Faeries: possibly playable?

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So hear me out.

Size:
Faeries are around the same size as gnomes, minus a little pudginess. This eliminates any problems they’d have with interacting with buildings and doorways.

Structure:
They’re basically floating vulpera from the neck down. So it couldn’t be that much of a challenge to fit armor to their body.

Wings:
So of course this ones a bigger point, considering that if for arguments sake they were added, they’d be the first winged playable race. But seeing as they’re small, it wouldn’t be as large an issue as if they were closer in size to something akin to a human. Mounting wouldn’t be an issue since the way they fold their wings is just keeping them still behind them.

Flying:
Is there really an issue here? Couldn’t they just do what they did for druids? Their land bound stance could just be them slightly fluttering over the ground. And when they get to flight-level they could just unlock flying. Their passive could be an automatic slow-fall

Lore:
If blizz can find a way to make the maw traversable, a literal inescapable hell that easily contained gods and mortals alike with ease for eons, then I’m sure it wouldn’t be difficult to find a sound lore solution that allowed for the beings of the shadowlands to coexist with the living world. I mean after all there’s anima in everything, living or dead. The only difference is the living generally don’t have the power to manipulate it.

And if that isn’t enough, soulbinding could prove a valuable loophole since abilities and traits of each party are shared.

Thought and opinions?

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Yes it’s possible they are already fully animated in game.

Would be hard to put armor on them however

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Maybe a base elf/human that turns into a fairy for combat, like boomkin and worgen

And fairy helpers like the Druid in rift I think that had healing fairy pet

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You called gnomes pudgy. Your ankles are about to get nibbled like no tomorrow.

Personally I think we are done with new races for quite a while. I havent seen anything yet that looks allied race worthy but there is still time left in the expansion so who knows.

I suspect the next race if we get one will be released the old school way tied to an expansion and released at the start.

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I would love if the Faeries were made playable. The first two MMOs I played had playable faerie type races, and I loved em. I keep hoping a more modern MMO will released one too.

I also kinda miss playing as a satyr or a lizard person. :frowning:

EQ2 had them just fold their wings in a rest position behind them when they sat down or got on a mount. It was cute.

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