Since we’re mixing it up in Season of Discovery, lets pop in a few races that we never got. Here are two that fans have been asking for since the dawn of WoW. Feel free to add thoughts about my selections and add ones of your own. Let’s be chill and enjoy a good conversation.
ALLIANCE: The High Elves
Use the TBC models but give them the blue eye glow of Grandmarshal helmet instead of a fel glow. Their racial traits would be different due to their adherence to pure magic and a more disciplined philosophy. They still remember the lessons learned during The Sundering.
Bow Specialization: +1% chance to crit with bows.
Benevolent Wisdom: +3% increase to healing powers.
Master’s of the Arcane: The ability to reverse the effects of magic on themselves, an ally, or an enemy. (Only one at a time) In the case of an ally, this would reverse negative magic into positive magic at half its remaining duration, while turning positive effects on an enemy to negative effects for half its remaining duration. 35 yard range, 2min cooldown.
Enchanting Specialization: Enchanting skill increased by 15
HORDE: Ogres
Giant: +5% Health and Strength, and a natural 25% resistance to cast interrupt which stacks with talents.
Ogre’s Might: 2% chance to knockdown enemy upon melee strike for 1 second. Can only happen once every 20 seconds.
Toxic Fart: Releases a vile cloud of gas that floats around in random directions after being “released”. Creats a daze effect and silencing effect to those caught within it. This also has the effect of briefly silencing casters and slowing melee swings by 20%. Each effect lasts 1 second outside of the cloud but is refreshed while inside the cloud. Slowing stacks with other similar effects. Lasts for 8 seconds and covers a 5 yard radius. 3min cooldown. (Use the Warcraft II Ogre fart and laugh sound file)
Outlandish Flatulence: Ogre burps or farts whenever he scores a critical strike (+2% Critical Strike damage to all abilities).
PS: Let’s some Wildhammer facepaint options in here with Dwarven Shamans!!!
Huuuuuge yes from me. No Blood elves, no dranei let’s make something completely new! I think elves for alliance is a little bit boring, but tbh I don’t know what would be a better fitting race. I also think there’s a 0% this happens in SoD, maybe in classic +?
They can always add more than one, and make it an interesting quest to find them. Any thoughts on what you would want to have on the Alliance or Horde?
I figured High Elves because fans have wanted that for some time and never got it. We wanted the Warcraft II and III effect.
Kevin Michael Richardson for Ogre Male voice! I think he did the ogres or half-ogres in the original Baldur’s Gate, and the right-clicker on the half-ogres, where they say, “Hurr-hurr, heh-heh… Fart.” would be great to hear in World of WarCraft.
Good call haha. It probably should but no. It’d just affect enemies. At most it might make friendly targets wince and make a death sound.
Great idea! That’s a perfect choice! He’d be hilarious! They’d have to also use the original fart and laugh file from Warcraft II just for nostalgia, but he’d be awesome for all their jokes and everything else. The guy is such a pro
Thinking about it for a minute and maybe alliance could get Saytrs? Would have to do some sort of questline to make some Saytr’s heavily indebted to the alliance or maybe tricking them into helping the alliance or something? Would need some work to pull off properly. Or maybe Dryads? Although that race might be a ton of extra work making equipped items fit in dryads
There is that Zenn Foulhoof fellow, but I don’t quite remember if anything else becomes of him after vanilla… Maybe, if he’s left up in the air, we help him and some like-minded satyr that he’s convinced, to mend broken fences and stuff…?
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He or some other Good Guy Satyr could also play a part in, if not the easing up of attitudes towards, the laying of foundations for softened attitudes towards warlocks among younger night elves, who then just kind of put their foot down to the elders and say, “Hey, we’ve gotta be pragmatic, here.”. The elders would just roll their eyes and commence to much grumbling, but then after seeing one of their warlocks do something heroic, maybe talk to an Ancient who spells it out for them, and then they finally just wring their hands and say, “Oh, fine.”…
It’s probably over twenty years of work for Zenn or his pals, and I’m sure there’d be lots of misunderstandings, bad blood, and hurt feelings, but, well, they do come to exist…
There could even be some sort of addendum to the Burning of Teldrassil later on, where a lot of the people in areas that Alliance players couldn’t get to, were saved via Rituals of Summoning, and a bunch of satyr warlocks and their night elf apprentices/heavily hidden night elf fellows died because they remained on the Teldrassil end of things… Just – a bunch of Fel portals opening up, everyone going, “Oh, no, this, too?”, and then a bunch of saved people going, “Umm, that was actually one of those satyrs and warlocks you hated so much who saved us, so maybe change the tape?”
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Umm, alright, I got way out of hand, there. Still, cool thread, and speculating never didn’t hurt no one!
That’d be complicated but interesting to have treacherous allies plotting their own agenda. I always did like the idea of choosing between good and evil as a character.
Lol, yeah, Stone Form should be immune to it. I should add that it’s considered a poison effect.
I can picture Dwarves having some kind of drunken racial trait for sure. A power belch that knocks people over in a cone effect in front of the caster.
I They have great tattoos and markings for that look too. I’ve added a little modification to give them better viability as casters and against casters.
Do you ever have anything positive to say? Aside from trolling several of my threads, you’ve got an activity log loaded with negative posts on multiple threads. Do you even have a valid argument again High Elves, or are you just here to heckle people with meaningless banter again?
When SoD phase 2 drops, this should be a good indication as what one can expect in Phase 3 and 4… if no new races has been added, then chances are they wont be added at all… Annualized how SoD Phase 1 went… I suspect Blizzard is just focusing on mini rune quest and filling in some area gaps with these mini quest and their NOt looking to add new races or anything major just yet… this could actually happen in Phase 4 But I wouldn’t count on it.
It’s possible they won’t but making excuses for them isn’t of any interest for me. If enough fans like the idea, then they can very easily add new races. It’s food for thought, and it’s a great idea to improve the game’s popularity. More people would play SoD, that’s a given.
Still, cool thread, and speculating never didn’t hurt no one!