So, it's almost certain we would be geting new and extra customizations in the next expansion after WoD, what's not certain is if they'll simply be extra skin options thrown in, OR they'd be done properly as sub-races.
The game has a rich lore, diverse, tons of sub-factions and racial factions many players have been itching to play, but has it been itching for the skin only? or to actually play a new kind of member to your existing races?
For example, some would not touch the orcs, they're green, brutish, often cruel and quite war-mongering , not for me a player owuld say, but bring a mag'har orc in, tribal, yet really honourable, peace-seeking yet quite the skiled hunter/warrior, certainly not a warmonger , different characteristic , and brown skinned to boot. well, that might be worth playing - not just for the cool customization skin, but also the lore of it.
you see a sub-race member has the possibility of being a loner that has come from his racial faction group to join the main body, or could be the whole group decided they'd join the horde/alliance - whatever they choose, new stories and new developments await, and certainly more than just oh hey, nice cool skin lets not do anything else. so we have tons of people running around with new skins and having no idea what they mean.
There are a bunch of existing sub races, true, however always opportunity for new ones, and there are some exicting ones that can be, if they go down this root, here are some possiblities.. do you have more? How would you write these ones in, what would make a really cool racial faction to add as a sub-race?
Potentially New Sub-races
- well it would be fool-hardy to do an awesome thing like sub-races and not take full advantage to make some really interesting new kick ass additions or potentials.
e.g.
- Cyborg Gnomes - a half mechagnome/gnome group born out of gnomish tinkering with mecha gnomes
- San'layan - an expansion of vampiric blood elf lordlings.
- Demon Hunter Night Elves - a sub group of Night elves with darker skin tones, fel runes and some part demon changes
- Forsaken Unliving - forsaken that look human but not quite alive, a result of an experiment to regen undead bodies or an attempt by a San'layan to make a band of human vampires from the Lordareon survivors under his control to rule the Eastern Kingdoms but gets defeated when Sylvannas beats him and they join her for freeing them.
- Eredar malgan - a breed of Eredar that didn't quite become Man'ari and found ways to seaparate themselves from Sargeras power, the process however leaves them looking altered from original draenei and from burning legion Lords.
- Cenarian Elves - a rare breed of night elves that are a cross between Sons/Daughters of Cenarius and Night Elves. They walk on 2 -legs but they have interesting features like Antlers, or leaves for hair, 1 hand a wooden claw, 1 foot sort of wooden and a dears tail at the end.