The Skyborne are a pretty lame choice that satisfies almost no one, lets discuss what race YOU would of added and what their racials would be.
>>747918094worgen
>>747918094high elves for alliance and centaurs for hordehigh elves limited to casters, centaurs to physicalshigh elf racials passive spell hit+5% mana regen+some kind of activated mana surge thing, if you're high mana you get spell haste, if you're low mana you get spell crit also causes a minor slow on mobs around the caster when it endscentaur racials passive faster mount up speed (don't actually use mounts, just entering gallop via rearing up animation), extra 6 slot saddle bag + horse leg back kick; instant, 1s stun, 9y knockback, 45 degree backward cone with 3y range
>>747918772I like the centaur idea, but wouldn't they fit on the alliance better so they can continue mogging tauren?
>>747918265Give us something new, no rehashes
>>747918094NagaGnollOgreForest TrollHarpySatyrGoblinHigh ElfQuilboar KoboldMurloc
The answer is shit people have been asking for for two decades, like ogres and naga. But if it has to be a currently playable, give me my jew gobbos.
I get why they went with the pretty race, but I too want gobbos.
>>747918094High elves for Alliance and Ogres for Horde. My real wish though is for Night Elves and Forsaken to be their own respective independent factions.
>>747918094Faggot OP here, I had an OC donut idea. Firelords, like the tavern hero. It says that they were once summoned by mages, and now that they are free they want to break away from ragnaros.Males would look like the Hero from WC3, females would be the Atronauchs people goon to in Elder scrolls.
>>747918094High elves and undead elves
>>747918094mechanical-skellingtons
>>747921810Also OP my post got cut off, they could join the alliance or Horde, depending on whoever they make a deal with to escape Ragnaros's rule.
>>747921824Couldn't undead elves just be an option for Forsaken?
>>747918094Horde - Forsaken High Elf. Wouldn't even need unique content except for many a dark ranger class quest if they're a hunter.Alliance - High Elf.If there's an elf mandate these picks aren't rocket science. Can also do half-ogre orcs.
>>747921727Dude yes.Please become a dev and save this shitty industry one man at a time
>>747918094Naga+15% swimming speed and underwater breathingUnderwater weaving: +10 tailoringPole arm and wand specializationArcane mist: gain 4% evasion and -10% threat reduction for 7 seconds. Cooldown 5 minutes. Lasts 10 minutesWarriorHunterMageWarlockPriestCan also wield bows, along with night elf priestsHex of weaknessAshzara's kiss: Can only be active on one target. Increase the targets armor, and any attackers to the target takes frost damage for each melee attack while getting slowed by 25% for 2 seconds. Instant cast, 20 yards.
>Ctrl + F "Arakkoa">Phrase not foundWhat a bunch of newfaggots
>>747922849Fuck off furfag
>>747918094Murloc or Kobold, because I like small, weird looking shit. Not sure about the racials.
>>747922883There is nothin sexy about bird niggas, they just look cool and have interesting lore
>>747923095No. Never give people who ask for any beast race an inch.
>>747922083A lot of us have though this for a long time. WoW should have been:>AllianceHumanDwarfGnome>HordeOrcTrollTaurenNight Elf>Elf>Dryad>Trent>UndeadUndead versions of the other races>Expansion Races could beHigh Elves and Draenei (ugly broken ones) for AllianceGoblins and Orges for the HordeIDK for Night Elves and Undead. Furbolgs and abominations maybe?
>>747921378>>747922710I've said since I quit back in Cata that if they ever add Naga, I'll resub.>b-but the snake bodies are hard for the armor system!I don't care, you've made billions off this shit, you can afford to do something cool.
>>747923684The armor system has worked with the naga model since vanilla. They just don't make sense as playables.
