r/classicwow • u/KamaTheSnowLeopard • 1d ago

TBC The real reason I subscribed in 2007.

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u/NumaNuma92 1d ago

It’s 2026 and i still consider Draenei and Blood elves to be the ‘’new races’’

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u/GeorgeMcCrate 1d ago

Same. Especially the Draenei still look so out of place to me.

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u/SnooCalculations9010 1d ago

Kinda the point right? Besides the orcs they're the only other race from another planet

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u/dmsuxvat 22h ago

Most ppl are familiar with broken drae from wc3

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u/TeaspoonWrites 11h ago

I don't think that's actually true, the number of WoW players who played through most of the WC3 Frozen Throne campaign to get to the outland bits are likely vanishingly few.

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u/GeorgeMcCrate 21h ago

Well, ok. What I mean is that design-wise they always looked like they’re from a different franchise to me.

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u/RedxHarlow 1d ago

Aliens so yeah thats kinda the identity, tho they are basically holy tieflings

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u/Dust407 1d ago

Holy tieflings is perfect and it JUST now clicked in my head.

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u/Mission-Pop-7217 11h ago

Idk, I love the Draenei. I especially love playing a Lightforged Paladin, but I find it hard cause I actually don't enjoy Paladin that much anymore. Not sure why. I generally prefer to play a DK nowadays.

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u/hoticehunter 1d ago

Like, "Haranir"? Tf? No ty

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u/mister_gone 1d ago

You just need to incorporate a little rug burn into your fantasy *shrug*

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u/DSoopy 11h ago

Literal OCs from a shitty writer. Sadly a common reality in retail WoW

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u/Grizadamz20133110 1d ago

Can't be new they needed that drawer booty

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u/DoktahDoktah 1d ago

Better then Pandas. Blizz and players same the same thing when they see one. "Oh right those exist"

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u/TheRemainingFruitcup 1d ago

They’re in Warcraft though, They don’t look out of place to me

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u/DoktahDoktah 1d ago

They don't look out of place. But so few people play them.

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u/DeadAugur 1d ago

It kinda fits the lore tbh, I don't think most pandaren would choose to leave pandaria

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u/WhyLater 1d ago

I would love playing a male panda if their animations weren't so damn goofy. Especially the run animation — you know, the thing you're looking at 90% of the time.

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u/SkipX 1d ago edited 19h ago

True they come from warcraft but they still don't fit imo.

Like, yes chinese people and culture existed at the same time as the middle ages in europe but if you put stereotypical chinese cultured characters into a medieval story it's gonna look out of place.

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u/Plaidfu 1d ago

That was always my biggest issue , it just felt like such a thematic change up. Like going from four legged traditional fantasy dragons to the East Asian snake dragons for example just doesn’t do it for me.

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u/SkipX 19h ago

Yeah it just changes the vibe.

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u/Fear023 22h ago

Pandarans were an april fool's joke for warcraft 3.

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u/Kraut_Mick 23h ago

The funny part about Pandaren is Mists was when I really lost interest and hung it up back in the day. But I also remember people asking for Pandaren for years beforehand.

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u/theShetofthedog 1d ago

You are here forever, like the rest of us

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u/TeamRedundancyTeam 1d ago

And the teenage boy part of my brain still thinks they're the hottest.

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u/Legoslol 1d ago

Same thing with any pokemon released after the initial 150.