Earthen are cool, actually

[@greeses5482]

you should've named the video "earthen go hard, actually"

[@otsigo]

They are "stone cold" 😎

[@adambailey890]

Or "Earthen rock, actually"

[@LovehunterEU]

"Earthen go hard, no cap fr"

[@datboiwheezing4491]

Earthen slay rock fr

[@Murawood]

Goyard batman

[@spicy02]

I think the play world event voice acting flatness is intentional. The impression I got was “The Earthen suck at acting” and it was amusing to me. It also makes sense considering their near robotic culture before they all become unbound. This sort of thing is new for them.

[@captainspaulding5963]

Agreed, they are literally emotionless

[@Breezydotexe]

@@captainspaulding5963 Not emotionless just unable to outwardly display it

[@paquio100]

Definitely! Since they literally have a greeting that's like "Greeting protocol... err sorry, Hello"

[@aarononeil9832]

Oh yeah, the terrible delivery in the theatre event is entirely intentional and (to me at least) utterly hilarious

[@crow-perch]

exactly. the machine speaker lore books around explicitly states they're designed to be emotionless

[@Sioolol]

The Burning Crusade (January 16, 2007) - "Hero! Get on the flying thing and spam bombs down!" Wrath of the Lich King (November 13, 2008) - "Hero! Get on the flying thing and spam bombs down!" Cataclysm (December 7, 2010) - "Hero! Get on the flying thing and spam bombs down!" Mists of Pandaria (September 25, 2012) - "Hero! Get on the flying thing and spam bombs down!" Warlords of Draenor (November 13, 2014) - "Hero! Get on the flying thing and spam bombs down!" Legion (August 30, 2016) - "Hero! Get on the flying thing and spam bombs down!" Battle for Azeroth (August 13, 2018) - "Hero! Get on the flying thing and spam bombs down!" Shadowlands (November 23, 2020) - "Hero! Get on the flying thing and spam bombs down!" Dragonflight (November 28, 2022) - "Hero! Get on the flying thing and spam bombs down!" The War Within (August 26, 2024) 3:55 - "Hero! Get on the flying thing and spam bombs down!"

[@ANDELE3025]

Wrath of the Lich King (November 13, 2008) - "Villain! Get on the flying bone things and spam breath weapon bombs down!"*

[@mertondunikov1106]

Champion* now

[@Not_Morgoth]

I can’t believe legion was in 2016, passage of time is crazy

[@saphironkindris]

I really like the 'get on the flying thing and spam bombs down' quests though. If anything, I think most of them are too short.

[@Tyrarl]

Both dwarves having regions named Khaz is a nod to Khazgoroth, the titan. Khaz'modan is named after him

[@Thrashlock]

Not just any titan, too. The Forger of Worlds, whose hammer shaped the earth itself. So of course the land is named after him when it is inhabited by titan-forged.

[@MrMatsudi]

"Biblically accurate Tolkien fashion" is a descriptor that blindsided me. 😂

[@Bionickpunk]

Its true, The Silmarillion is basically Tolkien's Bible.

[@IcarusOLucido]

If Tolkien heard that he would be very upset

[@Bionickpunk]

@@IcarusOLucido Oh no...anyways.

[@IcarusOLucido]

@@Bionickpunk Oh yes.

[@PaulGonzalez-PhilOsyfee]

The side quest on Dorn hit me so god damn hard. Made me think about my grandma and her time with dementia before she passed in 2020. Great new additional race and super interesting lore and world building.

[@tabunga4669]

The dwarf going to stone?

[@Ianwrym]

Dude that quest crushed me ngl

[@tintopstudios3820]

Same, happened to my grandmother recently. Passed away. And two days later, I stumble on that quest.

[@Dicka899]

they finally added emotional quests that weren't trash unlike DF

[@maxpowers4436]

@@Dicka899 Plenty of emotional quests in DF. You just didnt play. Literally one about a Dragon maw orc who used kill dragons for the old horde coming to terms with it and dying in the dragon isles around small dragons.

[@veryontron4279]

Honestly they surprised me the most in this expansion from their culture to their defiance of the Titan's.

[@Frankthegb]

Their* their *

[@veryontron4279]

@@Frankthegb Thank you for catching that! I was on my phone while typing it but didn't catch it. lol

[@laertesindeed]

Ummm..... so you didn't play through the entire earthen lore series of side quests, I take it? They were "NOT" defying the Titans. They were given permission from their Titan Keeper to get rid of Dornic and Galan because those Watchers were violating the Titan plans. The Titan Keeper was not happy with those watchers. He gave permission for the Earthen to get rid of them and then promised those Earthen that they would never be forced to follow any cruel watchers ever again. That's why they have a council of Wards, instead of any watchers right now. There is nothing wrong with the Titans except for their unplanned absence when Sargeras imprisoned them.

[@austinspalding4745]

​@@laertesindeed near the end of the max level campaign they smash the edicts, leading a titan genocide bot to come out of the ocean to try to kill them all. They do defy the titans at the very end

[@sweetdickwilly6565]

​@@laertesindeed um so you didnt see the titan death machine the titans themselves sent after the earthen freed themselves? Understood

[@Epsonea_482]

ROCK AND STONE!

[@xones4864]

DO I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE!?!?

[@arey6968]

ROCK AND STONE BROTHER !

