Battle for Azeroth Allied Races - Lightforged Draenei Preview

[Fanaemis]

Blizzard.....more customization options please?. In the end we will probably end up playing a lightforged draenei but please improve the facial customizations for all races seriously. Give one that has a mouth open or raised eyebrows or smiley face not this mannequin depiction of characters. One thing i miss about the pre-WoD character models are definitely the noticeable and distinguishable differences in the faces.

[DeicideUH]

The modelviewer shows the female getting a longer tail, the screenshots do not however. Can anyone tell me if i finally can get a longer tail on my draenei space wives?

No. The tail geoset is there (the standard draenei females also have it since the model revamp in WoD), but the option was never added to the game.

Sucks, I know.

[Tartys]

Is the only race I'm interested.. I was ready to change my main race but, surprisingly, they cant be shaman and I dont wanna pay for a race change for my mage alt!
They dont have any class that I'm looking for like monk!

but, because my main is a Draenei since WotLK, I'd like very much have more customization options... after so many years Id like change it a bit.

[Deleted]

We just defeated the demons, guess what a well introduce a new 'race' with:

Demonbane - Experience gains from killing demons increased by 20%.

GG

Unfortunatly the rest seem meh as well. The light's judgement obstacle would make it possible to become really powerfull in pve because it's a too big obstacle for pvp.
The Light's Reckoning, is too bad and to class specific. It would need to be like Kogmaw in LoL where you can still run for a while after death and on explosion deal like 30% damage on the players hit (or because it also has light's judgement 20% minimum).

The heritage armour looks cool and combined with that has some nice astetics. But it's cheesy as hell for first allied race batch, draenei with a bit of light when their already light themed. (same with void elves, who look a lot like Night Elves or Blood Elf DK's)

[Magicon]

Goddamn these guys look great.

Why do the heritage set pics show regular Draenei though? Just an mmochamp oversight?

That is actually a lightforged draenei..æ. oh, so lucky we are to get a race we mistake for normal draenei when seeing them.

Edit: you have to click on the modellviewer to see lightforged in the armor.

[GSN]

They feel unfinished compared to the other allied races. Few customization options, and most of them should have just been made available for normal Draenei.

[NomCarver]

What reasons, other than different classes, should one play a regular draeni over LF dranei?

[oldgeezer]

What reasons, other than different classes, should one play a regular draeni over LF dranei?

Aesthetics. No other reason. Horns and beards.

[MatadorMedia]

The new Draenei and the Tauren allied races are by far the laziest; they're just extra tattoos / horns options. At least with the void elves they changed factions so it's fresher.

[Projectmars]

And here we have the second worst Allied Race. booo.

[Deleted]

RIP dranei intro! I thought races will come this week... but those racials are so unbalanced. @feelsbadman

I cannot even imagine how much money they will harvest by the "race change" feature. OMG

[Hawkknight97]

Customization options for the Lightforged is awesome. I love the White Beards, Cool Tattoos, Awesome Armor, and Racials is very interesting. 10/10 Looking forward to playing this awesome subrace.

[PuppetShowJustice]

Racials are not supposed to be something that will save the entirety of your raid, you know.

That's the same as saying that Touch of the Grave should represent 25% of any undead's DPS.

No it isn't.

Touch of the Grave is useful. Lets say you're a Lightforged Marks Hunter and a raid mechanic kills you and your racial triggers but you're spread out because raid mechanics sometimes demand this -- your explosion doesn't heal any allies and it doesn't harm any enemies.

You could have had Dwarven critical strike bonus damage. You could have had Gnome haste. You could have had Night Elf Haste or Crit. You could have had regular Draenei's AGI boost. You could have had Worgen's +Crit. You could have gone with Void Elf's 5% extra damage proc.

Instead you went with Zero Damage Or Healing When You Die Alone and you have no throughout racial.

Not all racials have to be good in all situations. The explode could be a fun flavor racial, but there isn't any other saving grace here. You weren't even willing to contest anything else on the list -- just the dumb explode one. It's bad in organized PVE. It's bad for PVP. It's useless for solo questing.

[MrLoque]

Am I wrong or do they look like normal Draenei with a grey skin?

[Skaiz]

Go ahead on keep posting info about these trash races. The real star of the show is ZANDALARI!

[tbakke]

I dunno, i find it hard to be exited about these "new" races. It just feels like Blizzard yet again reskinning some old models and presenting it as "new and improved", and then hiding it behind a "you need to do all this shit to get access to them" wall. There's just something about working hard to unlock nothing more than a skincolor-variation that feels underwhelming.

I'm probably just being a <insert demeaning word here>, but..

[Trassk]

they look good base models, though couldn't go wrong really the draenei base model already looks good, this is just a tweaked version of that. Disappointed in the lack of leather class, sure draenei had monk given to them in pandaria but just felt like this could be a change like a light-forged infiltrator (rogue), and since suramar elves can be monks dunno why these can't.
Racials aren't that great but its never a deciding factor for me when choosing a race.

[AnonEntity]

Draenei + yellow = Lightforged. Yeah, I am exaggerating. But these guys really don't have much to offer, they are Draenei, lightforged or not is not a major difference.

[Daedius]

Besides the all gold heritage set, the other 3 are bloody hideous !

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And their racials suck so much... regular draenai are still superior.

[Trassk]

Go ahead on keep posting info about these trash races. The real star of the show is ZANDALARI!

Zandalari are just male night elves reskinned.