>>747923316But Human had high elves on their team in WC3. (Sorceress and priest)HumanHigh elfDwarfOrcTrollTaurenNight elfFurbolgSatyr and other crittersUndeadDead stuff>>747921810Idk about playable race, but a town of them could be kino
...What was wrong with Blood Elves and Dranaei?Nobody complained about those races being added, nobody complained about all the extra content added in BC and WotLK, just use the existing assets and change the quest, world, and overall design to be more in line with classic wow's philosophy instead of this special donut steel stuffdumb af
>>747924085A lot of people complained about space aliens flying into Azeroth on their spaceship and draenei suddenly being completely different from how they were in WC3 actually.
>>747924085We wanted Highborn and ogres.We got Russian Orthodox space goats and faggy elves.
>NO BRO IF YOU ADD ELVES FOR ALLIANCE AND OGRES FOR HORDE THEN NOBODY WILL PLAY HORDE! >meanwhile on wow forever right now the game tells you that you can't create a horde character because of severe faction imbalance>despite both having elves>despite supposedly humans being vastly more popular than all other horde races>despite alliance having the better pvp racialslol
>>747918094I'd make Vulpera the only playable race
>>747923139this nigga fightin a battle that was lost 30 years ago kek.
>>747918772>high elves limited to casters, centaurs to physicalsActual retard.
>>747924467Their racials unironically fit vanilla far more than they do retail.
>>747922710>15%Fuck that. Outside of pvp, and even then it's a niche application, swim speed means jack shit. Bump that shit up to 50%. I want to feel like I'm supposed to be in the water, swimming circles around everything but druids.
>>747918094Titan>but.. But..Nope. I want Playable Titan.
Genuinely and seriously, what possesses a person to chose the faction with options like undead, tauren, trolls, and orcs, and then decide to go with humans with knife ears? I know there are some poopsocking min maxers who actually care about the racials, but surely that's not the reason. I haven't played in years but I remember doing all that shit to unlock the not-night elf race and realizing elves were a fag race and never actually bothered creating a character.
>>747918094high elves and pandaren for alliancegoblins and ogres for the horde
>>747918094horse
>>747918772centaurs would be hilarious since they are basically like nazis to the jewish tauren
WC3 with HOTS graphics/art direction when?
>>747923839>The armor system has worked with the naga model since vanillacan we see?
In WoW classic I remember getting chat muted for 2 weeks for making fun of this guy that was advertising his bot farm. I stopped engaging in WoW after that
>>747925851Look up videos of people using tmorph to play as naga from 2007? or use the model viewer on wowhead?
>>747925851Many private servers has custom races.
>>747918094Forsaken Tauren
broken for allianceogre for hordeit would piss off normies and trannies who wanna play as twinks and anime characters, but it would fit very well into the vanilla atmosphere.
>>747918094A scourge faction that is locked out of instanced content and has a singular goal of accumulating dead bodies for the Lich King's army. There would be a meter measuring the scourge's overall power, which would fill over an arbitrary long duration until content was prepared. Once complete, the scourge would initiate an overwhelming onslaught against the world.
>>747926852I want the option to play as a scourge necromancer instead of a warlock.
>>747918094>what race YOU would of added and what their racials would beDraconids. Dragonblood passive: -2% damage takenChromatic shield: +2% chance to resist spellsDraconic diplomacy: aggro range on dragon type mobs reduced significantly.Fire breathing: AoE frontal damage with 2sec disorient, breaks upon taking damage 2 mins cd.WarriorHunterRogueMage
>>747926780>my sole enjoyment stems from fucking with others so i wanna play as the JUSTed fucked up defeated people raceTruly dedicated.
>>747924085>What was wrong with Blood Elves and Dranaei?Blood elves went to the horde because the faction imbalance was really something in vanilla but that upset a lot of sekrit club type special people.Draenei were the unfucked version of the "broken" draenei and that upset a lot of people because the pretty race went to the faction with pretty races. They thought that the broken were way more interesting than they really were because some people out there have this fetish for fucked up shit.As you can see, a lot of people have too much time on their hands, but the bitching only happens when non fucked up pretty races are introduced to the game, so there's a pattern you can see there that's very similar to recent past events over the last 10 years in gaming.
