Unoffical Playable Ethereal Discussion Thread

Lore-herod · March 9, 2021, 11:34pm

No rest for the best race.

Vallanesh-malganis · March 9, 2021, 11:34pm

No.

/10char

Timbaeslice-frostmourne · March 9, 2021, 11:34pm

Ok can you delusional people stop making these threads.

Blizzard gave alliance MECHAGNOMES.

MECHAGNOMES. LOL

edit: MECHAGNOMES COME ON REALLY? LMAO

Lore-herod · March 9, 2021, 11:36pm

Yes

No

Pyromor-shandris · March 9, 2021, 11:36pm

Why,would you want to play such a traitorous race,op?

Timbaeslice-frostmourne · March 9, 2021, 11:44pm

What part about Blizzard giving Alliance Mechagnomes made you think they care about these thread suggestions

Danell-wyrmrest-accord · March 10, 2021, 12:18am

Firstly, I love the amount of work you’ve put into this. I’ll ALWAYS throw my lot in for Ethereal, they’re the one race I wanted to play as the most ever since they were revealed in BC and I’m still hoping they’ll become playable one day. I love their mannerisms, their appearance and I definitely want to hear more about K’aresh and the other races that resided there. It’s cheesy, but I even have a whole backstory written for a potential character in case they ever do become playable.

I could see them on the Alliance but I think they could work good as a neutral race too, simply because they have so many facets, such as some not caring about using void and some being vehemently opposed to it (I remember some quest text from a Protectorate NPC that was appalled by the concept of ethereals turning to void as one example). Maybe displaced Ethereum or Locus-Walker’s group for the Alliance and maybe whatever remains of the Protectorate for the Horde? It could be a good source of conflict if we ever do go into a void-based expansion with each having different views on how to handle the void after it tore apart K’aresh. The Consortium could remain completely neutral since they just care about that $$$

Gnomest-sargeras · March 10, 2021, 12:44am

Ok can you delusional people stop making these threads.

Blizzard gave alliance MECHAGNOMES.

MECHAGNOMES. LOL

edit: MECHAGNOMES COME ON REALLY? LMAO

Mechagnomes are not the problem. People did request them. The problem is:

They are paired with vulpera. We should have gotten gilgoblins instead.
The dropped the ball in terms of design. Mechagnomes easily could have been a very popular race if they came up with a good design for them.
People kept deluding themselves into believing we would get something else besides them leading to a lot of disappointed people who were led on by misleading ideas.

Vallanesh-malganis · March 10, 2021, 12:46am

No.
/10char

Falarden-draenor · March 10, 2021, 3:08am

Rather love those mechagnomes.

Traitorous? I think that’s only some of them.

Big yes.

Nothing wrong with requesting a race one wants to see.

Thank you for the bump to the thread though.

Pyromor-shandris · March 10, 2021, 3:11am

You don’t think ethereal in Orbos playing trade side underhanded deals? Where would the jailer get a soul catcher from? And how did ven’ri get one for us to use?

Vallanesh-malganis · March 10, 2021, 3:19am

Big no. The game doesn’t need another race. It has more important issues - like spec, role, class balance - that dev hours could use, rather than being wasted on another useless race.

Shirt-wyrmrest-accord · March 10, 2021, 3:30am

This is an RPG, and the teams that work on balancing aren’t the art team.

Vallanesh-malganis · March 10, 2021, 4:07am

Money going to the art team should be the last place money goes in the game. The art is fine, the game mechanics are lackluster. Having something functional in a game is more important than its aesthetics. Hence wasted man hours. Learn business.

Vaelian-silver-hand · March 10, 2021, 4:31am

I agree, it needs like 10 more races or so. There’s a bunch players want.
Balance isn’t a reason to stop giving players things. If they wanted it to be balanced, it would be, it’s been a complaint for the whole time the game has been around.
They waste time on borrowed power systems that players complain about as well, why not sacrifice those for the hours you think will make a difference?
classes, races, and customizations are important to the longevity.

I’ve never had a problem with the balance of my characters.

Vallanesh-malganis · March 10, 2021, 4:35am

Cause you dont play the game.

Vallanesh-malganis · March 10, 2021, 4:37am

They gave us 8 new races in BFA. BFA was the worst expansion ever. We don’t need any more hours wasted on races.

Vaelian-silver-hand · March 10, 2021, 4:48am

That’s funny since I’ve played it for quite a long time.

We don’t need any more hours wasted on balance either.

Vallanesh-malganis · March 10, 2021, 4:49am

Actually we do because so many hours were wasted on making things look pretty and races that the thing that actually matters in the game fell by the way-side.

Vaelian-silver-hand · March 10, 2021, 4:51am

They do the same thing in their other games though, they keep tweaking and changing things and often it just makes it more unbalanced. Changing numbers isn’t hard and doesn’t take much time, but when you throw the pvp aspect on top of that, it creates other issues. Balance has been a complaint the whole time wow has existed. It will continue to be one.

I guess you also don’t realize that artists don’t program or balance things?
I mean I certainly wouldn’t wanting them to do so as that’s just gonna make thing even worse.