[@XD0002]

Wait, what is the difference between rock, and stone???

[@ErikWarhammer]

ROCK & STONE!!!

[@Sirtristepan]

WE MINE FOR ROCK AND STONE

[@kulrigalestout]

Korgran hit me especially hard because when I was taking care of my dad in his final days, I had to write my name on a poster board so he knew who I was. Or, at the very least, have a good idea of who showed up when he called that name. Sometimes in the middle of the night he would walk around, and when he saw me he seemed shocked that there was someone in his house. One night I woke up to see him glaring at me, obviously pissed off that a stranger was sleeping on his couch, but also not entirely sure that I was a stranger and maybe he knew me; he eventually decided I must be doing something useful for him and let me stay.

[@charticevangel7508]

God, it was the same for me with my mother and it made that quest line hit so hard. Think I actually cried at the end of it.

[@dmoneciro]

That was an amazing quest, and you aced it.

[@nerdbrain396]

Side note but can we talk about how funny it is that mechagnome's mainstat racial makes them objectively the highest dps gain race for the majority of classes and yet they're still the least played race

[@Jenkyllllls]

That will absolutely not be the case this tier. A lof of hof will race change where applicable.

[@JJJBunney001]

That DPS increase aint worth the diaper gnomes loss of swagger. On a side note thats an exact reason why some world first players didnt race swap to them, its not worth it

[@powersurge_beast]

It's cuz they're robot midgets lmao

[@Jenkyllllls]

@JJJBunney001 It's over .5%. Yes, many will switch for .5%. Swagger is a stupid reason for basically anything.

[@Leeloo-Foxx]

the irony that people complain about a race not being op but then also refuse to play the one race that is objectively op

[@logosofgame4273]

I love how the Machine Speakers are basically less the non-grimdark version of Tech-Priests from 40K.

[@POTATOEMPN]

And 40K got it from somewhere else. History, repeats and people take inspiration from other inspiration from other inspiration. Pretty cool

[@TheRealMycanthrope]

​@@POTATOEMPNwhat a meaningless non-statement

[@ArchLich12]

​@POTATOEMPN The Mechanicus is actually one of the few very original things from 40k. It's closest to being a pseudo- homage to A Canticle for Liebowitz but beyond the religious technophilia it's very much it's own thing.

[@Msdimwitted]

Pretty funny that the dudes have Rasputin as their dance, and they're also responsible for killing their keeper. very fun, very flirty

[@leonardceres9061]

There was a certain Dwarf in the lands long ago… He was big and strong and his eyes a blazing glow! 🎶

[@RBAWintrow]

Watcher Dorn got tossed into a portal. The Play makes it unclear if he was dead. Future raid?

[@BarneyAnFriends]

LOWTIERGOD LOL 7:11 Reference

[@chrisbrightmoon]

LowTierWatcher

[@MEseei]

Imagine they add a race that isnt just a recolor for the 12312 time.

[@BIacklce]

new skeletons for player models are hard, especially when you are a billion dollar microsoft subsidiary.

[@francescoporcari8597]

​@@BIacklce😂😂😂

[@TheTrueFeleas]

I wasn't excited for the Earthen at all either, but then found out they're pretty dope. I wish they'd touch up more on their machine-cult side with their transmogs.

[@Megarichkid]

Dwarves on the horde in thunder bluff and orgrimmar is crazy

[@caderoster8333]

I want that machine speaker robo arm drill apparatus!

[@TheTrueFeleas]

@@caderoster8333 right?!

[@sanstitr]

The same omg !!! At first I was like "...yay, dwarves again". Now I'm honestly so attached to these stony guys, much more than I ever was to dracthyrs.

[@KaitN9]

Korgran's quest was really touching indeed. I like to visit him here and there when I have business nearby. The quests with the caretakers that make sure their stased brethren rest well are also a nice touch. If you look around, there are quite a lot of stased Earthens in very peculiar spots too. Have me wondering why they would choose this place over another one and what were they doing when they were active.

[@ElKabong3345]

Honestly, this is what people wanted out of Mechagnomes. A full "machine" race. More so if they looked like Mimmiron.

[@POTATOEMPN]

You can be fully robotic as a mechanome, so I'm not sure what you're talking about.

[@alejandronieto4212]

​@@POTATOEMPNyet those idiots are only robotic in surface. They are basically gnomes with more techno-jargon. Meanwhile earthen do actually work like machines instead of just stone-skinned dwarves. And they have an actual culture and society.

[@POTATOEMPN]

@@alejandronieto4212 They only work like machines because they are powered by electricity, but so are you. At best they are golems given a soul. They crumble into stone when they die. And the mechagnomes were not a created race, so of course they aren't made of stone and have adapted. Nobody once assume that a mechagnome was going to be completely a robot. Mimiron and others like him are virtually impossible, therefore there are only like five of them in all of the lore we know of. They still haven't quite figured out how to become fully mechanical. Gotta know your lore before you call people idiots, and you gotta work on your logic because you ran through a lot of mental gymnastics to make your logic work.

