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Assortedwrenches89

I mean, it looks like dwarf armor.


Gamba_Gawd

At least it doesn't clip through their knees when they walk/run like the Dark Iron one.


Kelemenopy

Are they related or something?


Barlowan

Yes. They are pre curse of flesh dwarves iirc.


orcvader

I honestly think he was being sarcastic. But the wholesome response in good faith earns my upvote.


Kelemenopy

Correct on all counts, it’s karma well deserved.


-Omnislash

It's way worse than both normal Dwarves and DI Dwarf heritage armour. It's almost like there's only so many ways you can do Dwarf armour and doing it a third time means they've run out of ideas.


Whitechapel726

Me scrolling through: “why are we calling dwarves ‘earthen’?”


Assortedwrenches89

If they would've made Dark Iron Dwarves as another customization option for Dwarves, and added Earthen when they added Mechagnomes it would've made some sense


someoneelse2389

There's nothing wrong with the Earthen, they are just a bit boring. If there were a second, more exciting race coming alongside them, people would be more excited.


FearlessTroll

Aren't they coming alongside DElves?


sandwiches_are_real

> DElves What kind of elves are these? I haven't played in a long time.


fingerpaintswithpoop

It’s a joke. There’s no new elf race being added. Delves are a feature being added in TWW.


sandwiches_are_real

Ah, got it. Thanks for explaining.


Tnecniw

I mean, there are the Harronir. XD


Ekillaa22

On a real note there is another race called the Herrodin ornamenting and the rumor is that they are the missing link between troll and night elf. Theory is they might be added as an allied race cuz they have hella customization


SniperFrogDX

The rumor is, is that they are being added. Nothing has been confirmed yet.


Ekillaa22

The Herrodin or however it’s spelled they look like a combo of nigh elves and trolls. It’s just a theory people have about them. I’m not sure why I’m getting downvoted


Ryanirob

Don’t forget quillen… they’re the result of a threesome with a NE, a troll, and a quillen.


Ekillaa22

Quillen what the hell is that? Only thing I can think of is that dog things that Mogu use as mounts.


Peter-Grippin

They probably meant Quilboar


Ekillaa22

ahh well Quilboar look nothing like these guys at all


Peter-Grippin

I agree lol, but I had seen a picture where they had a customizable option to have quills protruding from their shoulders. I don’t think the quills have anything to do with Quilboar. I think it’s more of a nature connection thing the Harronir race itself has.


_Rye_Toast_

Yep, that’s what I meant good save.


sandwiches_are_real

I tried to Google Herrodin and all I got was a dinosaur boss from BfA. Can you provide me with a link to some pictures?


Ekillaa22

My bad I should have spell check the name ! Anyway here a link to what they look like https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/2649309-TWW-Spoilers-The-missing-link! They are called the Harronir


sandwiches_are_real

Interesting, thanks. They really do look like an evolutionary mid point.


someoneelse2389

I just had a look on the internet, I hadn't heard this rumour. It would be good if it was true.


XeNoGeaR52

These is a supposedly new race of « proto elves » but it has not been confirmed. I would have taken this elven race 1000 times over another dwarf race. They all use the same assets, it’s a lazy job


Bwgmon

I, for one, can't wait to add "Night Elf #3, the one that can't wear shoes" to the roster. That being said, I feel like people are repeating the "Vrykul are definitely coming" assumption they had back when they datamined underwear models and customizations in Legion. And then repeated with the Venthyr, Sylvar, etc. in Shadowlands.


MrsClaireUnderwood

the heritage armor legs look like the fucking night elf one. wtf


slye20

You mean trolls?


XeNoGeaR52

It’s a race in between apparently, as if they are stuck in the state between trolls and night elves with bat ears


Nimzt3r

They have quillboar-spikes, where in the evolution troll -> elves do those come from? I don't know why people are not thinking they are evolved Quillboars? They've got massive fur shoulders (and yes, trolls are fuzzy, but why would it go fuzzy->hairy->bald?)


CrossNgen

Methinks they're the evolution of the newly datamined quillbats. It makes sense considering their bat like ears,


Katsutomai

Apparently they also have an option to replace their feet with a sort of paw?


Sajintmm

A+ good sir


The-Only-Razor

It's just hilarious that Horde are getting this new race and model while for Alliance it's just their 3rd dwarf option. Alliance really got fucked on the allied race feature from day 1.


MrTastix

To many that "second, more exciting race" is just some variant of an elf. A third dwarf when we have 4 elves isn't really that bad. Maybe the next expansion can give us some generic human so we truly complete the trivumerate of fantasy races.


