LFD & VE were a huge mistake

[Sigfrieda-the-venture-co]

Seriously… many allied races do not make much sense as a separated choice on the character creation screen.

Blizzard could easily tie specific/different racial traits to the choice of certain visual options, the same way they make certain visual options available to only certain classes.

Or, even better, an alternate racial skill (and/or racial demonym) could be picked as an option when having selected certain specific visuals.

Then, you’d have less clutter:

• Lightforged Draenei could be a Draenei template/customization.
• Iron Dwarves could be a Dwarf template/customization.
• Highmountain Tauren could be a Tauren template/customization.
• Mechagnomes could be a Gnome template/customization.
  etc…

At the same time, if they added the sub-race templates within the racial customization screen, the fans of new sub-races being added as visual options would no longer feel treated any worse than those who got the Allied Races.

Sub-race names & templates tied to the new customization options

Many people are pointing out that some allied races feel lacking in terms of customization. Others are saying that whatever additional customization we are given for the core races in Shadowlands, it won’t be as cool as getting a proper allied race and we are just going to be the same Bronzebeard dwarves and Darkspear trolls as always. So here’s hope Blizzard can possibly consider the addition of some kind of optional templates within the new character customization screen. The assumption is t…