>>747921727>Every realm becomes 9A:1H pop ratioYou cannot give one faction the belf model and not the other if you want healthy faction populationsThey'll have to do retail bullshit to fix it again
>>747923316>WoW should have been:>gnomeplease kill yourself
>>747929024nope. i genuinely want them and have always wanted them.
>>747930160>i genuinely want themJust to confirm, you wanna play as this? Even the devs realized they created a really fucked up thing and retouched them later in TBC for example, and made them look less bad and well, broken. Where would you think they would fit in? horde?
>>747930360yes? what is the problem here exactly? they can touch them up a bit to make them look a little bit cooler while keeping them fundamentally more monstrous than the draenei. they already have bizarre monstrous races like trolls being playable, why not broken?
>>747925887I understand why EVE O let's people bot, but WoW has never had anyway to turn in-game cash into revenue for Blizz, has it?
>>747926780An important thing to consider when talking about "vanilla atmosphere" is how faction identity is an important aspect of it.Alliance is the civilized and pretty while horde is savage and ugly.Fans of both Alliance and Horde like their faction because of the consistency.Blood Elves are controversial because they didn't fit into Horde aesthetic back in the day, just how broken wouldn't fit with vanilla Alliance.
>>747930360yes and they should make them look more hideous, i want the women players to flee at the sight of me just like in real life
>>747930554>yes? what is the problem here exactly?>posts the less fucked up looking TBC versionThat's the point. I knew you would post the TBC version.>they can touch them up a bit to make them look a little bit cooler Even you, Mr. "just fuck my shit up" don't want to play as the broken from w3. You want the "cooler" broken. Compare the eyesockets and mouths of the previous version and the latest "retouched, prettied up" version. Kind of self defeating if you too don't wanna play as the monsters.Anyway, they'd probably fit in the horde or something, should work out well, and by well i mean barely anybody would play it, as even their champions like you don't actually wanna play as the actual broken.Protip: your hesitance to play as the actual, original broken is the reason why draenei were added. Most people think just like you do, but are a wee bit more honest than you are.
>>747930727>i want the women players to flee at the sight of me just like in real lifekek, the real deal.
>>747930835bro I am fucking down to play the ultra fucked up version. i never said i wasnt. what i did mean originally though was the Krokul, specifically, so the middle point between Draenei and The Lost. They can still look fucked up and badass, motherfucker.
why the obsession with high elves? I though skyborne were hated cause they're just another elf race. You seriously want another elf race instead of another elf race? boring mfs
>>747930360>Just to confirm, you wanna play as this?>you wanna play spooky space assassins that kill shit with scythes and have so many scythes even their caster units get scythesYEAH I wanna play the baleen niggas. Playing fucked up monsters is fun and their animations are great. I do like the draenei we got, too, but I really wanted my OGs.
>>747931054Skyborne are annoying because>no one asked for them>they're yet another flavor of elf when the setting already has like... four or five now?>they're just a Blood Elf recolor packaged up for $30>their story is stupid and they stick out like a sore thumb in the Vanilla-ish environmentPeople want high elves because they've wanted them since vanilla and some dip at Blizz just refuses to pull the trigger, even when every objection Blizz has raised to the idea has been ignored by every other special flavor of elf they decided to add.
thanks to metzen we didn't get high elves
>>747922710fish booba
>>747918265Yiff in hell furfag
>>747931054the problem is that its another made up elf race which is a pattern blizzard has found themselves relying way too much on. if it was only night elf and high elf, that would be fine, but they constantly add shit like void elves, nightborne, dracthyr, haranir, (totally not an elf guys) and the hyper focus on elf characters in the story of retail like sylvanas, xalatath, etc.
>>747918094Horse will be 80% blue elves and 20% PvP tryhards that roll Orc.
>>747931498>Naga joining the Horde>everDoubtful. I do wonder what Blizz's issue is with Drakonids though. Those guys are breddy cool.
