High Mountain are just way too similar and weren't justified to be an Allied Race imo. They are just Tauren with bigger horns.
We should have gotten the Buffalo men instead. Lost opportunity...
High Mountain are just way too similar and weren't justified to be an Allied Race imo. They are just Tauren with bigger horns.
We should have gotten the Buffalo men instead. Lost opportunity...
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Highmountain should've been bonus customization options for the taurens... and the lightforged draenei for the normal draenei.
As I've written it plenty of times on the forum: alliled races were a mistake. Blizzard should add more customization options to the existing races, instead of adding new races that won't even be developed further.
They should focus on the things that are already in the game. Can't wait to NOT SEE vulpera or kul tiran in the CGI...
u mean giving the faction that already has taurens a HD version of them is wrong? blasphemy
seriously reskinned 'allied' bullshit races should been barber shop since day one
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http://youtu.be/x3ejO7Nssj8 7:20+ "Alliance remaining super power", clearly blizz favor horde too much, that they made alliance the super power
If we would get Taunkas i would switch asap my race.
I always loved it back in WOTLk when my Deathrbringers Will Trinket procced and i morphed in this mighty, cool Taunka and bladestorm my enemys to the death
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We didn't see a taunka since Wotlk. Maybe cataclysm if we are being generous.
It's the same problem with people who want ogres really. We didn't see them in Legion or BFA, why expect them to be an allied race suddenly ?
Agreed, the "Allied" races were a missed oppertunity in general!
We had one whole zone working with the Highmountain Tribe of tauren.
The Taun'ka were present in 3 to 4 zones during the WotLK's Horde questing experience and in Dragonblight we see Taun'ka swearing fealty to the Horde. So no, the Horde had more connection with the Taun'ka then with the Highmountain tauren.
Agreed, as should the Dark Iron have been for the dwarves, (Outlands) mag'har for the orcs, mechagnomes for the gnomes etc.
Hmm, yes and no.
For example the void elves were a mistake because they came out of the blue, and the Nightborne because they stated they wanted to protect the world so neutrality would've suited them.
But Zandalari, vulpera and Kul Tiran do make sense as would races that'd been part of their faction for decades now, but never became playable like the Stonemaul Ogres (Vanilla, Horde), Krokul draenei (TBC, Alliance), Stillpine Furbolg (TBC, Alliance) and the taun'ka (WotLK, Horde).
Ogres are actually justified request, given that Ogres were Horde race in WC2 and until that time, they are still connected to the faction. There are still non playable ogre tribes within the Horde, they also got major development in WoD in which we've seen them as an actual advanced empire, not just dumb ass brutes they are usually depicted as.
The problem is, they are not visually appealing, so Horde got elves instead of ogres for marketing purposes.
Taunkas were to old, forgotten, lacked customization only Horde had any interactions with them. Highmountain were fresh and known to all.
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It should have been the Bloodtotem remnants allowing tauren warlocks. They're culturally distinct from our regular tauren and offer a class to a model variation that wasn't there. The taunka are cool, but out of the spotlight for ages and aren't too big a departure in the narrative sense from regular tauren and HM tauren are a complete fucking waste of an allied race slot that make Lightforged look like a downright inspired and worthwhile choice.
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The Highmountain zone was entirely dedicated to helping the Highmountain with their problems, whereas the taun'ka were just sprinkled around those "three to four zones" in Wrath.
I don't think putting all the work you did for them together adds up to the amount of work you had with the Highmountain.
You mean like the Mag’har that were randomly ripped from another timeline 2.5 years after we left?
Allied races were a weird mix of “easy” and “fan service” that then morphed into bizarre entries like vulpera and mecha-gnomes by the end.
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I’d actually say the taunka were more diverges narratively than the HM. They’d been described sort as “elemental bullies” that survived via a more forceful approach to nature due to Northrend’s harshness. Meanwhile the HM just look different and behave exactly as other tauren.
The whole Highmountain zone should have been Taunka based, shouldn't have made up the Highmountain in the first place.