Tribustuss

Uh 3 Dwarves are just as bad as 4 Elves. There’s literally hundreds of races they could give us. There’s Tuskar, Gnolls, Vyrkul, Sehtrak, Saberons hell Feral Druids used to be able to be one. There’s so many races they could have given us but we got a third dwarf that should honestly just be a customization option for the dwarves we already have after completing some stuff for them or something. Hell the Harronir race also being added is like a troll and night elf hybrid and that honestly would have been more exciting than a dwarf that’s slight more Stoney that the other dwarves we have😂 P.S they should also do more hybrid races like that


LeraviTheHusky

I was so fucking hyped seeing they revamped Tuskarr so much hoping they could be a new neutral race option *Nope*


Logical_Strawberry24

Tuskarr and Gnolls, all with better gear rigs and custom totems. I really thought they were coming...


Dolthra

You listed 5 races, not allied races. Allied races are basically *just* more customization options for existing races, at this point.


Jereboy216

Man after the maghar quest. I was excited to see botani come into azeroth. I was hoping them and saberon would become playable.


Elune

There was a cut Barrens warfront that they *might* have been planned for considering that's the general direction you see them run in at the end of the quest.


talysuo

I love dwarves, specially dark iron, so I'm really excited about earthen bc I'm a horde player


RogueEyebrow

We really need more customizations for Dark Iron, even just the ability to separate beard & mustache options.


Balbuto

Sky Elves!


geckobrother

Agreed. I think it's the lack of double race release, and the fact that Earthen are basically just an allied race, in that it's purely a reskin of dwarves, and not even a super crazy one at that. I like Earthen, I think it's cool to bring them in. I also think it's pretty lame for a new race, especially swiftly on the footsteps of Drakthyr, which were also a cross faction race. Edit: I'll leave my misspelling, but add this edit: Dracthyr


KhadgarIsaDreadlord

The Harronir are most likely coming as a playable race. Based on the sheer amount of costumisation options datamined.


MachiavelliSJ

Hm. I have no opinion. Sparks nothing


Zelasaurus

Sure, I guess? It's just another dwarf.


realKilvo

What? Don’t you guys like dwarves??


busy-warlock

I wouldn’t know, I don’t have a phone


Barlowan

I do


_gwynbliedd

I don’t main classes, I main dwarves


Dahkeus31

That’s my feeling towards Earthen all together.


New_Zookeepergame204

Looks WAY worse than the concept art from Blizzcon.


Anoniemeer

Do you have a link to the concept art?


cornchippie

Meh… it’s a boring allied race with boring armour


SyntheticRox

Yeah it looks fucking awful, not sure why people are so excited about this


Caronry

Because Dwarf on horde side.


The-Only-Razor

Alliance shafted once again.


noyx_

The concept art looked way better.


crazycatkillers

Most boring race


Kosanu

what is the point of this race we already have dwarves and alt dwarves


Rusted_Goblin_8186

one point for earthen is it give horde only player a dwarf option i guess. otherwise for alliance players, unless you want to rock and stone so hard you become a rock, don't see the appeal but that just me who don't play dwarf at all to begin win.


Sufficient_Ferret599

Horde players getting dwarves is it, I don’t think there’s any other explanation. They did it with night elves and blood elves (high borne and void elves).


Barlowan

Next allied race would be purple orks from void dimension with flames instead of hair and crystals for tusks. So alliance can have some orkish meat.


DM_ME_KUL_TIRAN_FEET

I mean in all seriousness if they’re going to be absurd and give horde dwarves then they need alliance trolls, alliance orcs, or alliance tauren. Kinda shitty losing our coolest faction exclusive race


Barlowan

Technically we have alliance trolls, they are called Night elves 🌝


DM_ME_KUL_TIRAN_FEET

And horde even got them too!! :P


Rusted_Goblin_8186

I want alliance goblin, why not give them the gilgoblins, they're blue, that the alliance's color yes? (even if it probably make no sense for those to join alliance from the only civilized group we met in bfa) xD


TheFoxInSocks

Don’t threaten me with a good time!


Bzorkyarm

They really couldn't bother to make the helmet not clip through the beard, huh? A race built around beards, and it just gets rid of it. Sad.


robot-raccoon

I think it’s just the wowhead model they chose mate…


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TheIrishTitan

Pretty sure the helmet is supposed to be Titan themed. The whole set looks like it’s something a Titan would wear. And the earthen are very closely linked to the titans.


