Unlocking of allied Races.. bound to faction?

[silentdarkn3ss]

The ability to recruit allied races is within BfA content alone.

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I know. I was asking why would they allow this. Of course you have to play a Horde toon to get the Horde ones and an Alliance toon for the Alliance ones.

well, except for Nightborne, it's based off of rep in Suramar, so it doesn't matter which faction you decide to use, as long as your Suramar (Nightfallen) rep is exalted. i would assume that the same would go for a few other races. If i recall reading correctly, Highmountain Tauren would be unlocked with exalted HM rep. Argussian Reach for Void Elves. as for the others, not quite sure. but given it is this early into everything, not 100% on the sources.

[Fayenoor]

well, except for Nightborne, it's based off of rep in Suramar, so it doesn't matter which faction you decide to use, as long as your Suramar (Nightfallen) rep is exalted. i would assume that the same would go for a few other races. If i recall reading correctly, Highmountain Tauren would be unlocked with exalted HM rep. Argussian Reach for Void Elves. as for the others, not quite sure. but given it is this early into everything, not 100% on the sources.

It is not based on rep in Suramar. Horde will get a quest to unlock the Nightborne as an allied race - either in 7.3.5 or in BFA.

[Softbottom]

Seems kinda funny that these sub races are a main feature of the xpac. They literally bring nothing to the game other than a cosmetic change and you have to have max characters of each faction in order to unlock them.

[Fayenoor]

Seems kinda funny that these sub races are a main feature of the xpac. They literally bring nothing to the game other than a cosmetic change and you have to have max characters of each faction in order to unlock them.

Yes. They seem to be sneaking in a quiet expansion. I hope they list it at 39.99 and not 59.99.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Seems kinda funny that these sub races are a main feature of the xpac. They literally bring nothing to the game other than a cosmetic change and you have to have max characters of each faction in order to unlock them.

What could be better then cosmetics, garrisons gone orderhalls gone scenarios gone. How is any throw away feature better then always having more cosmetic options.

[madokbro]

It is not based on rep in Suramar. Horde will get a quest to unlock the Nightborne as an allied race - either in 7.3.5 or in BFA.

Ion said that unlocking Nightborne will require exalted with them in the last q&a.

What reputation standing will players need to unlock allied races?

It's going to vary depending on the allied races. For Nightfallen, it'll likely be exalted, but they've removed all the reputation gates and allows you to complete the Nightfallen story in one swoop giving you exalted without waiting.

So yeah, better start working on those Highmountain, Nightfallen and the Army of the Light reps.

[bufferunderrun]

Could not find any information about this but do I need an horde character to unlock Nightborne, Zandalari and so on? Or is that determined per race?

from what i understood first step is to be exalted with the allied race npc and that unlock an additional questline that lead to recruitment, so you won't be able to unlock them with a character that isn't exalted and rep, this through is only for the race that come from legion the future one requirement are yet to be decided.

[Deleted]

Guys, how would I be supposed to unlock void elves?
Can I do that through a horde character?
Does it require a storyline quest chain only or some reputation aswell?

[Temp name]

Yes. They seem to be sneaking in a quiet expansion. I hope they list it at 39.99 and not 59.99.

It'll probably be 49.99 like the last 2 expansions

[CreatureLives]

I am so not looking forward to doing all that Suramar shit again. I've got plenty of Horde characters i just never bothered with the Nightborne crap with any of them because I already did it a few times on my Alliance characters.

[Temp name]

Guys, how would I be supposed to unlock void elves?
Can I do that through a horde character?
Does it require a storyline quest chain only or some reputation aswell?

They're an alliance race, so you'll probably need an alliance character to do the questline and be exalted with the right faction (if they have a faction associated with them)

[Deleted]

They're an alliance race, so you'll probably need an alliance character to do the questline and be exalted with the right faction (if they have a faction associated with them)

Is there any official source about it or are they all speculations?

[Taedae]

From what I have gathered from what Blizzard has said so far: yes, some of the factions will require a rep cap first. Nightborne and Highmountain have already been addressed as two of the Allied Races that will require exalted. However, after that you will need to do a series of quests for that Allied Race to recruit them into your faction (Horde and Alliance). Thus, no, you wouldn't be able to unlock Horde Allied Races with an Alliance toon or Alliance ones on a Horde toon. You'd need to have the rep on a toon of the appropriate faction and then do the quest line on that same toon to unlock them for that faction.

[Lochton]

Could not find any information about this but do I need an horde character to unlock Nightborne, Zandalari and so on? Or is that determined per race?

Would make more sense that you need to play the faction that is unlocking them.

[Deleted]

So, uhm.. if I main horde in this xpac but I'll want to roll a void elf, I'll need to start over an alliance race and cap the reputations with him aswell?

[huth]

Probably. Hard to tell at this point, though. Doesn't help that we have no clue what the requirements for VE are.

They're an alliance race, so you'll probably need an alliance character to do the questline and be exalted with the right faction (if they have a faction associated with them)

They're the odd ones out at least, since there's no obvious faction they could be associated with. Maybe you need Argussian Reach(all Mac'aree quests give AR rep, and that's were Alleria's quests are).

[javierdsv]

They're the odd ones out at least, since there's no obvious faction they could be associated with. Maybe you need Argussian Reach(all Mac'aree quests give AR rep, and that's were Alleria's quests are).

I always found weird there were two reps related to the "Light" but I think you are right, and it kind of makes sense... Many Mac'aree quests are void related, so probably that's the starting point.

[Derollo3]

Well but If I have everything exalted on my horde character, isn't it enough to just have another aliance character on 110 that could just do the quest line to recruit them... and then to just do the quest without grinding the same rep again ? I wanted to play as a void elf but I have reputation on my horde character, it's ridiculous that I should do the same reputation grind again on Aliance character... I believe those AP to be able to recruit them are fos account wide anyways.

[Arlee]

Well but If I have everything exalted on my horde character, isn't it enough to just have another aliance character on 110 that could just do the quest line to recruit them... and then to just do the quest without grinding the same rep again ? I wanted to play as a void elf but I have reputation on my horde character, it's ridiculous that I should do the same reputation grind again on Aliance character... I believe those AP to be able to recruit them are fos account wide anyways.

At the beginning of the QA yesterday they said you can do the questline and rep gain on one faction and as long as you have a 110 character of the other faction you'd be able to unlock the allied race. The specific example they gave was if you do the Insurrection storyline and have exalted rep with Nightborne as an alliance player then the only other thing you'd need is a lvl 110 Horde character so you can do the unlock quest.

[Nokonda]

I didn't really bother much with Legion. Therefore I don't have any noteworthy reputation with any of the Legion factions.

Does the above mean that I cannot play any of the sub-races should I decide to pre-order?