[@alejandronieto4212]

@@POTATOEMPN those idiots are the mechagnomes, not the players, and Ill call them whatever I want to. People wanted mechagnomes to play a robot (and no, there were hundreds like Mimiron, Northrend was littered with mechagnome npcs, so dont throw the "you dont know lore" at me). I can tell you because I was one of those wanting to play with and as robots. What we got was a bunch of hideous mad max nerds that fail to act robotic despite having actual robots among them. Mechagon was an example of what wasted potential, since they had a potentially captivating city built inside an actual titanic instalation, yet we barely see any of it in favor of kicking around random junkyards and generic tiragarde landscapes. Earthen, on the other hand, despite being golems instead of robots (although to be fair, a golem is pretty much a magic stone robots, so who cares), do speak and behave like proper machines, actually have an interesting culture, a cult around machines (somehow missing from the actual machine nerd folk), and overall work far better both as a reskin and as their own thing than the mechagnomes.

[@caderoster8333]

Totally wanted a fully robotic mecha gnome option, like the combat pets!

[@CodeXCDM]

Mecha Gnomes would have been more successful if they were just customization on top of existing Gnome geosets... And if they could also be asymmetrical. They're severely gimped on customization, and transmogrifying is hard given how few items work on them.

[@ShadowWolf474]

Limbs and transmogging aside, I find it rather silly the Mechagnomes not only lack the number of hairstyles regular Gnomes get but even colors too! They somehow have less customization despite the cybernetics!

[@bonefetcherbrimley7740]

Earthen are cool, and I've come to adore these little rock dudes. Also the way they mourn their stasis locked kin and care for them is wholesome. Fun fact: Earthen can straight up drink lava and love it.

[@JamCie]

Probably like coffee for them.

[@zextthenomad2916]

The Earthen at first I thought they were a throwaway race because they probably ran out of time for whatever they wanted to make and was a last second decision. But now? Now I realize that the earthen are something that someone on the lore team -WANTED- to create. Not be appealing to the idea of them looking pretty or that they would be popular. But that they were a race they wanted to explore. The earthen quickly went from my least favorite race to my most favorite race.

[@Epck]

they were always a big piece of the explanation for humans and dwarfs

[@SirMalorak]

I hope Blizz keeps listening to those "I have a cool idea that slots into the lore perfectly, lemme cook" people. At first I also thought "ok cool more dwarves" but the more I play tWW the cooler I think they are!

[@chroprs]

They went from "New race is dwarfs... But they're made of stone!" to a heart-breaking story of a lost group of loyal followers who are trying to work hard to appease gods who have forgotten them.

[@POTATOEMPN]

That's literally every race in the game. What are you talking about? They didn't run out of ideas when they made any of the races. The Earthen were kind of part of the lore already. We just never got to see them. And if you saw them and thought that that was half-assed I don't even know what to say dude. It looked like just the pictures alone were thought out. Well designed body and structure with cool gems and all sorts of different theories of how they would dress

[@SirNarax]

I love them. I especially love that at last I can be a Dwarf without leaving the Horde. Their monotone voices kind of do me in a negative way. Some of the NPCs are really hard to listen to after it has worn thin. Some of them do it well. Thankfully the one you have to listen to the most if you make one, the player character has a lovely soft spoken voice.

[@nestorvetumbra]

To me, cramming so many elements of dwarven culture into an isolated faction on Earthen only serves to take away from the dwarves' own character and make the world of Warcraft smaller. The impression I get is not that the dwarven culture of Khaz Modan has any distant Titan reminiscence, but that a precursor civilization in Khaz Algar is cosplaying as their descendants

[@jonngarr]

After questing the the ringing deeps im disappointed Kobolds were not made playable

[@origami83]

That would have been more interesting than a third dwarven race.

[@krypto051]

Earthen for alliance, kobold for horde?

[@origami83]

@@krypto051 Aliance already has 2 dwarven races, so the other way around perhaps?

[@FuuzBeeen]

As a rather educated Kobold scholar once said... "You no take candle!"

[@charticevangel7508]

Honestly feeling like if they do end up making new allied races, Lother half-elves are going ally and Kobolds going Horde would fit

[@sesshomaru9512]

Oh cool, the stone dwarf lore is that they're dwarves made of stone, I never could have guessed!

[@stephiec4062]

It's the same way I feel about Nightborne, really. I don't think they should've been made playable races regardless of faction. I'll never forget how bizarre it was when the Nightborne went from allies of both Horde and Alliance characters in Legion to being part of the faction who burned down Teldrassil and slaughtered Night elves...

[@formorian5]

The Nightborne have been isolated for so long, and changed so much, they no longer consider themselves to be Night Elves. They are the Shal'dorei now. The Kal'dorei don't look favorably on their long lost cousins. Tyrande considers them cowards and traitors for hiding in their city, then siding with the Legion, as well as shaming them for their mana addiction. The Blood Elves, however, sympathized with the Nightborne. They too had been mislead by their leaders and struggled with their magic addiction. In the Nightborne recruitment quest, Thalyssra also muses that the Alliance would not be as welcoming, and wouldn't allow them to maintain their freedom and traditions under such arrogance and mistrust from their old allies.

[@shrubninja6444]

​@@formorian5Yeah, playing through the recruitment quests, you see they have a lot more in common with blood elves than night elves. Heck, the Blood Elves help them with their mana addiction problems. Combine this with how hostile and accusatory the Night Elves are, and it actually makes a lot of sense for them to join the Horde. Sure they'd have second thoughts about burning the world tree, but so did just about everybody on the Horde side.

[@francescoporcari8597]

​@@shrubninja6444 thank god we got rid of Tyrande for a while... the blindest leader possible, him and his simp with horns.