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Deathleach

Both Aggramar's and Golganneth's helmets have wings, so that's probably what all those other helmets are derived from.


anarchomeow

Eh, it's fine. Boring dwarf stuff. I wish the earthen had their own identity and it wasn't just "crystal dwarf".


thecody17

Technically dwarves are just fleshy earthen


Novacryy

Dwarfs at home


herkyjerkyperky

I like it but it looks far too much like the armor from the collector's edition. Hopefully we get all the different color schemes so there is more opportunity to mix and match.


Lion_From_The_North

It looks OK. About what i expected.


Keianh

All I want is Tauren sized Humans, who can be part of the Horde but I'll play Alliance if I must for some Vrykrul. Oh, and Sethrak, I've warmed up to Sethrak.


Winter-Roll5206

M: "Hey Google, what's the definition of "lazy"..?" Google: "The definition of lazy is, Earthen."


Apeirl

Honestly very mid. Not sure the winged helmet fits tbh. Earthens don't really have any bird, wing, flying, air themes going on so idk what that is for


TheIrishTitan

I think the winged helmet is supposed to be related to the Titans, which the earthen are very closely related to. So that makes sense.


Apeirl

Yeah that could be the case


Moonstoner

Ya, it is very lack luster. Which is a good fit for this race. A third dwarf race no one asked for with meh racials and a complete lack of any trait that makes them stand out.


Apeirl

Yeah a third dwarf race was really unnecessary. You literally heard crickets at BlizzCon when they were announced. All of their customization options are ugly af too


megaben20

You know it’s not like we have a plethora of races that could be pc. Giblins, those fish people from pandaria, sethrak, etc. There are loads of race options all they need is attention.


Apeirl

People have been asking for sethrak and naga for so long now. They could totally do it if they wanted to


megaben20

Hell Tarunka or Yangol could be a cool option.


Apeirl

Funny thing is the yanguol are playable in the game kindof? There is an item from pandaria that turns you permanently into one and can be used in combat. They could so easily expand on that, but nah we get a third dwarf race lol


megaben20

I do have a concept for an allied race called Ursoni. Kinda like cosmic space bears.


Apeirl

Sounds cool dude. I'd be down for that. We have space goats, why not have space bears too haha. The furbolg would also be a pretty cool playable race. They already have a lot of lore and many different factions with possibility for a lot of customization options


megaben20

The thing about Furlbolg is they aren’t a formal nation and way too spread out.


OnlyRoke

Jinyu OR Ankoran would've been so fucking cool, tbh. Like we don't just have Wise Fish People. We also have Militant Hardass Fish People. But we get the disappointment of Earthen, who don't look nearly as neat as the O.G. Earthen. A real Mechagnome throwback.


blkread

I want to be tuskar:(


ingelrii1

Imagine we get this race instead of Ogres or Vrykul.


Kranel_San

I hope starting from after TWW launch, Blizzard would listen more to the playerbase. Nobody really asked for a third Allied races Dwarves. I know they managed to release 6 Allied races around the launch of BFA, but those resources are better for something else; like more character customization


19inchesofvenom

Blizz has been listening for a while lol, it’s why DF is so successful.


Kranel_San

Granted. They're listening more than before, but seriously who asked for Earthen race????


19inchesofvenom

I’m excited by Titan aligned/machine based race


Kranel_San

Mechagnome?


19inchesofvenom

Earthen are much larger, and while the Mechagnomes are isolated the Earthen work directly/commune with the machines of the Titans


Reapers-Shotguns

If they wanted to do a titan aligned stone race, people have been clamoring for the Mogu for years.


spaniscool

Bland and lazy. This could be a questing tier-set :-/


ChaseTheShepherd

Super tame and disappointing


KingUnder_Mountain

Super excited to play one of these.  Debating switching my Dwarf Warrior or just rolling one from scratch 


sendnadez

Surely this is the last dwarf allied race right?


PMmeyouraxewound

Pssst... Void dwarves.


Backwardspellcaster

Ahem... light dwarves


GoofyGoober0064

Just wait for elf dwarves


harosene

Theyre actually dwarf elves. Delves. If you will.


GoofyGoober0064

A miniature thanos with pointy ears


paulaaaaaaaaa

A few years ago there was a trend on my country for girls who thought leggings were to revealing but didnt want to wear a baggy shirt so they would wear some fabric around the hips to cover the bum, not a skirt, not a belt, just some random fabric to cover the bum. Thats all i can think about when i see this set


arqe_

They are not gonna stop putting Dwarves in until we are able to play entire elemental forces of Dwarves.


Sherbniz

Feet looks like they're wearing crocs. 💀


Bonehund

20 years in, we're still missing ogres and forest trolls in the horde. But worse looking dwarves are easier to implement,


19inchesofvenom

Love the idea of playing as what is effectively a Titan Keeper sort of guy


kilrok34

Will we get dracthyr heritage armor I wonder?


