It’s good to see confirmation that there will be some friendly Furbolgs. I assume they’ll be friendly to both factions as a possible neutral quest hub. Makes me wonder if they may have a rep associated with them. If so, I know one of my top priorities in the next expansion!
Playable Alliance Furbolgs are a bear necessity! 
I hope there is. Gives just one easier avenue for blizzard to have an excuse to make em playable.
Seems the furbolg have some sounds associated with their movements which is neat!
Bones and beads clacking together as they move.
I really like these movements they make too. Makes the animal part of them stand out a bit more.
Love these new models. I hope blizzard makes them playable some day.
Ursol guide you and Ursoc give you strength!
I understand some of the complaints I’ve heard about the new models (no more hunch, loss of feather adornments, etc.), but my goodness, the new DF furbolgs are one of my favorite models created in a LONG time. I’d do anything to play as one of them (and personally, I think they look great without the hunchback).
Also, super cool sound effects! Love the level of detail.
I like the hunch they had because it made them appear to have the thickened shoulder neck mane you see in grizzlies.
But I also don’t mind them not having it. It’s harder to put armor over it and the degree of hunch they had was kinda extreme in my opinion.
I do think they could do with some more adornments for jewelry options since it’s long been stated that beads, feathers and Shells are common among their cultural jewelries.
But when they become playable I’m certain that would be an option so I don’t mind.
I love the new models and I too would kill to be able to play a furbolg. I hope they add a female model and make them playable.
Ursol guide you and Ursoc give you strength!
Made a rough mockup of the new Furbolg model wearing Shaman gear and thought I’d share it here.
Looking great, can already picture them in action.
We the players demand Furbolg now. Ion pls give
Sorry for late reply but…
Awesome! Thank you for making this! I’m going to try to update the main post a little later this week I’ll add this into the Shaman section.
I like these new models and hope Blizzard gives us a female option. Even if they don’t have any interest in making them playable with these models which I kinda don’t think they do, it would be nice to have a female model.
And going from tehse models to an actual playable one is such a huge step up from where they were.
Ursol guide you and Ursoc give you strength!
I really hope they go with those models as a base, they really look awesome, and they really nailed them and are looking a lot like the updated models from wc3 reforged (one of the few merits that game has).
All depends now on them commiting to make a female model aswell to get started on the road to become a fully fledged race.
Its a very good start I think.
I would play that furbolg model any day of the week especially with the standard array of player updates they’d have to face when being made playable.
Hoping to see a female model as well.
While I don’t think Blizzard is thinking about ARs for DF, at the very least they haven’t forgotten the furbolg exist and I doubt they can hand wave away how easy it would be for furbolg to join the Alliance as an AR.
They’re very well setup for it even now with no changes.
Ursol guide you and Ursoc give you strength!
Made some modifications to the Main Post to include some of the new models. Will later add what is known about the Azure Span so far as well as any other info I’ve seen about furbolg in Dragonflight specifically.
A thought occurred to me. Since we’ll be meeting some friendly Furbolgs, is it possible any of the tribes we’re familiar with could send an emissary to meet with them after we help them out?
Imagine if the tribe that is allied with the Draenei went to meet with them, for example. It would be a neat way to lead into playable Furbolgs afterwards. Just an interesting thought I had that needs some fleshing out, of course.
Playable Alliance Furbolgs are a bear necessity!
I came across some recipe videos on how to make your own teddy grahams, which I thought was fitting for this megathread:
I imagine if you can make a Furbolg shape, you can easily make Furbolg cookies from these!
Playable Alliance Furbolgs are a bear necessity!
I thought about that too.
I really would love to see the Stillpine begin to do things like that. It would be really easy up implement too… Just a single npc emissary added to a few areas.
I’d start with the friendly tribes of Darkshore, Val’sharah and The Azure Span since that would require next to no changes.
An emissary with the Timbermaw would be neat to see as well even if I doubt they’d ever be part of an Alliance furbolg faction.
It would go a long ways to expanding and updating the furbolg.
