I was disappointed at what “The army of the Light” turned out to be. A single ship with lightforged draenei that gets shot down to boot. The army of the Light should be a massive thing rivalling the Burning Legion. So how can we get back there? Simple, the Lightforged draenei we encounter in Legion and added to our rooster od playable character should only be a tiny sub section of something grander.
My suggestion is that we simple redefine what the army of the Light really are. My interpretation is that IF you are an ally of the light and dedicated to fight the Burning Legion and other enemies of the light then you are a member of The army of the Light whatever if you heard of them or not. This means that Uther and his paladins of the Silver Hand counts as part of this faction even if they never heard of it.
This already is a redefinition of the army of the light. It was originally something to be founded, not found. The implication being that Velen believed that the forces of Azeroth would be the foundation of what would one day become the army of Light.
This was before they retconned in the super secret military wing of the Eredar split off from Velen and his followers in a whole other ship and then spent the next several thousand years engaged in a game of cat and mouse with The Legion in a weird draenei space-marine power fantasy.
I agree. LF draeneis shouldnt be a separate race. It should have been another customization for draeneis. Same for Kultiran humans and Highmountain taurens.
I was immensely disappointed the Alliance didn’t get the Sethrakk as an Allied Race. That would have been rad.
But at the same time I see no reason we can’t still add the Broken. Stick a nice little questline in Black Temple as a scenario or something. Fun times for all.
i’m fine with my lightforged as well as many others. stop hating just cause you don’t like don’t mean others don’t. here’s something maybe just ask for broken now?
Hindsight being 20/20 and all, but if we had gotten Broken as an Allied Race and Lightforged Draenei as some NPC options during 7.3, they would have most likely been added as customization options during Shadowlands like Wildhammer were.
The majority of the Allied Races should’ve just been customization options on the core races. Vulpera are the only ones that were an entirely new race. An argument could be made for Kul Tiran and Zandalari since they use different models than Humans and regular Trolls (at least the male Zandalari do).
LFD = Draenei, extra Light.
HMT = Tauren, but moose
DID = Dwarves on fire
Mechagnomes = Gnomes but with robot arms and legs
Mag’har = brown Orcs… that’s it
Void Elves = grape flavored Blood Elves for the Alliance
Nightborne = Night Elves who can’t be druids for the Horde
Allied Races were a gimmick to keep players logged in and grinding rep… which is being removed next patch anyway.