For example, in Legion to unlock the Nightborne you’ll have to complete the Insurrection achievement by finishing all of the Suramar storylines. You will still have to complete the zone storylines for each respective race if you’re looking to unlock them. With the change to leveling coming in Shadowlands, it’s great to see these restrictions being loosened.
Now, while you still have to do some questing, it’s something you can finish in a day or two rather than the weeks it might take to grind to Exalted. Even if you had completed all of the main storylines in the zone chances are you’d more than likely still be several thousand reputation points short of Exalted, which was a pretty significant effort. Players didn’t want to have to go back to Legion content and do daily quests in order to unlock the Legion Allied Races. Unlinking Allied Races from Exalted reputations has been requested since the launch of Battle for Azeroth.
Starting in Shadowlands you won’t need to reach Exalted reputation with the parent faction in order to start your very own Allied Race characters. If you’ve been putting off unlocking one of the older Allied Races because of how much time it was going to take, boy do I have the news for you! We’re pretty deep in the Shadowlandsbeta and it looks like it’ll be a little easier to unlock all of the different Allied Race options.
