Alliance is absolutely thrashing Horde on popularity, my main is a Horde Warlock, I literally switched this Shaman (Originally a Troll) to Alliance because content was so much more plentiful, in 2 months of switching to Alliance, I got all my M+ 20 keys completed, found a guild almost instantly got my AotC and now progressing into Mythic trying to get CE.
When I first joined them I asked them “why are you guys Alliance literally the majority said “I just prefer Alliance Races”.
I think this is the same issue that’s happening in reverse haha, I honestly think it literally comes down to aesthetics, if you look at Racials Alliance are amazing, stoneform and shadowmeld instantly come to mind but then people now days are literally sick of very “Traditional” races the Alliance have… which I think is the issue NA is having, people are still complaining about Night Elf male faces, body disproportion which has been an issue for years.
I love the Horde and Alliance equally, but the Horde has more appeal I love the thought they are a rag tag group of misfits trying to just stay alive from all walks of life… from Undead forsaken to peace loving Minotaurs, trolls from the brink of extinction to the savagery of Orcs…
Then You take a look at Alliance, people are sick to death of vanilla races you can get in most MMOs, we have Humans, Kul’tiran Humans… Dwarves, gnomes I’d say the really unique races are Worgen and Draenei but to me personally are just cursed Humans… and weird goats…
Blizzard should of really just went to the community for answers, High Elves we’re and still are highly requested they played such a huge part in Warcraft Lore but no they got Void Elves, People loved the unique updated models of the Broken in Legion, no we got Lightforged Draenei… literally every requested race that the players, paying customers wanted they didn’t listen.
Honestly I think a few good more races old or new would help the Alliance immensely, would it tip the scale a lot? Probably not but I’m sure it would help better then nothing.
Heck I’m just staying Dwarf because in my mind I’m a true Wildhammer Dwarf, such amazing lore and history in Warcraft universe, requested a lot but no we are just Bronzebeard Dwarves in cosplay…Falstad who played such a huge role in Warcraft now is pushed into nothing.
Edit: I still to this day wonder how Wildhammer Dwarves would of been if they have received the same Allied Race make over that the Dark Iron Dwarves had gotten, unique mounts, heritage armour, totems, customisations options more then just a few tattoos, beards with braids and feathers, hairstyles! Racials with having their famous Stormhammer as one!.
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give void elf Alleria Windrunner void form perma and you’ll see people change. but its baked into the cake at this point people are on their faction side due to server imbalance
Sorry, I play a lot of alliance sides also. yes, they are snobs. They play the victim card so much not one company outside blizzard takes them seriously. lookup so time what gaming magazines say about USA, alliance players. It is not very pretty. Most goes along the line, victim card, elite perks and none stop support. Makes most players puke at the thought of playing alliance. It image problem started a little with wow, but ended up player base taking to extreme levels.
Here is why I play alliance. My kids like them and half my family. As they are into the meta look. I play because most races except for humans have an interesting look. Humans need scars, eye patches, and tattoos. Otherwise most races are pretty cool.
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what are you talking about lmao
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Explain please. not sure what you asking about:
- are alliance players snobs? yes, for most players.
- Do I play alliance. yes
- asking if magazine say alliance players in usa are bad. yes