I think one of the biggest problems with a whole new skeleton/rig is getting all the old gear in the game to work with it. Very expensive and time consuming. Notice the newest “race” can’t wear much.
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saves a lot of headaches.
I appreciate the help, though. Trying to ask simple questions on GD is always harder than it needs to me.
My motives were laid out i. The subject line. Im worried they cant do what they did in TBC or Cata. Nothing more.
Everyone trying to argue with the premise missed the point or is trolling.
Hey, that’s on you I was only talking to you in the first part of my comment lol. The question was meant for OP
Not that you can’t answer it as well, of course if you want
Because you didn’t say a unique race or a separate race for each faction.
Again, what you said was
Each faction did get a new race. The Dracthyr. Each faction can play it, therefore each faction got a new race.
Like I said before,
Ok, but how is the Pandaren skeleton any more unique than another race? You keep dismissing Dracthyr despite the fact it has it’s own skeleton and animations. you also claimed Kul Tiran animations were not unique. Which is not true, which had been said multiple times in this thread.
So what makes the pandaren’s skeleton unique?
I’m trying to understand where you’re coming from, but your just not making sense to me
The Dracthyr was slapped on the Worgen female rig what? Where did it come from they have an original rig?
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true 
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Ok but lets be logical. Is it realitic to assume one faction would get a new race and the other would get nothing?
Obviously theyre both going to get a new race option. They would never give the Alliance a race and not the Horde. If any one thought that, id love to hear how you thought that was possible.
I mean, for the love of god, some of you people owe me an apology.
I thought that was pretty common knowledge. Maybe its not for Horde players.
Why does the skeleton matter? It’s the model/sounds/voices that matter.
Because if they cant make new skeletons, youre probably eliminating the possibility of some of the unique races we’ve seen.
We don’t need anymore races in the game. They should just stop.
Amen. I think they should delete a few.
No, he wrote it correctly. It doesn’t correlate with his title. And it’s a point I disagree with. According to his title, they can’t make new rigs, when they have. According to his post, the criteria for races has to be one on each specific faction, which is irrelevant to having new races that aren’t AR, imo.
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this is the problem
But you’re not acknowledging that Blizzard achieved number 2 and 3 of your criteria simply since number 1 wasn’t met.
Dracthyr got an unique skeleton, Dracthyr got a unique starting zone/campaign. So there is obviously a technical ability to do it.
Kul Tirans got a new skeleton…
I’d be willing to bet that the factions not each getting their own unique race has more to do limiting the amount of work involved in creating a race from the ground up and having to balance racial abilities between the factions.
This is in dispute. As someone else just mentioned, it looks like the BT2 Worgen
This seems true. At the time i remember it being said that it was built on an Ogres skeleton. Ill need to confirm that i guess.
playing one? the only thing they have in common is the shape of their legs, which is also shared by Tauren. I guess Tauren are also Worgen now.
it gets thrown around quite a bit, but it’s also wrong, you’re welcome to continue to believe whatever you like. just know it’s not true.
you can roll a Dracthyr and Worgen and see it for yourself if you want. you can also check on Wowhead’s Dressing room if you don’t feel like leveling new characters.
they both have their own seperate animations for running, dying, casting, and using weapons, among other things. as a matter of fact, Dracthyr didn’t even have an animation for attacking with staves and spears at launch, and never got one until 10.1.5 iirc, and they STILL don’t have a 2h weapon animation, they use the same one for 1h, and 2h weapons.
Dracthyr needs it’s own skeleton regardless for Soar, Disintegrate, Hover (which includes a new death animation despite the fact it’s almost never used), and Deep Breath, and the Dracthyr’s tail would need to be animated when doing just about anything, since the Worgen rig doesn’t have animations for those
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By that same logic I guess Vulpera are original and not slapped on Goblin rigs right? 
Blizz can make new races/skeletons no prob…but they are just too lazy to do it.
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Source for this? How do you know youre not wrong
not entirely, they do actually have a handful of unique animations. the sleeping animation for example, is not shared with goblins, and they use a mix of male and female goblin animations, their animation for casting spells at another target, like a fireball or frostbolt is from male goblins, while healing spells use the female goblin animation for frostbolts, so kind of a goblin rig, but also not i guess that really depends on what you consider a new rig. but every other allied race uses another race’s rig too. Dracthyr don’t. i’ve already pointed you and op to where you can see the difference in animation yourself, rather than just taking my word for it.
i gave you 2 in that same comment.
A. I main a dracthyr.
B. the Wowhead dressing room lets you view animations, where you can force the animations for female Worgen and Dracthyr to play and watch them for however long you want. it also lets you customize character or build transmogs outside of the game, it’s actually quite a neat tool imo and I like it. you could also just roll a dracthyr and a worgen
they share a handful of animations that every race has, like the lava blast animation for shamans, monk roll, and monk battle poses, and some priest spell animations, but other than that the only things they have in common is running, and unarmed, which are both different and just look similar.
Female worgen lean forward when they run, where Dracthyr do not, and Worgen hold their hands up slightly higher, and crouch down lower when unarmed, and Dracthyr kinda bounce up and down a little more.
while you’re in the dressing room, if you decide to check that out, you can take a loot at Kul Tirans and Ogres too, since Ogres aren’t Playable tho, you’ll have to use the Model Viewer on Wowhead instead. they work similarly but Model veiwer is for npcs and doesn’t have Transmog, where Dressing room is for Playable Races, and also includes the dragonriding mounts