Ogres for Horde are way overdue. For Alliance, it should be Broken. They also both need custom female models, so they will be equivalent in terms of work involved (and thus fair).
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The “obese humans” are the only allied race with a completely unique model build 100% from scratch. According to bliz it took the same resources as all the other allied races combined. So while you’re personally not interested in them they got more TLC than the horde got at all. Also the “purple blood elves” are one of the most popular allied races. So… you don’t have to like em but just cuz you dont’ like the content doesn’t mean horde bias.
Yes that is blizzard’s excuse. It’s flimsy at best because the neutrality actually creates a lot of interesting lore potential. But bliz just stopped bothering with pandaren lore after MoP and instead of being accountable just made up some nonsense that is objectively false. As a writer myself and someone who knows many writers. It’s absolutely bs that it is “difficult” to write lore for a neutral race. It’s a unique and amazing opportunity that bliz chooses to squander. Hell go find some fanfic involving pandaren a lot of it deals with the neutrality and splitting of the faction and some of it is pretty good. I personally could right a decent story for pandaren that focused on the neutrality and split faction. Please don’t take blizzards lazy excuses as gospels. As actual writers (not just myself) have commented it’s 100% bs. Neutrality is interesting and would actually make them more interest to write about than other races. The real reason they haven’t gotten a lot of focus is that they’re not as popular as blizzard wanted them to be. So instead they focus on lore for their popular races. Orc, humans, night elves, blood elves, etc.
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Except that we saved their entire reality. There is a thing in politics called quid pro quo. If you save a nation state from extinction than ask for help in your own even fi they normally wouldn’t be interested they’re obligated to help. Doesn’t really matter if they personally care or not. They incurred a debt the mawwalker.
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Races I’d like to see - in no particular order or with a specific faction:
furbolg
quilboar
drakonid
krokul/broken
tuskarr
gilblin/gilgoblin
jinyu
hozen
sethrak
No hate but no more elf flavors. There’s already a lot to choose from so some of the others should have a shot imo.
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Yes, and it was great for Blizzard to make so much effort with something obviously doomed to bring nothing to Ally that she didn’t do for Ally what blood elves do for the horde.
Yes they are because blood elves are popular, even though they are purple and remain just a copied blood elf.
But their reality and their duties are not things they can abandon to help mortals in matters unrelated to their kingdoms.
Ogres and anything that isn’t an elf variation
Oozling - Easy modeling, no need for voices. Whatever armor they need is just there.
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Since this seems to be a contest of dumb suggestions (like ogres, who are brainless, and Naga, who don’t give three cents about horde or alliance), here is my bad take:
Playable mawrats
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“bold take”, perhaps even “brave”
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Perfect. I imagine Blizzard delivering something like that to ally and creating a dragon race for the horde to maintain proportion and balance.
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I’m expecting a Void and/or a Twisting Nether expansion at some point. It would be nice to have playable ethereals.
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I like the venthyr for hoard. Honestly I would rather see some more race / class combos or a new class. We got a lot of new races in BFA.
id love murlocs above all else but ogres . gnolls. naga.
High Elves. Oh wait nevermine they are already playable through Void Elves.
Jokes aside for real. I want to see Ogres, Arakkoa, Sethrak, Ankoan/Jinyu, Hozen, Ethereals, Kyrians, Venthyr, Night Fae, Maldraxxus Undead, Vrykul, Dragonkin, and Nagas. Also I want to see Human Cat People or just Cat People in General in Wow as a side like Vulpera was.
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I just hope Alliance will eventually get a good one
Arcturians.
Says who? They wouldn’t have reality or duties if we didn’t save them from extinction. So I think they can send a garrison or two to the mortal realm to pay their unpayable debt. Part of their duty will be to repay their debt.
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Completely agree.
Ogres like Orcs have HUGE variance in intelligence. None are brainless. Some are “simple” like peons. While others are geniuses that could compete with a goblin in a science fair.
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