Ight guys I got the best idealeper gnomes for horde and half orcs for the alliance (they're just regular orc models but with human skin tones)
>>747918094I bet both that new race idea and the glow/bloom effect were a women + troon moment idea within the meeting table
If this is meant to be a new beginning I'd add in all of the races I intended to add at the start and not add any as time goes on or save them for many years down the road. Set a foundation and then let it do it's thing, don't slap new shit on constantly. It fucking boggles my mind that they are just throwing another flavor of half assed elf into the game while actively ignoring the ones they already have, much less not adding the one people ask for.>Blood elves>High elves>Naga>Ogre/Drakonid>Goblin as the independent race>>747921987>>747921824This is also a very interesting idea, undead versions of other races.
>>747933238Probably, but the game in charge of the whole project basically said yesterday:>Yeah, we wanted elves for launch, but we didn't want to make Quel'thalas, we are going to save Blood/High Elves for that>So we just said fuck it and made up some bullshit. We're gameplay first, so it doesn't matter.Those are the guys who are going to keep that "classic" vibe with the new content.
>>747933518>but we didn't want to make Quel'thalasBut it's already made ?.....
>>747933564Presumably they didn't want to use the TBC version, and can't use the Midnight version since it doesn't fit the classic art style.
>>747933825I honestly can't imagine why they wouldn't want to use the TBC version, if you want to change their story then you fix up the city, remove the scar, done. I forget what the ghostlands lore was, maybe keep it who knows. The only downside is you might want to adjust where it is because if it was a nu-vanilla starting city you need other low level zones outside of it and not 50-60 shit.
>>747918094Skeletons, its the only race that would make me buy that shitty game.
>>747918094but metzen approved of it, clearly this is in line with the true spirit of wow
>>747921378Lorewise, what starting zones would any of the following races have?>Gnoll>Harpy>Satyr>Quilboar>Kobold>MurlocHaving played Wc3 multiple times I can only fully agree with wanting Nagas, Ogres, Forest Trolls and High Elves in WoW.
>>747934053>I honestly can't imagine why they wouldn't want to use the TBC versionBecause they would have to edit thousands of lines of dialogue referencing things that happened only in the TBC canon.
>>747934527Why would they have to do that? You're copying the map anon not all the quests and story.
>>747934587So they're just going to have a city with no NPCs in it?
warcraft 3 was fun and all but I don't get what kind of mental illness it takes to be invested in the lore of discount DnD, which is already pop-culturefied Tolkien
they should add playable anime girls to wow forever with boob sliders
>>747934703bro are you being intentionally obtuse
>>747934780No, you're just retarded. If they reuse Silvermoon they're obviously going to reuse the NPCs. But if they do that then they need to identify and edit all the dialogue of all the NPCs to remove the events referencing TBC.
>>747918094Are their infrastructures just reskinned NELF buildings?
>>747934834oh so you're just actually stupid
>>747921727During Wrath I wanted the option for Death Knights to stay loyal to the Lich King and you could be enemies to BOTH Alliance and Horde. It would only work for that expansion but it would have been great.
>>747934907Pretty much, they are highborne that fled Eldre'Thalas/Dire Maul but they don't even look like night elves but look like high elves which is weird since they've never been to the sunwell, whatever
>>747929904It will never cease to amaze me how buck broken WoW players are over gnomes.
>>747923839>They just don't make sense as playablesthis excuse really doesn't fly after all the shit they've pulled like Yiffkin and Void elves. like hell weren't they going to add something as stupid as lightforged undead before they realized how unpopular that was?
>>747918094third faction with naga, blood elves and broken draenei, reusing tbc areas and assets for their leveling zones and cities.but this company couldn't figure out how to put armor on dracthyr, so of course it would never happen.
>>747931498did they actually add the vampire elves?
>>747934336metzen hasn't understood the "spirit of WoW" in 20 years. dude can't even bother to explain elves and dragons liking bikini armor despite that being all they used to wear.
