I want to at least attempt to like these little guys but honestly they just feel incomplete. Like Blizz was more interested in creating a short furry race for people to play as and didn’t care about developing their lore and culture. Currently their lore has as much depth as a puddle. They live in the desert wastes of Vol’dun, they like to scavenge and trade, they were harassed and enslaved by the Sethrak for “generations” and some of them became pirates.
And that’s about it. They have no grand cities or a continent to call their own, no vast armies nor exemplary combat skills. They have some tallent in matters involving bartering and the like but it feels as though it makes them redundant when the Horde already has the bilgewater cartel. Them being scavengers doesn’t make them all that unique either as blizzard likes to copy/paste this racial trait to a few of the shorter races(gnomes, goblins,gilgoblins,kobolds, niffen). They also have a knack for alchemy…which is exactly what the goblins have, the gobs even have a racial bonus towards it.
Blizzard, for whatever reason, also decided not to give them a loa/wild god despite the mountains of loa related lore we received in BFA. Perhaps Blizzard wanted to make a more simplistic race that doesn’t have a massive amount of lore significance but compared to some other less prominent races on Azeroth like the Tuskarr or Jinyu, they have far less lore and depth.
Given the troubled state blizzard was in behind the scenes during BFA, it makes me wonder if something went wrong or was cut. Personally, it frustrates me that blizzard went through the effort of creating an allied race that has no prior connections to more established race and did the bare minimum to fit them into the setting.
I just love the Vulpera, so I don’t feel they have this gaping absence. They make sense enough as they are. Could they be more? Should they be more? I suppose. But they are pretty self contained.
After their introduction in BfA, you can see a Vulpera in the Dragon Isle or Hallowfall, and it totally makes sense, because they are adventure seeking caravan living nomads.
A lot of people complain that they want more Vulpera lore. I would prefer a whole Vulpera patch than more Dwarf or Night Elf Alliance crap, any day. So, more lore is welcome, to be sure. I just don’t feel they are in a bad place for it.
I have a feeling we will learn more about Vulpera when Blizzard releases new cuter customizations down the line. Maybe we find Snow Vulpera when we return to Northrend.
At first I spited the vulpera because I wanted the Sethrak as an allied race because I think snek people are cool, but over time those fuzzy little guys grew on me. I think vulpera are cool now, just silly little guys doing silly little things.
They deserve more screentime than alliance thats for sure.
Oh great I just gave myself a very Blizzard-esque thought….
You know how Blizzard took a popular Horde Race that every one loves (Blood Elves), photo copied it, and gave it to the Alliance (Void Elves)?
And then Blizzard took an Alliance Race no one plays or cares about (Dwarves) and made them accessible to Horde?
I have a feeling that we will meet even more adorable Snow Vulpera and they will be neutral, so the Alliance can have more of the Horde’s stuff.
And if Earthern are the example of what the Horde gets from the Alliance…. we will probably get Leper Gnomes being neutral or some other Alliance Race no one cares about.
I was making a comparison to the other playable races like the orcs or belves. The tauren themselves are nomadic(or at least they were)and have far more lore compared to the vulpera. Of course the tauren have been around for far longer, but blizzard could have at least given the vulpera the same level of in depth care that the nightborne got during Legion.
My main issue is that more could and should have been done for them.
This kind of comment cracks me up. For one, who asked for Void Elves? No one wanted Void Elves. They didn’t even exist until the last five minutes of their own recruitment scenario, yet you add the qualifier, “no one plays or cares about,” to the dwarves, when Dark Irons were a long-standing request by Horde players until BFA shunted them off onto the Alliance.
I find it hilarious how often players point at Void Elves as some grand conspiracy that Blizzard is going to give everything the Horde has to the Alliance, when it’s very much the opposite.
The Horde can now play:
Humans, via Dracthyr body type 2 Visage Form.
Dwarves, via Earthen
Night Elves, via Nightborne (and they even put in a modicum of effort to NOT make them a blatant copy/paste unlike Void Elves)
The Horde’s a duplicate of Gnomes away from having the entire Vanilla WoW Alliance race selection, while the Alliance has a single, very awful copy of Blood Elves.
If I were you, I’d worry less about the Alliance getting some, ‘cool,’ snow variant of Vulpera that are actually developed and interesting, and more about the Horde getting some variant of Gnomes. If nothing else, the Horde dodged the bullet of diaper gnomes, for now.
If the Alliance gets Snow Vulpera that look more like lynxes and we get LEPER GNOMES of all things I’m buying a ticket and flying there to hate crime everyone in that company and then myself.
Don’t care much about Alliance having vulpera, I care about having to tolerate gnomes in the Horde. I hate gnomes. They are disgusting, deformed balls of flesh that look like a bald abomination or the colourful drawing of a 4 yo playing with ink.
Either way the only good thing to come out of a gnome is their death sound and animation.
Fudge it, if the curse of flesh made them more killable then I’m team Yogg all the way.
