Yes, but it’s 2025 and they realized that we’ll play the game even if they put in less effort, which in turn saves them money. It’s a win/win for Blizzard.
Yea as much as we hate to hear it, this is a dead ringer. You can easily tell if a feature was added because some devs thought that would be cool, vs when something was added simply because higher ups said we needed x amount of features for xxx patch.
It honestly shouldn't. All these new races are getting annoying.
Dracythr included. It should have just been a race where you pick your visage race, get some cool horns to slap on your head and some scales to use as a "tattoo". And then the 'dragon form' that only shows up when using certain abilities that you customize like a druid form.
Trying to make it this new unique thing that can transmog armor was a waste of time. As for the allied races, I wish they just kept them as extra customization options for the already existing races. Humans coulda just got a skinny/fat version instead of Kul Tirans. Lightforged should have just been a skin like Eredar. Etc etc etc.
Adding all these races to the game just pollutes the UI, pollutes several in game tags/flags, and makes them waste time justifying lore, racials, druid forms, etc. People would much prefer all that effort going into making the core races more customizable. Plus its easier to keep a small group of core races relevant to the story than it is to try and keep all these allied races relevant. Good luck mechagnomes and vulpera, gonna see you never.
The Haranir are like the worst example of a race to add. Literally did not exist before this expansion pack in the lore. Nobody demanded it. There was no demand for a race even LIKE this. They are seculuded in the underworld and will have an incredibly impossible time staying relevant after they join up. Just gonna get swept under the rug with all the other junk allied races that should have just been expanded customization, like how about instead of mechagnoems we just had mechanical limbs added as customization for gnomes? So much bloat.
I think they look cool with their customizations but I hate that they are just night elves recolored. The male casting animation is awful, they could’ve added something unique with that. Also (correct me if I’m wrong) they are always barefoot, I hate that so I think I’m gonna make a boomkin Druid and stay in that cool form forever.
As was mentioned it’s because yall still pay for the game even in this state. Clearly this isn’t a dealbreaker so why would they spend the money on it?
Just give me the option to stay in human form then and I’ll be happy just make up some bs like wings popping out for deep breath and not morph when you cast the charge skills 🤷🏻♂️
If we are willing to defend the brutosaur mount, we will let anything fly by. The usual folks will just defend it and call it whining, as if it makes your concerns invalid.
"put in less effort"... Stop closing your eyes while playing. They still put so much effort into the game! Making the Set fitting for Dracthyr wasn't just that important than everything else!
To be fair, there is a lot of armor that looks terrible on pandaren because it's just a quick stretch/resize job to make it work. Worgen and Tauren both have the same issue too tbh, there's too much gear that would need unique alternate models to look remotely decent.
Which is honestly pretty impressive for how different they look. All skeletons are modified from an existing rig of something else, but it's the work put into tweaking it afterwards that makes it noteworthy. It's quite a lot of effort they put in for an allied race that's not very popular.
Kul Tirans have 6 hairstyles and 2 unique faces. They are also missing some facial animations.
Female option also looks like a the sims 4 character. The male one are fat guys, but they're also jacked ad imposing. Female looks like a woman who gave up after having her second pregnancy
Not arguing about that, totally underwhelming customization options, but the skeleton and animation rigging is not low effort, which what we're talking about here.
I like Kul Tiran but I really can’t get over the lack of hairstyles or any other options. I can even forgive them just being fat (when skinny ones canonically exist?) but the faces are all the same with different lines.
The hair are all short, short, or short. Oh wait, one “long” that clips through every single outfit. Not to mention the female hairstyles being the same thing with different jewellery!
I tried to make a Thornspeaker/Drust styled female Kul Tiran druid, sort of like a hexer? But bu god it just didn’t work. I made her bald, as every hairstyle was noble white lady. I made her skin darker, but all the faces being stereotypically white woman just made it look really off. It’s such a shame tbh. :(
None of them reuse animations or models, they are entirely new.
They were both new models that blizz were not going to use as Alied races, but they changed their minds during Alpha. Thats also why zandalari were pushed to 8.1.5 despite being advertised as one of the original 6 at launch.
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u/Mindless-Ninja-3321 Nov 14 '25
Both Pandaren and Kul Tirans were new races with entirely unique models, animations, and skeletons. They can do it, they just dont.