All restrictions for unlocking Allied Races have been removed, with the exception of a level requirement.
All Allied Races can now be unlocked once you have a level 40 character on your account (was level 50).
Newly created Allied Race characters will now be directed to Chromie (was the Warboard).
Characters level 10–60 that have not been logged into for 60 days will now have the option to receive a Welcome Back Gift on the character select screen. The Welcome Back Gift includes:
Select a specialization upon log in to become equipped with updated bags and gear that is appropriate to the character’s level and selected specialization. All previously worn items and bags can be collected from the mailbox.
Teleport to the character’s home city of Orgrimmar or Stormwind.
All quests in the quest log will be cleared to provide a clean slate. To continue your leveling journey, head to Chromie in Orgrimmar Embassy or Stormwind Embassy.
Players will now be able to trade items and gold directly to characters on other realms in their region. Previously this was limited to things like conjured items or eligible raid/dungeon loot, but all those cross-realm restrictions will now be lifted. Play with your friends and trade whatever you want to whoever you want!
It’s still backwards. Races should have an introduction and not force you to play another race you don’t want to play first. It is a new player feature designed for end game players. Conceptually stupid, as most features in BfA.
What they should have done:
Remove all requirements entirely and optionally reworked the area in which you start slightly to be told from the opposite perspective.
Yeah, figured I’d go pick up the quest myself too. But in the Embassy there is no quest. I click on the Zandalari and it show a green tick next to each of the requirements. Not sure if this is bugged or what.
I can check again after wednesday I guess when the new patch goes live.
Edit: ok, entirely my fault. It seems I had started this before and abandoned it, so I had to find the next quest in Zuldazar. careless of me to forget such things.
What is the reasoning behind the continued quest lines (or scenarios) for each allied races?
I dont understand why blizzard is dragging me through these RP-quest to unlock the allied races.
For me personally i just want them unlocked and be able to experience the full game, i do not care about the storyline, since i did not play any of the expansions. There are both investigations, RPs, follow and other time-wasting quests to be carried out before i can play these races?
Who does blizzard think their main player base are? People who got 20+ hours a week playing this game?
It is so weird for me that Blizzard make such a minor change to unlocking the allied races. It does not feel like any of the races are unlocked with this change. Just unlock them, jesus christ.
I don´t wanna use my hours playing 5 year old content - Especially not questing.
Because you have to do them only once per account to unlock something forever. As same as you have to play the story in DLCs these days only once per account to be able to skip them on every new character optionally.
Removing or auto-skipping those race-stories would be like asking to remove more story elements from a movie so you can finish the movie faster. If you would be a new player, wanting to understand the lore behind the allied races, how would you like to do that? By reading it online in a wikipedia without game content or having story missions ingame you play once per account as game content?
