Unofficial Sethrak Discussion Thread 🐍

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I’m sure High Elves would draw a lot of people to the Alliance, given how much people want them. :V

In all seriousness, I understand what you mean. Seems like it’s hard to think of many races to have join the Alliance. I wouldn’t mind seeing Jinyu, myself.

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So many people fail to grasp this simple fact

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Yes!!!
I would be satisfied with sethraks or arakkoas!
Is it too ambitious to want both?:bird::snake:

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Ditto on this.

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Alliance: :pray::four::bird::snake:
Horde: :pray::four::fox_face::bat:

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I’m going to be really selfish now, and say that the sethraks would do very well to the diversity that exists in the Alliance!
Alliance needs something like sethrak!
One of the biggest criticisms of the players of the horde against the Alliance is the human homogenization of the alliance!
The Alliance is described as being boring and with only a majority of wannabe humans!

Sethraks would bring something new and different from it!

And they have a theme that would suit the alliance!
I would play with Sethrak even if they go to the Horde but if they come to the Alliance, it would already help lessen the belief that the Alliance is an unattractive faction!

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Sethrak are awesome and very likely since armor works on them, unlike Arrakoa. I like Arrakoa but I feel like they just wouldn’t work because of the armor issue. That model is fine for Moonkin Form because it is what it is. As far as High Elves go, I would actually prefer them to Void Elves. Can we just turn Void Elves into High Elves and pretend that whole thing never happened? I do think Broken Draenei would be cool for the Alliance. Definitely Sethrak though :snake:

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For arakkoas, it would be necessary to work on the equipment, so I soon see it being possible, albeit laborious.

In the case of arakkoas, they were never really meant to be models used by players, although they used the skeleton of worgen female, like the sethraks, who got a job that made them close to being usable by players!

Of course, the limitations to transmogs would be challenging!
Challenges but not impossible!
If they did for kultirans, they can do something for other races, if they want!

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High Elves, though, have been around from the start of the game. They were alliance in Warcraft (not WoW) and the blood elf/void elf seem to be the ‘closest’ blizzard is going to go before any extra customization options for them. Not to mention, there are already 4 elf races in the game, a lot of people would complain that it’s just more of the same thing in the end, even if they’re not.

To be honest, I’d rather have something NEW and INNOVATIVE like the Vulpera and Sethrak than just a race that has been around for over a decade. Perhaps in the future the High Elves will join in the game but…for the time being, they have no relevance in the current story. At least not thus far…it’s possible they MIGHT later in this expansion but who knows?

As for the Jinyu, all we have to go off of is the model they used at the Blizzcon. Not to mention, the things they stated about them set up a lot of red flags as if trying to say: ‘they will not be playable.’
We’ll know more once we see more of their model~

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I wouldn’t mind seeing something new and innovative for the Alliance, as well. Seems like a lot of new race ideas are just variants of existing races, whereas the Horde can get brand new races like the Vulpera or Ogres.

I will say that Sethrak do offer a reptilian race that WoW seems to lack. Given that lizard men are my favorite fantasy race in general, I would happily make one regardless of what faction they are on, and would sate my yearnings for a reptilian race.

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This is exactly why it’d be a very wise decision to bring them onto the alliance. It’d give the faction something so many have wanted to play, in the game itself. Alliance numbers are dwindling, especially when it comes to competitive raiding.

Take, for example, the Mythic raiding locks: you can cross-realm it once x-amount of Mythic raids have been fully completed. Horde finished theirs WEEKS before the alliance because of the sheer number of guilds raiding on horde vs alliance. The racials are just…over all better on the horde for the most part when it comes to a raiding standpoint. Void Elf has the closest thing towards what the horde has in terms of those.

I’m drifting from my point now xD; Many horde players would consider moving to alliance to play this race, it likely might not have an impact on how the competitive difference is. It would still bring a lot more people over onto the alliance because it’s a reptilian race that has been so absent within the game. Just as the Vulpera draw the alliance players attention greatly.

Having both of these would greatly encourage more of the player base to ‘sway factions’ to play these new races.

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Well, I feel like Jinyu are just kind of irrelevant in Azeroth. As we learned from MoP, they were all but eradicated. I hear talk of ogres too, which I personally could care less about. Now Mok’nathal, on the other hand, I would be excited about.

Ready for Vulpera / Sethrak though! :fox_face::snake:

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Please no Jinyu. They creep me out.

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I agree with you!

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So, in order to keep this place alive and active, I was thinking about the classes Sethrak would/could have based on what we’ve seen so far. I did it before but it was several months ago and figure why not~ :smiley:

Most Definitely (We’ve already seen):
Warrior
Rogue
Shaman
Priest
Hunter
Mage: this was a maybe before, but with the WQ involving a kirin tor surveying a barrier made by the sethrak, the only class I’m aware of that can make a barrier like that is a mage.

