Appreciate it, I think I’ll stick with Void Elves, Lightforged Draenei, Nightborne and Vulpera (when I get around to it), for now LOL
Congrats!
Nightborne is long cause its tied to that quest chain which is far longer I think than either Void Elves or LFD.
Vulpera should be easier a bit… I think…
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or hear me out
vampire elves
vethyr elves (not vampires they suck ur anima not ur blood)
the ghost elves on asuna
skinny tall humans of kul’tiras
buff forest trolls
mechagoblins
mergoblins
high elves
wildhamer dwarfs
lgihtforged forsaken
eredar
broken
void orcs
mer elves
fully robot gnomes from ulduar
definately not subraces sicne allied races were “not subraces”
I mean, they also gave Alliance a copy of the second most popular race in the game as well as giving them an entirely new skeleton, too (Kul Tirans).
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They didn’t “deny” you any of these races, only decide they weren’t worth adding over races that were easier to develop, either in terms of writing or modeling.
Only notable characters are Hogger, Meatball, and maybe Sayge, with the first being dead since Cataclysm. Blizzard won’t even give them HD models despite continuing to use gnoll NPCs in BfA and SL.
No race that’s incapable of riding a horse or even sitting in a chair is ever becoming playable.
Predominantly mindless meme race that has no government and no serious reason to join a faction.
They’re not mortals. They have no skin, faces, hair, or anything else that the current races have and aren’t native to our plane of existence, so they would be a pain to make customizable for anything other than bandage and energy color and also have no real reason to join and die for a faction.
That, and also more incessant arguing and bellyaching over who gets what. I really don’t want another two years of BfA where the Alliance posters and sympathizers on this board spent that time asking for races that were never realizable, demanding a second copy of blood elves, and claiming that they somehow deserve all of the Horde’s existing and potential allied races, before acting like them getting mechagnomes was the end of the world.
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K’aresh is a planet located within the Great Dark Beyond. Ethereals are absolutely native to our plane of existence.
In an expansion centered around the Void, they could have a reason since our goals would align (that being the defeat of the Void).
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I still think we should get races like San’layn, naga, ogres, dryads/centaurs, sethrak and arrakoa. A lot of these could be on a “neutral” side or they just pick a side like pandearan do.
As cool as murlocks, gnolls and ethereals would be I dont think it would make much sense as these races never joined a side or aligned themselves with a faction.
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I know you’ll get this but I love the idea of a few more playable races.
Personally, I’d add them as mercenaries (add to both sides if the faction division isn’t eliminated).
- Saurok
- Arakoa
- Ogres (with a gnomish/goblin shrink ray that allows them indoors)
- Mogu
Gotta agree with this.
Murlocs don’t want societies or technology. They’re too primitive. A lot like the Vermin of Pandaria. (Adorable, but not heroic)
Gnolls are a close one. They really only respect strength and their tribalism could lead to trouble. Could be interesting. They organized against Stormwind, once, but I think Medveih took care of that?
Etherials seem too otherworldly for my fantasy game. But I could be swayed.
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Okay, well in that case, still not happening because, like I said, their biology is way too unique. They don’t even leave behind an actual corpse on death, which you kind of need to revive yourself after dying outside of the Shadowlands.
We don’t know what the next expansion holds. If they didn’t make any of the Shadowlands’ races playable in the expansion that we went there, I have no faith in ethereals being any different.
… Thats not really a bar there…
Just leave bandages behind spirit still comes back to body.
That we always get back up is only quasi-canon anyways… rezzing is an extremely rare trait in wow canon.
A number of these make no sense.
Sethrak would be Horde, not Alliance.
And San’layn are literally already part of the Horde, canonically, as of BFA.
It’s easier to reuse the assets already in game, insofar as frame, skeleton, textures than to create new ones from scratch.
We haven’t technically had a “new” race since Pandas(I think?).
The Allied races are just reused assets, with a sometimes fresh coat of paint, at best.
Not saying I agree but that explains the “Why?”. It’s cheaper and easier.
I’m not in the mood to keep arguing this crap. If Blizzard really were to add a completely inorganic race that almost definitely can’t even eat our food, let alone have our mortal concept of gender, I don’t know what I’d do.
