But then in BfA we got the current ones, which are much better than the WotLK ones. Just because people wanted Mechagnomes since WotLK, does not mean they prefer those over what we have.
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Thatâs a jolly good kek.
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We are fine trust us.
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but only for the Alliance. This is still a topic for certain people.
What do you see as Heritage Armor-wearer to the âneckâ issue when you look behind them on the character screen?
'tis true, though. I know, Iâm playing one, and I wanted Mechagnomes since WotLK.
Tinkspring equips her laser cannon arms, aims, fires.
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What neck? Are you referring to the tiny slither of skin you can see underneath the HA helmet? So what? Itâs a helmet. The whole âitâs similar to playing a full cyborgâ is something called suspension of belief. And it works marvellously well unless you get super anal about that tiny piece of skin you have to zoom in to see.
Itâs certainly easier to suspend belief over than people using nelf and velf models to portray helf characters, which is pretty par the course on AD.
If thereâs a HA mess you want to pick on, try lightforged helmets which shave their beards off. Now that is hard to ignore.
Honestly people act like people wanting wotlk mechagnomes is contrary to the ones we got. As someone who has played gnomes a long time and rubbed elbows with many other gnome players is say the impression I got is that we were happy with either. Certainly a lot of us got excited in 8.2 and certainly didnât start whinging about them not being wotlk gnomes.
Itâs truly wild west in topics like this. You have people denying thereâs a gnome fan base at all, and then they go on making claims as to what such players (whom theyâve either said donât exist or their opinions are absolute minority ) have said. Itâs almost as if people conjure whatever out of thin air to suit whatever theyâre trying to argue at the time.
I donât speak for everyone, but my experience as a long time gnome player is that the two below are true:
- we like the wotlk mechagnome lore
- we like the mechagnomes weâve been given and their lore.
Accepting above requires only recognising the basic elementary truth that the two groups are different and thus one doesnât necessarily contradict the other.
Maybe we should start being more vocal about fifty shades of gnome like many elf fans are with their Sanâlayn, undead belf, undead nelf, highborne nelf, high elf requests for ARs? Letâs actually have both current Mechagnomes and the wotlk ones, and just rename them Titanforged Gnomes. There you go, problem solved.
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Possible? Maybe. But highly unlikely.
Speak for yourself. I think they look brilliant.
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All the 5 people who like them in this thread or all 10 of them who plays one in-game? I saw tons of threads about what races people want in the game for years, never saw mechagnomes among them.
Because unlike other people, those who wanted Mechagnomes did not spam the forums with the Nth thread about which variant of an elf they want this week.
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Would it be a bad idea to just merge the mecha with the gnomes free up a allied race slot?
What makes you think there are any âslotsâ?
But if weâre talking merging, we can merge all other allied races too and free up all allied race slots. Most of those ARs are closer to their brethren than mechagnomes are to gnomes anyway, so start with those, will you.
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Just thinking of killing two birds with 1 stone âgnomes more visually appealing in the titleâ
Tbh gnome has always been a more niche choice 
but that doesnât mean they shouldnât get a AR.
If we look at the % playerbase of most races, they generally are no where near blood elf counts etc etc. I donât think many of the allied races were big successes here.
A lot of the allied races, have weird animations or look unfinished in all honesty. And all the customisation updates are focused on the core races.
I wouldnât be surprised if allied races across the board become less used barring a few choices
(Zandalari paladin / Druid)
(Vulperas)
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Preach.
People be like âomg mechagnomes are literally just gnomesâ in diapers.
They have the most additional model components added to them over their base race of all ARs that share a full rigging and likeness with their parent race (Iâm not counting Vulpera, zanda, KT in this).
They have completely new limbs with moving parts, new 3D parts in their faces and ears, alongside the typical new haircuts etc. Most of their common emotes (bye, taunt, laugh, bow, hello, point, charge) have new animations compared to their parent race. Like all ARs they also have new VA
Yet people act like painting belfs blue and making a few of their haircuts have special glows is something special? It orcs that are literally just painted differently? How about cows with facepaints and a horn difference? Donât forget dwarves painted black with some glow in their hair.
This is not to take a pop at these ARs, generally I like some of them. However the fact remains a lot of ARs are basically repaint with maybe one or two new model bits. MGs have a lot more going on in terms of additions/changes to their model than these races and their parents.
Iâm under the impression many people here seem to think painting a white house blue makes it more of a ânew houseâ than building some extensions onto it. Iâd disagree myself.
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Every core race has had its own allied race so far, whether a distant cousin of them or great friends with them. The only core races that donât have one yet are forsaken and worgen. Its safe to assume next allied race for each faction will have close ties to these two races.
Gnomes were going to have theirs as well, and mechagnomes are best for it.
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For me this is a Mechagnome i would like to play 
But what we have actually donât want make me play them.
To be honest, gnomes have always had diaper bottomsâŚ
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