Whenever I see a Vulpera I just see a very boopable snoot with fur and long ears behind.
LOK’TAR OGAR, indeed! 
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Fen beat me to it.
They used mech suits basically.
While the concept could potentially started on Argus, I don’t think they would use that in a war against the burning legion when they are so easily currupted.
Even then we could argue also that those that could build such things might have choosen to flee with the dreanei rather then fight the leagion.
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You think of the classic Horde, you think Orcs, Trolls, and Tauren, now it’s Barbies, Furries, and Orcs … 
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Don’t let the smile fool you, he is dead on the inside:
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I can confirm 79% of them are standing at Lion’s Pride.
I see very few goblins and pandas in general for Horde in MG.
As for Alliance, VEs and NEs are everywhere.
Foxes are just too cute! 
Lol id be a vulperan if they could be druids.
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Spell pushback resist is, on the other hand, completely and utterly useless for martial classes.
Bad customization is more likely tbh, Nightborne got almost nothing in customization.
The customization is better now, but it could be because the long quest line and achievements to unlock them too.
Weird on my main server it goes human, night elf, and wolf. Horde it’s a troll, troll, orc, fox, and blood elf
Sounds like a case of a lot of RP degenerates having fun on vulpera, I’ll leave what they do on these RP servers to your imagination.
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basically yeah. - but to be fair that’s a lot of what attracts players to the elf races too.
but also they do have some of the better stories in wow which gets players interested in draenei.
Legion being a popular expansion and featuring them heavily certainly didn’t hurt their popularity either.
If they existed in an expansion before BfA, people here would be singing a different tone since they seem to constantly demand old, usually no longer relevant NPC races becoming playable, including other literal reskins like man’ari, frost dwarves, and taunka.
Confirmation of white draenei, moose tauren, gray dwarves, and brown orcs as their own races instead of options for their parent races = Community collectively decides “This is perfectly fine!”
Mere idea of cyborg gnomes as their own race instead of options for gnomes = [hardcore screeching over three years]
Regardless of either race’s popularity, there was no possibility whatsoever of gnomes getting barber options in an expansion where it was decided that Lightforged and Dark Irons both qualified as their own races, because at their core, they’re the same thing: something to fill a quota. Especially not after being foreshadowed in 8.0 and having a whole zone and mega-dungeon that was half of the draw of 8.2. That would just be backwards logic even for modern Blizzard.
I’ve never seen anyone ever explain the logic of why either mechagnomes or Kul Tirans, who also get lumped in because “they’re just fat humans”, should’ve been the sacrificial lamb to be demoted to barber options for their parent races instead of any of the other four races mentioned beyond “They’re not pretty enough”, or how that would be fair to their fans, as few as they may be. And doing either would be near-impossible, anyway, since mechagnomes have new animations and Kul Tirans have a completely separate body type from Stormwind humans, but I doubt that the amount of regular users on this board who know how to even use Blender or another 3D modeling program can be counted on more than one hand.
They’re gnomes. A few new options for them weren’t going to cause a surge in popularity like giving natural skin and hair colors to void elves did for that race or actually finishing nightborne did for them. But even if I didn’t like gnomes, I would be disgusted to see them get the equivalent of receiving some car paint that they have to apply themselves while everyone else they knew was getting a completely new car.
Their aesthetic isn’t ours. Gnomeregan’s aesthetic has always been gray, bronze, and purple metal with varied machine designs; Mechagon’s aesthetic is gold, silver, and rusted metal across their cybernetics, their weapons, and most of their machines. Why would Gnomeregan suddenly drop one for the other? While we’re at it, might as well let the Darkspear embody the blood troll aesthetic since they’re both trolls.
I’m just going to go ahead and say this: I’m confident that the demand for Blizzard to flip the bird at gnome fans so the Alliance could get a “real” (in the anti-mechagnome crowd’s words) allied race is half because gnomes are a historically looked down upon race (both figuratively and literally) and half because during pre-8.2 allied race speculation, people became so convinced that the Alliance would get sethrak as a foil to the Horde getting vulpera that they started accepting this as a fact and an inevitability, so the idea of that spot on the character creation going to a race based on the runt of the litter caused quite an uproar.
Honestly not surprised at all. Though the real surprise being is that Draenei aren’t a bit higher, for…typical reasons on Moonguard.
As for everything else, seems about right. I would at least expect Blood Elves to slowly fall off as things goes on. From my personal experience is that they’re becoming more and more disliked because of how players RP them. They just become so obnoxious…
I never said those races shouldn’t have just been options either
They most certainly should have
In my opinion, a new race should be something that’s entirely different and not so closely tied to pre established races
KTs I think are different enough to be a stand alone race. Their entire model and rigging was made specifically for them. They’re entirely custom
Mechagnomes on the other hand are not. They use the exact same rigging and base animations as gnomes, with slight tweaks. Any animations a mechagnome can do, can be rendered on a regular gnome frame. They’re not custom
I think that’s where most would draw the line. If a race obviously uses recycled animations/modeling/rigging of another race, it could easily just be an option. Especially if they’re directly related to the parent race
Mechagnomes are just gnomes with robot limbs
Dark iron are just dwarves on fire
High mountain are just Tauren with moose antlers
Mag’har are just brown orcs
Lightforged are just LED Draenei
None of these are custom or different in any way except color scheme and simple cosmetic changes like hair color or tattoos.
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most of those human are in GS race playing. bet money
Well, that’s not the majority of allied races.
Tell that to the few people I’ve seen suggesting that they “easily” could’ve been barber options for humans using the same logic used for Kul Tirans getting the human and emaciated Kul Tiran models as barber options.
I’m looking up the mechagnome model on Wowhead right now, where I can see that they have more robotic-looking versions of gnome animations that make use of their mechanical limbs, some unique emote animations such as their /laugh, /dance, and /rude, and even a special swimming animation where their hands turn into propellers, most of not all of which look like they would glitch to high hell if rendered on a gnome, so clearly, you’re full of crap.