I'm all for roleplay and lore but I also want freedom of choice. imho a good solution for this would be to give each race an incentive to play some class. Like: give humans and draeneis +2% in holy power, elfs +2% wathever in druid, orcs +2% for being warrior etc. This way hardcore raiders/pvper will be "forced" to choose the "best" race, thus preserving the flavor of the lore, but roleplayers could play some unique druid doomed to be an undead.
Okay the reason why this is terrible is you have magically allowed people to do something they will be criticised for without adding lore as to why they can do it, so people who care about lore berrate them and people who care about raiding berrate them for picking an objectively worse character.
Also, it punishes people who were races before this was added. Say I am a Night Elf Priest, oh look now Draenei / Humans get + 2% to it and I don't I guess I was just NERFED for no reason.
It's not a good way to approach it.
Then that will be an amazingly underpopulated faction. Two races which are basically a "take" on Night Elves, Tauren with less-cool horns, and rando Light-Draenei is not a compelling faction.
So yeah that's not happening. If they ever did do a third faction, they'd ensure it was compelling in some way.
Reason this isn't good is because it effectively nerfs anyone who isn't that race. Whats the point of adding the illusion of choice when it annoys people who cared about lore, and people who were a race such as Night Elf Priest who upon this being added are nerfed because their race doesn't have it?
Also new players might not know about it so they might accidentally pick a bad one then be sad that they have to character change to get into raiding guilds later on.
Just a clumsy way to fix it, you can just add lore explanations why something is possible.
Hypothetically an Undead could have been a druid when they were alive and their powers are still available to them, similar to how priests work, heck paladins could work the same way.
explaining it is better than choosing to explain nothing and giving up.
Huh, seems like a lot of subrace stuff has happened since I was here last night.
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This would be awful imo.
I would much rather have the racials gone than expanded upon.
If they are gone, then people will truely choose what they like and not what is op.
If they ever lift up the class race restrictions, people will play the best suited race for their spec. And that will not make races free to choose from.
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My take on the 4 supposed subraces:
1. Those 4 might be available at launch, with others being added in patches.
2. There might be more subraces but those 4 were added to the .db2 on accident because of their connection to the current expansion.
3. Those subraces were added to the .db2 in 7.3 because early access to them might be a perk of pre ordering (prior to 8.0)
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Also, I assume this pirate-themed tweet was mentioned?
(know its Garfield related)
https://twitter.com/Muffinus/status/921946032396570629
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Nah, don't think so. Why would they do that? They would loose a possible hook for 8.0 Besides it would be a waste to add cosmetic options to the last patch of the expansion when people will be thirsty for new playable content. Yey, yes I know. New starting zones. But still.....
Fair point. Buuuuut we don't know the rest of the races. I mean if they do a third faction it won't ship with just four races if the others have 6 each. Plus pandas.
All the artifact weapons weren't ready for BlizzCon either. These are just the examples. Although if we assume that there is more it would be interesting to think about what else we can get. I could see them making Gilnean human AKA worgen, a subrace of humans, but that would make the Alliance short on one race.
You want them dropped, the @aSynchro guy wants them enhanced. Have I fight, the winner gets his way.
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I get the subrace thing but.... do you realise that THESE are just called subraces because IN FACT we get 4 new races.
WOW is about lore... and lore demands that these, so called, "subraces" get proper intros and a SOLID backstory... not to mention great (legion quality at least) prologue quest system.
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My money is still on a whole new WOW concept for next exp and a leap to a future move to next-gen package as in a WOW2 kind of game.
mock away...