Kul Tiran and Zandalari Unlock Requirements

[Elae-nagrand (Elae)]

True, but it kind of adds insult to injury that not only do we have to do quest chains but a whole damn 12-24 hour mission

[Shango-winterhoof]

For the love of god why on earth would time gate these two races even more with a 12 f$%^ing hour table mission quest???

That’s not even content , I’ve pushed the button and now I can’t go any further toward the new race for 12 hours …so why should I even stay logged in?

[Blays-bloodhoof]

I still love rolling belfs for the starting zones. If they had rolled out Blood Elves like they’re rolling out new races now, BC would have been their WoD. It’s mind blowing what they’re doing.

And now that I’ve unlocked ZT, I’m literally emarassed for Bliz how they did this. They could have copied the BEs and made it troll themed on an island and it would have been more engaging than this quest line. Holy cats this was bad.

[Sumyoongguy-azjolnerub]

I don’t think you are missing too much with this one. Dark IRONS FTW!

[Bodacia-blackhand]

I know nobody at Blizzard cares, and the white knights and playbetters will all jump on me for this, but I’ve just cancelled my sub after 15 years. The unlock requirements for the Allied Races is absurd, given that every other expansion that included a race, INCLUDED the race, and you could start a character with that race.

I’m old, I have severe arthritis, and I cannot play fast or well enough to tank a heroic. It wouldn’t be fair to the other players. And the game expects me to pug a heroic raid to unlock content I paid for when I bought the expansion? And level a character on the Horde side, and do their expansion too? That’s ridiculous.

Some of us are casual players, we have maybe a couple hours a week to play. We aren’t your content locusts, we aren’t super geared raiders, we aren’t top tier players. We’re grandmothers and moms, grandfathers and dads, we play because we like the communities we’ve built, we like seeing the scenery, we like following the story, we like doing crafting and fishing and seeing old content we missed as we leveled. We are the player equivalent of a bar’s regulars; reliably solid, consistently paying, players.

If you had advertised that I would only be able to play the Allied Races after having max level characters do almost the entire expansion on both sides, I wouldn’t have purchased it. And lots of other people wouldn’t have purchased it. You know that. You deliberately misled us. This expansion is a textbook example of Bait and Switch.

I am angry that you didn’t include information in your sales propaganda that the races were locked behind such restrictive gates. I’m angry that the game itself didn’t include instructions on what needed to be done, or provide an easy way to track progress towards it. Not everyone has time to hang out on the forums or wowhead. I’m angry that I’ve dedicated ridiculous amounts of time and energy, only to be blocked at the end. And then to find out I’d have to do it all over again, after raising a Horde to the appropriate level, just to get the Zanda, which again, I reiterate, I PAID for when I bought the expansion.

So yeah, I’m angry I bought the expansion. I’m angry that I spent so much time on it. I’m angry that I still don’t, and probably will never have the content I paid for. I’m angry that this is likely to be my final memory of 15 years playing WoW.
I’m angry that ActiBliz has decided to use casino psychology to drive player engagement rather than compelling content.

And while your Q2 reports may continue to show inflationary numbers because people stayed to see the races they paid for, I’m willing to bet your sub numbers take a huge hit when the casuals who don’t read forums log on today and find out they still can’t access the new races, and they have to do all three zones and all the dungeons and a heroic raid before they can start their new character.

In conclusion, this is infuriating, and I am infuriated. I am sure I’m not alone.

[Derrici-elune]

Four, not eight. We had four introduced and playable in the last expansion, four in this one. And yes, they could do better, like not locking them behind all the BS that they have. They’re not having to come up with whole new starting areas and 1-20 level new quests like they did in BC and Cata, they’re just dumping them at 20 into the faction city. Which isn’t that bad of an idea but I’m pretty sure that was more to cut corners on their end than to add convenience on ours.

It would have been nice to play the content WITH the new races, rather than having to play it through at least twice (once per faction) to get to the races, and then make us grind out a whole 100 levels per race for their cosmetic xmogs (which really should have been unlocked with the race itself).

[Løralei-terenas (Løralei)]

So, as a horde player, I’ve completed Tides, Zandalar Forever and am exalted with the Zandalari….so why are the trolls still locked? What have I missed?

[Kannil-kilrogg (Kannil)]

stuck at the council has spoken, not working…
edit : it was wm

[Muram-bronzebeard]

So, as a horde player, I’ve completed Tides, Zandalar Forever and am exalted with the Zandalari….so why are the trolls still locked? What have I missed?

Same here they are completed. When i click on the Zandalari they are greyed out and where it shows the quests needed for unlock they are all red, even though I have them completed.

[Bmanzero-frostwolf]

Same issue here. I have all the required achievements and reputation. I still cannot create a Zandalari troll.

[Valdyrverr-muradin]

BFA was announced during legion, allied races included, man I was pumped to play a new troll druid, then bfa goes live and the races arent available…stuck behind the ever increasingly common practice of time gating, classes not available as expected…more than likely because some bean counter wants to see play time metrics increased, instead of giving players what they want and expect. Then months after release, hey guys its time for those races to go live, only you can’t have them if you’ve been waiting on them since the initial announcement unless you do a whole slew of things that aren’t enjoyable, because we want to you just spend time in the game. Want to pay to access a game to play your way? Too bad, gotta play our way first. I’ve been a hardcore blizzard fan since the beginning and WC1…I remember a time when they cared about what the players wanted. Now its all bout the activision cash grab…going the way of EA. shame.

[Padgalan-lothar]

According to the attunement at wowhead, I’ve satisfied all the requirements but still cannot create a Kul’tiran character. I submitted a help ticket to find out why the button on the character create screen says Preview rather than Customize.

There was a quest chain to go see Magni in Nazmir. As far as I know, I completed that quest. Is there some need to wait 77 cycles (however long that takes)? Why would we not be told this?

[Alissian-farstriders]

According to the attunement at wowhead, I’ve satisfied all the requirements but still cannot create a Kul’tiran character.

Go to the embassy in Stormwind, there’s a quest chain there starting with Jaina. They send you through a long and absolutely mind numbingly boring chain of fetch quests from one end of Kul Tiras to the other to unlock the race from there.

[Padgalan-lothar]

Thanks very much.

My lack of intuition is only exceeded by Blizzard’s lack of intuitiveness and clarity.

[anon28815018]

Guess I’ll find out on Tuesday if I’ll actually be able to unlock KTs. Did the achievements and questing on one character, but got the exalted rep on another. I don’t really see any commentary on this sort of thing so

With the way the “Legion allied races” worked I assume I’ll be okay, but who really knows lol

Please let me know if you find out, in the same boat… all achievements on 1 character and the rep on another. I remember this was fine for all the older allied races.

In case you didn’t find out yet, I am able to do the KT questline on my exalted character even though I earned the achievements on other characters.

It just doesn’t translate over to Horde, so I will still have to finish my Horde rep to get my Zandas.

[Laeth-hakkar]

We had four introduced and playable in the last expansion

No we didn’t.

[Provemewrong-uldum]

These requirements make me wanna cwy.

[Bricklethumb-ghostlands]

I checked my requirements to play the Kul Tiran. The only thing I need is the Proudmore Admiralty rep up. However, my A Nation United achievement is complete, but it’s not awarded. Is this because the races aren’t ready at launch?

[Maelfarion-barthilas (Maelfarion)]

Now what? I’ve got the requirements. Is some sort of quest supposed to appear in Zuldazar? Because Nathanos offers me nothing and neither does anyone in dazar’alor.

[Bonezs-frostmane]

Go to the embasy in Orgrimmar and talk to the Zandalary guy.