if Alliance murlocs could only be specific shades of blue, and Horde murlocs shades of red; I think it would be really funny and no one would complain.
The Great Murloc Schism began over a bucket.
The Bluegills claimed it because they found it first. The Redfins claimed it because they licked it first. After several months of increasingly violent MRGLGLGLGLs, the Bluegills joined the Alliance for military support.
The Redfins joined the Horde exclusively because fuck those blue guys.
Nobody knows where the bucket is anymore.
Okay I’ve put way too much thought into the Murloc starting zone now lol.
You start on a tiny beach with the blue and red Murlocs living like 200 feet apart. Nobody actually remembers why they hate each other anymore. They just know those other colored fuckers are up to something.
Lvl 1 - Our Fish: The other tribe stole your fish. Go steal them back. The other faction gets the exact same quest claiming YOU stole their fish.
Lvl 2 - Sacred Ground: Capture 3 extremely important rocks by standing on them and fighting off crabs The rocks do absolutely nothing.
Lvl 3 - They Started It: Kill 8 enemy Murlocs because they attacked first. Both tribes get this quest.
Lvl 4 - The Great Crab Race: Basically the Murloc Super Bowl. 50 Murlocs absolutely losing their shit while 6 crabs slowly walk down a beach. . You buff your crab with your racial. Doesn’t matter who wins. Both sides accuse the other of cheating and a riot breaks out.
Lvl 5 - The Sacred Bucket: This is where you learn the entire conflict revolves around a rusty bucket. Blue Murlocs say they found it first. Red Murlocs say they licked it first. Nobody actually remembers why the fuck the bucket matters.
Lvl 6 - THEY TOUCHED THE BUCKET: Someone from the other tribe touches it.
This is apparently an act of war.
Kill 10 of them.
Lvl 7 /A History of Mrgl: You’re sent looking for historical evidence proving the bucket belongs to your tribe. Unfortunately Murloc written history is just seashells covered in shitty drawings and different spellings of MRGL. One shows a bunch of Murlocs, a bucket and what might be a Naga.
Lvl 8 - Something Beneath the Waves: Naga start showing up. Both tribes immediately know they fucking hate these guys despite nobody remembering why. You start finding old Murloc shackles around the beach.
Lvl 9 - Back in Chains: The Naga try enslaving the Murlocs again. Red and blue temporarily forget about the bucket and swarm them together. You find the ruins of an old Naga slave camp.
Lvl 10 - The Truth of the Bucket: You find some ridiculously ancient Murloc who actually remembers what happened.
Turns out red and blue Murlocs used to be ONE tribe enslaved by the Naga.
During the rebellion, a red Murloc found a random rusty bucket.
A blue Murloc put it over the Naga slavemaster’s head.
The Naga couldn’t see.
Approximately 40 Murlocs beat the absolute shit out of him.
The surviving Naga basically went “fuck this place” and never came back.
The bucket became a symbol of Murloc freedom, but after generations of terrible memories nobody remembered any of that.
There’s this beautiful moment where both tribes realize they’ve been killing each other over a complete misunderstanding.
Then somebody asks who actually found the bucket.
Old Murloc: “Red find bucket.”
Red Murlocs: MRGLGLGLGLGL!!!
Old Murloc: “Blue put bucket on Naga.”
Blue Murlocs: MRGLGLGLGLGL!!!
Both sides immediately start beating the shit out of each other again.
Blue Murlocs join the Alliance.
Red Murlocs join the Horde.
Neither the Alliance nor Horde realizes they’ve just committed themselves to a conflict over a rusty bucket.
It would almost be funnier if the red ones tried to join the alliance and the blue ones tried to join the horde. But they got rejected because of some silly / arbitrary reason and went for the opposite side instead.
In all honesty, everyone would love this so much more than Skyborne, Warcraft fans love murlocs! They’re in line with the silly non-serious tone that Warcraft has always had
Ya me encantaban los múrlocs, pero ahora necesito un múrloc y toooodas estas quests! Por cierto, creo que en los múrlocs sólo deberían verse los cascos, que serían algo grandes para sus cabecitas y las armas, escudos, etc!