>>747918094>would of addedi fucking hate third worlders
>>747935152Gnomercy
>>747935309havent played this dogshit game since BFA but iirc they gave that as a customization option to blood elves or some shit.
>>747918094nah let’s think of what dumbshit races blizz will add nextgood forsakennagas with feet
>>747918772Just stop. Blood elves ARE high elves.
>>747918094OgreStarts in mulgore. They are same size as tauren, rejoining the horde because other ogre clans have almost wiped them out or whatever due to their smaller size. They have their own mini town up in mountains of tauren starting zone and a few new quests for them but otherwise they are trying to help tauren out to earn refuge in mulgore for a bit.Classes: Warrior, Warlock, Shaman, MageRacials: Me smash: Smashes target enemy doing X damage and knocking them on the ground for 1 second. 1.5 second cast time, 3 min cooldown. can be used while moving.Glutton: gain an extra X amount of spirit/stamina when benefiting from a food buffFurblogs:Starts in teldrassil with night elfs. they are refugees, pushed out of their home by other furblogs.Classes: warrior, Hunter, Shaman, Rogue, Priest.Racials:Rejuvenating herbs: restores 20% of your HP and mana over 10 seconds, 3 minute cooldown.Cousins of timbermaw:Starts friendly (or maybe honored) with timbermaw hold. can speak to the quarter master at timbermaw hold to unlock a hearthstone ability to go there.
>>747931326I read this as Metzen meant for them to go for more obscure races like nagas, ogres, dragons etc. but the devs completely missed the point and went "no old elves? ...new elves! (still old elves)"
>>747936302>Metzen: High elves? No no, think BIGGER>Nu-devs: uhh okay... uhhhh High elves, but BLUEMy curiosity of how metzen thought about that is actually quite high. was he impressed or did he facepalm and say ok whatever. Maybe he actually thought "high elves bbut blue" is an improvement simply for the novelty.
>>747936246finally a non-retarded person who gets the spirit of vanilla. would be so sick to have these two races, man.
>>747918094The fuck is a "skyborne"? Is there invisible Pandaria 2 floating in the sky over Azeroth?
>>747918094What is ridiculous is that they could have added all high elves, blood elves, dranei, ogres, goblins, drakonids, worgen and naga and it would not have twisted anything about the lore of azeroth in vanilla wow. Only one of these I'd be against is worgen as it began the turning of the wow playerbase into furries but that is not the game's fault.But no they had to invent some lorebreaking shit to justify charging a basegame price, while reusing assets and recolors to make it as cheap as possible in devtime.Dont care what they put in this game as I'm never paying blizzard, what I'm mad about is they killed turtle, epoch and ascension for this.
>Add Naga>Repurpose Vashjir into a starter area>Naga would be the only race that could breathe under water permanently so that would add flavor to it early on>It would also be the only areas with """flying""" meaning they could focus entirely on vertical designs, making the experience unique within the new game as no other areas have flying
in my opinion they should just add 3-4 new playable races for classic that are fun and now worry too much about lore or their starting zones, like maybe give each starting zone a new race at once and have 1 diplomat NPC at nearby major city.
>>747937001playable nagas wouldnt work though. please stay tuned for our next race reveal: high elves, but green
>>747936765worgen could be fine as long as they look like insane ferocious monsters rather than cute cuddly wubbly dogs.
>>747937101In what way would they not work anon.
>>747918094Turtle had the best idea with High Elves for Alliance and Goblins for Horde.Metzen is a retard for thinking sky elves belong in Vanilla.
>>747937165>as long as they look like insane ferocious monsters
Something has to be wrong with the server routing. Even if the servers are NA only, it should not be this bad. A little bit of delay is expected (100-200 depending on where in Europe you are). But the disconnects prove that something is just broken, and clearly not intentional. That's not excusing them in any way, but I do expect it to get fixed rather soon.
>>747926780Hear me out;Broken for the Horde - High Elves for the Alliance. Like >>747930671 said, it fits with the aesthetics.
