Fair, im just a viera fan boy xD.
I dont care about helms, never wear em on female toons anyway.
I just love my viera :P.
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Dont you all have dwarves… i mean phones?
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Still dumbfounded about the art direction between Sethrak and Dracthyr.
The snakes have overall great and sleek design and yet when it comes to dracthry they really missed the mark making them into these awkward looking things.
And still think the reason dracthry can’t wear armor is due to their body size setting. I assume it functions by loading in a fake “armor” for the 3d model, which wearing proper armor would override and cause some blocky looking seams.
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They kind of look like a weird deformation of female Worgen if you ask me. Even the animations are similar.
I’m not particularly fond of Dracthyr. They have tiny heads relative to their bodies and even the walking animation and everything… just no. 
Fairly, though, it must be said that all WoW models look rather chunky with weird body proportions.
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I will rage quit so hard if they do this lol I have a snake phobia, so if they coddle people with spider phobia then add snake people I am out 
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Can we feed them vulpera? If yes, then plz add. If no, then let’s get naga first.
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We still don’t even have Ogres on the Horde with the excuse of them being too large (they could make them tauren-sized and it’d be fine…)
The “it’s too hard” argument coming from a studio as large as Blizzard is laughable. Is UM not giving them the resources they need to accomplish things like this?
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Race changes in ff14 are fueled by how alt-hostile it is. You have all your classes on one character but if you want them to look different you can’t just roll up a new toon for your next class like in WoW.
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Yupp. They should have used the Kul Tiran model for ogres, but nope, they used it for overweight humans… something maybe 1% of players would ask for. 
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Oh yea 100%, which is why i said ffxiv definitely makes more off em.
Im still willing to bet that wow makes a pretty penny off them though. No such thing as alts when you want your main character a specific race for example.
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Because they aren’t that interesting.
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Nah, we don’t have ogres because of the excuse of “Goblins would add more to the Horde” which. Isn’t wrong. They were last considered during Cata and goblins kind of were the more interesting option at the time.
Regardless though, we don’t have Sethrak for a variety of reasons
1: Not designed for player compatability. Vulpera were completely re-designed mid-way through the expansion to be compatibile with players. Sethrak weren’t.
2: That head is going to be an absolute nightmare
3: Lack of story relevance.
4: The only new options we’ve had are Dracthyr which, y’know, are headling the expansion, and Earthen which are an easy dwarf reuse. New races haven’t been common at all, so wondering why one out of the massive myriad of options hasn’t been made playable when nothing’s been made playable is a self-answering question. Tuskarr are closer to being playable than Sethrak, even, but even Tuskarr aren’t ready (Well, unless you drag out the old Wrath model)
“Sorry, you rolled a BElf paladin, you can’t use Judgement because it pre-dates them” is the actual worse idea I’ve heard in my life and doesn’t seem to understand how armor works in this game. No. Absolutely not. Terrible idea. Not even necessary with how WoW handles its armor. It just overlays textures, the only thing that needs re-designing are all the 3d bits like shoulders and helmets.
The reason Dracthyr can’t wear armor is their model is designed completely wrong for it and they have the wrong UV maps. It has nothing to do with how many sets are in the game and a design decision at base. Its fixable, too, but you’d need to re UV map the entire model, which I’m pretty sure just mentioning has caused every 3d modeller reading this to flee. Coincidentally, Sethrak are also designed completely wrong for wearing armor, just like Dracthyr
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Partially true. They have a lot of customizations and player animations, including the Heart of Azeroth animation, which is what set off a lot of speculation about them becoming playable.
Not an issue. People have done mockups to show that any helm can work on Sethrak about as well as they work on worgen and Tauren - which is awful, but easily hidden or mogged to something that works better.
Easily fixed by just… writing them story relevance. 
Laziness isn’t a great excuse, but it is the most likely one.
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That isn’t the issue at hand, its got to do with how the texturing work. All the animations in the world aren’t going to change the fact Sethrak just are not set up even slightly to allow for player stuff. Same issue with Dracthyr and its why they can’t transmog in dragon form.
The earlier ogre model from back when Dire Maul launched is more player ready than the Warlords of Draenor one and the Sethrak model due to this exact reason, despite the fact it hasn’t had its animations touched in decades. Its not just about animations, its about how the texturing is done, and if you know anything about texturing, you also know me saying "Just re-UV map the model so it works 
" is the type of talk that leads to someone being hit by a folding chair
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It’s great to see all of the comments that agree with me on this! Every day I wish I could just have 1 on 1 with a dev and just beg them to their face to “PLEASE ADD THEM!!”
I would pay for all of my characters to race change to them on the day they launch! I sometimes visit the temple in-game and RP with the NPC Sethrak.
Is there any sort of way we can petition them to be added?
But I would be fine with a system like the Dracthyr. I don’t /have/ to wear every mog in the game. I’d be fine with preset customizations to choose from.
I want them any way they want to serve them.
I’d buy anything if they added Sethrak. 
I want Sethrak because they’re cool af, not because they’re “important” or whatever.
Not every allied race matched an expansion either. Mechagon came out of nowhere. Void elves were made up and there’s only one npc who could be called foreshadowing, and even she is so different than the rest of them she may as well not be one of them.
You had to get reputation with the Krokul of Argus to unlock them, too. Another negative in the sense department.
We got Mag’har waaaay after they were introduced in TBC/WoD, whichever way you look at it. Same for Dark Iron.
Point is, expansion “theme” and “importance” don’t really matter whenever they decide on adding a new allied race.
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It’s $25.
Pretty sure I personally funded one of Bobby’s yachts with my race changes over the years.
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The interesting point is, Sethrak are pretty much already set to wear player model armors except for helms (as expected for noodles) even if said armor may not look as good in most cases of the old stuff compared to what they are shown wearing as NPCs, similar to Dracthyr (even though they insisted on keeping us with barbershop armor that doesn’t match anything else).