For WoW refugees. What was not announced?

[Puremallace]

There is no rep requirement for hero class in WoW as far as I know (maybe in the past, but certainly not since 2018 when I first started playing WoW).

Also, regarding this, while it's not a good solution, you are able to bypass the hero class requirement by boosting a character. I wish there is a way in FFXIV to just unlock a new job like Samurai for a character without unlocking any base class first, even if it means using a job boost.

Dark Iron Dwarf?!?!? Furry fox guys!?!?? Little Elf from Legion content?!?!? All required you to grind rep on one character you may never have intended to ever play just to play what you actually wanted and it turns out faction changes are $14 so conveniently saves time. They never required you to grind rep in Burning Crusade to play a Blood Elf. Someone at Blizzard realized people would pay for race changes verses rerolling an entirely new character just to play what they wanted to in the first place.

The Allied Race content in WoW is a poor rip off of FF14 from Blizzard trying to apply thing from this MMO to theirs and not understanding the barriers to entry it creates because to do a different class in WoW you literally need to roll a new character not just click a button and switch.