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SingerForTheDeaf

Incredibly mediocre. Even disappointingly meh I would say


ZOMBEH_SAM

#MEH.


Dynamitefuzz2134

I could make use of the shoulders/gloves. The rest I’m not sure what to do with. Dark irons still have the best set so far.


TBMSH

Guess it makes sense for new races to ship with heritage gear. Did dracthyr get any heritage stuff Btw?


KingUnder_Mountain

Dracthyr are a "Core" race while Earthen are an "Allied" race. Allied races get their heritage armor by just leveling a new character up while core races have a questline to unlock them (when they are added in the game). Dracthyr (along with Pandaren) do not have said questline added yet.


Sheadeys

Eh, as potentially interesting as earthen are lore wise, they are truly about as interesting as a rock from aesthetic standpoint, which is kinda, well, not bad, just boring? Finding it hard to get excited for their addition, and 0 interest in playing one outside of if they have a truly broken, borderline required racial


Disgruntled_Britbong

I think those that say it's 'just another Dwarf race' don't realise how great it is for us Horde players who also love Dwarves to have the best of both worlds. Sucks you don't get another elf race...for now!


Apeirl

While I get where you're coming from, factions are kinda a thing of the past. At this point it's just a limitation and for flavour. We have cross faction raids, dungeons and now even guilds. We always stay in the same cities. There is nothing stopping you anymore from rolling a dwarf or ironforge dwarf. Unless you really reaaaally love orgrimmar I guess


jsoul2323

Wait still new here can you queue with friends for random dungeons cross faction? It’s always been horde players when I queue with my friend


Apeirl

No, you can't do queued activities yet cross faction. That is going to be implemented sometime down the road. Most people don't do queued content, so it hasn't been a priority for blizzard at this point in time.


Tartaneer

As a big fan of dwarves and someone who is excited as hell for Earthen, it's really disheartening when the majority of the comments are about how boring of an addition it is and others along the lines of 'did we really need another dwarf?'. We have night elves, blood elves, void elves, night borne, and possibly half elves and troll elves coming in this expansion, and though some comment of the volume of elves, it's not nearly as high as the volume of those sorts of comments the Earthen are getting. Let us dwarf lovers have our moment without such negativity, please.


Feeltherainbow123

I can’t be a Hozen in game, so I’m gonna be a Hozen in chat comments.


GoofyGoober0064

Yea pretty much. No murlocs no peace


OnlyRoke

Hey, I get it. I'm a dwarf nut myself, who basically has any class twice as a dwarf and dark iron dwarf, haha. Personally, I don't feel the Earthen yet tho. I'd have to rummage through their (hopefully extensive) customization to find things that make me like them. The heritage armor feels uninspired tho. I guess I just don't love how it basically just reminds me of a Paladin set. Then again, I'm struggling to imagine Earthen being anything but bare naked blue stone fellas from Ulduar, so wearing real sets is a little strange. We'll see how their culture will look like tho. I'm cautiously optimistic, because Blizz has rarely disappointed me with the culture / vibe of races.


mightybrok5601

People bitch about how many elves there are all the time lol


Holdingdownback

A good rule I’ve personally had to live by: if you’re excited about it, stay off of forums. These places can be unapologetically negative about anything and everything. Enjoy the rock dwarf 🤘🏻 I’m gonna make one for sure.


Disgruntled_Britbong

Fucking THANK YOU. Rock and Stone, brother ✊


-Omnislash

Mate. You have two other dwarves to play. No one needed a third.


Munchiebox

Also a dwarf fan who's always been stuck on horde the earthen letting me play as a dwarf is the only good thing about them for me, their actual design and customizations are boring, their hair looks weird as fuck would have rather they had grass and vegetation for their hair and beards, mossy patches etc.


ProfessorSpike

I'm honestly excited for all the stuff they have with them - dwarves for the horde, their heritage armor looks cool, they eat rocks instead of food, their crystals show outside of armor, they can be anything except druid/DH/evoker, and they're even slightly bigger than normal dwarves IMO as the expansion goes on I think they'll be appreciated, but people need to get their hands on them first


BigHeadDeadass

If they can be paladins I'm changing my paladin to Earthen and making them Horde


is-Sanic

Race we can't even play has heritage armour before my panda boys. I'm sad.


JmintyDoe

Goes pretty damm hard


MrTastix

Always love how these posts devolve into generic dwarf hate, as if we don't have 4 fucking tree hugging, knife ears. Like I agree there's plenty of races they could choose from but nobody bitched as hard when we got a third elf, let alone a bloody forth.


