Possible future races

[Valeriana-alleria]

War Within:

1. Horde - Ascended Nerubians
2. Alliance - Haranir

Midnight:

1. Horde - Amani Trolls
2. Alliance - High Elves

[Sigmar-frostmourne (Sigmar)]

Love to see ogre for the horde and probably like satyrs for the alliance

Also Ethreaels could totally be a neutral allied race

[Kagehiro-zuljin]

Tuskarr. Give me my walrus man, man.

[Kohnila-bonechewer]

Ogres

There isn’t a single valid case to be made against playable Ogres, strictly none

[Kagehiro-zuljin]

Already foreshadowing Mok’nathal. I would expect that before ogres, but I’m cool with either.

[Denona-khazgoroth (Denona)]

I suspect Blizzard will repeat another High Elf / Void Elf scenario and make Mok’nathal playable as a way to “shut up” the playable Ogre requests.

Blizzard will probably also repurpose the Kul Tiran rig too. Given that Rexxar uses the Male Kul Tiran skeleton.

What I want is Saberon.

WHAT! THERE AREN’T SABERON IN QUESTS!

[Blackwayke-moon-guard]

I think meeting us halfway on the Ogre thing by giving us Mok’nathal would be a fair enough compromise. And generally the ones that have been asking for ogres since the alpha of WoW are uh…shall we say less likely to throw a hissy fit than when Blizzard didn’t give the Alliance high elves.

[Giru-khazgoroth (Giru)]

Meh, i’v always just wanted to make a two headed ogre, can’t do that with a mok’nathal

[Kohnila-bonechewer]

@Denona-khazgoroth

I suspect Blizzard will repeat another High Elf / Void Elf scenario and make Mok’nathal playable as a way to “shut up” the playable Ogre requests.

@Blackwayke-moon-guard

I think meeting us halfway on the Ogre thing by giving us Mok’nathal would be a fair enough compromise.

But why meet us halfway ??? There is no need for a compromise, just give us Ogres. Mok’nathal would even require more work and ressources for their implementation than Ogres arguably. Ogres have it all, the lore (ancient lore, faction membership lore, class lore…) is already there, the (male) model is already there, the animations for the most part are already there, the starting zone is already there… The only thing that’s missing is Blizzard’s willingness to do it (for some weird, unidentified reason).

I absolutely wouldn’t be satisfied with Mok’nathal, if you wanna make Mok’nathal playable then give Orcs (or Ogres) the fitting customization options and call it a day, lmao

[Khalastrya-area-52]

Sethrak. I wanna play danger noodle people

[Kagehiro-zuljin]

I like Mok’nathal more than ogres, personally. It at least sidesteps the issue of us all playing miniature versions of something, which will either be a hanging question or necessitate some strange lore contrivance.

[Karestae-moon-guard]

If ogres were to become playable, blizz would have to shrink them down just for gameplay purposes. So that they could fit inside buildings, cave entrances, tight dungeon spaces, etc.

And I’m sure that will upset people for a whole other set of reasons

[Kohnila-bonechewer]

@Kagehiro-zuljin

It at least sidesteps the issue of us all playing miniature versions of something, which will either be a hanging question or necessitate some strange lore contrivance.

I mean Ogres are Tauren-sized lorewise so there’s definitely no issue here

[Denona-khazgoroth (Denona)]

@Kohnila-bonechewer

Mok’nathal would even require more work and ressources for their implementation than Ogres arguably. Ogres have it all, the lore (ancient lore, faction membership lore, class lore…) is already there, the (male) model is already there, the animations for the most part are already there, the starting zone is already there… The only thing that’s missing is Blizzard’s willingness to do it (for some weird, unidentified reason).

How would Mok’nathal require more work? Given that Rexxar uses the male Kul Tiran skeleton, it would stand to reason that Blizzard would use the female one for female Mok’nathal. Meanwhile for Ogres they would have to create a new skeleton for female Ogres. And the lore reasons are pretty much the same for Mok’nathal. I mean some even showed up in the Orc Heritage armor questline. Such as Leoroxx, Rexxars father. If Blizzard gives us more core races down the line, then Ogres should be one of them. If they give us more allied races, then I can see Mok’nathal being one.

[Angrysky-malganis]

The only one that needs added is Vrykul.

[Duristrano-tichondrius]

I’d play an ogre in a heartbeat

[Mawthorne-lightninghoof]

@Khalastrya-area-52

Sethrak. I wanna play danger noodle people

Make them really despicable. Don’t give us the good Sethrak. Make them alliance version of Forsaken. Have them be constantly plotting global takeover and desert terra forming

[Skycaller-wyrmrest-accord]

@Karestae-moon-guard

If ogres were to become playable, blizz would have to shrink them down just for gameplay purposes. So that they could fit inside buildings, cave entrances, tight dungeon spaces, etc.

They really should just make them the same size as tauren, the average ogre is the same size as a tauren either way in the lore.

@Khalastrya-area-52

Sethrak. I wanna play danger noodle people

I’d love Sethrak, imagine an united zandalar with the vulpera, sethrak and zandalari trolls. We already know they’re on friendly terms as there are sethrak in Dazar’alor, and that one sethrak we met in tww that said she’s been to Orgrimmar.

[Kohnila-bonechewer]

@Denona-khazgoroth

How would Mok’nathal require more work? Given that Rexxar uses the male Kul Tiran skeleton, it would stand to reason that Blizzard would use the female one for female Mok’nathal. Meanwhile for Ogres they would have to create a new skeleton for female Ogres. And the lore reasons are pretty much the same for Mok’nathal. I mean some even showed up in the Orc Heritage armor questline. Such as Leoroxx, Rexxars father.

They could totally reuse the Kul Tiran skeleton for Ogres as well, so that’s not a problem. Male Ogres already have a preestablished design and model, Mok’nathal don’t (unless they just give Rexxar’s model to every male Mok’nathal, but I don’t think they’d be okay with Rexxar not having a unique model).
For the lore, my point was that Ogres already have a very rich lore and wouldn’t necessitate much of a story setup : they already have a long history of being in the Horde, very solid amount of content in terms of worldbuilding/ancient lore/culture, as well as surprisingly well-established class lore and class identity (Ogre Mages, Gladiators, Earthbenders, Twilight Hammer Warlocks, even Lightbound if the playable group includes some AU Ogres…). Basically, they would need as little work for their narrative implementation as the Dark Irons did : just a fairly short questline about making their membership official and we’re good to go.

[Bavion-moon-guard]

I go with Ogres, Forest Trolls, Sethrak, Arakkoa, Vrykul, Taunka, Mogu, Hozen, Jinyu, Mok’thanal, Cat People, Bunnies, Fel Orcs, Ethereals, Broken, Furblogs, Haranir, and etc. Of course more Elves if Midnight ever happens.