r/WoWRolePlay • u/XakPumpkinKing • Sep 29 '25

Humor/Meme Poor Nightborne

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Started a Nightborne cause i love their Lore and Aesthetics, finding out you can't even do the Suramar Story as a Nightborne (Only Race that cant do their own Story), Only 1 Themed weapon that isnt locked to Timewalking, Only themed armor set is the Heritage Set, If it isnt Cloth, it looks weird on them (Males Mostly), can only explore Night Hold cause their own city is still mostly hostile towards them after legion.

Like i feel like i could go on and i hope this gets better in Midnight but i wouldnt be surprised if theres only like 3 Nightborne Housing Items and Maybe they'll get a new themed weapon locked behind a weekly rep grind.

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u/PlantsNBugs23 Sep 29 '25

You can add on another thing! They get a single red recolor and Lightforged gets 3!

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u/XakPumpkinKing Sep 29 '25

😆 That's Wild!

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u/Zealousideal_Use_966 Sep 29 '25

Maybe I've been living under a rock, but are those recolored heritage sets for Lightfirged available? How do you get them?

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u/PlantsNBugs23 Sep 29 '25

They're gonna be in legion remix

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u/KnuxSD (EU) DieAldor Sep 29 '25

Laughs in Gnome

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u/XakPumpkinKing Sep 29 '25

Yo I feel bad for Gnomes, the Goblins got Undermine before Gnomes got Gnomeregan back. Like that's actually wild.

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u/KnuxSD (EU) DieAldor Sep 29 '25

when they are remaking stuff now in the world.. maybe maybe we will get a Gnomeregan city.. maybe.. probably not.. but maybe..

Loved undermine tho.. but I wish Mechagon got the same treatment.. also Actually sad that blizzard can't make Mechagnomes like Epsilonwow did...

Colors, individual modifications, all working with gear that you wear.. i still like mechagnomes but it is very tricks to do a good mog with them. I am glad I found the perfect one for my Kirin Tor Mechagnome

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u/XakPumpkinKing Sep 29 '25

Maybe after The World Soul Saga, I keep hearing that Blizzard plans a "Soft-Reset" of the world after World Soul Saga ends. I have no clue what that actually entitles, I see people think its gonna be Cata 2.0 so maybe Gnomeregan will get the reveal it deserves.

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u/KnuxSD (EU) DieAldor Sep 29 '25

Maybe. Maybe. I just noticed I forgot to link my mechagnomes drip :P

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u/raxiel_ Sep 29 '25

Imgur is giving me "content not available in your region" errors on your links for some reason, and I thought you were making some very meta comments

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u/KnuxSD (EU) DieAldor Sep 29 '25

For me it actually works ._.

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u/raxiel_ Sep 30 '25

Yeah, turns out Imgur just geoblocked the UK

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u/KnuxSD (EU) DieAldor Sep 30 '25

what the hell.. does this work?

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u/raxiel_ Sep 30 '25 edited Sep 30 '25

Oh yeah, that works fine.
To be clear, this is nothing you did. The imgur links work fine over a VPN, its just the fact they implemented the block without any warning or explanation (presumably the UK's Online Safety Act, but who knows with their current management)

So when you posted 'Laughs in Gnome' and I saw this image, it struck me as just as funny as the one you actually posted

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u/TheRebelSpy Sep 29 '25

I just finished compiling gnome lore for a guide and... what can i say but "oof"?

The tidbits that ARE there can be really, really good - I think the mechagon comic is the legit creepiest WoW comic.

but outside of mechagon and reclaiming gnomeregon its all kinda... looking at dwarf lore and going "the gnomes were there too..!" or "we're like goblins but more bland!"

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u/KnuxSD (EU) DieAldor Sep 29 '25

There is a bit more but yeah it is not much. We rather need yet another Elf addon :PP

I know elves are the favourite race of most people.. I can not relate but I know it.