Possibly (these just seem like they’d work with the race):
Monk
Paladin

Not likely (from what we’ve seen, I don’t feel they’d fit the race:
Druid
Warlock

Definitely not:
Demon Hunter
Death Knight

give your thoughts! What do you like? Not like? What do you think would or would not be according to this list?

Let’s keep this kind of discussion going for the sake of the Sethrak! :smiley: It might give them ideas too :B

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Well thought out class list! Nice catch with the mage-like barrier! I personally would definitely add Monks, though Paladins are a bit iffy for me. I could see them working like the Zanda prelates (just solely under Sethraliss), though I think we need more definite “yes she could do that” lore. But with that in mind, I’d love to see them get Druidic powers from their loa too (Alliance are one Druid race short on Horde at the moment. To avoid anger over the Alliance getting more unique forms that way, I’m perfectly happy if they’re just edits of the Zanda forms. Lose the tusks, add fangs, whatev). Though I can agree it wouldn’t make as much sense as the other classes.

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oh trust me, I LOVE druid, resto is one of my favorite (and best) healing classes. I would love to see them be druids as well. I just say not as likely, for now, because druids require the most work out of the other classes. Usually, you see those ‘forms’ in the wild as well like we see the KT druid forms: feral and I don’t know if the guardian form is found in the wild? I don’t recall if the NPC in Drust’var is one or not, but he IS a guardian regardless. The ZT have their feral all over as well, again not sure about the guardian. If they were to have them, we’d likely see some kind of feral form somewhere in future content if they do make them an option.

That’s just my two cents though

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Could be a slight possibility to become druids. Loa worshiping trolls seem to be able to pull it off, perhaps Sethrak could? They could use the Zandalari reptilian druid forms as a base from which to modify and create something more snake-like in visage.

Unlikely, but it’s possible and would bring the factions back in line with having an equal number of races/ARs able to be druids.

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Personally, I would LOVE for them to be druids as well…I mean, the ZT can be pretty much everything BUT warlock…of course not included the hero classes, which no AR can be. I think it’d be fair to give the alliance one in the same: A race that only has 1 limitation and no hero classes. In this case, the exact same as the ZT. Where as the vulpera could have the same number as the KT?

I think that’d be a fair trade off!

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Death Knight / Demon Hunter - extremely unlikely.
Blizzard would have to make new starting scenarios for each. i feel DK is more likely, simply because people have been asking for DK ARs and the lore could be made to work, but DH would be a lore nightmare, and would have to be a ‘sunwalker’ scenario where blizz basically makes up a reason why they exist but they have a completely different backstory. And, of course, they’d need starting zones for both… (though if they DID make new starting zones, they could potentially create a storyline that would allow for other races to be these classes in the future).

Druid - unlikely (but i’d love it)
If they did this, it would probably be more for gameplay balance than actual lore. They could make it work, but it doesn’t seem likely that they’d go out of their way to make even more druid forms (unless they modified the zandalari ones, which i suppose is possible, but seems unlikely; especially if Sethrak were to go Alliance).

Hunter - definitely
we’ve already seen NPC ones

Mage - likely
Mages don’t require a ton of lore to make sense like most classes, and any race with magical talent can be one

Monk - not sure (but again, i’d love it, and this would probably be my new main)
the reason i see this being an issue is that thy’re built off the worgen models, and worgen couldn’t be monks, so they’d have to make all new animations for them. That said, it’d be sad if the serpent race couldn’t fight in the serpent style :stuck_out_tongue:

Paladin - unsure
I could see it working for the same reason as mages; it doesn’t require a whole lot of lore to say someone has faith, and are willing to use that faith to become a paladin. we have blood knights, sunwalkers, an elune-based paladin from the order hall, and other ranks of paladins, so why not have a paladin whose ‘signature light’ is from the flash of lightning?

Priest - definitely
any race with faith or religion can be a priest, and ‘devoted’ is the very name of the friendly faction. it would make no sense to exclude them. This could also be used to justify paladins to an extent.

Rogue - likely
rogues require no lore besides being able to believably sneak around (sorry, hoof-doodz) and have a greedy and self-serving side. Sethrak have both, especially if you include the faithless.

Shaman - definitely
99% of their aesthetics involves lightning. There is no way they wouldn’t be Shaman.

Warlock - unlikely
The only way i see Sethrak getting warlocks is if part of their recruitment story does actually involve reuniting the faithless and devoted, and some reveal that some of the faithless turned to demonology in desperation for more power after Korthek fell.

Warrior - definitely
Anyone can pick up a weapon and fight for a cause. No lore needed.

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