Yeah, he didn’t say no allied race in 8.2.0, he so no allied race in 8.2.
Sadly, mechagnomes will probably be added in 8.3, crushing any chance of there being another Alliance race that isn’t a massive disappointment in development.
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You can’t make them look better. Not without fundamentally changing what they are.
It’s not the models themselves that are the problem -they’re fairly high quality. The problem is most people aren’t interested in playing an amputee gnome.
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That doesn’t mean that the people who do like these niche should be cheated out of some potentially good content that they would like. There is already about 6 kinds of playable elves and gnomes have been long overdo for some good content for a while now.
There growing on me. I just wish they weren’t cyborgs. There core bodies look weird. I wish they were full robots O.o
Female mechagnomes have other new animations as well. The /cheer, /rude, and /salute (and now /dance) animations are different from regular female gnomes. Not sure if the latest PTR update has brought any changes to male mechagnome animations.
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Yeeeeeeeeeeeees¡ I can’t wait play with my MechaGnome, now I will stay calm until Blizzard confirms it ;c
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either 8.3 or pre-order bonus, you know they would
Haha yea mag’har are a complete waste too all the allied races kinda are, they could’ve easily been added to the skin tones, same with light forged etc. If I ever do come back to wow I’m going to switch back to a human warrior:)
Same reason why Sethrak would have a HOA animation, so npc’s can use them.
Sethrakk don’t have a dance animation I think right?
NPC Races haven’t had unique dances since like Burning Crusade.
Blizzard got lazy after that and stopped doing it.
Is that a gnome on stilts or a gnome who enjoys recreational pharmaceuticals?
As much as I hate mechagnomes as an AR let’s be real for a sec. Just because they aren’t putting in what you specifically want doesn’t mean they don’t care. Yes, gnome is the least played race but unfortunately I already know quite a few who would play mechagnomes and there’s still some who do play gnomes. I personally don’t want them, I’d much rather have the titanforged gnomes with full body robo parts like Mimiron if we have to get gnomes but honestly the customization is kinda cool.
However I’d prefer lightforged undead, broken, Ankoan, etc. If they want ARs to be popular and see huge numbers I’m sure they would’ve added fan favorites already like Ogres, Vrykul, etc. Adding stuff like LF Draenei (Draenei with light tattoos essentially) obviously won’t generate the big numbers. I think for now they just wanna add what relates to the story and makes sense, maybe they’ll add some fan favorites later.
You keep saying that but I don’t think it means what you think it means. BTW Goblin is the least played standard Horde race. It’s only .1% higher than Pandaren, .2% higher than Maghar, and .8% higher than Highmountain.
Simply putting “mega” in your name doesn’t mean that there is a huge population there!
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Low effort copy and paste race to make that nobody wants? Like it’s that far of a stretch to assume that’s going to be an allied race.
Ion would like to have a word with you lol
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This could be a AR. So could High Elf, San’layn, Jinyu,Mogu, Tortollan, Vulpera, new alliance and horde champions we have to help in 8.2 Nazjatar continent. Many variables and factors to consider.
We don’t even have any hints where 8.3 will take us let alone 9.0. Bellular Gaming has mentioned a few. Correct me if I am wrong but, Blizz said the story upcoming will be
surprising. There are 5 races that still need it’s added AR counterpart.
- Worgen
- Forsaken
- Goblin
- Gnome
- Pandaren
What if the counterpart to #5 is Naga? Azshara realizes she made a bad bargain with N’Zoth and wants an Alliance with the two Azeroth factions? Of course considering what plays out to said factions realizing everything since Teldrassil had been because of Old Gods handwork?
Sure as heck more realistic than Gilgoblins.
Me thinks they still have a few up their sleeves this expansion. Mechagnomes 8.3 or so seems like a done deal at this point.
I’ve said it again before many times. Popularity doesn’t matter. If it really did matter then goblins, gnomes and pandas wouldn’t even be playable to begin with. Blizzard could have simply decided to go with Mechelves or something like that because they know if you put elf on anything it will be more popular. However they didn’t. What about all those who wanted Eredar? I am sure eredar would have been more popular than Lightforged Draenei. Same goes with Vykrul. Heck if blizzard wanted they could have just kept Kul’tirans the same and removed the guts they have, but they didn’t.