Allied races wouldn’t have even been so much of a problem if they weren’t stuffed behind tedium like rep-grinds. Mag’har and Dark Irons for sure should have been customisation options.
Considering Shadowlands promises more customisation for non-Allied races I’m suspecting any more Allied races will have to be actually “new” ones with new rigging i.e Zandalari and Kul Tirans. Tol’vir would fit that but Mogu would simply be a re-skinned Draenei (who already have the Lightforged option).
Though as you said, Naga could qualify, and sort of give balance to the weird body dimension problem that Tol’vir also have.
Allied races is a slippery slope
we are already partly stepping over the edge with vul’pera and mechagnomes
one of which feels like they were introduced for the sake of giving the other faction a small race to counter the others.
while there are a lot of cool races in the world, and having the option to play one would be cool, I think it is worth considering just how broken all their racials are compared to the base races, and blizzard seems more than happy to up the brokeness with each one.
so while naga and mogu are cool for us rpers, the rest of the game balance suffer with each addition.
He is only half-ogre, adding a race based on his model would do no more than give us tauren sized orcs with human skin.
although if they gave them a rig of their own based on the ogre, that would be neat
Pretty sure zandalari is a offshot rig from night-elf with their own animation set
and Kul’tirans share rig with the vrykul, again slighly modified with only a few shared animations, such as the sitting one for the male at least.
I just really hope we won’t get any races from Shadowlands. I can take a lot in terms of cosmic beings as friendly playable individuals (I main an LFD so no surprise there I assume), but having supernatural races from the freaking afterlife strolling around would be a bit too much.
It was so quickly called out to be fake as well. “That art doesn’t look legit or Blizzard, it’s also way too bright and cheery for the Shadowlands. Also what the hell is Bastion and who are the Kyrian???”