05-10-2006, 11:29 AM | #16 |
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"Well, the Draenei share a heritage with one of the major enemies in Warcraft, Archimonde. They are both descended from the Eredar. Lots of players have wanted to play demons, and Draenei are the closest you can get to looking like an Eredar. They have these cool forehead features, and one of the customization features is switching around these facial features and the tendrils hanging beneath the chin and so on. "
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05-10-2006, 11:41 AM | #18 |
Evolution or De-evolution.....
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05-10-2006, 12:40 PM | #19 |
I am totally amazed at the chatter on the WoW General forums. People are totally crying about the new Alliance race "looking so much better than the Blood Elves" and how "Once again, Blizzard favors the Alliance over the Horde".
The same people that were whining about the blood elves - "we dont want BE's cause now all the little kids will want to roll them and over populate our servers" are now saying "the Draenei look so much better, everyone will want to roll one of those and cause the population to be even more imbalanced"..... lol |
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05-10-2006, 02:37 PM | #20 |
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People on the forums are idiots. The longer I get to look at them, the more I think I'll probably have one of them...pending what classes are available to them.
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05-10-2006, 03:15 PM | #21 |
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I wont be rolling a pally thats for fucking sure. I hope they can be mages.. that would be pretty fuckin sweet.
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05-11-2006, 12:06 AM | #22 |
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I checked out some screenshots. I don't know if they have the gear on just because it looks cool but you can see Tier 2 Hunter gear, Tier 2 Paladin gear, Tier 2 Priest gear. I guess they have warriors also, would be interesting to see if they have warlocks, personally I don't think so.
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05-11-2006, 05:40 AM | #23 |
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Well, logically I'd expect that they could be Warriors, Paladins, Priests, Hunters, and Mages.
If you want to know why, keep reading...if not, stop here. Again, class to race combinations *should* be about even, this way there's less complaining between Horde and Alliance. This chart will include the Blood Elf info from April 24th that Eyonix posted (Goblin Workshop Link) but not the Dranei. So if you look at the number of races that can be each class you find the following: Warrior - Horde: 5, Alliance: 4 All races can be warriors. Rogue - Horde: 4, Alliance: 4 Orc, Troll, Undead, Blood Elf vs. Dwarf, Human, Night Elf, Gnome.. Mage - Horde 3, Alliance: 2 Troll, Undead, Blood Elf vs. Gnome, Human Warlocks - Horde: 3, Alliance: 2 Orc, Undead, Blood Elf vs. Gnome, Human Hunters - Horde: 3, Alliance: 2 Orc, Troll, Tauren vs. Dwarf, Night Elf Druids - Horde: 1, Alliance: 1 Night Elf vs. Tauren Shaman/Pally - Horde: 3, Alliance: 2 Tauren, Troll, Orc vs. Dwarf, Human Priest - Horde: 3, Alliance 3 Troll, Undead, Blood Elf vs. Night Elf, Human, Dwarf So looking at that, it suggests 4 of the classes right off...Paladin, Warrior, Hunter and Mage. So how do priests fit in? That one is already even! Well, if you notice, Warlocks are currently unbalanced in numbers, but lore-wise it wouldn't really make sense for a race that rejected the Burning Legion and is fleeing from it to try and harness demonic power. Their affiliation with the Light would make priests a logical choice for a class. This would mean that each faction would have a class that they get one more of than the other. Now, the Horde will whine about the Alliance getting a useful specialist healer class and they get a warlock which is a hybrid class but meh...it maps out pretty well. That gives each race about 5 class options to be, which seems to be what Blizzard is shooting for overall. |
05-11-2006, 05:59 AM | #24 |
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I thought they were also introducing new classes as well.
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05-11-2006, 06:10 AM | #25 |
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IIRC, Blizzard has squashed that rumor. Said that they were just now beginning to tune the current class mechanics and didn't want to monkey it all up by introducing new ones that they'd have to balance with everything else (because, they did SUCH a good job keeping the shamans balanced).
Also, that'd be something mentioned in their "cool reasons to buy the expansion" materials...certainly more than "flying mounts" or "jewel crafting" so that's another indication that they aren't. They could be saving it for a "surprise" to drive up hype immediately before the beta begins, but I doubt it. |
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Good, funny stuff in there after you filter out 99% of the garbage.... |
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05-11-2006, 06:44 AM | #28 |
Except Niz does put an ounce of thought in his posts and generally speaks with at least a small shard of knowledge. I know he has to have done extension research on "ghey-ness"......
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05-11-2006, 06:52 AM | #29 |
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Yes, I heard he's helped the *ane "gheyness research" quite extensively.
And Cannon, I've been flipping through WoW Guru and more than a few places have said no new classes, hero or otherwise. They all say that Blizzard is going to "try" to include Hero classes, but due to their concerns about "ruining the game" if they're not done right, I wouldn't hold your breath. We were supposed to have them a bit after release...so, yeah... |
05-11-2006, 07:06 AM | #30 |
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Eh.. I post mostly for my entertainment... most of my post are there for no other reason than for my own enjoyment.
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