But the Nightborne, who are literally drawing power from an arcane and nature infused tree, cant be druids. Good job.
There are so many races people have been begging to have playable for years,Ogres (H) — canonically a part of the Horde, has plenty of lore and unique material culture. There's even a Horde-aligned village of them in Dustwallow Marsh. What could be more fitting?Vrykul (?) — With a body rig that (to me at least) looks better than the playable human, these oversized Viking fellas have featured plenty in-game and people have been asking for them since WotLK. And all those beard options? No playable race rivals that other than the dwarves! Broken (A) — Not much to be said. The Broken received a model update in Legion that also included a female counterpart to the race. With several canonically part of the Alliance and more of then discovered on Argus, I was baffled to learn we'd get Lightforged Draenei over these OGs Forest Trolls (H) — Allied with the original Horde, these noticeably more muscular trolls have both a history with the Horde and fix one of the main complaints about the playable jungle trolls (that they're so skinny compared to the concept art, and the in-game Amani trolls) Tuskarr (N) — in-game since WotLK, these walrus-folk have a model capable of wearing gear, a distinct culture, and several customization options already in game. That, and they're just so wholesome! Arakkoa (?) — with both flightless and winged models in-game, these bird people have so much established lore to them and their model has a unique and interesting animation set that is otherwise unused except for as a druid form for the ZandalariThat's not to mention things like the Naga, the Murlocs, Centaurs, Sethrakk and Ethereal. All well-established races although a little trickier to fit armor onto their models.With all these options (and more I didn't mentioned), I feel almost insulted that Blizzard feels compelled to invent a new species out of the blue that nobody asked for, just to make an allied race.
The actual sculpting of this model is pretty nice, but were the colors chosen at actual random? It looks like a rainbow vomited all over this model.
One of the coolest new models ever.
I want bat people. Chicks dig the bat people.
They are probably a race we meet in a zone we haven't seen yet or from the first major patch.They could just be a race that can shape-shifting into a bat form. Just like how worgen and dracthyr have a second form.Allied races are cool- I just wish they had proper starting areas instead of a small scenario and that's it.
Hopefully Horde can play these. We haven't had a new druid that wasn't a Troll or a Tauren yet. And these identify a lot as a nelf to me. I honestly hope that Alliance can play them too for flavor's sake. But Horde needs them more lol. I'm with someone on the first page who wants the belf druids, but tbh, they will probably have figured out how to merge queues, world content, ect for Alliance so they're not a dead faction to play and faction will only matter for some story aspects and not who or how you play with people. Then it just won't matter who gets the race. And I'm all for that future too.
Remember the Ardenweald and Revendreth allied races we surely would be getting?
Wow cool, the Bat Form lands/sits on the ground. Woot
i want the bat as a mount! so cute
It is quite ugly!
I hope if they had males too. If they look hot, I hope for allied race
This is so awesome, I love it. Feels very close to the vibe of folk lore and fairy tale creatures I'm used to. Hope they will be a playable race.
I knew it. They aren't elves, trolls, or troll-elves. They aren't Dark Trolls from the past. They also aren't quillboars.Nope, they are bat people.We aren't talking vampires either. No venthyr here. Just simple beast people where the cross is with a bat this time. No different than a tauren or whatever, just replace cow with bat.The ears are clearly bat inspired. The teeth/tusks turned out to be bat teeth, but they couldn't point down cause then they'd look like undead vampires. The quills are just coarse bat fur. The feet, bat claws for hanging upside down. And all of this is just awesome.
hair looks a bit too poofy
wyrd mf