When I read this post on Hunter pets, I started my reply with a huge summary about wow races, in my usual way of telling people what I think, no matter if they want to listen.
Then I did a quick cut and paste and present this post instead. So Jaedia’s dislike of female Orcs is to blame. Purely.
Anyway, I noticed that ny taste of wow races has changed so much over the years:
2005:
- Awesome: Human female, Orc male, Dwarf male
- OK: Tauren male, Gnome female, NE female
- Ugly: The rest, especially Undead
- No,no,no,no: Dwarf female, NE male
2009/2010:
- Awesome: Orcs, Troll male, Human+NE female, Gnomes
- OK: The rest
- No,no,no,no: BE male, NE male
I think a big part is that I didn’t want to play just Orcs over the years – if it was even possible, due to class restrictions, and nowadays I’m ok with nearly all the toons I ever started.
So the only “pending race changes” for me are
Priest: BE male to… whatever
Paladin: BE female to… Tauren
Which leaves me with these choices, for now:
- Orc Rogue, male: hell yeah, screw the 90% lookalike Undead Rogues with their weird animations
- Tauren Druid, male: Not much to choose from
- Troll Warrior, male: I love the animations, plus it’s a rare combo – win.
- Orc Shaman, female: Apart from all the horrible hairstyles, very nice.
- Undead Mage, male: While I dislike Undead in general, male Priests and Mages are ok. With a dress *snicker*
- Human Rogue, female: I chose Human for the shortened rep grinds and nice racials, plus the looks are ok. Now I’m a bit jealous of Gnomes, they’re nice. And extra sneaky.
- Blood Elf Paladin, female: See above, can’t wait to be a cow lady. Sick of Blood Elves.
- Orc Hunter, male: Nothing to say here, Orcs make really cool Hunters – male or female. Next best bet is Troll male and NE female. Oh, and Dwarves.
- Blood Elf Warlock, female: A toon I rolled at the very start of TBC to “have a look at the new race and starting zone”. I find Warlock the best fit for a Blood Elf, and although I’m sick of the general abundance of them, I’m happy with my Warlock.
- Blood Elf Priest, male: Not happy with the model, I dread the decision a bit. Not really sure which race I’d pick if I changed it.
- Undead Death Knight, male: Most DKs are Blood Elves or Orcs it seems, and I already had a Troll plate wearer, so Undead it was. Quite happy with the choice.
Edit: What the hell, WordPress. Would you please stop eating my formatting? Wall of Massive Text without paragraphs sucks…
Edit2: Appaerently you won’t. WYSIF – What You See Is Fail…
My first hunter was back in the “oh God they’re all so ugly, she looks like a lesbian!” days. I’m an Alliance at heart, I love.. most Alliance races, can only really bring myself to play Blood Elf Horde side BUT I’m determined to one day level a Female Troll (and my Druid is a shecow). I love Female Draenei, Female Human, Female Night Elves. Female Gnomes are ok. Not a fan of Dwarves. And man elves? No, no, no, no. 😉
I’m not a fan of Blood Elves per se, but they’re the only race I particularly enjoy playing. I tried to make my hunter an Orc once, it lasted 3 days, it wasn’t my hunter anymore. She was bald and wrong. That’s what put me off Female Orcs just when I was starting to appreciate them. Should I try again?
As I said, not a huge fan of the bald ones myself, there are 2-3 decent hairstyles (not on creation though, I think) and I’ve always liked to wear a helmet *cough*
I love the animations though, and they’re neither as diminutive as Elvers nor as bulky as Tauren or Dwarves 😛
Up to you, but I think female Orcs are, just like male Dwarves only winning with Armor, they both look kind of stupid in starting zone rags.
Haha, their hair annoys me.. the only hair that covers up their baldingness is well.. slightly..man-like. Will have to see!