Gnome Druids

[Gemini Soul]

Gnome druid would have mechanical forms.

[Ilir]

Technodruid should happen. Nothing to do with druidism but once they'll introduce mechagnome as a playable subrace... you can basically make a mechadruid class that gameplay wise play like a druid but lorewise it's just another gnomish invention that turns you into robotic animals lookalike.

[FelPlague]

How did Blizz explain the sudden affinity of:

Gnome Priests
Undead Hunters
Tauren Paladins
Dwarven Shaman
etc

Easy. By writing new lore to explain the necessity. I get it though. You hate the idea, and no amount of logic, debate, or discussion is ever going to sway you... so I am not going to bother. It's something I would enjoy, and something Blizz will likely never do.

- - - Updated - - -



Tell us how ya really feel You mad or something? It's only an idea thread.

gnome priests were able to worship the light, allmost all races have a connection to the light aslong as they choose to follow it
undead hunters just fucking learned how to use a bow
same for tauren as gnomes
dwarves have a connection to the earth, and through this the elements...

[Alopex Major]

I'd rather Belf druids than Gnome. Oh, and Night Elf Paladins :P

[Deleted]

Gnome DK reporting in. Naturally I can only welcome more gnomes into the fold.

[Deleted]

as a druid since 1.7, seeing the complete lack of care or respect gnomes have for anything thats not a gnome, gnomes can A) never be druids and B) FUCK OFF

You are just jelly that gnomes are 5% smarter. Its a proven fact.

- - - Updated - - -

Technodruid should happen. Nothing to do with druidism but once they'll introduce mechagnome as a playable subrace... you can basically make a mechadruid class that gameplay wise play like a druid but lorewise it's just another gnomish invention that turns you into robotic animals lookalike.

Yep, that totally makes sense. Way more sense than tauren paladin.

[WowIsDead64]

Tauren Rogues are more likely to happen, as we already have them in game - Grimtotem mobs.

At the end, all races should have all classes available. Because currently being some class - is what character can be trained to do.

[HeiAggra]

Gnome druids is just a butcher of the druidism lore, if they use a animal robot how they would visit the emerald dream? Enhanced Virtual Reality? How would they learn from Cenarius? Cenarius know nothing about C++ or lua programming. How would a druid gnome as guardian would use barkskin? Bark metal????
Now really Druids are all about the balance of nature, the guardians of the emerald dream i dont see a gnome fit that role.

- - - Updated - - -

Tauren Rogues are more likely to happen, as we already have them in game - Grimtotem mobs.

At the end, all races should have all classes available. Because currently being some class - is what character can be trained to do.

Some combos with races just dont work.
Warrior, Monk, Hunter, Rogue, Warlock, Mage and DK should be open to all classes the rest i see some cases the race not fitting the class.

[Zephire]

And again how would you explain their sudden affinity? They can't just go upto Malfurion or Cenarius and ask to be trained. It stems from old lore for each race that currently can be. You would either have to retcon it or make it a modern thing without making it sound like total crap.

Worgen. Ancient Pagan beliefs among their people.
Trolls. Zalazane.
Night Elves. Malfurion being the first Night Elf Druid. Malfurion was also a disciple of Cenarius.
Tauren. Believed to be the first race instructed in Druidism by Cenarius.

There is no lore in place that can possibly legitimately explain Gnome Druid. All the other race/class combos have some form of explanation. And as for the Cata race/combos well a lot of that shit like Human Hunter should have been in the game since day 1.

Well, you've to start somewhere! There were no druids before there were druids. I'd argue that you don't need some massively aged lore to back things up. It could be the start of what to be a massively aged lore. It has to start from something, that one Gnome, willing and interested in something else. That one Gnome whom dedicates his/her life researching nature from a new viewpoint. I'm all for individual choices. I not a fan of a race not being able to be anything. Given, it should make somewhat sense, some story backing it up or an ongoing one.

[WowIsDead64]

Some combos with races just dont work.
Warrior, Monk, Hunter, Rogue, Warlock, Mage and DK should be open to all classes the rest i see some cases the race not fitting the class.

As in real life, there are always exiles, who want to do something forbidden. One unique Tauren all of a sudden decides, that he wants to be Rogue. And then community of adherents builds around him. If game developer doesn't allow such things - then his game isn't actually RPG.

[memberbeary]

the new race for gnomes should be target dummies

[HeiAggra]

As in real life, there are always exiles, who want to do something forbidden. One unique Tauren all of a sudden decides, that he wants to be Rogue. And then community of adherents builds around him. If game developer doesn't allow such things - then his game isn't actually RPG.