Ogre plsI just like being a giant retard who casts spells in mmoshalf ogre wizard in dark age of camelotroegadyn scholar in ff14ogre elementalist in monsters and magiclet me be an ogre warlock or something you COWARDS let me be a ROBE WEARING RETARD
>>747937457Sorry. Just like Naga the logistics to make an ogre work for players is just impossible. How about a red colored blood elf? Perhaps a purple one?
>>747937101>billion dollar company>allergic to even the most basic of effort to make their highest selling game enjoyable
>>747931326so unbelievably washed up
>>747918094There's no way this isn't a humiliation ritual because blizzard knows that can get away with literally anything and wow players will still buy it and eat it up. $30 pallet swapped blood elves and those subhumans are genuinely cheering for it. Maybe gamers deserve the scorn they get from developers.
The funny thing about it all is that you have all the base animations already for something like Ogre or Naga, gear aside from a helmet or shoulderpads is basically painted onto the model, not much effort there either.
>>747918094NagaUnderwater breathing, small flat armour bonus cos scales, polearm mastery. Active ability would be a frost based slow
>>747936302>Metzie: Alliance elves? Maybe do something bigger? More impactful. This is supposed to be 'Forever,' guys.>Devs: You're right... You're right! EVERYONE gets elves, but they're light blue instead of the dark blue of Night Elves! You're a genius Mr. Metzen!>Metzawabble: Jesus, whatever... Can I just go back to Heroes of the Storm, where I wanted to retire?>ActiBlizz: NO! BACK TO THE MONEY PITS WITH YOU!
>>747937718Yeah but, that sounds more complicated than reskinning a blood elf. Sorry, it's just impossible.
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>>747937679The assumption early on was that this was for the asian market since they won't play ugly characters, but that doesn't explain why you'd not just use blood elves and maybe throw in high elves. Most of the work is already done anyway.It's more of the same "we the devs know best we don't care what you want or like"
>>747937818Ok sorry Nagaborne, snowflake Naga that rebelled against azshara and regained elf forms but with some egregiously high definition sea themed attachments and scalesUnderwater breathing, swim speed. Armour bonus and dodge cos fish are slippery2% frost damage added to all attacks and spellsActive ability is just frost nova for everyone, seems balancedAnd they do a tiktok dance that shows how far the technical skills of the animation team has fallen.
>all you have to do is copypaste private server content>fail to do so>millenials rush to play a shittier version of the game, parsing lvl20 contentThere is not any other company which can fall upward this hard. The woman who makes pilgrimage anniversaries where she was raped is less fucked than you guys.
>>747937818indeed. asking the multi-billion dollar company to do work is asking a lot, for sure.
>>747935672It's a grammatical error that's almost exclusive to native English speakers.
>>747938012>Active ability is just frost nova for everyone, seems balanced
>>747918265This. Worgen are the coolest race in WoW and I hope they'll just add them later on.
>>747938231Shoulda woulda coulda
>>747937273honest answer: they are charging for races, and women/asians dont play ugly beast races.
>>747938327Maybe they coulda made them sexy NagasBut you're right, it's estimated women make up around 35%~ of WoW's playerbase and they all almost exclusively play some flavor of Elf or Human
>>747938327Yeah, it's unfortunate. Just another retail.
>>747928883Best I can give you is their non binary cousins designed by a gayfurry.
>>747937839Yeah retail has the retcon elf troll things, the sky guys are just the same things.
>>747918094Why you need new race? The way I would do it that in future if there is death knight coming that is then the new "race" that is something between human/undead and that is then split into alliance/horde similarly as the blue fags. Or the easiest and best would probably just be to do the high elves that everyone actually wanted.
>>747938468death knight would be gay, they should try something new
>>747918772>centaurs for hordeSpoken like a true dumb idiot, we slaughter them in droves.
>>747938468Because if you are building a new WoW you might as well add the things you want at the beginning instead of stringing it out down the road. Use your imagination, do what you've always wanted, shake it up.Or not, add a blue elf.
