You and others may have this opinion, but they did not do for the alliance what zandalars or vulpes did for the hordeâs image or the hordeâs sense of appreciation.
In the alliance, it was just the opposite.
Everything was a compromise. A corrupted wish.
They are a commercial failure and are a source of embarrassment and discredit.
Purple blood elves only have more people using it, because they use the blood elf model. If they were void kultirans or void gnomes?
What was done for the alliance, in BfA, only left the faction alienated and dreaming of the hordeâs green pasture, since in the alliance we only had sand.
Personally i just donât understand that mindset because outside of Vulpera, I loved everything about alliance this expansion 10 times more than what the horde got.
As some have said, it would be problematic for the story so far to make it coherent. It was just not difficult to invent purple blood elf.
And as others have shown, it would cause a lot of anger and outrage for ally sethraks, so just hand out sethraks to the horde and weâll all be happy.
Alliance? Some other joke should be easy to invent.
I sorta get it. But thatâs because personally I find pretty much all the Alliance allied races bland. For me. But this kinda goes for the core races as wellâŠ
The only ones I sorta like are the Dark Iron and the Void Elves. And I canât even really count the Void Elves because I only like them cause purple. Purple is my favorite color. XD
But I love the Nightborne (though they need some npc model options), Zandalari Trolls and Vulpera. Also donât mind the HM Tauren cause well, I like the cute cow people.
But by all means I like The Alliance overall and donât think the Alliance AR sucked the life out of The Alliance. I was just not personally impressed with what The Alliance got.
I would have liked them if they had those options but right now they just look like the night elves got hit with the ugly stick. And night elves already looked ugly enough to begin with XD
Iâm not really sure what the alliance could have gotten while following the allied race formula and staying lore friendly.
Other than jinyu/ ankoan but even they have a lot of alliance players saying no to them.
So I really dont know what would make alliance players happy as their counterpart to sethrak on the horde.
Iâm not terribly keen on fish people. They would be interesting though. Although I honestly see at least the Ankoan having more troubles with gear than Sethrak, Worgen or Tauren. Just cause of all the deep sea fish spines, etc.
And they would need a total overhaul as theyâre just a male Nelf reskin atm.
Perhaps the Rajani but that would need some story to push them to one faction over the other. And they too would need a total rehaul.
As for Sethrak, it will just depend if and when Blizzard decides to make them playable. But no one can deny theyâre a strong contender for Horde.
And it doesnât matter to me. I pretty much just confessed that aside from city aesthetics, I prefer the Horde.
im a fan of both factions and play without a guild ever since I quit raiding (didnt like the time commitment).
That leaves me free to jump to whatever faction has the most interesting stuff going for it.
Like I was horde, then void elves became a thing so I waved bye bye and joined the alliance. Mained the alliance until vulpera came out. Kissed anduin goodbye and joined the horde.
Right now im on a kul tiran thing for some reason so im half tempted to main one of them instead and go back to the alliance.
Its quite nice to be free to play that way.
So it doesnât affect me really either what faction sethrak go to. Should I chose to have one id just hop factions.
I just like to keep things tidy which is why I suport them on the horde side and not the alliance.
If Sethrak go Alliance I do think it would add some diversity to the faction and on that note it could be a good thing. And an interesting thing.
I do hope Alliance gets something new though. Cause well, I can understand the outrage of Alliance players when Horde got a new race fit to be a core race while Alliance got a sub race. I knew that was not gonna be received well.
But I donât think it was Blizzardâs intention to âshaftâ the Alliance that way. Cause pairing two small races together makes itâs own total sense. And thatâs how I saw it when Mechagnomes were paired to Vulpera. âoh, two diminutive races. Got it!â Plus Mechagnomes were key to saving a certain King of the Gnomes so.
There are options. but they all involve trying not to repeat jokes like more horses and more human variants.
But we also run into the idea of âââwe donât know what to imagine if it isnât another recyclingâ.
People wondered whether vrykuls or vrykals could be used.
We received a race that has more in common with Obelix than with something heroic and adventurous. Monster Hunters wannabe? Sure.
And we still have the detail that vrykuls detest humans, because humans are weak, in the same way that blood elves detest humans because of Garithos, but that was forgotten after creating the purple placebo from Silvermoon.
People suggest arakkoa or saberos but they certainly belong to the horde and there is no way to create something that would make it possible for them to join the alliance.
Sauroks are visibly something with the horde vibe so donât even think about it.
It really is difficult, if any other option is always discarded to perpetuate the human, low humans, pygmy humans, knife ear human, among others that are always used to justify how the faction is dull and without diversity, but when presented with a chance, it keeps the same recipe or use a comical resource to fill the quota of 1 ally = 1 horde,
Why? No seriously, why? I personally hate this mentality. Every time a neat and interesting race comes along, it seems only the Horde are allowed to have it because it doesnât âfitâ with the Alliance. Meanwhile you have the Horde who have savage Orcs and Trolls running around with Nightborne and Blood Elves but this is apparently just fine. You have genocidal undead bio-terrorists buddying up with gypsy fox people. Again, no one bats an eyelid. But the second Alliance want a race that isnt âHuman Mk 17â or âExisting race with a different glowy thing on their faceâ it is going to upset the apple cart on our supposed faction character.
To hell with that. Sethrak? Arakkoa? Saberos? Something unusual like that is exactly what the Alliance needs. The faction needs colour. It needs new perspectives. This whole âThat race is too unusual to be Allianceâ stigma is never going to be dispelled if we donât ever get interesting races in the first place to broaden the factionâs horizons.
Iâd love to see a hognose variant for Sethrak! I think thatâd be a fantastic facial feature to help identify your character, on top of a few other little face changes to make Sethrak really characterful!
But I love Drow.
