TWW: New Earthen Allied Race

[Gorbathust-draenor]

@Sowee-magtheridon

Instead of giving us more options of existing race/class combos

@Uda-uldum

For me, there are way too many races already. I would prefer more customization, as OP stated.

Hear hear!

I get that Earthen are a super old race and they make sense in the lore etc, but it just feels like a boring recolour… We’ve all seen the video from the reveal in Blizzcon, not a particular hype there for sure (when you compare to things such as Demon Hunter reactions, I think the old Pandaren were a little more hyped too).

I want to see more updates on the existing races…

• Height
• Postures
• Muscle body types
• More ways to customize our faces (brow, nose, chin, jaw, ears, etc)
• Voice
• Idle animations

More class specific customization:

• Warlocks having access to fel influenced details, possessed eyes, corrupted elements.
• Death Knights getting more decay related details, and different necromantic glows.
• Mages can get arcane tattoos that reflect their spec.
• Class specific idle animations.

And we really need to be updating some old races like the Forsaken and Blood Elf postures… Seriously the latter must have such horrible hip and lower back pains from that ridiculous posture.

The next one is obviously wishful thinking but imagine if we had distinct fighting styles, so an orc death knight for example, will hold a 2H weapon and strike differently to an orc warrior. I’m fully aware that animation is one of the most taxing aspects of development but hey, they seem to be using AI and machine learning to deal with a lot of the grunt work so they can be dealing with more creative stuff. (based on the latest IGN interview)

[Elahri-crushridge]

Tinfoil hat theory. They are going to deliver a new neutral allied race each expansion, with TWW is earthed, in midnight it could be a horde based one (like trolls or Tauren) and maybe with the last titan a complete new one since they are already working on it.

[Anzhela-hyjal]

I hope we gonna get High Elves for midnight and not the same patern than for earthen.

High elves or allance and horde : better insult than blood elve in 2007

[Ulfaro-tarren-mill]

World of Warcraft: Midnight.

NEW ALLIED RACE

Sinshalkalren’dorei.

5th elf for both the Horde and the Alliance.

[Palumtra-quelthalas]

Now now, don’t be so hasty, enabling more classes for the other races (except Ecoker and DH obviously) would actually make sense (not lorewise perhaps but who cares at this point? We know they don’t LOL) hence it will only partially happen as a surprise, midddle of nowhere patch to fill in the empty void between 2 seasons.

[Gorbathust-draenor]

@Elahri-crushridge

Tinfoil hat theory

Naaaah I’ll do you one better.

In the Midnight expansion, we’re going to get a void themed melee class, likely strength-plate type.

WoLK: we fought zombies, got DKs
MoP: we went to “asia” and got drunk whilst arguing during our meditations, and got Monks.
Legion: we fought demons, we got demon hunters.
DF: we went to disneyland, I mean, the dragon isles, fought dragons and got, well, we all know what we got.

[Sowee-magtheridon]

@Palumtra-quelthalas

Now now, don’t be so hasty, enabling more classes for the other races (except Ecoker and DH obviously) would actually make sense (not lorewise perhaps but who cares at this point? We know they don’t LOL) hence it will only partially happen as a surprise, midddle of nowhere patch to fill in the empty void between 2 seasons.

One can only dream!

As for lore, ye I get it but they could overcome that slightly with a questline (similar to unlocking the allied races) where you’d have to complete quests on an existing race to unlock the ability to play a class on it i.e. A Goblin would need to complete a quest chain to enable to play as a DH. It could be something like a Call to Arms, we need you to learn other ways to help us in the coming battle(s).