This is the truth, but try telling that to the people who have spent the last 3 years believing that the Alliance is somehow owed sethrak. The Horde PC does about 2-3 hours of quests in Vol’dun, defeats the Faithless and restores Sethraliss, while the Alliance PC is there for all of 15 minutes. But since Horde players wanted vulpera, people on both factions became so convinced that the Alliance was going to get either group of sethrak as their foil that they started believing it was an inevitability when it was just barely hinted that the Alliance and Devoted would work together again in the future, which, to this day, they still haven’t, so that plot thread went nowhere. Then mechagnomes came along…
Bizarrely, despite being fully entitled to sethrak, most Horde players are apathetic to the future of the race, probably because they’re thematically too similar to Zandalari, and would willingly let the Alliance have them so they’d stop crying over what allied races we did get. At this point, I think adding sethrak as a Horde-only race would cause every active WoW community in existence to have a total meltdown and try to strongarm Blizzard into making them Alliance-only or neutral.
They’re also not even remotely related to void elves, so there’s absolutely no basis for them being a subrace of the latter.
You could always just keep playing the game and not worry about it so much… Not like anyone would force you to play it. lol
Why can we not play as the super buff trolls like Kazra’jin??? I probably would have never rerolled alliance if we could.
No more damn races.
If we end up crafting the arbiters sigils, the Powers that be had better not let me build it because i will sneak in a method of sending some souls back into the mortal realms without the need to be reborn, rather just strait up resurrection using dust. or
OR
im having souls go into my heart of Azeroth for “safe keeping” and will later work with some mechanical Engineers (of which is my in game cannon occupation) and bodies will be created to house these souls and with a little digging around im certain we can execute the curse of flesh on these constructs…
all this just so we can have more playable races from different parts of the shadowlands.
and then i’ll re-impower the scythe of Elune and make more Worgen combinations, WITH TAIL OPTIONS, an since we already have the cure for the crazed beast part, its a relatively safe procedure
OGRES. I will never stop asking for Ogres.
More races should always be a added. I can be patient for classes due to balance and gameplay issues, but races should be added liberally.
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The forums updated, so I can select the Nightborne I created. I have another that I created and playing, ATM. Eventually, I’ll get this Priest up LOL
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Both factions should have access to all the races that are canonically part of them. For example, Ogres and undead elves are already part of the Horde canonically and Jinyu are part of the Alliance.
Actually, it’s up in the air whether or not San’layn are actually part of the Horde. That little plotline seems to have forgotten and not addressed beyond the Alliance campaign. Another common misconception is that the Alliance destroy all remaining San’layn which is patently incorrect. There is another boat with San’layn in it that the Alliance never touched. Plus, it’d be really really dumb to send the entirety of your dying race out into a world that is openly hostile towards you. Let’s not forget the missing Blood Princes and the fact that San’layn can rez.
It wouldn’t make sense for San’layn to join the Alliance as they are responsible for killing their brethren and stalling their mission. I wouldn’t join the very faction that slaughtered my people for trying to find a place in the world. Yes, Dreven did kill forsaken but considering we only see this as Alliance players the rest of the Horde wouldn’t know. San’layn are undead vampiric blood elves and share themes with both.
Most people on the Alliance asking for San’layn under Void Elves or as an Allied Race are not asking for them in good faith or because they actually want them. Many of them are asking because they are angry and want to “take” something away from the Horde as they feel their side has been wronged. I’m sure there are a scarce few who do legitimately want San’layn, but many I’ve seen are doing it because they’re bitter.
They want Alliance to get Horde requests as they feel it will make them even. As someone who has suffered a lot in life, I wouldn’t want to inflict what I perceive as “suffering” or unfairness on another person. I’m not really sure why players on either faction want to punish each other for Blizzard’s choices. The thing is it’s just a game and we’re all people with feelings. Alliance VS Horde mentality in real life is kind of stupid and I’m tired of petty B.S.
Just once I’d like to see a thread asking for Alliance San’layn that isn’t founded on contempt or desire to get one “side’s” goat. I’d still disagree with what they’re asking for but I’d know it comes from a good place and genuine love of the race.
I play both sides so I really don’t care. Really what I’m saying is people on this forum should treat each other better and improve the community’s reputation. Right now it’s stagnating at “nuclear wasteland.” I hope I don’t come across as harsh or mean as this isn’t my intent. Sorry for the essay.
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