but you’ve overlooked the only other race (besides worgen and undead) and that race is pandas, rig the tuskarr up to panda frame and let us enjoy our walrusy tusked goodness. make them neutral (like the race they’ll be stealing a rig from) give us a fishing passive, a cold resistant passive and a swim speed racial and let us go into the world all blubbery and bouncy. if they must have a combat passive give them something unique, like a haste % that at max hp is 2%, below 90% is 1%, below 40% does nothing and below 10% is a -1%, can call it (ride the tides) or something like that.
Allied races are a BfA feature. They could return in a future expansion but they’re not something to expect. They could go back to normal races next time, who knows.
We just got ten allies in one expansion, there isn’t a dire need for more right now. We can chill a bit! But Blizz did say future ones are possible as they make sense in the story. So see how things go.
They said no allied races for 9.0. Meaning the earliest we can possibly get one is 9.1 They also said they wanted to focus on customization this expansion so we likely might get more customization of other races… like wildhammer and farraki/dark trolls we just received.
Ion says verbatim; “it’s something we remain open to doing. It wasn’t just a Battle for Azeroth feature. …maybe there’s a world where it makes sense for (Shadowlands races) to join the Alliance and the Horde someday, but definitely not at the start of Shadowlands.”
It is incredibly frustrating that the vast majority of the breakdowns of this interview either completely omit what he says about allied races or misquote him horribly.
Yes. I made a thread of revamping what it means to be an allied race. Fusing maghar and orc to be customization. Darkspear and Zandalari too. With the different body types being options in the barbershop. An improvement to what we have right now with being able to pick your bodytype now with genders.
What about an artifact weapon race? Or is that too Mechagnome? Maybe Mechagnome engineers should be able to make artifact golems so they can be Steampunk warlocks. Or is that Tinker?
please