Do you like your undead boneless or traditional?

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As many know, in certain countries the traditional undead models aren’t allowed “bones showing and what not” and do you think this can be an optional feature allowed for players?

Btw I like mine traditional :wink:

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I like mine extra crispy.

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what are you doing?

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Sounds like socialism, no thanks.

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I would prefer boneless undead tbh. I don’t like being forced into shorts etc.

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I don’t like them at all. (Across a whopping total of 5 accounts, well only 2 played seriously, and over 50 characters … I have a single undead, level 20, that I made because I felt bad about not having any. I got him to 20, but I had to bail on Tirisfal and level in Mulgore, having him reject the banshee and seek to pursue life and the vague continued hope of a cure or a true death.)

EDIT: Visually, I’m just more accustomed to the bones and have played enough zombie games that rotting decrepit corpses have, so my vote would be on that side.

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Bones to gnaw on.

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Boneless option for transmog would be nice.

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What are the Forsaken supposed to be anyway? Are they just regular Undead? What about Slyvanas?

Boneless. I mean… they aren’t supposed to be generic Undead anyway…

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Blazzin is always nice :wink:

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I’d play skeleton if i could

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https://rewatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/krastinovian-carver-bread-1232x640.png

Almost all chunks of meat with bones were substituted with bread, that’s why blizzard’s chinese censorship is the best.

Now you know why Arthas was so desperate to destroy all the grain.

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I like traditional with a dry rub, not wet.

Wait, were not talking about wings here are we

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Bread is bad for you. Arthas was just trying to help his people diet properly.

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I don’t understand why bony undead feel obligated to tear their sleeves.

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Boneless only because the clothes aren’t weirdly torn up.

That’s always kind of kept me from playing undead. I know it’s superficial but it gets annoying watching my robes turn into wrist sleeve things.

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Some might like them well boned…

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I like the chinese model more but it doesn’t keep me up at night.

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I think the implication is that the bones rip through the clothes, although I understand that not everyone likes the execution of the design.

Anyway, this is Classic we’re talking about, so I prefer traditional undead. It isn’t even a question in this case, because this is the west and the Chinese models were never available here. If Blizzard gave us the Chinese Forsaken models in the retail game, I might roll one to see how I like it. But not in Classic.

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In vanilla era, the entire race of undead are the human citizens who were exposed to plague and overnight transformed into shambling dead in service to the Lich King, then having free(-ish) will when the Lich King’s control waned.

Technically, they are “generic undead” physically. It’s only a mental change in their ability to make their own decisions.

At the same time, the starting zone for the player character undead heavily implies you’re only just now being woken from death, rather than one of the undead who broke free from Arthas’ control. As such, “you” (player character) have been dead for an indeterminate amount of time, the body rotting away normally.

Arthas made her a banshee, killing her very slowly and painfully, storing her corpse in an iron coffin. I don’t remember where I saw it, but there was some comment that the initial physical body she took control of may not have been her own, that she didn’t recover her corpse until later. However, when Kel’Thuzad successfully stopped her from torturing then killing Arthas/Lich King, she knew the physical body held her back and got heavily into necromancy. So she’s never been the same as the Forsaken / player race Undead. (She’s also a bit vain, and expends a notable amount of energy on her appearance.)

I’d always thought it was more about what put them into that state of decay, that it is “contagious”. Hence the areas they live in becoming corrupted and befouled, as well. Their buildings, their tents, everything seems to move toward decay faster around the undead.