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HiVolt
The Story:
Why would Thrall throw away everything that he, his parents, Orgrim Doomhammer, Drek'thar, and Grom Hellscream worked towards, to become the Guardian of Tirisfal? It would be a spit on the graves of his mentors and ancestors. And why the hell would Malfurion Stormrage guide him to it?
I can see Garrosh taking over the Horde, to me it seems like he's going to be groomed for the position anyway, or is in the process of being groomed for it. But I can't see Thrall just giving it away to take up some random title that he could probably care less about. Thrall would have to be killed, or defeated by Garrosh in a coup-d'etat.
As far as Cairne protesting open war, yeah I see that, definitely. But Garrosh killing him, and
not
having the Tauren revolt against the action... that's complete and
udder
utter BS. And where is Vol'jin in this situation? Doesn't it seem like he might have something to say against it as well?
The New Races:
This one I can see... but I won't say I like the idea of Goblins joining the Horde. If you ask me, they'd be indebted in the situation, but I don't think they'd consider aligning themselves with a faction. The fiscal detriment of not being able to work with both sides would just be overwhelming to a Goblin in my opinion.
I don't like the Human-form Worgen idea either. Sure, let them keep their minds, but don't let them keep their pink, hairless skins.
The Classes:
I'll list it like the post lists it, and follow each suggestion with my own opinions.
Human Hunter - This one, I can get behind. I never really understood why Humans were unable to be hunters in the first place.
Orc Mage - This is another one I can understand. We see them all over the place in-game, so why not?
Night Elf Mage - Another one I can understand, the Highborne practiced the use of arcane magics after all...
Dwarf Mage - I can see this as well, the Dark Irons employ tons of mages.
Blood Elf Warrior - I've wanted this one since I first heard about Blood Elves being playable.
Dwarf Shaman - I understand this one, and I've wanted to see it, the Wildhammers have many clan leaders who are Shaman.
Undead Hunter - I guess if the Humans get it, why shouldn't the Undead? Where are the Pallys?
Tauren Paladin - I can't even fathom how this could possibly make sense. If they're trying to go on the Light of Elune idea, then why can't Night Elves make Paladins?
Tauren Priest - Again with the Light of Elune angle... meh, whatever. I guess everybody needs a clothie class.
Gnome Priest - Gnomes don't cater to a religion, so how does this make sense?
Troll Druid - While I'd like to see it, there's got to be an antithesis to this or else the Alliance will be down 1 druid race to the Horde's 2. Also, it doesn't really make sense lore-wise. I can see animal aspects taking over Trolls, after all, it happens in both Zul'Aman and Zul'Gurub, but that comes out of voodoo, not druidism.
All-in-all, this seems like some random person throwing a bunch of dirt into people's faces, and saying it's fairy dust; just to laugh as he/she watches everyone clamor over it.
The only way I will accept this as truth, is if we see it at Blizzcon, or if we see it in the final couple of patches leading up to the expansion itself.
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Post by
Adamsm
•The Blackrock Spire will erupt and a new version of Blackrock Mountains will be available, apparently Ragnaros will be back too.
Don't see how I missed that, complete Bull seeing as Blizzard has already said only Onyxia is getting the revamp, and that's just because of the 5th anniversary, they have no intention of reworking any of the other low level dungeons.
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229054
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Post by
Dralas
You know, after thinking about all of this... I'm calling BS. I think some guy is releasing all this crap on the internet, gambling his luck and trying to see if Blizzard will take the bait and use his ideas.
I'm betting that most of everything that has been "leaked" is not true at all. The tauren paladin and priest thing is just so bad, I don't think that even Blizzard would go that low.
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229054
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Post by
Skreeran
I believe the Paladin/Priest thing is supposed to be based on the whole Druid conversation in TB. Y'know, how they're buying into Night Elf Official Brand Druidism™, and the counterpart to Night Elf moon worship would naturally be sun worship. That could be the Tauren Paladin/Priest basis.
Post by
Adamsm
The whole "Light Thing" for the Tauren's is based on that conversation thing that was on the PTR(not sure if it's in game now) where they talk about the Sun as the opposite of the Moon.
Post by
taurenmoo812
After reading this news on it, my head spun.
Well there are some elements in it I like the idea of, like Goblins in the horde, flying in old azeroth.. the bad, darker elements far outweigh the good ones.
Garrosh being made warchief, and right away declearing all out war on the alliance? I would not follow that bastard to the point of cancelling my subscription.
Garrosh is a terrible character. He lacks any sense of honor or dignity the other members of the horde have faught so hard to maintain.
And then him killing Cairne bloodhoof? Why the hell would a tauren stand with the horde if he kills there chieften, it doesn't make any god dam sense.
What I hope for in this, is that the story will develop that we get to kill Garrosh for his betrayal and murder of Cairne. Because if we don't, I won't put up with it anymore. I'll just quit wow.
Likewise, if something was to happen to Thrall, who has lead his people have helped them regain there honor and spiritality, if he was to die, I would pack it in, and tell blizzard to go fu*k themselves.
Post by
Adamsm
I should make a quick post for this heh.
Again, most of the Lore based information came off of SomethingAwful.com.
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229054
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Post by
Patty
The only thing I have ever seen from somethingawful.com, other than this supposed expansion leak, has been real life Pokémon photoshopped images...
Post by
Adamsm
Somethingawful = 4chan..... except not as literate(sp).
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306612
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Post by
taurenmoo812
Simple fact is, if blizzard make it that Thrall abandons the horde to become a guardian of tirisfal, and leaves it to Garrosh to lead them, them I'm packing it in.
Garrosh leading the horde will be its ruin, and the honor and dignity the horde regained from Thralls leadership would be lost. Say what you like about Thrall, but without him, the horde wouldn't even exist now for you to fu*k around on.
Garrosh's horde won't be my horde. Follow him like some brain dead fanboy would who enjoys pvp over plot or story.
Post by
Dave21480
So how in lore does a shaman become a guardian....get richard knack in here. I want rhonin! At least it would make sense.....
Even furion coming back to make the council .....just no
Post by
Arkham
Follow him like some brain dead fanboy would who enjoys pvp over plot or story.Just because the plot may be taking a turn that you personally do not like, does not somehow make it "not plot" or otherwise invalidate it.
Emphasis on "may." None of this is even confirmed yet. Even if you don't like it it's way too early to start nerdraging over it.
Post by
Adamsm
/Sigh, really need to macro this:
The Lore Information came off of SomethingAwful.com, which we all know is the most "reliable" website on the planet. *wink wink nudge nudge*
Post by
Gnub
No current map of Azeroth? It should be easy to do, if the only things added since release is Azure-/Bloodmyst Isles, Quel'Thalas. Convenient that it somehow hasn't been updated, right? Northrend has a map of its own.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/basics/map.html
Comparisons to the Globes in Halls of Lightning / Ulduar - which was where I found the link above:
http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=93561.0
There's a ton of nice stuff found there, and it's actually based on facts, more-so than speculation.
Edit: Forgot to mention Northrend.
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