Forsaken Race Rework

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Love them or hate them, forsaken are awesome. They make the best buddies and the perfect villain.

When you create a forsaken knowing their lore and all you’d be expecting some extremely powerful undead enhanced by insanely powerful necromantic magic that gives them huge durability and strength, you’d be playing THE undead race, you’d expect punks, lords, cute zombie girls, pale goth zombies and your extra grumpy stinky grampa.

Instead however when you create a forsaken all you get is those that have been unlucky to become stiches plaything, poor fellas got bent so hard they developed Scheuermann’s Kyphosis. And some how they all look like demented granpas and granmas, not all forsaken died old some of them were in their thirties and some even younger.

And so I believe the forsaken as a race deserves a rework, imo they’re the only race that become worse with the wod model update, and they are the only race where you see people asking old models for or the Chinese model for.

So how should the forsaken look like? let’s start with what is a forsaken and who the forsaken currently are.

The forsaken are the undead, they are mainly parts of the scourge that defected after the lich king’s powers diminished and he lost his grip on them because of their sheer will power, the forsaken are known for this sheer will power and it’s iconic to them and is actually their ingame racial power, they are known to be durable, strong and cunning and are all hell bent on getting revenge on the man that turned their lives to hell, led by Sylvannas windrunner who rallied them out of their misery the forsaken are strangely super loyal to her.

Then there are the forsaken found in tombs ( like the player ) and then the forsaken risen by the Valkyr.

The forsaken didn’t all die brutal deaths, nor were they all old men and women, some peacefully died from the plague, some were corpses fresh or old, some were killed by being back stabbed by those they held dear, some fought tooth and nail against the scourge and got ripped apart but in the end they are corpses and just like any sentient undead we see in any show/game/movie/cartoon/fiction/book/novel the undead will naturally try to look as humane as they could possibly can and so I tried to put how undeads should be made in parts.

Part one : Undead racial features

Undeads will mostly try to Sew themselves back, bandage the bad/decayed parts, use supports such as wood/steel/what ever they could find, and these should be special customization options for the undead just like tatooes, horn types and so on, I think the ability to have double or triple slots for this would make for some very interesting combinations, an undead could have a bandaged eye, and the other slot is bandaged hands/body, or an undead could have a steel jaw, and bandaged legs and hands etc etc.

A few examples for these types of customizations would be :-

  • Bandages, a lot of them, in different styles, and different places.
  • Body supports such as steel jaws, wooden legs, steel spines, full metal limbs ( kinda like junker gnomes? ) shadow infused body part. fake eyes, magical eyes, metal eyes, etc.
  • Sewing… a huge amount of it, sewn cheeks, sewn eyes, new sewn limbs ( with potentially different colors ), sown legs hands etc etc
  • Wounds, some undeads are free of them, some undead are full of them, in a lot of different places
  • Decaying and loss of some body parts, some parts of the undead could have decayed or just be lost due to some external thing related to their death, this is already implemented in game but not with enough control, be it a decayed eye, decayed flesh to show bones or a missing jaw.

Part two : Eye Color

My head cannon for this is eye color for undeads resembles their state of mind, Red is for a very angry undead, yellow is for a neutral one, purple is for a malicious one and blue is for a calm one. but in reality we just want some cool eyes.

Part three : Facial features

Undeads are mainly the humans of lordaeron, and that comes naturally with many types of faces, but the issue I have with the current forsaken is they are all of old people, there are no young or cool faces, look at the above pictures, look at nathanos, look at Sylvannas, look at a lot of undead fanart pictures, they all have awesome faces while we’re stick with not so appealing ones, I want my undead warrior to have a decayed eye, the face of a lord and a warrior that has seen many battles, and I want my mage to be a young apprentice that has met her fate without being torn apart a lot because she didn’t put up that much of a resistance for example like the above picture. Some undead look fearsome, some look cute, some look disgusting, some are lovely not all are old, well my warlock is but not my mage / warrior.

Part Four : Body types.

Well, this really explains itself, some undead did get to be stiches plaything, some didn’t, we need straight backs, and like how the humans got thicc version we undead need to get extra skinny body types!

Part five : Hair!

Undeads are known to have overgrown messy hairs, not balding hairs, the only hair I like is the one on females that resembles Marge from the simpsons, Why does all male undeads have no hair bangs and look like they’re half way done with balding, we need more undead hairs, undeads should have some very long hairs, messy hairs etc etc.

Part six : Facial hair

Did you know when you die your facial hair doesn’t magically disappear!

That’s all, I love undeads I think they are one of the coolest race ingame yet haven’t been treated fairly and seriously need some reworks, they need to be cooler, with varied ages not just restricted to being old.

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I just want the chinese version of the forsaken available for us alongside the normal one.

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I just want them to look like the old undead, but with updated textures. Same animations, same body models.

Couldn’t care less about the rest of what you wrote.

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I don’t see this happenig. Too extensive. You pretty much ask for more customization for one race than all of the current Allied Races have combined. I can’t see them putting that much effort for just one race.

In my opinion what they need is ability to turn on and off bones and blue eyes for death knights.

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Option to have undead not only human but orks, tauren whatever you pick should have been here ages ago, also customization from skeleton to regular drow trash that leads them …

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that and a red eye option(aslo for dk’s pls)

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If I may add my highly biased opinion.
I want forsaken model as in old arathi loading map. :slight_smile:

https://pics.me.me/instagram-defiler-s-den-real-life-dvsgaming-org-always-loved-the-14283444.png

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Yep that picture is epic, models near that would be cool.

Though my own preferences is something akin to the pictures posted at the top, I never knew whats with the forsaken and lack off hair, you’d think undead would have very long messy hair, I love some of the forsaken ones like the spikes and the Vurtne hair cut, but others are just plain bad :frowning:

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I am sorry for offtop, anyone can help me choose Classic ready laptop? :blush:
I need a minimum power enough for BG

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