[@croustadeauxcougars900]

They should've brought a machinist class with them, it would've been so sick

[@sninctbur3726]

The time to add tinkers is now

[@Rhinopotamus]

Machinist? You mean Tinker, right?

[@seankelley9347]

Earthern are awesome, just wish we also got those elf-troll dudes as an allied race too...

[@laertesindeed]

The haranir are villains.... they hate all mortals and want to destroy the world soul on behalf of their master, cosmic team Life.

[@seankelley9347]

@@laertesindeed no ik, im just saying when i saw the art of then leaked i so badly wanted them to be a playable race.

[@laertesindeed]

@@seankelley9347 If we were only judging them based on the art of the haranir dancing in the mini-cinematic....they don't really look any different from darkspear trolls to me. The quest dialogue we see in game is the only thing that differentiates them for us.

[@sekhmet9808]

As a lifelong Horde-only player, I was excited about the Earthen immediately and continue to be so! X)

[@renealcerro1320]

Exactly, some diehard hordes want some of the races of the alliance and same happens with the alliance too, for me I was happy when we finally got elfs in the alliance even if they're the void version and I would have liked if the high mountain were neutral because they're really cool I would literally kill for a high elf playable race in the alliance

[@AndrewYuniar]

Dwarves are alliance

[@sekhmet9808]

@@renealcerro1320 Totally agree! I was a little annoyed by the disgust at the thought of Horde running around as dwarves, even if played for humor, because I don't remember the Horde fussing about the Alliance getting void elves lol. Also, it feels very much to me that the Earthen belong to Azeroth first, and factions a distant second! Also, the Alliance already had 2 other Dwarf races, they can't possibly justify being greedy enough to want a third one all to themselves lol.

[@sekhmet9808]

@@AndrewYuniar Not anymore, cupcake!

[@BIacklce]

there will be a point where all base model races will be on both sides and all visual differences between the horde and alliance will truly be meaningless.

[@moonshore]

During the announcement event I was bummed that Earthen were the next playable race. However after playing TWW and exploring the zones my feelings changed completely. Especially the way the Earthen NPCs talk (robotic, stating their intentions explixitly) is so cool. I’m now a proud Earthen myself!

[@POTATOEMPN]

I'm kind of just curious because you're not the only person that said this, but you're the only one that seems nice enough to be able to answer without being a douchebag about it. But what in the world made you think that they were going to be boring or lame? They're literally stone dwarves with gems coming out of them with female bearded dwarves. It's literally the coolest fucking thing they could have done with dwarves. In fact, they're the first and only dwarf race in this game that I want to play, and they're the only dwarfs that I've ever wanted to play in any fantasy game ever. And I've been playing dungeons& dragons for the past 25 years. So I just really want to know what it is about that particular race that made people go ew and then start liking it suddenly.

[@moonshore]

@@POTATOEMPN I’ve never mained Dwarf in WoW, the race came off a bit as a joke with their heavy accent and constant references to ale. Sure the Dark Iron are dark and serious, and the Molten Core storyline and Moira’s character arc are serious and important in WoW. However contrasting this to how Earthen are introduced in the game is day and night: the Earthen immediately save our ass and tell us to eff off in a really badass manner - we are the outsiders who are not welcome and only disturbing them, and they have to save us. Then we find out that their society and way of life is collapsing because the time is running out on all of them. It’s like immediately the game makes you feel for them but also see them as self-reliant and powerful. I’m loving it!

[@pb542]

@@POTATOEMPNI loved dwarves in WoW - the characters, locations, music. But I thought the new location and plot would feel soulless, just a way to add another re-skin instead of a new character but that’s about it. Really couldn’t care less. But when I started playing TWW, I immediately got the same vibes I would get from the classic dwarfes. I loved the lore, loved the city and the location in general, music was awesome too. I actually had to force myself to continue the main quests because I didn’t want to leave Dorn. Even now, after finishing the campaign, I have some of the side-quests left in all the other locations but my isle of Dorn was cleared almost right away. And now, whenever I go around gathering material, I always do it on Dorn.

[@psyhense]

I don't know if I've ever seen a mecha gnome in the wild honestly.

[@38tales]

Okay the quest where you’re helping the earthen get to his final resting place just wrecked me. Having been a caretaker for a grandparent who was losing her memory to dementia it hit hard.

[@ViewTube_Emperor_of_Mankind]

The girl with the mechadendrites and the red robes is LITERALLY ADEPTUS MECHANICUS.

[@ViewTube_Emperor_of_Mankind]

They could have only made it more obvious if the machine speakers had their own binaric sounding language to talk to each other....

[@ZenFr0g]

Machine Cult from Wish

[@Kazanov1936]

If they were Adeptus Mechanicus-like I would play the Earthen

[@Veritas_Vincit]

Isle of DORN

[@Chaydex]

I wish we could have those as a back transmog, AdMech just go really hard but without a proper tinker class it sort of feels pointless

[@Mahdiyar-v5l]

13:38 "pandarian 0.0%" makes sense

[@vsqshok]

Thats neutral (factionless) You can see 2 more pandaren in that graph. It doesnt make sense to even show up as neutral if you literally spend 5 minutes factionless as a lv 1 pandaren

[@Jeedha]

@@vsqshok i think i remember a dude who succeed to remain factionless pandaren reaching max level, by mining ore on the starting zone. what a chad

[@Rhinopotamus]

@@Jeedhayep, to my knowledge, at least as of Legion he was still Neutral, and so he might be the 1/50,000,000 characters, so he generated a slot for it, but the decimal is to small to show, so it rounded to 0.

