I saw many people going on about how the Vulpera and Mecha-gnomes could potentially be the next allied races added to WoW. However, I am kind of confused since to me the Vulpera look like a completely new race. The most common argument I have seen so far is that the Vulpera share their skeletons with goblins and are thus going to be an allied race. But this is not true, as can be seen here: https://imgur.com/a/FkERf#Sb5i9yk
Apart from that, I thought that since WoD they implemented Adaptive Animation Models anyway. This allows for easy skeleton creation as parts of skeletons can now be stretched, or altered in form individually while maintaining functionality.
Wasn’t the whole point of allied races that Blizzard can rehash already existing races?
If Vulpera are actually getting added as an allied race, how do we differentiate between allied and “normal races”. Because the only difference that I can see is that allied races require a rep grind to unlock.
Allied race is one you meet and a respected leader in your faction feels a connection to them for example Liadrin and blood elves share the same interests with the Nightborne, so she convinces Sylvanas to bolster the Horde’s ranks with the newly recruited Nightbornes to aid in the war.
As you can see each memeber in the embassy took part in bringing a race into the faction
Nathanos/Ji Firepaw/ Gallywix are the only ones that are present and did not fill a role , there are spots for two more allied races , and a neutral race if they will follow the core race treatment
Imo whole allied race thing is stupid and they should stop wasting resources to it. I don’t mind the rep grinds or anything, they’re just pointless to me.
Their design has nothing to do with it , yes all apart from Kultrians are a reskin , but the Allied race system does not come with rules like
If Horde gets an Elf Alliance will also
2.If Alliance gets a new model and not a reskin Horde will (see Kultirans is the only one that got a fresh feel)
Aslong as it makes sense to the story it has a slot to be a viable allied race
My point is alliance can get mecha gnomes , and horde can get lets say San’layn or ogres or alliance can get high elves and horde can get vulpera its not world of equal craft , it shouldnt each faction should feel different
Not really, the first concept about these was the “subraces”, wich was a thing that peoples requested since alot of time (Dark Iron, Wildhammer Dwarves, etc etc), then Blizzard extended it to any race that could feel a connection between them and a race from a faction.
So basically, any future race we see will probably be an Allied Race, it’s easer for Blizzard to add them instead of a normal race because they don’t have to work on a brand new starting zone, but only on the model of the race itself.
Peoples think that the Allied Race must have the same rig of the normal race because that was the case for the first four Allied Races we got, but that’s not the rule.
up until kultirans got released, allied races were simple reskins of existing models.
said this, so far they all are just “subraces” of something already playable ( in some cases by the other faction) even kultiran humans despite their new models are still a subrace of humans lore wise.
so for example vulpera/sethraks, would still be a new “family” of allied races.
Not sure if that is a good way of defining what is an allied race and what is not.
But that’s exactly my point if it is a unique model, why add it to the allied race subcategory. Just imagine how clustered the allied race tab would look like in 5 more years. The categories really don’t make too much sense apart from that there is an arbitrary grind attached to them.
The only real unique features that they have is that:
Apart from that there isn’t really much that sets them apart. Honestly their implementation in WoW felt quite unnatural so far.
Yeah but Blizzard decided to avoid the “subrace” term, even if the actual allied races are basically subraces, so i think that any new race we will find, it could potentially become an Allied Race, for example the Ethereals, etc…
Simple answer: They are easier to be added. Blizz never stated that ARs must be a reskin/subrace or even remotely related, it just happened to look like that in the beginning.
Well, I can agree with that on the Dark Iron Dwarves, Mag’har Orcs and Void Elves (who just felt like a High Elf cop-out). Those felt unnatural, but the rest were races that we interacted with in game and helped out quite recently etc.
What I mean is, it has to make sense to the story lets say San’layn or Dark Rangers have a huge impact on the story , and on the Alliance side lets say Mecha Gnomes , since Horde got an elf it doesnt have to mean that Alliance must aswell, this is the peoples mind set like if horde gets dark rangers it needs to be a counterpart with the alliance my point is this isnt world of equalness and that wasnt defining what an allied race, an allied race is another race with no affiliation interested in your faction’s cause and got recruited by a respected member of the faction
Yes , but before that they wernt part of any faction so they had no affiliation and Liadrin recruited them. Now they are an official memeber of The Horde
I really didn’t like that. Nor the Highmountain thing.
I am exalted with both those factions, yet they belong with the enemy. What?
They should have had the common sense to create alliance variations of those factions that would not later basically betray you even though you helped them in all manner of ways.
They were as of TBC , Sylvanas made sure of that , the whole eversong woods starting area they were being infiltrated by Night Elf spies and Alliance spies which really made them despise the Alliance, then when you quest through Ghostlands the Forsaken aided them and at the end you greet Sylvanas and she says she kept her word in because she would rather be in a faction with her former people then go to the Warchief and dedicate the Blood Elves to the Horde, I didnt play Ghostlands since Sylvanas was Warchief , but thats how it was
A newly made belf is not a member of the horde (story wise)