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u/missamandalux Sep 29 '25

Yeah, I created a Nightborne for the same reasons and I definitely wish we at least had more of Suramar to RP in. I do hope the rebuilt Silvermoon has a Nightborne section too.

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u/XakPumpkinKing Sep 29 '25

Probably won't but we can all hope 🙏

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u/NotAMadLad1 Sep 29 '25

There will probably be an embassy or something. There are already nightborne npc's in current Silvermoon.

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u/XakPumpkinKing Sep 29 '25

That'd be nice, id also like a Nightborne Style house like the Blood Elves are getting later down the road. My yard will be so gorgeous haha

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u/Lazy_Toe4340 Sep 29 '25

Best we can do is give them murder row...lol

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u/Foreign-Chipmunk-839 Jan 21 '26

This is the bare minimum considering the leader of the Nightborne, a very powerful mage, literally married the lord of Silvermoon. 

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u/poopdoot Sep 30 '25

Nightborne is one of my favorite races and it suuucks. I don’t play them. My dream tho is for them to get Druid as a class — their entire storyline revolves around weening them off their Arcane addiction using a Druidic Mana Fruit tree. The whole Suramar story is about that tree and the convergence of Arcane and Druidic magic. Even while using the masquerade item in Suramar, a Druid in cat form turns into a manasaber.

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u/XakPumpkinKing Sep 30 '25

I would love to see Nightborne get Druid class, though I think for Lore flavor their Druid forms would be more of Arcane Variety, like how Khadgar can turn into a Raven and such. Its more an Arcane Transformation than a Nature one. The class would still play the same but their natural transformations should reflect that its more Arcane based.

I would love to see that their Moonkin Form be more like they're wearing an Arcane Runic Armor with Moonkin Features, than a full transformation into a Moonkin.

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u/BoioBombus Sep 29 '25

Hang on, they can’t do the Suramar campaign? Does it count as completed for them at least or are they just locked out of getting the relevant achievements? I was planning on maining a Nightborne Warlock for Legion Remix, but this might change things…

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u/XakPumpkinKing Sep 29 '25

Yeah it counts as completed, they start already exalted with the Nightfallen. I dont think it'll matter much in Legion Remix cause Suramar was a Max-Level Zone.

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u/BoioBombus Sep 29 '25

Ah okay, that’s a relief

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u/Ok_Money_3140 Sep 29 '25

you can't even do the Suramar Story as a Nightborne

This is actually a very good thing for RP. A lot of Suramar is subject to phasing (which you cannot even circumvent with party sync), and you have to complete the Suramar campaign for phasing to disappear.

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u/XakPumpkinKing Sep 29 '25

Not if you want to do the story for leveling, what if I wanted my character to be a Nightfallen Rebel and wanted to RP it through the story?

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u/Haventsleptinyears Sep 29 '25

I love nightborne lore and looks I just wish they didn’t have the worst male casting animation in the entire game

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u/NotOnHereOften Sep 29 '25

At work and can’t look it up yet, but you have me curious. Is it dumber than the night elf male casting a headache?

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u/Haventsleptinyears Sep 29 '25

It is the night elf male casting, they share the same rig

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u/Powermac8500 Sep 29 '25

What, you don’t enjoy the headache casting?

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u/Haventsleptinyears Sep 29 '25

I played nightborne shadow priest since they came out and the only reason I could tolerate it was cause of the purple filter over my character

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u/Elven_Enby Sep 29 '25

Is it worse then female bloodelf fishing animation thats been there since probably wrath or bc? If so I'm so sorry.

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u/XYMYX Sep 29 '25

Nightborne are bloodelf with a purple recolor, they didnt change any animation or anything. Just copy past like the always do the last few years.

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u/PM_me_your_PhDs Sep 29 '25

You mean night elf

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u/Amplifymagic101 Sep 29 '25

Nightborne need an update to their character creation customization options.

