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Alliance WoW Race Revealed?
Kotaku is reporting that, according to some early scans, the new World of Warcraft Alliance race will be the Draenei. From the Wikipedia entry: "The Draenei are one of the three primary races native to Draenor (the others being the Orcs and the Ogres). They once populated the planet heavily, but were slaughtered by the Orcs shortly after their corruption by the Warlock Gul'dan. A small number of Draenei survived, using a recessive cloaking ability. Severely mutated in the destruction of Draenor, they were thought to be extinct, but Illidan and his forces discovered and liberated one of the last surviving Draenei villages among the wastes of what is now known as Outland." Still not confirmed, take with a grain of salt.
Indeed, the Draenei were rumoured to be the new Alliance race even before the Blood Elves were confirmed for the Horde. Let me know when the Pandareans become a playable race, then maybe I'll reactivate my account.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=w ow-general&t=6437554&p=1&tmp=1#post6437554
"Since our official announcement at BlizzCon concerning the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion pack, we've seen a great deal of speculation regarding what race players believe might be available to the Alliance faction. This topic has revealed itself to be both highly debatable and exciting, and we're definitely pleased to see so much interest surrounding this particular future addition to the game.
With that being said, we wanted to take this time to remind everyone that we have not provided any information or made any announcements concerning the new Alliance race to any Web sites, magazines, or other media sources. While we don't want to discourage you from continuing your discussions on this matter, we ask that you keep that bit of information in mind. When we're ready to announce the new race, we'll eagerly share as much information as we can with everyone on our community site."
I don't think that aesthetics are really that important. I think that part of it is the overall perception as Alliance="good guys" and Horde="bad guys" than anything else.
- My personal experiences tell me the complete opposite. Before quitting WoW, I was in a semi casual guild. We had a lot of couples. I'd say that 35% of our guild were women (about an 80 person guild). They played mostly the "cutest" troll female model and the "cutest" undead female model. We had maybe 4 exceptions: an orc female model and an ugly undead female model and two taurens. No "ugly" trolls, almost no orcs and almost no ugly undead or taurens. Not to mention, we had at least 4-5 couples, switch to alliance because the gf/wife didn't like the Horde models. The EQ guild I was in before, most female players played human, high elf or woodelf models. Very few females played trolls, ogres. Even barbarians and dark elves (who looked decent) weren't that popular.
Agreed. In games that garner the choice between good and bad, I've always opted good first. Then nuetral, then evil... even then it's difficult. I'm amazed at how hard it is for me to be so indiscrimenently evil to 1's and 0's as to end their meagre electronic existances.
Take Jade Empire. There is not a Good or Evil side to the story, but the "Path of the Closed Fist" takes a lot of steps I would never use.
With WoW it is no different in most aspects. One of the exceptions is the Tauren race. They aren't evil at all. They value honor and virtue. They're nomadic. They don't like the Alliance because mainly the Alliance wants to carve up/out the planet and distort nature. I find it very easy to play as the Tauren, but the Orcs, Undead, and Trolls I still shy away from. Heck, I don't even like playing the humans.
This sig isn't original enough, it's time to come up with something witty...
Yeah, and they could be the mortal enemies of telekinetic pirates that sail flying ships that all have Voltron heads on their bows! And their skull and crossbones flag could incorporate the skull of Jack Thomson, so you know they're really evil!
theres no way they could be the new alliance race, they are supposed to be allied with blood elves (the new horde race) but also ferverently hate orcs so i doubt theyd even be considered
also they are supposed to be able to stealth while moving. Alliance already has a shadowmelding race, and stealth while moving is a rogue skill. they wouldnt make a race with a class skill
nuff said
Another World Event that will be appearing in WoW soon is The Gates of Ahn'Qiraj.
I'm sure there are other reasons that the Draenai wouldn't make sense as the new race, too.
GLaDOS for President 2016! "Well here we are again. It's always such a pleasure." -- GLaDOS, 2011
The abilities include a bonus to fishing skill, swimming speed, and when you get down to 10% health, 1-4 murlocs of your level magically appear to help you out. Oh, yeah, and a PC aggro-inducing shout.
"Waste not one watt!" - CZ
But they play the air guitar - they HAVE to be evil!
Since I can't tell them apart, I treat all ACs as the same person.
I'm amazed at how hard it is for me to be so indiscrimenently evil to 1's and 0's as to end their meagre electronic existances. That's whats the evil bit is for.