San’layn, if I can’t get Forsaken Elves. High Elves died in Lordaeron too, surely not all of them are banshees. (I want my dark ranger ;_
Or the Dark Ranger Nelves. I wouldn’t even care if it was just an option added to Ally.
Calia-esque “Lightforged” undead.
Sethrak. Think of the awesome colours and face shapes!
If not Sethrak, something with scales. We have plenty of races with fur, but we need more scales.
Eredar! As Warlocks!!
Vrykul. Those sweet, sweet hairstyles.
YES YES YES. I love spiders. Nerubian or Fal’dorei!
Oh my gosh, yes.
The Night Fae would make such amazing druid characters. Ahhhh! <3
Maybe we could add the possibility of “roleplaying races” these would be released on the understanding that they may unbalanced in a way not benefiting the player. For instance a playable ogre would be to large for almost all mounts. Sure you can travel on ships but you can forget about riding a wyvern, you are simply to big. A playabe naga would have the benefit of free waterbreathing but anything below the torso just cannot be equipped so no boots or pants for you!
Other than that, I think all the classics would add a lot to the game.
Stonemaul Ogres and Amani trolls for the Horde (the later would need to rejoin).
Quel’Dorei and Wildhammer dwarves for the Alliance.
Any race with more or less than 2 legs would be welcome. Like Centaurs for Horde (after joining) and…Dryads/Keepers of the Grove (can’t remember if males had a racial name?) for Alliance.
Of course, who wouldn’t want Murlocs!
Lastly, while not new, I’d love to play as a Goblin… on the Alliance xD (or neutral, should the playable neutral option ever exist).
For Alliance? We need non-bipedals, such as the Dryads/Keepers of the Grove, or at least have replace the current Moonkin form, or even make them into a Restoration’s Druid shapeshift form, much like what Tree of Life used to be, in Vanilla WoW. That way, we can have non-bipdels, which would be pseudo-playable races. Horde would get Centaurs in these forms, both male and female models.
Saberon (H)
Jinyu + Ankoan (A)
San’layn (H)
High Elf options for Void Elves (A)
Arakkoa (the non-cursed ones) (A)
Forsaken Night Elves (H)
Broken (A)
Gilgoblin (H)
Frostborn (A)
Revantusk (H)
Taunka (H)
Fel Orc options for standard Orcs (H)
Ethereal (N)
Naga (?)
The Ethereals would choose their faction like the Pandaren eventually do. As for the Naga, I’m not sure what faction they’d fit into best, but I can’t really see them choosing a faction.
Ethereals. For Alliance, because an alliance of convenience would take an edge off “all for the light” boring rubbish Alliance has to put up with and the devs hate.
For the naga, once their queen Azhara and the old god they serve have been slain they would finally acquire free will. Nagas could simply, as the pandaren, be allowed to choose.
Indeed neutral races is something I would love to see and not only in the form of “choose your faction” races but truly neutral. Such people could visit both Horde and Alliance settlements and quest for them but do anything that could be considered part of an Horde vs Alliance conflict and you loose reputation with the other faction. Choose your quests carefully.
Well they DO exist in the lore, well Rexxar is half ogre/orc. The classical half elf do as well since there is a specially whiny one wandering around in Honor hold complaining about his missing parents…
In D&D lore kobolds are related to dragons and sure thing, appearance wise they seem like small draconic humanoids. In Warcraft lore I do not know but they could be a draconic servant race like just like those other dragon servants, it is just a question of spreading some around in dragon settlements. Imagine some kobold servants loyal the Wyrmrest Accord faction performing mining operations for them. The materials for that equipment that players pick up from their quartermaster must come from somewhere after all.
