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more evidence high elves will be an alliance subrace :P
high elven tents can be crafted by alliance blood elven tents can be crafted by horde
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I kinda love the idea of sub-races but the balancing would be hard since what kind of sub race would worgen have? Heck If they could pull this off id pay for it hehe
I'd approve of this. Though, IMO, they'd need to "retcon" the appearance since the old Worgen model(s) had generally the same shape as the Cata one. You know, skinny proportions, similar sized manes, that kinda stuff. Make 'em a bit buffer with a straighter back and a head that looks more like the new wolves in WoD but with the big teeth the Worgen are known for; Basically, make the "Dire Worgen" something that looks down at those who he speaks to, Humans and Orcs alike, and I'd agree.
I say this stuff because when I think of "Northrend Worgen" I remember the lumberjack looking guys in Grizzly hills. They were human, but like, twice the size of playable humans; big Mofos, you know? Gotta have a were-beast form that matches it, I think.
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they could use the alpha models and retcon it to say thats how night elves looked in worgen form.
also
"@Loreology Is Fel..... Arcane?
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@MickeyFrogeater Nope! They are two seperate schools of magic. "
now some people can quit trying to tell me fel magic is just "stronger" arcane
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For Worgen, I was thinking Northrend Worgen, like more arctic wolf style. Another idea for a Worgen subrace would be Blackhowl, the Worgen pack that was tricked into drinking the black dragonblood. The corruption could have turned them half man, half wolf, half black dragon. There is some potential for coolness there.
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It SHOULD NOT be balanced. If you have some extra love for one fictional race in this game over the others, that going to be a problem, but most of us love them all. They should not be contrived. They should be good, solid, strong design elements. The obvious choices are obvious.
It should be no more balanced than anything is regarding hairstyles or beards or jewelry. Some races have one with strong Warcraft identity in the lore, some are obscure and would just seem not only like token additions, it would add questionable resource budgets.
If I gave Worgen an ethnic/sub race, I'd have you be able to start in Moonglade as a Night Elf woken from the Dream, told of the Curse of the Worgen story events, and freed from the bloodlust of Goldrinn and free from the rule of Alpha.
You then port to Teldrassil after a few custom quest text boxes and some neat chances for NPC interactions bring more to the lore.
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No way my friend! NO WAY SIR! I can see both extremes, but I think like they've gone all out for a lot of MOP's patches (when they were being released still chill)
They had lore explanations for the inclusion of Dark Irons and Wildhammers, and I loved the Highborne lore and the Sunwalker foreshadowing and Troll stuff. it was just a few paragraphs and scripted events, but it brought the world to life and made me feel like I was living in the future of Warcraft 3 even more.
And my fine fellow, I think you're wrong when you say everyone else won't really care, a huge amount of people who don't RP still buy these games for the stories and feeling like they are in the world, and they care about the lore. They outnumber the role players statistically by a vast amount, but still they care. And Blizzard cares most of all. This is is major chance to grow the world into the future more from WC3 and see how it has evolved now a decade+ later, so much devastation and danger.
Hidden and forbidden societies and even the banished and once openly hunted alike were welcomed back to the remnants of civilization when Deathwing almost broke the world again. Everyone, even the dust and shadows of society, were forced like rats on a sinking ship to come together to stop the destruction of Azeroth and Hyjal as they knew it! /wizard hat
But this subrace option is going to be one for the lore lovers I'll say with a wink, it was the lore lovers who started this whole movement, jolly good, old bean. I don't understand beyond boredom why a person with no real passion for the lore wants them so badly? But I know what it's like to be visually addicted to something, and WOW takes the cake. So I'm wrong, I do understand why all sorts want to look new ways. But they are all so distinct and scream "I HAVE A HISTORY, DON"T YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT IT IS?"
That was a great chance for some ways to make the world feel alive, and the 5.3 Sheildwall story was one of the all time finest lore tickling globe/dimensional dropping quests in the game's history, and I can't wait to see the stories for WOD and new quest mechanics and storytelling delivery systems.
This ethnic/sub race thing is something major for lore lovers it it happens, and Blizzard's commentary all over the interviews acrosss the land recognized this. I think there will be at least a single quest integrating your group with the starting zones of the classic Alliance races. If not a chain.
Blizzard and the art team have decided it's seemed to me, yes while keeping us in content droughts as a price to pay, a devotion to pushing everything to the limit in new ways regarding presentation and polish. The first year of the expansion like MOP will be filled with updates too fast for players to know what to do with like MOP, or they may slow down slightly while accelerating work on the future expansions they have being worked on at the same time, more than one future expansion mind ya'll, is being worked on at this moment more or less.
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So wait, did Shoc not bless us with Grimtotem female tauren? I'm sad now. It was what I was hoping for when the thread first started.
WHat up on the new tauren finally revealed getting funk-ti-fied? Busy with udder things, Shoc?
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