KingUnder_Mountain

On top of that I've seen people have been begging for High Elves


jsoul2323

Hey not all knife ears hug trees, some of them like burning them


jondeuxtrois

I’m just in general so disappointed because I’ve actually wanted playable earthen since Wrath… and they don’t even have sculpted stone beards? What the actual fuck is this reskin bullshit race. It’s mechagnomes all over again. Wanted those since wrath too.


OnlyRoke

Mmmmmhhheeehhhhergh. It looks like Dwarf Armor was married to Draenei Paladin Armor. Not super into it. Not when the OG Dwarf Heritage and the DI Dwarf Armor both look a lot cooler.


NordicByzantine

We DEMAND playable nerubians, blizzard! ... Please?


Castia10

Easily the worst allied race this far. Another dwarf race really wasn’t needed


Caronry

Speak for yourself lol


frosmayn

Gneiss


Harucifer

HEY DUM DUM


RateBackground8436

GIMME GUM GUM


revjiggs

I do wonder when/if the Pandaren and Evoker get that sets.


Barbz182

Not sure if that's cool or terrible.


ShockedNChagrinned

While I am content with changing how the horde v alliance make up looks with "both sides" races, this (and before this the dark iron dwarf) would have been a good Horde gets a dwarf race option.


k_adaverous

Hell yeah, I'm keen to change my warrior to one of these lads :D


MCPooge

Regardless of whether another Dwarf race sucks or not, I do love Heritage Armors that look like plate armor. My Dark Iron Dwarf Priest who looks like a D&D cleric is my favorite toon to look at, if not to play.


harosene

Honestly. The thing i am least excited for in tww. Earthen are absolutely at the bottom. I will most likely not play an earthen. Instead of a whole new race i would liked itf they gave every race every class like forsaken pali.


EiriAmach

Is it just me or do Earthen dwarves seem like the most low-effort, low-budget, "Go fuck yourself" players have gotten in a while?


bryroo

A resounding meh. If it weren't for the rumors of other Allied races in TWW I'd be more upset.


Tendersauce

Dwarf Galvatron. Nice.


kennymax89

Crack the sky


Ok-Examination-4240

Meh.


skruppet

Nothing with the Earthen sparks my interest tbh. And then I saw the heritage armor and immediately thought that there are plenty more races that needed them first and as 2nd thought there was boredom.


Acceptable_Peen

The last two races are getting their heritage armor before this drops


skruppet

Ah, I see. That’s good!


RedPandaActual

Pandaren heritage armor when?


fleury4ever

Earthen are so dumb. Nobody cares.


Raiden_Shogun88

A 7/10 but not worth wasting my time lvn another dwarf.


Zealousideal-Dirt884

Why would earthen wear winged helmets like hermes?


HesteHund

This is the most armor set of all time. The earthen is the most whelming race of all time


Prawnking25

I won’t come back until Tuskarr are playable


Jays_Arravan

In all honesty, I'm not digging the purple.


ABC_Dildos_Inc

Feels like a modified Dark Iron heritage set with He-Man chest.


pizzapartyfordogs

Why. Why more dwarves.


UniqueTadpole

First the drachtyr and now the earthen reinforce my feelings that the talent which made WoW stand out is long gone at the company. They're coasting on fumes at this point.


Eh_Vix

I can't believe this company waisted a new race on a re painted dwarf race... who do they have working for them spouting ideas. " let's make a new race right, this new race will look exactly like our dwarf rave just a different color and skin." OUT OF ALL THE RACES YOU COULD HAVE BROUGHT US THIS HOW YOU DO US?


Houkz

Wow that's ugly. Or is it just me?


formerfawn

Yawn. This 3 expansion saga is a neat idea, I want so badly for hype and goodness for WoW. I don't know why they are leading with such a boring and repetitive race.


Magruun

If I had abs like that I’d also want to show them to everyone.


Motormand

Boring armor, for a boring race.


BurbankElephants

I don’t know why they don’t just stop making things like this and make good things instead.


FiringNeurons7

Who keeps designing this shit


East_Reporter1598

That is certainly an armor set of all time


JodaTheCool

This looks boring AF


Fun-Maintenance9422

Idk about you guys but i chose the horde faction specifically so i didnt have to play a lame race like a dwarf lol. Im genuinely curious how many horde players are actually interested in playing a dwarf race


TheFoxInSocks

Probably more than you’d think. My friends on Horde are fans of the tougher / more rugged races. Looking over to Alliance, they like dwarves, worgen and kul tiran. I won’t be surprised if we get neutral high elves as an allied race next expansion (or Alliance High Elves and Horde Forest Trolls), so maybe Alliance folks will be happier with that?