[@Jeedha]

@@Rhinopotamus His achievement alone make it worth a generated spot ahaha

[@SirNarax]

@@vsqshok Or more accurately that graph probably tracks actively played characters. Not just characters that were made and abandoned. I am sure lots of people have Pandaran who never got out of the starting zone. Enough to reflect on the graph.

[@shark_2283]

the guy into tthe 40k mechnicus is into the dwarfs with mechadentrities? shocking.

[@kingocoffee6354]

I think the Earthen are dope! I still wish we had more non humanoids like araakoa or something, but they've got nice choose-your-own-adventure energy.

[@Hadesillo]

What they've done with the earthen is pretty cool, but it still leaves you with the feeling of "why didn't they do this with the real dwarves instead".

[@That_kind_of_orc]

Next thing I want to see is amani tribalistic cannibal savages for the alliance since any race seemingly can be part of any faction

[@Rhinopotamus]

If they give Forest Trolls to Alliance the devs will have lost their fucking minds. They already did though with adding Eredar for Draenei, so maybe it will happen and then I can officially say Blizzard has hit rock bottom with their writing.

[@kevenrules]

Love the disco Rasputin in the middle of the video

[@loganlaslo2098]

Earthen are cool but we also wanted Tuskarr, Centaur, Etheral, Vyrkul, Arakkoa, and others as allied races before this one was even considered to be one.

[@Vandakai]

Horde Ogres as well :D

[@caderoster8333]

I don’t think I’ll ever play human, but I’d play Vyrkul in a heartbeat.

[@rsmith8113]

Vyrkul would be insane, I would pick it immediately

[@tounicoon]

"And they'll have a pick rate similar to mechagnomes." Well so far i saw more Earthen in game than i saw mechagnomes since they were introduced back in bfa

[@MrNbkelly]

Dwarves has never once caught my attention, but I am IN LOVE with the Earthen. The cool skin colors and rock looks just do it for me. Already leveled a hunter and shaman

[@paleface171]

Why I don't have any M-Gnomes despite them having some really good racials. It is how awful their mech parts look, the legs especially. Not to mention the rep grind to get them is long compared to the Earthen.

[@POTATOEMPN]

​@@MrNbkelly bro, same. I can't stand playing the dwarfs or the gnomes. But I do like the mechanomes and I definitely like these Earthen. Which is weird cuz again, like I've never played a dwarf in any fantasy game and I've been playing dungeons& dragons for 25 years. I just don't like how much of a stereotype they are in every sense of the word. Every dwarf and every story and every book. And every version of fantasy is a short bearded alcoholic who likes smashing goblins and drinking beer. There's no fucking way. Any culture is that monopolar. It would be actually impossible for a naturally evolved organized race to have the exact same attitude among every member. So I never played the doors and they never played the gnomes because they were just so monopole. Every gnome was an engineer and every dwarf is a Miner.

[@MrNbkelly]

@@POTATOEMPN earthen meetup in the Dorn public bath later tonight! (I wish I would have bought the swimsuit that was on the trading post now lmao)

[@elpaya7775]

The best way for Rock and Stone is to BECOME Rock and Stone!

[@SeabassSmith]

Damn straight

[@araposkulo]

That "theater" world event certainly has some interesting lore tidbits. I wonder if they will be expanding on them.

[@Marcai]

12:25 To be fair though, that line is intentionally bad, along with all of the rest in that event. They're all amateur actors from a race who barely understand free wil and emotion. Bad delivery by them is a meta joke.

[@Nyierm]

My favorite race: Dwarves ✅ My faction: Horde ✅ My favorite class and spec: Elemental Shaman ✅ This race is everything I needed and fits elemental shaman too well.

[@formorian5]

Enhancement, too. Baelgrim was an Enhance Shaman in the follower dungeon version of Stormrook.

[@rl1585]

As a dwarf enthusiast I like the earthen even more than the dark iron. My paladin earthen may very well become my main at least until wildhammers are actually a thing.

[@kaiyote7924]

Arent Wildhammers already playable? Sadly it's a skin, just like the manari eredar and the undead ranger elf's... If you customise a dwarf their tattoos and warrior paint and earrings have a wild hammer choice? This has always been a problem for me regarding allied races that aren't actually distinct enough to be a separate race lore wise or model wise. I hate that kultirans are just fat humans, I would much rather just have body type variety in humans than a emissary BS. Maghar are practically just an orc reskin. At least zanadlari look different. Highmountain tauren just have moose racks, the taunka and yuangol look more distinct than them. For all the bile that is vulpera at least they are their own unique model and race.

[@StealthTheFoxz]

​@kaiyote7924 Even with Vulpera, certain animations aside, they're just goblins in a fur suit. Though definitely an antithesis in the "capitalism" department.

[@grizeldabrown]

I did a race change for my blood elf pally into an Earthen. I like it a lot. The Earthen also looks better in Plate.

