hell no, the alliance can have the arathi we don’t need anymore light worshippers on the horde already go too many
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I love the concept behind the Dracthyr. But I too love the vulpera. I should lvl my warlock, but I been obessed with my hunter 
I don’t know how people don’t love Kiro, Meera and Nisha
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My number 1 Vulpera is a twinked out fury warrior with crusader on both weapons. I should really play him again.
I mostly play Vulpera with my kids because my youngest thinks they are the cutest.
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They are adorable. I just don’t get the hate for them. A lot of people sound like they have repressed issues they haven’t dealt with when they beging to rage about them.
It’s just weird to me that some people wanna trash someone elses fun.
They did the same thing with pandaren. I think in that case a lot of people didn’t understand that Pandaren have been in the lore forever and the Pandaren monk was among the most requested race/class options since BC.
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Yeah. I remember the drama surrounding them when they were made playable. People would mock them and such.
But the visceral HATRED some people harbor for the vulpera is unreal though. It honestly scares me how some people will loose their minds about them
Pandarens were a case of people being afraid they would be bouncy, goofy Kung Fu Panda schtick, being assured they weren’t, then (some parts) absolutely were.
That was part of the charm for me with the pandaren. It’s honestly nice when the devs don’t take everything so seriously and just have fun with it whatever they’re writing in the moment
I don’t mind the Pandaren, but the problem I would highlight in that exchange is, not for the first or last time, lying directly to the players about what was coming.
Even so, I feel like most of the MoP stuff kept reasonably well grounded in serious stories. It was mostly just the farmland zone where the goofy stuff got dialed up a lot, at least that I can remember.
Half Hill was more like Here’s a farm. Have fun with it, if you want to. I wouldn’t call that lying, but realizing the fanbase is varied and having a silly little farm isn’t that huge a deal. Some people even enjoyed it.
I feel like some people don’t know how to relax and actually enjoy things. Not everything in WoW needs to be super serious all the time. The game, well the story in particular, is often better when it DOESN’T take itself so serious
It wasn’t the farm, it was the behaviors and personalities of the Pandaren
They were fine. Even entertaining at times.
We don’t want Jack Black Panda
Don’t worry, we won’t
Here’s those Jack Black Pandas we told you wouldn’t be there
That is about as simple as I can summarize it. Chen was a pretty unserious character even in TFT, so I think some comic relief was to be expected. But Kung Fu Panda was recent at that time, so people who didn’t like that character (Jack Black Panda) heard the alarm bells immediately.
Some people didn’t like it. Others did.
That’s all I’m saying.
I think part of the problem is “this is how I interpreted it” vs “this is what it was”. What I remember is the players saying “This is jack black panda pandering for a younger audience” and Blizzard saying “I assure you it’s not”. And it wasn’t, even if the bounciness was clearly an homage.
“I DON’T WANT POOP IN MY SANDWICH JUST TO SPITE ME!”
“We didn’t do it to spite you.”
“OH, MY MISTAKE.”
Kinda that. Yeah.
They did it, because poop was hinted at in WC3 and people had been begging for it for years and Poo Poo Panda made it feel culturally relevant.
They didn’t hate Chen, though. This seems to ultimately land right back at saying “no, we’re not doing the thing you don’t want us to do” while knowing that exact thing is absolutely coming.
I just don’t think they did that.
You’d have to cite your source. They didn’t announce MoP and then say “We’re not doing pandas though and absolutely no kung fu”.
They for sure did both pandas and Kung Fu. I don’t think they ever said they wouldn’t.
Considering that is really the only zone where the goofy stuff happens. I think it is fine. It is also coming off the ending of Jade Forest. Not to mention that the Pandaren basically have to act that way otherwise they become corrupted by the Sha. It is almost nightmare fuel when you really think about it. Having to pretend to be happy and positive all the time otherwise your negative emotions hit you like a ton of bricks… and could even take over your body like a puppetmaster. Which is exactly what happens to some characters, mainly Taran Zhu. One slip from the facade and you have no control over your actions…
Valley of the Four Winds is a dystopia disguised as a utopia.
Kasarang Wilds is a zone that runs parallel with the Valley of the Four Winds if you want a more serious leveling zone for that bracket.
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