The Vrykul were an instant hit with fans the moment they were first shown off. However, I’d especially love seeing them take on more Nordic features, sitting a bit more akin to “Giants” among mortals (probably similar height to Kul Tirans, I suppose).
This in particular captures what I feel like would be peak fantasy for a Vrykul Warrior:
Very cool 
Weird choice for a necro.
Also Vrykul will always get a “meh” from me. They were a boring choice even before Kul Tiran, and now they’d be even less interesting when we already have “humans but bigger”.
There’s much better playable race choices out there that I’d rather they get to first.
Like Ogres? 
They’re more “meh” than the Vrykuls. At least having the Vrykul on the Horde would be awesome than making the dumbest and ugliest race like the Ogre playable. How can ya pass up Vrykul women in Horde gear over ugly dim witted ogres that will make any gear they wear look low res because they’re too fat for them.
Vrykul for the Horde is just a better choice. The Alliance can get Sabreons as a their fully beast tribe race.
Strongly disagree. Ogres have history and character. Vrykul are tall edgy humans.
If you want to ogle your character, blood elves are there for you.
I don’t even know why you’d make such a suggestion. They’re so vastly different. A Vrykul woman is so much nicer on the eyes than a blood elf woman, at least to me. A tall, buff northerner with a scowl? Yes, I’ll take that option over the snooty elf any day. 
Nah, viking stuff is passé and boring. Very 2010ish.
Ethereals though, now that would be a good race for Alliance.
Ogre history is them getting their butt whoop from Alliance and Horde. And their character is just them being the dumbest and ugliest race in Azeroth with no women at all. Also, Vrykul don’t see themselves as human, but small giants. And Vrykul being just tall edgy “human” is enough for them to join the Horde. The Horde getting a human looking race will bring in more new players than a ugly race like Ogres.
Goes to show how much taste varies from person to person, because I find ethereals to be extremely underwhelming and dull. I’ve never liked them or their design. I could go the rest of my life without seeing one and I’d be perfectly happy. Unfortunately for me, I’m a transmog fanatic, so I’m going to be seeing one until the end of time.
I thought the dumbest race was Orcs, since Ogres learned Arcane magic before them. That makes them leagues smarter then Orcs.
Dude, Murlocs can learn magic as well, and they can’t even say words. Do you want Murlocs playable as well?
People have been wanting playable murlocs since like forever.
Oh no no, I’m just being an HMP. Keeping the hate for Orcs and Horde alive in the hearts of every Light fearing Human in the Alliance.
The issue with playable Vrykul would be their size.
Either the models would have to be shrunk down to fit through doorways and under ceilings or one heck of a lot of buildings would have to be adapted.
I really doubt they would rework the buildings, and shrinking them small enough to fit would kind of ruin their aesthetic.
So this is probably an unlikely thing.
I mean… Vrykul have history and character, too…
Take the Drust, for example. They could have easily split more Drust from Gorak Tul, made the story that the Drust sailed south because they were shunned for being smaller than their brethren up north (but not as small as humans), then put them on a path to befriend the Thornspeakers, still have their culture and be friends with Kul Tiran society.
They would’ve been better druids, would have been small enough to fit through doors, but large enough to still be huge humanoids and there would be a ton of story through who they were, what Gorak Tul did to them and how they’ve created their own society and culture around part of their ancestry and part Druidism over the ages.
So Vrykul for Alliance, Ogres for Horde.
Until you notice that the armor looks bad on them 
since WoW can’t scale them well and not have it look like it was painted on or hovering shoulder pads. I do like the idea of Vrykul as a playable race.
Not compared to Ogres, in my opinion. Ogres are OG Warcraft material.
I would agree in your scenario, where they made them Drust focused and really leaned into the swamp-witch and death-druid vibes, as opposed to KT. But we already have KT so I think it’s too late for them, personally, unless they add them as a Man’ari-style customization option to KT. Having “humans but bigger” and then getting “humans but bigger and skinnier” would be such a letdown.
Eh… I feel they’re about on par. But we spent so long making Ogres looking stupid and then acting even stupider in Warlords, that it just kinda turned me off and seemed like very shallow lore.
Which is why I’m still extremely grumpy. lol
Vrykul are different enough given their faces, stances, etc, imo. They feel much different than “fat humans.”
Vrykul would be cool to play, but I think sticking them on Alliance is just too much variation of human. Maybe we add Vrykul and then swap undead for draenei, make pandas horde only to really commit to the Alliance being the humans of all shapes faction.