If you’re talking about mechagnomes, I don’t mind them being added. My issue is that no one asked for it while there are more people asking for high elves.
Provided they can create a good story for mechagnomes and provided a great background, sure. I don’t think the two races are mutually exclusive
More people where asking for Broken and Ogres then Mechagnomes.
Right now their main problem is getting past the body horror.
We don’t know for sure if mechagnomes are being added. It’s a little early to be jumping the gun on that.
But even if they did, it’s fine that niche races are added. I make the same argument with Kul Tirans. I like them, not many seem to though. Doesn’t mean they should ignore the fringe groups.
High elves basically already exist right now. You’ve got straight up Blood Elves and you’ve got the Night Elves who embody a lot of what High Elves are.
I don’t mind niche races. Hell, as you can see I enjoy playing a Lightforged Draenei and I have a Kul Tiran Druid.
I just hate how the Horde is getting popular races like Mag’Har Orcs and Zandalari Trolls that are far more popular and requested and we’re just getting these races that not many people care for.
And by your logic, Mag’har Orcs and Highmountain Tauren already exist now. You have straight up Orcs and Tauren who embody a lot of what Orcs and Tauren are!
Mag’har represent an uncorrupted and diverse version of the current orcish race. You’ve got multiple different identities that were lost when the OU orcs united and became the Horde.
Highmountain tauren…yeah I’ll give you that. They’re not much different from regular tauren. But Legion gave them a ton of lore and a new story, enough to make them justified as a separate race, so I’ll give 'em that.
Mag’har make up less than 2% of the Horde populace at 120.
Mostly 'cause our racials are garbage. But they’re cool enough as a race that I suffer through it. xD
I like the fact that I can play a Shadowmoon orc, which is much different from a Blackrock orc, which is also much different from a Bleeding Hollow orc like yourself, etc.
Yeah, but I think it’s also that the forums tend to attract people who are more into the nitty gritty so Mag’har seem more popular than they actually are in the wild.
B-but you’re grey. Shadowmoon aren’t grey.
Shadowmoon orcs also use the brown skin and white facepaint skins.
If you accept that Mag’har orcs being an uncorrupted variant of the orgrimmar orcs as a good enough fact that they can be a separate playable, what’s stopping you from accepting that High Elves, an uncorrupted variant of the Blood Elves, can be a separate, playable race, too?
Sure they are. The grey unblemished skin represents the Shadowmoon clan.
Negative, that’s Bleeding Hollow.
-Blood Elves aren’t really that corrupted. They’re basically the same thing as high elves, just with a more dominant standpoint.
-Night Elves already possess a lot of what High Elves are, so even if you make the argument that you shouldn’t be forced to be Horde, you’ve still got options on the Alliance.
They’re really not. Look at Ner’zhul.
Ner’zhul, Rulkan and her exiles are the only Shadowmoon with brown skin. If you look through any of the Shadowmoon orc camps on Draenor you’ll see 'em all with grey skin.
People wouldnt want High Elves on Alliance if they didnt look like the Hordes High/Blood Elves, prove me wrong.
That’s a pretty big ‘only’.
The OP of the Megathread where the most popular concepts are Tattoos, Dark Skin, Half Elves, and using the Night Elf model.
They said ‘pandaren are neutral’ over and over and over. Kind of like "All work and no play make Jack a dull boy’ from that scene in The Shining.
Well yeah. But there’s also no other clan that uses the unblemished grey skin. You’ve got the Shattered Hand and Laughing Skull who use the pierced/multilated ones, but that’s it.
The only real change I always hear is Blue Eyes and Tattoos on our models. Never heard anyone say make them look like Night Elves. If you get more Night Elves and called them High Elves by all means you can have that.
But most people want Blood Elves with more blue customization.
Actually quite a few of the Blackrock orcs use it and so do the Laughing Skull and a few of the Burning Blade.