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New WoW Alliance Race Revealed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the finally dept.

Now.Imperfect writes "The New York Times is reporting that Blizzard has slated the Draenei to be the new Alliance race in the up-and-coming Burning Crusade expansion for World of Warcraft. The article also states that E3 visitors will also be able to test the new flying mount."

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  1. Yeah, and you can trust the NYT too by mark_jabroni · · Score: 1, Interesting
    Thing is, it ain't Draenei (as much as I would like it, they were my prediction).

    There is a leaked video from the E3 floor (filmed during setup). And it shows a video playing on the show floor, with the new alliance race -- which was originally misidentified as Draenei but was really Erador.

    Nobody predicted it, because the Erador are evil demons. These (alliance) Erador are somehow the wisps that killed Archimonde (an Erador himself) at the end of WCIII, or something like that.

    Either that, or someone made a fake video showing a huge videoscreen showing faked in-game WoW cut-scenes.

  2. HUrm. by Churla · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I just don't get how Blizzard are calling whisps that "corrupted" and "posessed" demons (SAtyrs in this case) and twisted their appearance to match the demons from outland (Eredar) as Draenei. Makes no sense whatsoever..

    Oh.. wait... forgot who I was talking about.

    It's a real shame to see what was a great backstory and lore in a gameworld being so shamelessly bend over and violated for the sake of fitting game dynamics they'd like into the game world.

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  3. Supposed to be ogre by smartidiotaz · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://videogames1.mtv.com/pages/news/story.php?id =6150056 Draenei :( Not ogre. Now all the change in the ogre artwork is worthless. They were much better as big fat ogres.

  4. Re:For What It's Worth by Southpaw018 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Dranei became shamanistic after settling on Draenor, before its destruction and transformation into Outworld. They are a highly magical race, and their history fits perfectly into giving them Paladins, Priests, and Mages as their three primary classes, as they were originally saved from being corrupted into the demonic Eredar (as Archimonde) by the Naaru, who are somehow related to the Holy Light that gives Paladins their power.

    Apologies to those who aren't familiar with the Warcraft Universe. I'm not typing out the novel that would be required to explain that. ;)

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