[@yavantii3615]

@@StealthTheFoxz Yeah I'm fairly sure they reskined Goblins for the Vulpera. Problem with Earthen is though, it's literally the 2nd reskin at this point. They are cool as a race, but I wish they'd have actually made them look different from other dwarfs.

[@formorian5]

​@@yavantii3615They absolutely are. Vulpera have a few unique animations, but most are recycled. The one that made me realize it is the idle animation where they appear to see and then step on a bug on the ground.

[@mirandelf]

Most entertaining and informative WOW lore video that I’ve seen. How have a missed your channel before? You got a sub 😊

[@viniciusmarra1291]

7:12 I can't believe we got an LTG reference lmao

[@alphaomega1328]

The world building for the earthen is probably the best they have had for a long time. From the intro to the different mini factions to the quests exploring Dorn - from the memories to the statues and plaques.

[@snazzydrew]

Lmao Mechagnome is the only allied race I don't have unlocked. I care that lilttle about them.

[@insertname9736]

They're also ugly A.F. At least the Earthern look much cooler. I don't think they'll be at the very bottom.

[@denxx56]

7:09 this part made me instantly like the video, that was so damn good

[@UyeGaming]

Don't forgot their true to lore passives. that %300 more exp from exploring is no joke. Can level from 10-60 without killing a thing in under 3 hours. To unlock your Heritage armor, you have to upload your leveling journey to their archives. Good stuff!

[@Eagleknight815]

Platinum WOW is the only way I keep up with Warcraft lore now these days. Keep up the great videos!

[@billbadson7598]

Dwarves: get a racial ability to temporarily turn to stone, cleansing and becoming immune to all status effects temporarily Earthen: literally made of stone 100% of the time, not immune to status effects at all. Blizzard EXPLAIN!!!

[@moch.farisdzulfiqar6123]

It's because of the curse of flesh, duh... Blizzard

[@lord_pamperin4233]

I would have loved to see two different earthen “factions” joining horde and alliance, so there would have been a small different between their heritage armor plus they would have two different colors like the alliance & Tushui is blue and the horde and huojin is red

[@calvinginn1637]

There's Earthen in the Horde because those are the newly awakened Earthen, you find that out in the allied race quests

[@Validechos]

Really enjoy the world being built around the Earthen, first time in awhile to sit and read the quests

[@insertname9736]

Your disgust for dwarves in the Horde is the same as mine with the blood elves and nighborne ever since TBC and BFA. At least the Earthen are neutral. So you can play as them in whatever faction you like.

[@endoBiologist]

This was an extraordinary video, from the editing to the jokes. Top tier.

[@Randall_Kildare]

Rock Dwarves... in the *HORDE?!?* Have fun....

[@insertname9736]

Much better than belves and nightborne, at least.

[@Randall_Kildare]

@@insertname9736 they shouldn't be in the HORDE either

[@insertname9736]

@Randall_Kildare completely agree. The Horde is ruined and has become a cheap Red Alliance knockoff.

[@Randall_Kildare]

@@insertname9736 20 years & still no playble *Ogres.* But here's an androgynous fetish lizard-monster & Purse Dogs. FTH

[@raelteran930]

@@Randall_Kildare If it were up to you guys, the horde wouldn't have races on their forces.

[@Kwizard2]

Definitely gonna make my earthen look as much like the old Northrend ones as possible. Great video! would love to see one on tol barad at some point.

[@What_evil_lurks_in_the_shadows]

12:22 i think that is on purpose when it is like theater acting there

[@ArcadeStunfisk]

Came here to say the same thing. They’re meant to sound like they’re delivering their lines poorly.

[@lxTwigsterxl]

Thank you for changing my mind on this playable race.

[@globenstine1335]

oh yay we get yet ANOTHER dwarf recolor...10/10 should of been nerubians. why would i want another dwarf race? i mean, earthen are literally just dwarves that avoided the curse of flesh somehow.

[@maxmalten7749]

nerubian as a playable race would be so cool...

[@origami83]

i agree 100%. Why we get this because its lazy and easy. Making nerubians (the spider version, not humanoid) would require more effort.

[@Nico78Not]

Nerubians, satyrs and ogres as playable races would go hard.

[@sninctbur3726]

Stay salty

[@icecreamorc]

I dunno, I see my earthen monk Copperbar going on it's quest to lay on every anvil in the universe to find out which is best for many expansions to come.

[@silver4831]

Them joining the Horde makes zero sense.

[@GenXPhilosopher]

Seeing that mechagnomes are totally at the very bottom of being played just makes me want to play one even more! ^_^

[@donimmortal7692]

Next level cope for the third reskinned.

[@OldManRiv3r]

Second re-skin. I'd hardly call OG Dwarves a "re-skin"

[@lulkoek]

@@OldManRiv3r I think he means: nightborne reskin of night elves, highmountain tauren reskin of regular tauren, (not to mention dark iron dwarves even) and now we have earthen.

[@jlwking8407]

It took me a little while to warm up to them but I genuinely love Earthern now. They're super cool

[@ImAKAJenks]

Wouldnt be a Platinum wow video without the clear Alliance bias

[@Mediados]

I mean that's not a Platinum thing, more a WoW writing thing. The Alliance always gets to be the hero.

[@Sparklebeard9000]

Based take on horde dwarves tbh. Also appreciate that you called out that quest in the Ringing Deeps. I haven't seen many people mention it but it hit me hard.

