I notice no one is excited about mechagnomes

[Eyrinjia-hydraxis (Eyrinjia)]

[shrug]
I’m going to be making one mechagnome of each available class (I’ve already worked out a set of names for them) as soon as I possibly can. But then, strange to say, I like gnomes. Some of us do.

[Coralily-moon-guard]

Except there are a lot of people absolutely stoked for MechaMonks?

[Cashcollecta-emerald-dream (Cashcollecta)]

I am actually quite happy about how things turned out though. Initially I was worried one of them would come in place of the other. However here is the thing. Gilgoblins work as a custom option. Vulpera don’t. Vulpera as an allied race and Gilgoblins as a custom option is great because people who wanted both of these can get what they want. Blizzard should have held all of the past ARs to a higher standard like this to be honest and many of them should have been custom options.

I still though would love it if Kelfin actually joined or assisted the horde in future adventures even if they weren’t directly playable.

[Fahrenheit-wyrmrest-accord (Fahrenheit)]

Would this customization option grant the Goblin underwater breathing? That’s a pretty big deal for Kelfin.

[Cashcollecta-emerald-dream (Cashcollecta)]

That is a downside, but one could use potions and engineering tricks to replicate that. There is also the lack of Gilgoblin Druids and further inclusion and lore from them in future stories. Wildhammer have a similar issue where they could be druids in lore.

-Classes: Goblins have all the classes they would likely be already.
-Heritage armor/Class mounts: No big deal. There is already plenty of cool aquatic armor and mounts.
-Benthic gear also helps look more like one.

[Tootz-wyrmrest-accord]

There are people who are happy with the coming of junkgnomes,
There are just a lot fewer people who care about junkgnomes compared to people who are loving the vulperas.

Unfortunately, junkgnomes are another corrupted wish that Blizzard gave to Alliance and yet had the misfortune of being unfavorably placed to compete with a race that has been in the hearts and minds of countless players for 2 years.

Junkgnomes just couldn’t beat a popularity duel, because gnomes have always been a niche with little popularity and appreciation.

Vulpera against junkgnomes, it was like a quaterback against the water-carrying guy, Avengers against Justice League, a Ferrari against a trabant or a Delorean against Herbie.

Once again, Blizzard chose wrong for ally, which we could have received.

Not surprisingly, the massive lack of hype for a race that can’t use transmogs, except one that masks this inability.

Junkgnomes doesn’t even have relevance in BfA.
Your junkland is only for giving us collectables and mechanical mounts but all unrelated to Azshara, N’zoth or the Horde war against the Alliance.

They are something totally disconnected from bfa, so much so that we could not go to mechagon and we would not lose any details.
After all, the most important is the Nazjatar raid and not a junkyard on a hidden island next to Kultiras.

They are such an allied race so doomed to failure that Blizzard tried to bribe players, giving very flashy racial junkgnomes as an encouragement to people to use them but the thing is so badly made that it only degrades any value. what diapergnomes have, because what they have good is only their racial bribery, that if given to stones, would make people use stone because of these racial and not because they like stones.

And to make matters worse, they may even have some value, even after they’ve already suffered nerfs, but the pvp community that values ​​them is disorganized and scattered in the alliance and no end game player will ever get out of the horde to start alliance from scratch. without the community similar to what already exists in the horde today.

And hardly anyone would leave their blood elf / orc / troll for a gnome.

Have Mercy
All Hail Vulperas!!

You seem to speak a lot without ever saying anything.

[Cashcollecta-emerald-dream (Cashcollecta)]

I think vulpera get extra forum activity because horde have underutilized short characters (3.5 % of horde characters are goblins) compared to around 5% are gnome.

My opinion is that it is because they are more of a new race altogether. Let me explain. If alliance had gotten some kind of full robot race that wasn’t considered a variant of gnome, it would probably have gotten better reception. However it is pretty clear Blizzard is going from the Ratchet and clank angle. From this perspective it does make sense.

[Murgatroyd-lightbringer (Murgatroyd)]

<— is excited about Mechagnomes.

No, you are not. Didn’t you read the thread title?

[Karamaru-moon-guard]

word, for them. They could’ve done so much better for Alliance but it just feels like we were just an afterthought.

Which is odd since we were told by the devs Mechagon and Mechagnomes were a passion project for them but now that they are here it seems less and less work has been done on them.

[Draxzuul-dalaran]

What are you talking about??? GNOMES ARE AWESOME!

[Vilespine-thrall]

Sure nothing to do with Steampunk.

[Pinoos-stormrage]

Dude Shivarrra is number 1.

[Delvana-wyrmrest-accord]

I’m VERY hyped for Mechagnomes! I barely care about anything else the next patch gimme my cyborgs!

[Grellos-emerald-dream]

The concept is okay, but gnomes just don’t work. Tiny old looking men/women with massive heads are just not cool to play.

I suspect the Vulpera will outnumber them more than 3:1

[Saithis-shandris (Saithis)]

There’s like a handful of forum posters that are trying to hype it up like it’s something all alliance love and want.

Then you look at how many people choose a gnome as their main race. Numbers don’t lie!

But at least we get new mechanical puntables!

[Vauxaire-earthen-ring]

Seeing lots of vulpera threads, but no one seems interested in a reskinned version of the least played race in the game. Why’s that?

I love the mecha gnomes and I’m looking forward to creating one. Heck, I’ve been considering race changing this goblin over.

Regular Gnomes aren’t my thing too ridiculously silly. But cyborgs? Sign me up.

[Saithis-shandris (Saithis)]

Lol there were a few threads a while back hyping up mechsgnomes and I made the same punt comment. Some folks in there were saying their entire friend list and guilds were super excited about it.

Wait why am I responding to an ugly top hatted puntable? Get away from my ankles shorty

[Saithis-shandris (Saithis)]

The ears give it all away I’m sorry!