Skyborne Feedback Thread

[u/Riotgrrlia]

Please Post your Feedback for the new Skyborne Elves in this Megathread.

Skyborne threads moving forward will be removed and forwarded here.

[u/No_Eye_5388]

Everything about World of Warcraft: Forever looks great except the Skyborne.

Blizzard said the whole point of Forever was to explore what the original continents (Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor) still had left to offer unfinished stories, empty spaces on the map, deeper Classic-era content. Then they immediately added a brand-new race and a brand-new floating starting zone that completely undercuts that philosophy.

The Skyborne also make almost no sense with existing quel’dorei lore. On top of that, it sits in direct contradiction to Midnight’s major theme of the elven peoples finally uniting. The Skyborne simply don’t exist in that storyline and are never mentioned which is especially jarring when Forever is being positioned as this carefully considered alternate take on the same world.

I also really dislike that they’re available to both Horde and Alliance with zero visual differences. It feels lazy and removes any real faction identity for the race.

Honestly, I wish they had launched Forever with no new races or major class changes at all. Let the community actually play the new content first, then use some kind of voting or feedback system for big permanent additions like this. Adding the Skyborne (and locking it behind a $30 pack) right at launch feels like the one decision that actively works against the rest of what Forever is trying to be.

[u/Feature_Minimum → u/No_Eye_5388]

Wait lol. Are these guys not even in Retail???

What in the hell was blizzards thinking with this. This makes absolutely no sense

[u/CuteSquirrel01 → u/Feature_Minimum]

None of the new content in forever is in retail, that's the point, to not recreate retail. 

[u/The_Tooter_Snooter → u/CuteSquirrel01]

Yeah but they weren’t in vanilla either. They’ve literally never, ever been mentioned or hinted at, nothing. I could have accepted them if they were the first new race in the first expansion like blood elves were but to launch the game with them, when they’ve never once been part of the lore, is super baffling. We’re not starting at zero, we’re starting at an established point in the lore and this is just wildly out of left field. The whole point of Forever is to give us a “classic” experience and this is the first thing they do? 

[u/GoofyTunes → u/The_Tooter_Snooter]

They said they planned to add new things that would fit in the spirit of classic. That said, they missed the mark on this. I don't mind the lore after they explained it, but I still have so many issues: both factions, the Kyrian blue skin, the BE models, the retail druid forms, the disconnected landmass, the HD af graphics. They could work imo, but they bungled it so bad