âŚsays the Belf.
gasp
HE KNOWS!
Flips scales
âŚsays the Belf.
gasp
HE KNOWS!
Flips scales
Iâm remain unconvinced that the âRedeemedâ are being setup for anything meaningful â any Alliance players that didnât read Before the Storm probably donât even know who Calia Menethil even is.
In any case, the purpose of my earlier post wasnât to highlight things that are likely to happen; instead, I was aiming to address some of the more brazen deviations from the setting that was described in the Chronicles. Which is to say:
Thatâs a fair point about the Amani. I wasnât really thinking about tribal politics at all, and instead just used the name most commonly associated with Forest Trolls, but youâre absolutely right â and the Revantusk have been a part of the Horde for quite some time, which is even better.
There are plenty of reasons, historically, that would explain the Dark Trolls joining the Alliance â not the least of which is their interest in all of the same things Night Elves are interested in. The intent for adding them to the Alliance is to illustrate that while the Horde is probably a better fit for most varieties of troll, there are outliers; which is exactly the case, as it is, with Blood Elves an Nightborne.
Agreeable.
Agreed. Iâm somewhat confident that Blizzard will stop implementing Allied Races patch-by-patch, going forward, instead reserving them as content âUnlocked with the purchase of [Insert Expansion Name]!â; which means that adding this many things is likely to take years (at least 3+, and thatâs assuming we got like 6 per expansion).
If the Horde players prefer Mokânothal, Iâm entirely on board. The goal was merely for something to counter the Vrykul, and both Ogres and Mokânothal are capable in that regard. Whatâs that hashtag meme, â#whynotbothâ?
Iâm not entirely convinced that already being an attache to either faction means anything special; the Dark Irons have been fighting with the Alliance for longer than Pandaren, and yet were only made playable a few months ago.
You may be right, but rule of cool, my friend.
If it wasnât intentional, it might be the most coincidental accident in the history of video games.
I donât think any of the retconâd Eredar/Draenei information wouldâve precluded the possibility of them being Titan-based themselves, unless Iâm forgetting something?
Thereâs no mention because I was merely trying to address a perceived deviation from a âproper, in-universe delineationâ, by doubling down on the underlaying racial elements of each faction â and while Iâm not anti-Hozen or anti-Jinyu, they are sort of purposeless in this regard (likewise with Vulpera and Sethrak).
I wrote my opinions on whatâs next on allied races here:
While we may be getting Ogres or Mokânethal at some point, I donât find Rexxarâs model update to be purely, if at all, indiciative of this. Lorâthemar, for example, got a model update recently as well, for seemingly no reason at all (except maybe to make him look awesome for the Heritage Armor questline?). Liadrin similarly got her golden eyes and armaments from her Hearthstone appearance. Blood Elven Spellbreaker guards, some of the last models left that use the original Blood Elf model, were also updated and given model updates, as well as female options, finally.
Even if they did do it to indicate they are updating the Ogre models, this also would only be indicative of redoing most/all of the old world models as they have been (from things like Elementals to Troggs to Squirrels and Quillboar).
It leads me to believe that Classic will have an option to toggle HD graphics and player models, and implement it as purely cosmetic, optional option to entice both newer crowds wanting to try Classic, and allow no change diehards to keep the old stuff (very similar to how Halo:CEâs remaster handled this).
it wonât. I really want a graphics toggle for classic but they said they are not doing that and many classic purists hate the very idea of having newer graphics to the point of the water graphics at the highest setting are the modern textures.
I do have a strong gut feeling that an old world update will be happening relatively soon. In fact it has already started. They are not doing another cataclysm. They are doing a zone or 2 at a time. They start with warfronts to make all the new racial building assets and then once a substantial amount has been done (with perhaps other zones being updated for non warfront things) they will finish it all up. I believe they will leave the leveling as is in the cata version and have the new old world be a max level thing that you can toggle between. They might even do world quests for all the zones like go this X rare or go cull this murloc village that has been raiding the roads.
I think so as well.
The game needs a revamp in leveling to bring new players.
The longer it takes for Blizzard to do it, the more likely it becomes.
And I think you are wrong.
Thereâs the perfect opportunity to finally add ogres. We have a good base model, a perfect system for âminorâ races and a HD ogre head. I donât think it will be wasted.
Hey guys, upvote this little question in the Q&A thread, please? Thank you!
as for the dance animations, what about those of us who like our copied dance animations? What about those who like the void elf having a twirl?
Itâs a general question on improving allied races, with a year-old quote from Blizzard itself.
Itâs a general question. They should fix bugs and clipping, of course. But people also might not look too kindly upon changing things about their characters when it comes to non optional aesthetics such as silhouettes.
Thatâs Blizzardâs problem to solve. I think the general question on improving the races is worth asking.
So that High Elf ranger I was drawing? I finally finished him
https://i.imgur.com/ltWnPbt.jpg
Aw, that is sick dude! I love the asymmetry for the shoulderpad and gauntlets! It looks awesome!
Thank you! I used the Eagletalon Armor set as base, gave it Highvale colors -bright blue/cerulean- and used Alleriaâs asymmetric design as a template, for that War2 vibe in wow terms
Very awesome!
Not sure if you know this, but there is a PVP set that is a blue and gold recolor of the Eagletalon gear. Itâs exclusive to the Alliance (horde gets a red recolor)
I really wish there was an option to have only one shoulderpad or customize your shoulders- like having shoulders from different sets.
Clever question.
Very well thought out ideas. I think the only stickler in this is that Blizzard will probably not be interested in adding that many allied races, given Ionâs comment about how they donât want a huge amount of different races everywhere and want to keep it more lowkey than that, but I can honestly see quite a few of these ideas making it through and others not being ruled out completely.
I would reiterate as well that I really do think the only way a Worgen allied race would be interesting is if it course-corrected the race back into being darker like the devs initially hyped them up to be. Maybe Nightbane or Nightmare Worgen would do the trick, I know Iâd really like Worgen that didnât have a human form at all and couldnât shapeshift, and just went further into the Worgen side to really emphasize the curse stronger, but still have a darker bent to it so itâs not just Furbolg in wolf form. (Of course, if we were to go with Vulpera as a Goblin allied race, I could see Furbolg with Worgen model and animations be an appropriate counterpart.)
Of those options, they definitely hit a cord with races I want or would want to play. Wildhammer Dwarves, Dark Trolls, Vrykul, High Elves, Sanâlayn, Amani Trolls, and so on. I really would like to play a lot of those races.
Heheh that one is indeed the main inspiration -and the one my hunter wears- I kept most of the other colors the same from the Alliance PvP version, but the blue itself I wanted it to be closer to the Highvale Swiftblades
The idea is that it feels more Highvale than just generic alliance blue -since Daenil is a Higvale Elf
Mind you, he is not actually my playable Ranger, but I used some Transmorphic Tinctures for some photos which finally made me decide to use the PvP Alliance Eagletalon to draw him.
I did notice that the blues were different. The PVP set is pretty subdued.
Ah, yes. Transmorphic Tinctures. I had my alchemist buddy make a bunch of those for me. I have a bunch of toys that change your appearance (Orb of the Sinâdorei, Orb of Deception, one that turns you into a Magâhar Orc from Draenor, the Gnome one from the event, etcâŚ) so using that stuff basically doubles your potential âdisguiseâ factor.
âŚIf you donât mind the ridicule from your guild-mates of course.
Hahah indeed! They are useful tho! I was all âmaybe I should make another rangerâ but it was just silly to have 2 chars were the only diff was gender, so thank you, transmorphic tinctures!