Well, you mentioned San’layn which are a pretty specific set of vampires, pretty much just the group of blood elves that Arthas murdered and then raised into his lieutenants in Northrend.
What you’re describing is just more generalized vampiric characters. I don’t really think tying a necromancer class to them would go over that much better anyways, as there’s lots of people’s idea of the class that wouldn’t work for and seems needlessly restrictive.
But then again I think a necromancer class would be redundant, as their themes are already pretty well covered by DK, warlock, and shadow priest and any new class using those themes would inevitably have to steal things from those classes, which wouldn’t go over super well either.
its the strong themes that would carry it, such as vamp abilities, the use of crypts, coffins and phylacteries, none of which are featured with dks, locks or shadow priests. vamps have so much drama potential, so many powerful unique features. stage presence.
This is why I’d like to see it as a potential 4th spec for DKs.
Plate is in desperate need of another use for intellect, and having it be a more pet based version of unholy, or allowing unholy to summon more minions in general through new talents, may be a better balanced move.
Personally I like the idea of it being a class skin for warlocks someday. Just reskin the demons as raised minions, and the cosmetics and descriptions of their abilities to be more death themed where they would otherwise be fire/fel. Drain Life wouldn’t even have to change lol
This is inaccurate because the Alliance did help the Sethrak. They didn’t help as much as the Horde did, but there was still some contribution.
The very first thing the alliance do in Vol’dun is kill a camp of Faithless sethrak.
Then they rescue the Devoted’s leader, Vorrik, who had been poisoned.
After rescuing Vorrik, the Alliance also aid in the defense of the Terrace of the Devoted, which is under Faithless attack.
Vorrik had secreted one of the keystones into the pocket of an alliance private whilst imprisoned together, who instead of keeping as a gambling token, gave it back freely to aid the Devoted’s cause.
All of which, later led to the horde helping the Vorrik and the Devoted clear out the Temple of Sethraliss and restore her Avatar.
So, even though the horde might’ve helped more, the alliance still definitely helped plenty.
The Vulpera joining with the Horde would be enough for the Sethrak to reach out and ask for allyship with the Alliance.
They don’t have a good history together.
And not every single race joining x or y faction needs to have some sort of huge war/dire circumstance to do so. Alliance being a “first choice” for them and being accepted for allyship is enough. We’ve had dumber introductions.
yeah i even did one. but now that i know they are reviving gilneas, those creepy woods are perfect vamp territory, not to mention the classic old english village, vamps vs. werewolves, its just oozing potential. hey lich king is dead, the surviving san’layn need direction.
Generally with the Devoted going Horde and the Remnants of the Faithless traveling to join the Alliance for protection in exchange for serving the Alliance.
Kinda like how that setup puts a more warlike Sethrak on the Alliance and a more diplomatic/spiritual Sethrak on the Horde.
Alliance did 1 thing with the Sethrak (and I only mean the Devoted faction that is friendly, not the Faithless we fight during the Vol’dun campaign) during their war campaign then never did anything with them ever again except attack their new allies, the Zandalari as well the Horde and Vulpera who are also their allies.
The Horde had the entire zone with them, a lot of them are part of the Voldunai which are a Horde faction (which technically makes these Sethrak also part of the Horde if you think about it) and they are allies of the Zandalari, which are also part of the Horde now.
I really don’t get why people think the very little Alliance did with them is enough to say they could join the Alliance as an AR. It isn’t. It wouldn’t make sense to join the faction that killed the king of their brand new ally and is always at war the other brand new ally who just now saved their race, fought their main enemy and saved their loa…
That said, Blizzard seems to toss a coin whenever it comes to using logic to add a race to a faction.
Short of the Zandalari and Vulpera going on a snake hunt, I cannot see why the Sethrak would join the Alliance. Possibly, they could be neutral as Pandaren and Drakthyr are, the idea being this role supports their allies by establishing an all too crucial bridge for discussions and negotiations, and preventing future tragedies. Even then, I would honestly expect them to have a more significant presence in the Horde’s narrative.
It’d be kind of like the new Dark Ranger customizations. I don’t really see any Void Elf/High Elf/Night Elf Dark Rangers in the Alliance, but they’re all over the Horde, even if both sides can play them.
Doesn’t matter. Things can always change any given story beat. Wasn’t this different in Legion and the Alliance had to accept it, so why not we for once?
I would also attempt to play Alliance for the umpteenth time if Murlocs were only Alliance. But I see Murlocs more of a neutral race and not for one side or the other.