Ogres and Arakkoa. No other current MMORPG has playable bird-people, plus their lore is cool. Also as for Ogres, goes without saying.
Never High Elves. Before people bitch at me just because I don't like them and I'm biased, I will say I have a legit reason for saying NEVER on them. The reason Blizzard added Blood Elves to the Horde was to attract players who wanted to play a human race. This increased the population of Horde players significantly and you'll see on most any server that Blood Elves make up the majority of Horde players.
Add the race with the exact same aesthetic (minus the green eyes) and you're going to get a massive influx of people going back to Alliance. The answer is simple. A lot of players connect more with races that are more similar to humans. Or are humans. It's a subconscious thing. It could potentially decimate Horde populations (which I will note are already slightly lower than alliance by a couple of percent.).
Also, I like that the second post complains half-animals are uncreative and then asks for a race that is LITERALLY the exact same as an already existing one.
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Only care about Horde: Ogres.
If they not come in the next exp. pack then i will be disappointed.
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Ogres would make the obvious choice for the Horde, and they just need a female and much more animations to make them differnent than the Moonkin form for Druids.
Ogres for Horde would make me so happy. Been wanting them since like forever.
Arakkoa would be perfect for Ally. Those two would be full of themselves and Ally players are full of themselves too.
Yeah...I think it would be great. Horde would get Ogres, which I would love and Ally would get Arakkoa.
I hope so too Tromage. Still is possible after Warlords of Draenor, and kinda wished there was a female Ogre.
If Blizzard was lazy and wanted not to do much they could base the playable Ogres on their Warlords model;
http://i.imgur.com/I0juaqi.jpg -Male Ogre
http://img1.photographersdirect.com/.../pd2255350.jpg -Female Ogre
Could base it off Fiona and just change the skin of her and make her more like the Warlords Ogre without the whole horn ears, and probably a smaller horn atop her head. :L
For the Horde!
Sticking to lore reasons, Ogre for sure for horde. As for thoughts on Arakkoas being specifically alliance, thats still a little farfetched. I figured they would pull another worgen/pandaren move where they don't have to be ALL in, but a certain faction of that race would ally with the alliance. Personally, I see Naga as a possible candidate for an alliance race. Not ALL the Naga as previously mentioned, but a certain faction that breaks off from Queen Azshara's rule and seeks to join the alliance to mend ties with the night elves.
I like that better, the active ability of those runeweavers is quite cool, having it as a racial seems pretty neat!, having it absorbs the same ammount of power word isn't a bad or op thing tbh, remember it's a 3 min cd and powerword for shadow aint absorbing much so I think it would do just fine.
Yes I had the same Idea with sylvanas being their death god, it sounds so obvious that it might just work, I always loved the vrkul lore, I hope we will get a revisit.
The point is that the game already has different models for the the same player race. Forsaken are still human and Red Pandaren are still Pandaren. If you want an ingame explanation, that can be provided...but it isn't really necessary beyond the "we want to preserve factional uniqueness so we gave Alliance HElfs a different model", but it can still be provided. All we need do is say that the magical withdrawal changed them...either by moving them closer to the NElfs or whatever or more towards the Wretched depending on the look you want to have.
No - they actually have a separate identity. That's why you don't call LT a HElf despite or Vereesa a BElf your assertions they are one and the same race. Their identities have diverged.But you won't cause you want em pretty and with the same identity
Yes...Blizzard should have cut the cord in TBC. But it didn't. Things happened, plans changed and the Horde ended up with the BElfs while the Alliance retained the HElfs. It's a pity, but it seems Blizzard didn't have much choice - they needed a pretty race on the Horde side.it's why it should never happen.
That both sides, as one example, have pretty races. That Blizzard has added numerous mechanics and systems that deal with faction imbalances. That Blizzard continues to show the contempt for this argument that it deserves by continuing to add new races.What fact is that?
I'm not going to pretend HElfs are likely. But if you want to argue that they aren't going to happen, then you need to look at it from game design pov and try to push an argument that Blizzard can't sidestep.
They can rewrite lore, they can and have addressed many of the issues related to population and faction imbalance and they continue to add new races which shows that this isn't really a concern any more. What you look like doesn't affect game balance, and a new model and storyline will ensure they feel different. The BElfs did their job and they'll continue to do it. You want to show that HElfs won't happen? Find some issue that Blizzard can't address.
The one they can't sidestep is a design issue. Does the Alliance need a fifth human like race? HElfs are perhaps the most visually boring races that could be added to the Alliance. They don't add anything of value, except the opportunity to take part in their story - which is true of any race. Look at the other viable alternatives for Alliance races...Arakkoa, Ethereals, Drakonids. Those are more visually diverse, more visually interesting, and bring something the Alliance lacks - visual variety or a race with its own agenda. Of those choices, the Drakonids are most likely to fit into an Azshara Xpac. Blizzard might of course choose some other race, but there isn't anything really obvious for the Alliance.
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Alliance : High Elves
Horde : Dragonspawn
After reading the Arakkoa short it kinda got to me, can the adherents be considered paladins? You know because they worship the sun.
If yes, then playable arrakoa would be very much needed. Why? Because we really need races that have the lore capacity to become paladins, besides, the next paladin tier looks either arakkoa or apexis themed.
Playable arakkoa provides us with even further lore regarding the arakkoa, its interesting to see how their civilization changes now that the outcasts and the normal arakkoa are co-existing together.
Last edited by Gamevizier; 2015-04-28 at 04:54 AM.