I love time-travel BS and brown orcs, so really looking forward to those Mag'har. Even with a racial that applies to two classes at best (mage water elementals are pets, right?). I wish WoD hadn't sucked so much, but it's nice to have room for future expansions without stuffing even more continents onto the Azeroth world map.
Making a race that only can be one main petclass and giving them a heavily pet focused racial, seems like a total waste for the Mag'har. I understand that they can't be DK or WL, but why give them Sympathetic Vigor if only Hunters can profit from it and maybe Frost Mage and occasional Shaman. Please Blizzard, rethink that decision.
I hoped Durotan and Yrel were going to be the default leaders but instead they choose the other guy, after the end of Warlords where the other guy was forced into the story as a hero, I guess it was expected but I'm sad anyway because I was so hyped about Draenor orcs. :(
Glad to see these races coming along! Aside from the Frostwolves, Laughing Skulls and renegade Shadowmoon, many of the Iron Horde did refuse to drink the demon blood and stood against the Legion when Gul'dan began his corruption after starting with Kilrogg. These Iron Horde members survived, and we play as their descendants, or the old geezers if we choose the right hair styles.
I was really excited to make a Maghar character but now that I see the racials, I am not so sure. They are really lame! Increased mounted speed but only for flight? The active is thematic but pretty obviously worse than standard orc active. Green orcs get flat power increase, but maghar get secondary stats, which are also random so you cant make any decisions around them. The pet health passive isnt even functional for any class besides hunter and even then hardly will be noticeable. The reduced poison/curse/bleed seems decent but id still rather have reduced stun in most situations.I get that they want to add a hunter theme to the maghar but they should do it in a way that all the classes to use it. They could have the active be "Summon a spirit garn to attack your enemy for 25 seconds" or something. Maybe make it be able to taunt so that cloth wearers can defend themselves with it a bit.They could make the random stats thing be a proc that gives you the highest secondary stat you have so that you know it will be useful at least.The mounted speed should apply to all mounts, not just for flying.Maybe I will make a forum post about this stuff before it is implemented.
The amount of white washing they have been trying to do with the Horde (orcs mostly) lately, seems pretty high, probably because I been reading Chronicle 3 and its just insane...All the people hyped about making a Grom lookalike character and here I am wondering why would they want to look like one of the biggest failures of a leader that brought his race into the hands of demons not once, not twice, but three times, all in the exact same way... ignoring and not even mentioning in the intro his sins from Draenor and revere his actions in the main universe. What a joke.No Wildhammer clan for Dwarves but Orcs get every single one. At least Dark Iron racials seem really strong and more thematic than the super broad ones for Draenor Orcs.I have to say, initially I thought Blizz had really found a way to make sub races and introduce them, but the recent answer of High Elves never happening and no Wildhammer is making me really question my original praise for them.
I love both movement speed related racials. They seem like a nice QoL improvement to me.
You know, I would imagine that my Alliance character is starting to wonder why he keeps risking his life to liberate oppressed factions such as the Nightborne, the Highmountain Tauren, the orcs of AU Draenor, etc. when all they're going to do is betray him and then join the group dedicated to killing him and his family.
I'm excited for both of these, just as I was excited for Nightborne and Void Elves. Bring it on Blizzard, a little customization that the game sorely needs.
It's a good thing I don't intend my mag'har to be a raiding character because those racials are such trash.
Blackrock Hunter Here I Come!