Ethereal will probably never be playable as they have no face. Same goes for Ogre that have no female model.
The next race is probably something like a dragon / humanoid hybrid or the naga.
Unless they'll only focus on sub races (which I think is likely thx to the draenei model we got)
We're what, 5 or 6 weeks away from the reveal? I hope we'll start getting some 7.3.5 info soon
It doesn't mean that they can't wear gear, it might mean that in the back-end they can wear gear and the you see on the Ethereals right now is just baked into the model after it's been designed nude, but they could have a naked model of just bandages as a separate model when releasing it as a race.
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Calling it now, Krokul for the Alliance and Nightfallen for the Horde.
They might let players have some of the Lightforged features, but I think the main reason was to have the Light slaves look different from the other draenei. I don't really see the Army of Light joining the normal draenei after Legion. They'll probably run off to punch tentacle monsters or something.
Broken draenei are much more likely, though they are missing a female model.
whatever they do I just hope we finally get new Worgen (with fixed faces) and Goblin models, they are sorely needed, especially Worgen...
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They updated models for Troggs, Yetis and Wendigos in 7.3.
Big Foot expansion incoming!
Or yeti/trogg on kultiras
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Pandaren never had a model, just because there is no female ogre model doesent mean it cant be made
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They are models made with the gear o nthem, not models with gear added on after.
Yeah, they're definitely grooming Nightfallen as a horde thing with Sigryn and Liadrin talking about it in the Vindicaar. Lorewise it makes sense since the blood elves had to deal with their sunwell/arcane magic issue too. Strong ties in challenges.
And I do really want it lorewise that the krokuul come to Azeroth after all this. Those poor fuckers deserve a serious break after the millenia of horrific bullshit they had to go through, plus cheif Hatuun strikes me as a pretty neat guy. Only thing is I wonder--would they be distinct enough from Dranei to count as a different race? Other then not being able to be priests/paladins, and they'd have to have their own starting zone I would think...well it would be interesting to see.
Its fun to think about especially from this angle... it was surprising to our people when Argus turned up in the sky. Everyone in Dal pretty much lost their shit. Can you imagine the wonder and hope the Krokuul had to feel when Azeroth appeared in the sky one random day? Wow. Seriously.
Nightborne are at quite some distance from the lightforged draenei. The nightborne are completely remodeled, and their armor is 3d and specific to their models. Lightforged draenei are just regular draenei with a slightly different skin, wearing player available armor.
I don't know if it's just a Wowmodelviewer thing, but the lightforged draenei do appear as a completely separate model, unlike dark iron/wildhammer dwarves, high elves or demon hunters...
However, I think the horns, hairstyles and beards are perfectly compatible with the playable models.
Again, it could be the way the guy who made the program chose to separate those, but if they're an independent "race" in the game files, we could be looking at a subrace with its own customization features that wouldn't be available to normal draenei.
If that was the depth of the subrace customization, I, personally, would be disappointed.