[@ShupekMan]

Earthen need to recharge every ~5k years. The charging station hasn't worked for ~10k years. Earthen still exist because...?

[@Zeph914]

Because some of them were in hibernation and still slowly being released over time. The plan would work well if the recharging station still worked. The real question is why are there female earthen at all?

[@lummh4861]

@@Zeph914 I asked myself the exact same question, but the same could be asked for the Vrykul (before they went humans) and the Mechagnomes

[@tamnam5722]

@@Zeph914i mean, why are there male ones? The Titans roll that way

[@Leeloo-Foxx]

because not all earthen are active at once? maybe learn to pay attention shupe?

[@max7971]

@@Leeloo-Foxx “guys, blizzard clearly gave you are a stupid nonsensical explanation already, why don’t you turn off your brain, like i did, and just enjoy the slop?!”

[@hel-9456]

My main is my earthen warrior. I absolutely love the way they look, their lore, their world. I had zero interest when they were announced, and for a good while after. But it was almost like someone flicked a switch in my head and I have been hooked every since.

[@АндрейАлександрович-г5о]

I never intended to make Earthen character as I am happy with my dark iron dwarf,but after seeing that Earthen dancing Rasputin song ... man, this changes everything

[@DEUS_VULT_INFIDEL]

The Earthen in the Ringing Deeps that intentionally lives a life with no experiences so he can retain the stories of his people is part of a quest, actually, and he wants to leave to live out his own life, go on adventures and have experiences of his own. He's not just up and leaving, though, because he still understands the value of his role in society, so he's attempted to transcribe the stories that he knows into a book to serve in his stead. Also a thing to keep in mind, after you've completed the Earthen starting experience you can access all of their starting gear for transmog purposes regardless of your armor type. While most of the sets are restricted, you can use the full suite of them on your regular Dwarves, and they pretty much all look really good.

[@pendragonfan42]

Maybe an affinity for sheep rams and beer were secret guilty pleasures of Deathwing and that sort of just trickled down into dwarven and earthen and so they both developed an affinity for such things...?

[@marcinkarczmarz8281]

"You should deactivate yourself NOW!" That was so funny and unexpected! I laughed out loud and immediately gave a like

[@sagenod440]

If the Earthen make sense as cross faction then so do the Nightborne

[@POTATOEMPN]

The nightborne openly refused to join The horde. They make a pretty big point of it in legion. Wish you would know if you had read any of the fucking quests. So no, it doesn't make sense. The Earth and being cross-faction make perfect sense. However, because their purpose has been undefined since the beginning. They're making a choice. And some of them are choosing the horde and summer choosing the alliance. Stop talking about what you want as if it's something that has to do with the lore. And be honest and just say you want something you greedy selfish, little turd

[@dimitrijansen9872]

Nightborne wanted to join the alliance at first, but Tyrande said no.

[@sagenod440]

@@dimitrijansen9872 Oh I see now yes that was great writing wasn’t it

[@glonx639]

The Deeper Ironer Dwarves. Truly an innovation.

[@POTATOEMPN]

Well the dark iron dwarves are just dwarfs. These guys just have dwarven forms. That's just what the Titans used. If anything, the deep iron dwarves are the upper stoneborn dwarves. And they have actual customizations like being able to actually have stones and gems all over your body and beards and actual cool designs for things. You want to fucking complain. Then why didn't you complain about the dark iron doors which are just the dwarves with a tan. Fucking losers always with your inconsistent demands and expectations. You always have a double standard for everything you think about and want

[@Complication84]

I'm playing my Earthen right now as I watch this.

[@NAAAAAIL]

I said this exact thing making my Earthern the other night "I find it very hard to get excited for Dwarves bc they look so dumb, but their lore is BANGIN"

[@acphantom6437]

Man i played through the campaign and this video still told me things i didnt know. Platinum the real mvp of wow lore

[@Maria_Erias]

The fact that Earthen can be Horde but Nightborne can't be Alliance, despite the months that many of us Alliance players put into helping Suramar is simply egregious.

[@Leeloo-Foxx]

it boils down to elf racism. yes really. tyrande is why nightborne dont like the alliance despite us helping them. she flat out accused them of being no better than elisande.

[@Maria_Erias]

@@Leeloo-Foxx Yeah, I know that Tyrande basically accused the Nightborne of all being drug addicts, but having that as the *sole reason* for the Nightborne being Horde only while also ignoring the efforts of the Silver Enclave, Valeera, and the rest of the Alliance forces that actively helped them is just... asinine.

[@DJstarrfish]

@@Maria_Erias -Maybe Tyrande shouldn't be so racist then /s- I think Blizzard just did it for balance reasons. The screeching of a thousand manchildren who wanted their belf mailbox dancers to be "one of the good guys" meant void elves were inevitable, despite how much of an asspull void elves are generally and how equally silly _their_ justification for joining the Alliance is. (Don't pretend "Rommath demoted me for messing with the closest thing to unadulterated evil in this universe :(((" is a good lore justification, it's not) Makes sense from a gameplay perspective to give the other elf race to the Horde.

[@kalestiyapetrovna9962]

@@Maria_Erias Sole reason? Yea just ignore the fact that Blood elves help Nightborne with their mana addiction problems

[@AlexandersArchways]

Thank you for this lore videos! Without them I'd be so lost. I don't read quests, I just accept and do. So thank you :)

[@osurgrimm]

Honestly, I don't feel them. Especially not in the Horde.