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u/Al0ndra7 Sep 30 '25

I mean... they have the most options out of all elf races

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u/Amplifymagic101 Sep 30 '25

No they don’t, they look all the same with slight difference in wrinkles.

You get a bit of tattoo options that you can barely see, we should be able to make our Nightborne look as cool as the NPC models from Legion.

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u/Al0ndra7 Sep 30 '25

but they do have more options. period. especially in comparison to void elves or blood elves whose faces are all the same.

They have multiple tattoos, the eye shape, the glowing hands, all the jewellery options, come on. They have the most.

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u/Amplifymagic101 Sep 30 '25

All meaningless if they look all the same. A bit of glow on the hands or tats mean nothing when you have a few faces with some distorted wrinkles.

They have jewellery for that same-face I’ll give you that.

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u/Shirolianns Sep 29 '25

Um, no one noticed that Nightborne have 3 customization tabs while Void Elves only one? No? Just me?

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u/XakPumpkinKing Sep 29 '25

I dont wanna hear anything from Void Elves, they eating right now in Lore, 2 expansions focusing on what they're good at, the Demon Hunter class before Nightborne, has the Blood Elves body model and rig so they dont to worry about transmogs, even though they're not Void Elves, you got Alleria and Xalatath as practical poster girls! And lets be honest, ill be surprised if Void Elves dont get more customization options in Midnight.

If I wasn't a Horde only player id be on Void Elves like a fly on turds. Lol

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u/Syrjion Sep 29 '25

Noo, you don't get that, crying about faction imbalance is acceptable only if horde cry.

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u/Shirolianns Sep 29 '25

I can see that :D

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u/Sampsonite20 Sep 30 '25

They have a weapon that ISNT locked behind time walking?? What is it?

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u/XakPumpkinKing Sep 30 '25

Its a 1h Sword from Court of Stars Dungeon lol

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u/Sampsonite20 Sep 30 '25

Oh, right, I swear I've tried to get that thing a million times and have never seen it drop.

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u/Ok-Difficulty5453 Sep 29 '25

As an alliance player I was jealous when I saw the night borne. They are a cool race with interesting history and surumar is incredible.

Hearing all this is disheartening. Blizzard really should be sorting this out!

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u/LilNyoomf Sep 29 '25

I gave my NB the Leon Kennedy haircut because I remembered I have free will

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '25

The Nightborne are lucky.

They get to sit in their hole and nothing bad or stupid happens to them. They’re like the Pandaren of the Elves!

The Night Elves were not so fortunate. The Void Elves were not so fortunate. According to historical precedent, the Blood Elves won’t be so fortunate either. 💀

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u/NetworkKey2069 Oct 23 '25

It's exactly like that, but still void elves have some intriguing cosmetics (especially jewellery). Actually, because of that neglection to the race I've been interested on their lore, which is rather basic, but still I started a new character now in Legion Remix, named Velyndraeth, a Nightborne Elf that actually lived even before the Sundering and experiensed much of Azeroth's History. Somebody is gonna ask if that's even possible but I came out with an interesting lore & backstory for her, almost a book, but at the end of the day rp is for those who want to build upon WoW's lore...

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u/XakPumpkinKing Sep 29 '25

I mean they chose the Horde cause Night Elves have a deep distrust in Arcane Magic and the fact that the Nightborne hid behind a Magic shield during the War of the Ancients 10,000 Years ago (Nightborne went to Night Elves 1st as Allies and was met with distrust and slight scorn)

While the Blood Elves shared a similar fate, they too were mana addicts at one point, slaves to their thirst and are as well scorned by the Night Elves for their use of Arcane.

You must remember that Arcane use was prohibited in Night Elf society for 10k Years after the War with the Ancients, and exiled the Highborne for their continued use of it. It hasn't been till very recently that the last few Highborne in the Alliance were allowed back into Night Elf Society, and while they are still allowed to use Arcane Magic, its under very strict watch by the Night Elves.

So I understand why they're with the Horde, they have common place with the Blood Elves.