I… Need to go do some things in my kitchen… Excuse me…
Ursol guide you and Ursoc give you strength!
With a new month starting, it’s once again time for a round of in-game race request suggestions!
As you know, at the beginning of each month, I submit in-game suggestions of races I want to see playable while referring to their respective megathreads. Not a guarantee it’ll lead to something, but I figure it can’t hurt to give it a try.
If you’re interested in doing this for your wanted races as well, I made a little guide in the following post:
Every little bit helps. Maybe we’ll be lucky enough to see Furbolgs considered as playable Alliance race someday!
Playable Alliance Furbolgs are a bear necessity!
I don’t know if they did it but I hope all furbolg models in the game will be updated with the new one.
I hope so my friend.
I haven’t gotten confirmation but that would be awesome.
Seems they updated the Gnolls so I’d imagine they would update the furbolg as well.
If anyone is able to confirm this for me I’d be most appreciative!
Ursol guide you and Ursoc give you strength!
Its been awhile so I thought I’d talk about another tribe of furbolg, the Wildlands tribe.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/906675648829984808/1010248597213810789/Timberfist.png
There is very little known about these furbolg as we only encounter them on an Island Expedition but we can gleam a little bit of lore from the island and what we know of furbolg tribes. Another reason I find this particular tribe interesting is that they are entirely uncorrupted and have been since at least the War of the Saytr.
But first lets talk about the Verdant Wilds island.
The Verdant Wilds is an island expedition site that we visit during BfA. Its inhabited by Cenarius’ Children, furbolg and druidic peoples. The Island itself is infused with an abundance of Spirit the element of Life which drew these people to the island just after the War of the Saytr. The Druidic folk who dwell here believed that their humanoid forms were merely a guise and so choose to live their lives in seclusion on the island in balance with nature.
These denizens of the isles are independent from the factions and conflicts their peoples normally would partake in and defend their islands balance to the point of killing outsiders and trying to drive them away so they do not affect that balance.
Among these people are the Wildlands Furbolg. They have a smattering of notable named members including their chieftain, Gurlack, a “great warrior” named Timberfist, and at least two shaman (one likely a druid) named Earth Speaker Juwa and Seed-Keeper Ungan. Two more named warriors and two named elders are also included along with the standard array of furbolg “classes” such as warriors, totemics, shaman, ursa and trackers.
As a tribe untouched by corruption we can assume that much of their culture and use of these classes comes from their past and its just neat to see that our general understanding of furbolg culture has stayed strong for so very long.
Sadly all the furbolg on this island, along with the rest of its denizens, are hostile whether you’re horde or alliance so its plausible that during the timeline of BfA all the Wildlands tribe were wiped out or at least took heavy losses. However given their tribes nature and the other peoples living on that island being hostile to everyone its unlikely they’d have been a good candidate for a playable faction of furbolg anyways.
One other thing of note is that ALL of the Wildlands furbolg seem to be barely able to talk unlike most furbolg we encounter. This could be just a side effect of their isolation and the islands general belief that they should be more like animals rather than humanoids. Or it may be that the isolated nature of the island meant that this tribe of furbolg had little reason to learn other languages well.
This is a continuation of my furbolg tribes posts the rest of which you can find here.
Ursol guide you and Ursoc give you strength.
Wowhead posted an article about reputations in Dragonflight, referring to four “major factions” in the expansion that is a bit different to how we use to grind rep for previously. Not sure if those are the only factions in the beginning patch of Dragonflight, but I didn’t see Furbolgs listed among them.
Article is here:
The wording of “major factions” makes me wonder if there could be some other ones with a more traditional way to farm rep with them. It’ll have to be something to keep an eye out on to see if any other reputations appear.
I’ll continue to keep an eye out on anything of interest to report on the Furbolgs. Currently planning on focusing on the Tuskar faction, seeing all the rumors and potential hints of them possibly becoming an allied race in the future. 
Playable Alliance Furbolgs are a bear necessity!