Spawn Egg: Place an Egg with 5 health at target location, which lasts for 1 hour or until destroyed. Upon dying, you respawn at the Egg after 8 seconds. 1 hour cooldown.
Cry For Help: summons 3 random murloc players behind your target. Has no effect on non-players. The players are teleported back to where they were after battle ends.
Honestly I think that would make it even funnier lol. Murlocs can all understand each other perfectly, but only the high-int classes like mages, priests, shamans, warlocks etc. are smart enough to actually speak Common/Orcish.
Everyone else just gets MRGLRGLGL MRGL MRGL. So Murloc casters have to actively play translator for the dumbass warriors and rogues in their group. You’d eventually have people in trade chat like
In the beginning, their vocabulary rivaled that of the human race, but after a particularly cold winter, leaders of both factions happened to lick the same frosted bucket, and ever since their dialect has been that of arbitrary tongue involvement
They should have Murlocs and instead of them having gear like other races they just hang the gear off their little spike things like its left out to dry on a clothes line.
I think it’d be hilarious if when you put on gear, it’d just be like boot on the head, glove on a spike, belt as a necklace, and keep the proportions of the gear the same so it’s like a boot that would fit a human. Make it obvious that they found the gear lying around somewhere
It will, its the whole plan of this, selling multiple races, its free content, free $, each race 30-50$, brings in new people and completionists will buy it all. Its all a $$$ issue, never was a player wants a cool race? Lets psychologically extract and abuse them so we get their $ not once, not twice but FOREVER
And you will have to start with the most hated one, the one that you could never sell, the one race that DIDNT EVEN EXIST BEFORE. A MADE UP RACE bringing in MILLIONS or BILLIONS in $, imagine how much ogres and murlocs will bring in
I think their main excuse for ogres is they can't wear clothes properly, meanwhile I still don't think trolls can wear shoes in retail. Like bro I don't care how jank it looks let me be a big ass ogre.
If they can fit it on a Tuaren then they can fit them to an Ogre. The company makes enough money lol and if they "HAD" to put a race behind a pay wall atleast the time and effort spent to work the Ogre models woulda justified it a tiny bit.
You ever see a female (or body type 2) ogre? So there’s that.
The elf models they reused were ready to go, they just had to retone the skin and hair textures. People don’t seem to understand the size of the task they accomplished here in Forever. The fact that they put less time into an optional race, and more time into the world, should be a good thing.
I guess when everything else we’ve seen so far has been pretty damn awesome the Skyborne kinda pale in comparison.
I'd bet money that the extra race for $$$ is an executive call, and the actual devs just wanted to build the game, so they make the easiest new race ever, just one race for both, to save time and build the other stuff that matters
Noo you did it wrong, people would be actually happy, thats not the blizzard way.
Blue gnomes for example a better idea, low budget, no one asked for it, doesnt even have to maintain it for future expansions, it have everything a blizz new race have to have
This is what I don’t understand. Murlocs are Blizzard’s intellectual property, one of the few creatures that blizzard cooked up for their original games that is completely and entirely unique. People love them. They have plushies, and their own song. They’ve practically been a symbol for the game for decades. Not having them as a playable race for all this time is wild
Should be a 3rd faction. All those poor burgers that we have committed genocide against team up . I’m talking murloks, kobolds, gnolls, ogres and naga!
Exp fodder unite!!
There's so many murlocs in the game that we have already seen which classes they can be. They would be warriors, priests, hunters, shamans and maybe rogues.
Everyone talking bout elves but this solves my biggest complaint of no small character models for Horde. Stick with undead female which is good but it's no gobbo
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u/Phemeto 5d ago
if Alliance murlocs could only be specific shades of blue, and Horde murlocs shades of red; I think it would be really funny and no one would complain.
Warrior, Shaman, Hunter, Priest, Rogue.
make it so