1. #66781
    Quote Originally Posted by Nightshade711 View Post
    I could see an Ethereal starting zone being something like this:
    The Ethereals we play resettled K’aresh (something mentioned in BC?) and we’re forced to flee again because Xal’atath attacks. (Maybe to restore/manifest Dimensius or empower herself to become a void lord)

    I could see us being part of the Protectorate or some other anti-void faction within the Ethereals.
    I think it's half and half on Ethereals vs Naga. Ethereals have the set up through Dimensius, but as we see with the one in Nerubar, they don't seem to be interested in messing with their models (at least yet). Naga meanwhile have been MIA, have also been set up, and MAY be one of the "elf tribes" Metzen was talking about. Technically.

    Also if Dalaran crashes into the sea, that may play a part. As they have an Arcane background.

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    Speaking of Elun'ahir.

    That zone would be the perfect place to bring back a certain keeper that hasn't been involved ingame since fucking ever.





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    Quote Originally Posted by Nightshade711 View Post
    I could see an Ethereal starting zone being something like this:
    The Ethereals we play resettled K’aresh (something mentioned in BC?) and we’re forced to flee again because Xal’atath attacks. (Maybe to restore/manifest Dimensius or empower herself to become a void lord)

    I could see us being part of the Protectorate or some other anti-void faction within the Ethereals.
    I'm not too sure on Ethereal lore beside the broad strokes but what if we're some small group of survivors eking out a subdued existence on the ruins of K'aresh pulling off guerilla attacks on the void-aligned ethereals in a starting zone that eventually sees us freeing Khadgar or some important Mcguffin and fleeing to Azeroth promising to return setting the stage for a 12.2 K'aresh Zone and Raid. Backed by the Army of Light in the final stand foreshadowed in the Legion comic with Velen and Anduin (who's looking old and weathered but not *that* old and weathered)

    Real Talk: I want that Ethereal Camel mount like Saraad from Hearthstone.

    Quote Originally Posted by Raetary View Post
    Speaking of Elun'ahir.

    That zone would be the perfect place to bring back a certain keeper that hasn't been involved ingame since fucking ever.

    Freya absolutely should be in the game if we're dealing with anything related to Eonar and world trees.
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    I won't read the full spoilers for now, but can we say that they are setting up the titan theme in a major way in TWW already or is it just mostly void stuff?

  5. #66785
    Quote Originally Posted by Cheezits View Post
    I think it's half and half on Ethereals vs Naga. Ethereals have the set up through Dimensius, but as we see with the one in Nerubar, they don't seem to be interested in messing with their models (at least yet). Naga meanwhile have been MIA, have also been set up, and MAY be one of the "elf tribes" Metzen was talking about. Technically.

    Also if Dalaran crashes into the sea, that may play a part. As they have an Arcane background.
    Their comment on why there won't be a nerubian AR pretty much solidifies that naga won't happen either. Its a shame but any humaniod race is way more likey.

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    Quote Originally Posted by allegrian View Post
    I won't read the full spoilers for now, but can we say that they are setting up the titan theme in a major way in TWW already or is it just mostly void stuff?
    Had a look at it myself earlier, and in my opinion some of the titan stuff seems more like an immediate situation to resolve than something that will impact TLT, I could just be misinterpreting that though. We'll definitely have some major build up by the final expansion patch though.
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  7. #66787
    Quote Originally Posted by Khaza-R View Post
    Their comment on why there won't be a nerubian AR pretty much solidifies that naga won't happen either. Its a shame but any humaniod race is way more likey.
    I think blizzard should make it clear that not every new npc race will be an AR even if they reuse playable model, it would be unsustainable to have so many races. I'd be ok with no playable harronir at all. They should just add 1 race per expansion if it makes sense and has proper worldbuilding and protagonism in the expansion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by allegrian View Post
    I won't read the full spoilers for now, but can we say that they are setting up the titan theme in a major way in TWW already or is it just mostly void stuff?
    From what i've seen, the Titan theme is primarily local.
    Earthen and their edicts, the Coreways reconstruction and the Earthen factory.

    There's worldbuilding involving a keeper and a titan construct that paints them as tyrannical and controlling, but that's about it.

    The rest of the narrative is about the void.




  9. #66789
    Quote Originally Posted by allegrian View Post
    I think blizzard should make it clear that not every new npc race will be an AR even if they reuse playable model, it would be unsustainable to have so many races. I'd be ok with no playable harronir at all. They should just add 1 race per expansion if it makes sense and has proper worldbuilding and protagonism in the expansion.
    The more I see of harronir, the more I don't want them. Just way too similar to Night Elves. These ARs need some originality at this point.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Worldshaper View Post
    I just want Vrykul, man. Do you know the band Heilung? I want to create a Norse-ass warrior character with sick warpaint, runic tattoos, braided hair and a metal beard.

    It's funny how Night Elves, if customised the right way, are currently the closest thing to that.
    How is that not Dwarf

  11. #66791
    Quote Originally Posted by Khaza-R View Post
    The more I see of harronir, the more I don't want them. Just way too similar to Night Elves. These ARs need some originality at this point.
    It doesn't help that we have already 2 AR using the night elf rig. If harronir males had the male troll model with NE features it'd have been more interesting.

