I think player housing might allow you to indulge that idea!
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I’m constantly chasing the high of wacky out-of-the-box character concepts and the following three are still somewhat firmly in my drawer, waiting to be realized:
An occult investigator/magicless warlock (a dwarf, for some reason) who, instead of summoning demons (because that is bad, immoral, dark magic, innit), captures them (kind of a pokemon ball scenario) and consults them for information that’d help him crack the cases. This idea came to me a long time ago when I was playing with OG WoW trading cards, inspired by some artwork. It’s stupid and improbable, but it’s stuck with me.
Another idea I’ve had for the longest time is based around the fact that the Forsaken do not need to breathe underwater. A guild of Forsaken military/paramilitary Navy “submariners” who are specialized in covering vast distances by just marching on the seabed and perform coastal operations without any practical use of boats or other machinery. I’ve created a character for this silly concept already, but I’ve yet to “sea” myself operating a militaristic guild/project.
Finally, an earthen archivist/runecaster, a scholar of all things magical and Titanic, who is obsessed in figuring out where Sargeras went wrong and in attempt to understand the counterpart of the Order they’re so familiar with, begins studying Chaos, and perhaps, in some twist of fate and vanity, finds themselves teetering on the same precipice that saw High Speaker Eirich, and so many before, fall to corruption. This I have already realized in a form of a character, an earthen warlock, who has ventured to Silvermoon City to study fel, but I’ve yet to actually realize the concept as a whole, and possibly never will.
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Furthermore, semi-heretical cross-cultural religious practices. Humans recognising the draenei prophet and blessed naaru, shamanistic revival or a less elf-centric worship of Elune, the One True Goddess.
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I have already kind of RP’d this in the past, but I want another go at it.
A pandaren butler/henchman. Especially if the employer is like a goblin or a gnome or some such.
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A few ideas I’ve had include:
- A goblin sapper, inspired by the ones from Warcraft 3 with no sense of self-preservation. Potentially a very short-lived character, but I would like to explore what about their society would lead a goblin to be so willing to throw away their lives, when goblin culture seems to encourage them to be very self-centred.
- An antagonistic professor of archaeology, most likely a dwarf, who is a Titanic supremacist. The world belongs to the Titans and their creations, all other species are usurpers, with public lectures about the importance of the Titans and private escapades that involve the looting and hoarding of Titanic technology for his nebulous agenda.
- A tauren rogue. Really, it’s that simple. Preferably one who isn’t Grimtotem, as that’s a rather predictable route and would force the character into a bit of a niche, but I had a lot of fun with my Bloodtotem warlock and I wouldn’t mind playing another unsavoury tauren, who puts personal gain before traditional tauren pursuits.
- A Stormwind republican. I don’t mean this in the American political sense, but in the British sense. I’d like to play some sort of aristocratic rabble-rouser who is eager to see the monarchy of Stormwind replaced with a republic or some other form of self-governance. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to play such a concept well.
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Astronomical, insurmountable, literally unbelievable, cartoonish amounts of debt.
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You mean you all DON’T make 100 alts and RP them for a day and then quit the idea?!?!
As said, I RP every concept I come up with, ugh. But only few stick.
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I’ve many characters with basic concepts behind them that I haven’t/won’t have the chance to roleplay, either because the guilds the characters I made them for disbanded, or just lack of extra backstory/flavour to the character.
- A Tauren Spiritwalker. Largely unforgiving of the centaur and others that have destroyed his lands in recent memory, he uses the spirits to advise those who would join him in taking back what is rightfully theirs.
- A Zandalari Windcaller who uses his worship of Pa’ku to control the winds, largely going across the globe against the Zandalari/Horde’s enemies upon a ship.
- A night elf priestess who lost all devotion for Elune after the Fourth War and found solace in the Void.
- A dracthyr who turned to ally with the Primalists, firmly believing that the Titans are the betrayers of the world, not the elements.
There’s more, but these are the ones I want to roleplay, but just don’t have the right place for these characters to shine properly.
There’s also several guild concepts I’ve been thinking about. I continue to muse with a Druid-only guild in service to a green dragon to combat the Dream’s enemies (in this case, the Void), but again… time.
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a Bronzebeard member of dwarven mortar team, or a whole squad of dwarven riflemen, mortar and steam tank crews
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a Pandaren shaman tied closely to pandaren elemental spirits of old, not the ones from the mainland
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a priest of Chi-Ji, who is in fact my favourite celestial
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pandaren Death Knight, most likely a fallen swordmaster with melee techniques second to noone. I just love pandaren lmao
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a somewhat “rogue” mage specialised in fire, or more so, the destructive power of it. Constantly experimenting with its chaotic potential to consume everything around it. A pyromaniac in short
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"Mortar! Combat!!"
I’ve been tempted to make a WC3 Dwarf rifleman plenty. Maybe my current WoW classic main will migrate over, in time 
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A Tauren band that separate themselves from the Horde and go independent, frustrated by the clash of ideologies and priorities with regards to the environment from the likes of Goblins and Forsaken.
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A true Gladiator styled event campaign in STV, just as you’d have seen it in the movie.
Non-named PC’s fighting for their lives inside the ring whilst people come to look and cheer, all that.
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Another one I had in mind for a while was a Draenei Vigilant. Really bringing up the 40k Dreadnought/Protoss Dragoon vibes.
Even in death I still serve.
Rastakhan’s Rumble lets go.
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Dont forget the corpsestarch.
Better a dreadnaught than a servitor though
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I made the character, used him as a PvE main for a while, had ideas for the sort of spaces I want to put him in but ultimately just never found my footing within Horde RP, and that’s my vulpera rogue Salshe.
As a character he wasn’t some revolutionary idea or grand spectacle, in fact the thought processs can be summed up very quickly - he’s small (by vulperan standards) and hates the sunlight, and how does a character like that translate into desert survivalism? The dislike of sunlight became albinism - which in turn makes him somewhat of a distant character from others as he sleeps during the day and contributes to his caravan at night in order to avoid burning or blinding himself. Growing up in a nocturnal environment means learning to be sneaky, and being sneaky and small makes a fairly good fit for a scout or assassin type character. Had I actually RPed him and done little off-screen Discord emotes in a guild I’d probably often have him walking around trying to warn off (or wound) would-be threats.
I’ve not given up hope on the character or concept yet, but I also just plainly don’t enjoy RPing on Horde. Alliance feels a lot more rewarding, even if some of it’s races don’t interest me as much.
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This has been my problem for a very long time now. I love the concept of many Horde races but when I think of putting the effort of leveling a character and creating its profile just to walk into a deserted hub then its just demotivating. I’d join a guild but as a dad my time is limited
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I can feel that so much… sobs in never played mag’har engineer
We had this back when there were more than 5 people playing on Horde 
https://www.argentarchives.org/node/17371
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And then there was the time when I had a whole thing worked out until I realised the character concept is actually considered a kink by some people and had to abort the project immediately.
No, I will not elaborate. 
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I have a few guild ideas that I always wanted to and even gave some serious consideration to before I ended up going with the Corpsegrin Irregulars. One was a Bleeding Hollow warband guild and the other was a Draenei Rangari guild. I probably could have made a go at either and made it work, but I had to pick one thing in the end. If only there were more hours in the day.
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