I know what you mean but Tauren rogues do exist ingame but thats not the point.
It's like asking for a Cat to bark it's just dont make any sense some combos.

[Doomchicken]

Gnomes can't be druids, they'd drown in the leaves 8)
They'd always be...SHORT on mana.
I'll see myself out.

[Zoibert the Bear]

Next up: Pandaren Demon Hunter

On a serious note, pls no. Worgen were a disgrace already.

[darkwarrior42]

Gnome druids is just a butcher of the druidism lore, if they use a animal robot how they would visit the emerald dream? Enhanced Virtual Reality? How would they learn from Cenarius? Cenarius know nothing about C++ or lua programming. How would a druid gnome as guardian would use barkskin? Bark metal????
Now really Druids are all about the balance of nature, the guardians of the emerald dream i dont see a gnome fit that role.

- - - Updated - - -



Some combos with races just dont work.
Warrior, Monk, Hunter, Rogue, Warlock, Mage and DK should be open to all classes the rest i see some cases the race not fitting the class.

Depends on how much you wish to separate class mechanics from attitude and belief. I could point to a ton of creatures in game that clearly display druidic abilities in some capacity but equally clearly have no desire to embrace the balance of nature. Even leaving aside the obvious Nightmare-tainted, there's the druids of the flame, and the blood elf druid from Botanica, just off the top of my head.

Don't mistake culture for capability. Cenarius and the Emerald Circle teach that you cannot wield the powers of nature without embracing the balance of nature. Clearly, this is not the case, just as you don't have to be a good person to wield the light or an evil person to summon demons and bind them to your will. Whether it's a good idea to do any of these things is debatable, but they're all possible.

[WowIsDead64]

I know what you mean but Tauren rogues do exist ingame but thats not the point.
It's like asking for a Cat to bark it's just dont make any sense some combos.

Yeah, but class - is also very vague thing. It doesn't have strict definition. For example Gnomes doesn't have to be "natural" Druids - they can be Techno-Druids.

[HeiAggra]

Depends on how much you wish to separate class mechanics from attitude and belief. I could point to a ton of creatures in game that clearly display druidic abilities in some capacity but equally clearly have no desire to embrace the balance of nature. Even leaving aside the obvious Nightmare-tainted, there's the druids of the flame, and the blood elf druid from Botanica, just off the top of my head.

Don't mistake culture for capability. Cenarius and the Emerald Circle teach that you cannot wield the powers of nature without embracing the balance of nature. Clearly, this is not the case, just as you don't have to be a good person to wield the light or an evil person to summon demons and bind them to your will. Whether it's a good idea to do any of these things is debatable, but they're all possible.

The bloodelf you said is the boss in NH and that is clear to all that is no druid. He os a botanist, a researcher of wild life and plants. To have the ability to do something does not mean you can do it. It's two different things. They show some ability like you said, some ability is not like you have THE ability. I dont know if i make myself clear? It's hard to explain.
Still IMO some classes should be lock to some races. I dont want to see a Undead Druid would be 0 sense or a Human Shaman the same.

[darkwarrior42]

The bloodelf you said is the boss in NH and that is clear to all that is no druid. He os a botanist, a researcher of wild life and plants. To have the ability to do something does not mean you can do it. It's two different things. They show some ability like you said, some ability is not like you have THE ability. I dont know if i make myself clear? It's hard to explain.
Still IMO some classes should be lock to some races. I dont want to see a Undead Druid would be 0 sense or a Human Shaman the same.

*shrug* WoW plays fast and loose with classes in game compared to the lore (not that I trust Blizzard's ability to write lore, or to have anything resembling continuity, mind). Some races have difference sources of power or interpretations, but mechanically they're all the exact same thing. Paladin, particularly if you look at the TBC era, doesn't mean "Knight of the Silver Hand" or "Blood Knight" or "Hand of Argus", in-game it's got a specific set of mechanics. By the lore those are all different things, but the game doesn't care.

I get what you're saying, but it's very much a lore distinction... and while it may be accurate, it's also one the game already fails to make on numerous occasions. *shrug*

[Ashenhoof]

The bloodelf you said is the boss in NH and that is clear to all that is no druid.

You are mixing up High Botanist Tel'arn (wow.gamepedia.com/High_Botanist_Tel%27arn) and High Botanist Freywinn (wow.gamepedia.com/High_Botanist_Freywinn).

Imo it would be nice if Sin'dorei could become druids. At least it would somewhat fit the race, not like gnome druids. Gnome druids are just terrible.

[Wild]

Please no. This is Wow not My Little Pony ffs.