  12. #66792
    Quote Originally Posted by Khaza-R View Post
    Their comment on why there won't be a nerubian AR pretty much solidifies that naga won't happen either. Its a shame but any humaniod race is way more likey.
    Their reasoning for "no Nerubian AR" is because they say the arms make it difficult. However, the two-legged, four armed but humanoid nerubians have animations to hold every weapon that you can view on Wowhead. They also said not in TWW. I don't think the animations question is a real argument and they may have been referring to the regular Nerubians too, which would make sense.

    From a logic persepective, it doesn't really make sense why they would introduce this wacky Nerubian form for any other reason than eventual playability. It's just more work for what, a one-off raid mob? That, lorewise, wouldn't appear in The Last Titan barring as a race from Azj-Kahet? So it's not like they will be able to reuse them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by allegrian View Post
    It doesn't help that we have already 2 AR using the night elf rig. If harronir males had the male troll model with NE features it'd have been more interesting.
    No one wants to play another hunched over ugly race?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Khaza-R View Post
    Their comment on why there won't be a nerubian AR pretty much solidifies that naga won't happen either. Its a shame but any humaniod race is way more likey.
    What comment?

  14. #66794
    Quote Originally Posted by Lady Atia View Post
    What comment?
    https://www.well-played.com.au/no-we...xpansion-devs/

    WP: Nerubians have been such a massive part of Warcraft history. Do we get to play as Nerubians at some point?

    DM: We don’t get to play with Nerubians in this expansion. No. And there’s no plans right now. From what I understand, playing as a Nerubian would be a tough thing to kind of animate because they have so many limbs and whatnot.

    TW: There’s some complications there. Definitely.

  15. #66795
    when it comes to allied races they're heavily limited by the way armor works in the game. races that can't have a "visage" form would end up like dracthyrs (without the humanoid form)

    imo harronirs are fine. at least they look better than dracthyrs and are more interesting than eartherns

  16. #66796
    Quote Originally Posted by Reive View Post
    when it comes to allied races they're heavily limited by the way armor works in the game. races that can't have a "visage" form would end up like dracthyrs (without the humanoid form)

    imo harronirs are fine. at least they look better than dracthyrs and are more interesting than eartherns
    Harronirs are fine, it's a decently unique on dark trolls/bugbears, but it does point to "we aren't ever getting a monster ever again" and is once again OC race. Hope to be proven wrong with Naga (even if it means visage form) but I definitely have checked out a bit and assume Drac will probably be our last monster, given the most likely races after are Helf and Amani/Drakkari.

  17. #66797
    Quote Originally Posted by Reive View Post
    when it comes to allied races they're heavily limited by the way armor works in the game. races that can't have a "visage" form would end up like dracthyrs (without the humanoid form)

    imo harronirs are fine. at least they look better than dracthyrs and are more interesting than eartherns
    They’ve got machine learning tech to fit armor onto new character models, as per an interview with Ion.

    I think it is very likely that Dracthyr once they get new classes, and new races would be able to wear armor like everyone else as they work with the tech a bit more.
    Quote Originally Posted by Teriz View Post
    The point is that what Paladins are doing can rather easily be considered hi-tech artificing.
    Lightborne/Guardian of Ancient Kings race concept

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    Considering that we already know that the coreway is supposed to take the Earthen all the way down to the very core of Azeroth, I fully expect the final zone of the expansion to be so near the core that it's a part of the skybox or something similar.
    Blizzard's cutting corners again? Yare Yare Daze...

  19. #66799
    Quote Originally Posted by Cheezits View Post
    Harronirs are fine, it's a decently unique on dark trolls/bugbears, but it does point to "we aren't ever getting a monster ever again" and is once again OC race. Hope to be proven wrong with Naga (even if it means visage form) but I definitely have checked out a bit and assume Drac will probably be our last monster, given the most likely races after are Helf and Amani/Drakkari.
    i don't really care tbh. i just hope we get cool races. i don't want meme races like dracthyrs and vulperas
    Quote Originally Posted by Nightshade711 View Post
    They’ve got machine learning tech to fit armor onto new character models, as per an interview with Ion.

    I think it is very likely that Dracthyr once they get new classes, and new races would be able to wear armor like everyone else as they work with the tech a bit more.
    to fit new armor or all armor? that's the key difference. dracthyrs can wear custom made armor, but they can't wear old sets because they just don't work on them

    they said that starting from tww dracthyrs are going to be able to stay in visage form permanently, so i don't think they have managed to fix the armor issue for the dragon form lol

  20. #66800
    Quote Originally Posted by Reive View Post
    they said that starting from tww dracthyrs are going to be able to stay in visage form permanently, so i don't think they have managed to fix the armor issue for the dragon form lol
    lol no, they said that dracthyr visage forms for other classes will be able to permanently stay in that form as they don't have any spells that turn them into a dragon. no hover, deep breath, etc.

    but I agree dracs won't ever be able to have regular armor in dragon form imo. just guessing.

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