Datamined Orc Banners: Cloaks, Toys, or Doodads?

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I’m really hoping that these are cloak transmogs rather than toys or environmental doodads. They look fantastic:

Dragonmaw:

Frostwolf:

Blackrock:

Bleeding Hollow:

Shattered Hand:

Warsong:

Additionally, it would be fantastic to get some playable representation for the clans like Dragonmaw and Blackrock whose aesthetics are not covered by existing options. Dragonmaw glowing amber eyes, Blackrock skintones, and so on. Maybe even the classic Grom-inspired glowing red eyes.

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If we could get Dragonmaw and Shattered Hand options it would be so cool.

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A Mechagnome-style limb replacement for the left hand that treats it as a fist weapon and overrides whatever you have equipped would be fantastic. Getting visions of a Shattered Hand Blood DK that is effectively dual wielding their 2H runeaxe with a bladefist… metal as hell.

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no burning blade, bonechewer or laughing skull :confused:

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Weren’t the last of those clans completely corrupted? Bonechewer and Laughing Skull exist entirely as spiky red mobs in Outland.

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I wanna be an Ashen white Orc like Kargath.

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Bonechewer and Laughing Skull stayed in Draenor and never made their way to Azeroth, whereas Burning Blade was never an actual clan to begin with and was nevertheless subverted as a symbol by the demon cults of Durotar.

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Hopefully they get that added in on the next Mag’har pass.

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Samuro is weeping. Honestly though that’d have been an interesting plot point. You got the Burning Blade in the Horde acting as the Warchief’s personal body guards going to war against Legion affiliated Orcs, using the moniker and banner of the Burning Blade. Be like an In-house cleaning.

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Honestly, most of Asian-adjacent influences the Orcs used to have seem to have been supplanted by the Pandaren entirely. I was legitimately surprised when Samuro came to HotS since Blizzard seems to want to forget about that side of Orc culture entirely.

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Yea, it definitely makes my inner weeb cry salty tears. Always loved the Blademaster in WC3.

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:fire::fire::fire:

:guitar::skull::skull_and_crossbones:

Yes please.

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we also need draenei skull cups for orcs.

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I’m honestly surprised they haven’t added in more Mongolian influences into the Orcs/Mag’har given their honor system and style of buildings. A lot of the early orc huts etc were very Golden Horde from Genghis Khan era with their yurts.

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that would be the centaur clans

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Thing is, Orcs did it first. They draw inspiration from a smattering of Asian cultures. I suppose they simply thought that the Orcish representation was unflattering, however, and dispersed those influences to other cultures.