I don't think Sethrak being playable would be a good idea

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This isn’t a “I Hate Sethrak” thread, because I like them

A lot of people are afraid of Snakes. And Sethrak are Snakes.

And having people play as a giant Snake, I don’t see that going over that well

IF they were made playable

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I would rather they stop trying to pander to people who are sexually attracted to animals with all these furry races in general.

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Says the Tauren

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I’m scared of zombies but because the races are so cartoony, it takes most of the scariness out of em. I love wows art :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: I think the scariest thing in wow to me would be the earth bursting worms in hellfire and also in high mountain. They freak me out a little :eyes: Sethrak look nice though.

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I like them and want them to be playable. But in my gut I just don’t think it’s happening. We haven’t seen any real evidence it might happen, unlike Vulpera.

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My fondness towards Sethraks is directly counter-proportional to the possibility of them being a playable race.

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…Seriously? This is the main argument?

I’m afraid of IRL wolves, and, you know, here we are…

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If someone is that afraid of something to be impaired while playing, they shouldn’t be in this game, then. Honestly. Pandering that deeply to people is ridiculous, because I could pull “I’m afraid of this in the game and it shouldn’t be added” at any point in time.

I fully support Sethrak and would play one.

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Don’t worry, they’re way too cool and different a race concept for Blizzard to add.

No fun allowed. Remember?

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People avoid stuff ig that they are actually afraid of all the time

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Then those people are not obligated to play as Sethrak.

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Your mog is awesome! :sunglasses: the helm is cool

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But they have to see them. They wouldn’t be to hard to miss

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Thanks very much! I wish there was a red version of it, but it fits for now. Usually I have on sunglasses but… yeah those don’t show up anymore. This is a safe second.

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…so?

What exactly are you saying here? That Blizzard should cater to every phobia that exists? Imagine everything they would have to remove from the game. People have crippling fears of spiders and heights. So, we have to remove both spiders and flying?

Your argument isn’t really coherent here.

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When fantasy designers/authors/whatevers have to try and come up with unique races that aren’t just offshoots of established fantasy races or “humans but not quite”, it’s almost always the lazy “let’s take this Earth animal and make it a humanoid” thing.

Same applies to creatures. Take an animal, give it a weird quirk, boom, fantasy animal. Or, take an animal, combine it with another animal, boom, fantasy animal. Lazy.

Point being I don’t think Vulpera are in any way furry bait. It’s a way-too-common lazy out for expanding a universe, sure, but it’s not like they designed it to attract more furries to the game.

I’m also not denying that something like Vulpera WOULD attract furries to play it (mostly furries already interested in WoW, not randos from nowhere), and it’s a race I don’t really care for, but I wouldn’t call it pandering.

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They should add Sethrak so that people suffering from ophidiophobia can confront their fears in a safe environment by ganking Sethrak lowbies on their human male paladins.

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Could you imagine an MMO without anything even remotely frightening? Boring.

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Fair enough, but it’s incredibly hard to create a brand new concept that isn’t in some way influenced by existing Tolkienesque lore (elves, orcs), cultural mythology (minotaur/tauren), or European folklore (San/layn, Worgen). It’s becoming more common for fantasy properties to anthropomorphize animals and design new cultures around them, as seen in Elder scrolls (khajiit, argonians).

WoW is in a unique place. It became an analogue of the Tolkienesque fantasy lore but eventually expanded to encompass bits and pieces of fantasy inspiration that surpasses cultural and canonical borders. Now Wow has a little bit of high fantasy, a little bit of sci-fi, a little bit of steampunk, a little bit of gothic horror, and yes, a little bit of anthropomorphism. It’s like an intersection where all these points meet and anything goes, and personally that’s what I really, really like about the world of WoW. It’s got virtually no limitations.

And all of this is basically a long-form way of me saying that I have no problem with anthro animals in WoW.

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A lot of people are afraid of spiders but there are giant fracking spiders everywhere…

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