this is a repost of mine explaining why some races are not viable.
Summary
i went over this issue before : unusual body shape races were off the table for core or allied races in the past because of the armor issue. every time an unique core race was added (belfs and draenei, worgen and goblin, pandas), all the gear from level 1 to max level (whatever that happened to be at the time), had to be redesigned to fit that race - every single piece of armor in the game. imagine the size of such an undertaking.
itâs borderline insane to expect a game populated with thousands of unique gear pieces, to redo it all every time a race is added. thus was born the allied races, who were simply copy and pastes of existing races with only cosmetic changes, but otherwise the same gear that fits their copy source, fits them too. the only example that seems to differ are the kulâtirans and i think they were tinkered a bit to accept panda gear, so at least the task wasnt as monumental.
this is why i suggested new playable races with unusual body types, like ethereals, naga, dryads, centaurs, keepers of the grove, hozen, sethrak, lich, banshees, etc, be shapeshift forms, embedded into the various classes just like druids have, with preset armor. of course it wouldnât be moggable, though it might be customizable in small ways. thatâs the only way i could see it being feasible.
Blizzard has already shown time and again that they clearly donât care about how popular an allied race will be and theyâll just throw them in there.
theoretically, it would be much easier for blizz to add new races that are unique from current playable races IF they didnt wear any of the gear already in the game. they would have to have completely new and exclusive gear sets that covered from level 1 to max if a core race, or 20 to max if an allied race. thatâs a huge undertaking as well but at least it could be massaged to make it more timely. for example:
the new race with exclusive sets for the lifetime of their race, would have to accept that new sets would only be available thru race exclusive quest chains and isolated to maybe 10 level increments. they wouldnt be able to sport various tier gear pieces from raids, unless they were redesigned for them exclusively.
i dunno. still seems like alot more work than normal allied races but certainly easier than a totally new and unique core race.
yeah theyâd stick out like sore thumbs, which would be true for any unique body type races anyway. and imagine how sparse their moggable gear options would be at the transmogifier. of course, thatâs better than the shapeshift options, which wouldnt be moggable at all, as it would defeat the purpose of presets.
I get that. Didnât blizzard have some kind of method that allowed armor to just sort of automatically fit over the races already though? Thought I read about it somewhere and it started with the word âGeoââ or something. Otherwise I can totally see them being better off just adjusting the skeletons of already existing races (like with nightborn).
I love having the Unicorn as the High Elf symbol/banner. Itâs already been shown as the mount they use in-game, at least from the Silver Covenant. Itâs a fitting symbol for how I picture the High Elves.
people fussed and begged and pleaded to have these guys be playable but blizz said, no can do, body shape causes armor problems (paraphrased)
runs along the same issue with unique thalassian models used for sylvannas, ysera, alleria and alexstraza, who have chunkier thighs than normal thalassians. apparently they dont wear removable gear. their gear is painted on to the model as a permanent fixture. i think they did the same with ethereals. they had a few different models with preset gear that wasnât interchangeable. solves many problems with the potential of creating new problems in the future, such as having to completely repaint the model when you want the armor to change.
I was saying that it was modified from before to include the pheonix insignia later. Under the assumption that Guzzle is right that their old symbol was the unicorn. In that case the blood drop was not modded in. Not out.
doesnât matter really in the end point was that weapons even in real life were modified sometimes like this.
True! The Lohnâgoron bow, a âfamily heirloom that has been handed down from Torn-heart to Torn-heart for generationsâ, implying the phoenix was a symbol already used in the past. And this comes from TBC, an era where lore was still kind of important.
I mean, it could just be a standard Thalassian heraldic device or similar. I mean if they rebranded their nation with it as a symbol of rebirth, that implies that it was already a symbol in the culture so might just have been used in that fashion before hand?
