We should have gotten Man'ari instead of Nightborne

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The problem with the nightborne is that they will never be what players thought they would be. I believe this is because they did not translate well to a playable race and their models don’t seem to be at the appropriate level of quality something playable should be at. I don’t know who was asking for night elves with a dash nightborne flavor.

The Man’ari are just mean, corrupt, demonic draenei there isn’t much more work to be done beyond that. It’s not exactly hard to meet the expectation of the Man’ari, what you see is what you get. Even the marketing could have pulled on some BC nostalgia with the Draenei and Blood Elf reversal.

The biggest challenge is their story and how they would have been introduced as being playable. However I think the story is quite flexible after a never before seen group of void infused blood elves joined the alliance as a playable race.

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I think that would have been the easiest part. They could easily relate to the orcs since their backstory is so similar with their leaders selling them out to the Burning Legion.

As for the Nightborne. They just seem so horribly rushed and unfinished that I don’t understand how Blizzard could possibly believe anyone would have been happy to get them in that state.

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The first allied races should have been the Man’ari for the horde and High Elves for the Alliance. It’s like TBC but inversed.

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that’d actually have been sick

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All new races should be characters with completely unique and different models.

You can barely tell the difference between half of these races. Huge let down

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We should have gotten REAL Nightborne and not “Night Elves with Botox”. Replaying Suramar over the past week is a reminder of how stark the difference is.

I don’t want to play Ka’rynn, Winemother of <Live, Laugh, Love>.

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Virtually all of the allied races are glorified character customization option that could have been achieved via the barber shop and/or the character creation screen

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Man’ari instead of Nightborne, but you still need Nightborne rep and achievements to unlock them for some odd reason. /VoidElfUnlock

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horde should have just gotten night elves with nightborne hair colors, similar to how alliance now have blood elves just with weird hair and colors

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Yes

Nightbourne are boring, and it makes no sense that they sided with horde after BOTH alliance and horde helped them.

Like wtf, do you want to invite a war with the alliance? Because that’s the kind of thing that sparks a war

Also, Man’ari warlocks. There is no comparison. They would automatically be the master warlock race

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You want to take a major race of the Burning Legion, the ones who corrupted the Orcs and led to the destruction of Draenor, and put them in the same faction as the Orcs?

That’s some serious crazy talk. Serious, SERIOUS crazy.

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Its not like orcs were ever corrupted and tried to wipe out other races…

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Alliance tried to wipe out my people, just as a reminder. What’s your excuse? :wink:

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I always forget nightborne is a thing. I never see people play them.

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What I wanted to reroll my hordie rogue to:

What I got:

Honestly, Suramar was an amazing zone and I was 100% all in to play a nightborne in earnest. The PC models are preposterously bad.

EDIT: ALSO, the king tut chin piece of jewelry on the heritage armor should be part of the helmet NOT THE FRICKIN’ CHEST!!!

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Vermin don’t count as people

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laughs in Blood Elves

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See? I think the Man’ari would fit nicely as an Alliance race.

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I wish my biggest problem with the game was alliance race cosmetic options. Really I do,

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Nah bruh, no demon should be playable

Also:

Ion: If you want to play dreanei, the alliance is waiting for you.