[@skeliskull]

Machine speakers are literally adeptus mechanicus and it’s awesome

[@CedricTheMad]

Meanwhile the Ogres have been part of the horde since WC3 but we still can't play the one headed variant. Guess its easier to copy paste the dwarf shape.

[@CertavusGrey5450]

I figured part of the reason was because there has never(least to my knowledge) been a female ogre in-game through its entire life(guess blizz never bothered making one). Although the past couple expansions I have been wondering why they couldn’t just reuse the female undead model from Maldraxxus. Personally I would’ve preferred the Sethrak from Vol’dun as a playable race.

[@jagosvujovic2086]

The ogres were never a part of thralls horde though? they were a part of blackhands/guldans horde back in like WC2 (not sure about WC1), but the horde in wow is based off of thralls horde after he founded Orgrimmar. This is reflected by the fact that orcs can make troll and tauren units in WC3 but not ogres like in WC2, but you would know this if you ever played WC3 though.

[@borga6566]

@@jagosvujovic2086 Ogres, notably the Stonemaul iirc, are present in the Horde. Also, people like Rexxar and the Mok'nathal helped bring Ogres in too. I don't know how common they are, but they do exist within the Horde.

[@austinspalding4745]

real talk, reskinned kul tirans would make excellent playable ogres skeleton wise. then just add in all the unique ogre animations they already have in the game and we can finally have playable ogres!

[@insertname9736]

​@CertavusGrey5450 this argument has been brought over many times by Blizzard, but it doesn't make sense. Just make a female model for ogres and be done with it. They're rather make entirely new races than one model for the female version of an already existing race who already has animations and no need to make extra lore for them.

[@MrSirling]

1:25 killed me. Nice one, man!

[@heramaaroricon4738]

regarding the earthen voices... The Earthen from the brewery dungeon of TWW has quite the emotional tone tbf. So it's not all of them.

[@TN_Nadaclos]

I mean every OTHER Earthen voice is really good, but the player one....sound like a boring panda xDDD

[@WeaselDancingTime]

We need mechadendrite transmogs asap.

[@beastmaster0934]

3:00 I have this weird theory that, while these Earthen are stone on the outside, on the inside, they are flesh. I know it’s probably not true, but if sounds cool, and kind of creepy.

[@ZenFr0g]

When they die they leave behind piles of rubble. No meat in there.

[@laertesindeed]

They have no flesh at all, they are a magical rune soul bound to a rock body. But they haven't given any explanation for where the magical rune souls came from yet. Could be what Azeroth created before the Titan pantheon arrived, could be something cosmic team Life made, could be something provided by cosmic Light. We don't know yet.

[@beastmaster0934]

@@ZenFr0g Right, forgot about that.

[@AndrewYuniar]

Flesh cant eat rocks

[@DJstarrfish]

​@@ZenFr0g Maybe their insides harden when they die, like how reactive metals immediately oxidize on contact with air

[@thefarklenator4518]

Dal blowing up with the sound effect cracked me up

[@argus1568]

Why not just make new playable races instead of reskins

[@kylethauvette5409]

One of my favourite parts is hearing Debra Wilson's voice acting. LEGEND

[@AlexRandom886]

Can we all agree that blizzard delivered with the TWW? also fuck yeah new platinum wow video

[@twic3shy788]

TOO SOON. First major content patch needs to drop first

[@lultopkek]

there is nothing to do in the game

[@witnessforchrist7778]

​ because season 1 starts this coming reset.

[@TheItalianiancommenter]

I wouldn't say deliver surely better than DF but no Legion

[@philipje1]

What are you even talking about. Hardly anyone is playing compared to drsgonflight judging by the twitch views

[@TimmyTheNerd]

I have never been into the dwarves of WoW, besides maybe the Dark Irons. This expansion has changed that stance. Earthen are pretty neat.

[@AHylianWarrior]

Your opinion of the earthen in the Horde is very much the same as to how people felt about void elves lol

[@WadeAllen001]

Elves make a lot more sense in the alliance than dwarves in the horde. The high elves were part of the alliance before most of them became blood elves, and right before Jaina purged Dalaran the blood elves were thinking of switching back to the Alliance.

[@Leeloo-Foxx]

@@WadeAllen001 but void elves as a whole still dont make sense. oh you touched void magic and the horde kicked you out? sure! you can join us without proving you can control it!

[@tprime2702]

​@@Leeloo-Foxx I still don't understand why they didn't just make it the remnants of the high elves that followed Alleria to Outland during the 2nd war? They would've escaped the aftermath of the sunwell's corruption.

[@origami83]

The only reason why bloodelves are in the horde is because faction imbalance otherwise. Many people like to play a pretty race.

[@thiccmommy]

I wasn't prepared for LTG watcher dorn lmao

[@KodFrostwrath]

13:00 ah yes, good ol' blizzard consistency: Alliance helped Suramar as much as the Horde did. Resources and time (and my personal time) to help Nightborne, but by the end Tyrande decides to turn racist and the Nightborne becomes horde-only. On the other hand, stone dwarves for everyone. At least blizzard is consistently making me want to play the game ever less hehe

[@andrewwynne6934]

Gives Rock and Stone a whole new meaning.

[@Invindication]

they're cool but personally a waste of an allied race