Please… im begging you… im desperately begging you to make them a allied race in some shape or form… I know the lore is kinda iffy but there’s gotta be a way, like outland, main timeline…
I just want to play as muscular tall cat men, it’s perfect for me and others, i always craved playing as one. Never liked vulpera as much, too short and goes for a cutesey look.
WoW already fits my niche of chubby muscular bears and buff cows as playble races, two i adore, i just want Saberon, it’ll be an exquisite addition…
Bonus: Make TUSKARR! also allied race. I love those
The Outland version of the race was wiped out entirely, they no longer exist.
The Draenor version was also more or less wiped out, a few stragglers were ported to Azeroth with the Mag’har but not enough of them for them to be considered an allied race.
Enough time has passed since Classic, enough for their population to have increased drastically, and especially after the end of SL, many will have come of age by then. And if SL is a timeskip by the time we back on azeroth, there is no excuse NOT to make them a playble allied race.
Surely, they have changed and are peaceful somewhat? They’re not dumb they can be seen wearing armor in wod and forming tribes, they’re smarter than they look.
The playable goblin is a tiny group that managed to buy a passage on Gallywix’s boat to escape a volcano then managed to survive that boat going attacked and sunk.
Gnomes too. They’re just the handful of survivors of a nuclear meltdown.
Almost forgot… void elves! They’re a tiny percentage of the 10% of the blood elf survivors.
There’s a big difference between the Blood Elves, who had enough of a population to still have a populated capital city AND control most of their outposts in both the Eversong Woods and the Ghostlands and the Saberon who… last I checked, had less than a dozen flee into the Northern Barrens.
Also, with a few notable exceptions the Saberon are a hostile race to both factions. It’s extremely doubtful that the Alliance would be able to sway them to their side, and the primary food source of the Saberon on Draenor were the Orcs they captured so something tells me the Horde wouldn’t be taking them in either.
Time passes… they can change yknow… with so few. Orcs have changed a lot since Draenor. Pre-burning legion draenor orcs are nothing alike compared to modern day orcs.
With few numbers, surely there’s a massive shift in culture.
The only way it’s going to happen, if it ever happens, is if Blizzard has us return to the AU Draenor where we learn that a tribe of Saberon survived the Lightbound crusades to turn Draenor into a bastion of the Light.
And I can’t see Blizzard taking us back there. At least not for a good decade or so.
Ok fine but you’re still ignoring goblins, gnomes and void elves.
This doesn’t mean anything either. The Scourge, trolls, Dark Iron, etc. have all been hostile to both factions.
Edit: And them coming here gives them the perfect reason to join us.
They’re alone on an alien planet surrounded by strange creatures they’ve never seen before. They don’t have enough people to defend themselves so they turn to the race that offered them a helping hand: the tauren. We have a soft spot for misfits
The goblins may have started with a small number after they initially joined the Horde, but the remaining members of the Bilgewater Cartel and other survivors of Kezan flocked to Bilgewater Harbor.
The gnomes never had a small number of individuals. They were forced out of their city and had to exist as refugees, but their population was never ‘at risk’.
The Void Elves actually had a significant population. People assume that it was tiny because they were formerly Blood Elves and 90% of their race was wiped out, so their number must be tiny, but as I just said earlier, the Blood Elves retained a large enough population to have a bustling capital city and military, along with a ranger corp that could maintain their outposts, meaning that even if the Void Elves only represent 10% of the Blood Elves, that’s still a lot of Blood Elves, easily several hundred.
We’ve never allied with the Scourge, and most of the hostile Troll tribes have remained hostile, with the exception of the Zandalari, but that was because the Zandalari on Pandaria were under the command of Zul, not King Rhastakhan. I’ll give you Dark Irons, even though their case is unique.
Irrelevant. The playable goblin is just a handful of goblins that managed to fit on Gallywix’s loot barge then survive after that barge was attacked.
Yes they were. They only have a tiny little section of Ironforge. This was their original epilogue:
The surviving gnomes flew to the safety of the dwarf stronghold of Ironforge. Ironforge is not overrun with gnomes.
Now this is their Cata epilogue: the gnomes now plan a daring campaign against the barbarous troggs to retake their former capital of Gnomeregan. With the odds stacked against them, the gnomes are counting on brave heroes such as you to stand and be counted. I think this is implying there’s not enough of them left to take the city back on their own.
I don’t think this is true.
Forsaken and Death Knights are former members of the Scourge.
Like I said: trolls have been hostile to both factions. Thanks for agreeing!
If Blizzard had the idea of Allied Races back in WoD, maybe. Because the Horde could have allied with them against the Iron Horde, while the Alliance could have netted the Arrakoa.
But right now the Saberon on Azeroth, assuming they’re still alive given how the region they ran into was embroiled in a full-scale war, not only don’t have the numbers, but they don’t make sense being added as an Allied Race for either faction due to their rampant hostility to both. Even if the Horde somehow managed to befriend them, their primary diet is Orc. So that would be like the Sheep inviting the Wolves into their pen to stay with them.
If any Allied Races are added soon, it will likely be the races from the Shadowlands, who can now cross into the mortal world freely thanks to the portals that were established by us in Oribos.
