Credit where it’s due, though. I thought it’d be Too Many Orcs or Too Many Elves that ruined this game. I did not see Dwarves as a possibility.
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Playable [humanoid] Nerubians will be released either during War Within or as a preorder bonus for Midnight. If Midnight launches with no playable Nerubians, I’ll give 100,000 gold to Enekie.
If they’re pulling out Allied Races again, the idea that we’ll only get one seems absurd.
Glances at Transmog
Gives a hearty encouraging nod
And if they don’t come out and I do end up on the hook for paying this off, my clever disguise will trick Enekie into sending the collectors after Vanndrel instead.
I should put on a hood and a beard.
Jokes on you, even after almost 20 years playing I don’t have anywhere near 100,000 gold!
…and yet I want to poke my head into EVE. I truly am damaged, mentally.
Why don’t we just say I’m right and you both owe me 100,000 gold?
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I did not enter into a financial contract here. Identity theft is a crime!
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someone explain Cataclysm Classic to me and why
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because they won’t just give us pandaria, the expac people would actually play. suffer. die. spine of death wing upon ye.
Over my dead body!
… Well, I’m undead. But. You uh, get the point! xD
In all seriousness, I would much rather have a couple of extra buttons to click on the character creation screen than to invalidate the factions entirely. They’re a staple of the game, and a lot of people enjoy them. Even if we’re not at war, I’d rather still be able to say my orc is a part of the Horde, for instance.
- Metzen returns to Blizzard
- Retail WoW has a Dragon Expansion
- Blizzard returns to the classic Dragon expansion where Metzen’s OC is A Big Deal
They’re betting on all six Cataclysm stans to be whales.
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Blizzard, give us the “WHAT SWORD” shirt.
As far as this trilogy announcement goes my feeling is kinda “ok can we skip this first one and go straight to the last two?”
Quel’thalas (maybe more northern EK if I feel really optimistic??) revamp absolutely is something that I can see bringing people back, especially on an RP server where a lot of people have an old affinity with Silvermoon. A return to Northrend in part 3 is less hype inducing as Northrend has always been sort of a hostile frontier rather than the homey “old world” of EK and Kalimdor, but still might be cool.
This first expansion doesn’t have any obviously juicy settings like that, although I do like seeing hi-rez dwarf architecture and I am curious about, um, underground Arathi humans or whatever that is? I got no idea what is going on there but the mogs look cool and that’s what counts I guess
https://i.imgur.com/deqGlwi.jpeg
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We gotcha mate
I’m more interested to know if this ‘Arathai Offshoot’ has been there since the foundation of Arathai, since before the original alliance between Men and Elves, or if it happened sometime after the alliance, and these were the Arathai who refused to accept the Arcane Magic that the Elves had taught their people and went into exile instead.
From memory, the Light was only discovered after Humans won the Troll Wars against the Amani Troll Empire, wherein it contacted them. Previously, before joining with the Quel’dorei, Humans only had access to ‘primitive’ versions of Shamanism and Druidism, according to the Chronicles.
Which are unreliable narrators.
Which just means the whole thing is a crap-shoot.
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I’m not the only one who understands the Arathi are the sanitized version of the Scarlet Crusade, right? Like they share a very similar color pattern, wield the “Holy Fire”, and stand up against the darkness.
But Blizzard is at least conscious of the out of game context the Crusade has taken on, and the kinds of people that are attracted to that.
I feel like the Arathi were at least initially supposed to be a lost Scarlet Enclave.
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Here’s the thing that bakes me noodle. The Scarlet Crusade took all of the bigots out of Silver Hand and the Argent Dawn, for which I tolerate their existence in the story. The fact that, just like the Court of Nobles and the Stonemasons, it only took the barest of effort from an outside meddler trying to stir up muck to get the movement off and running, also makes them compelling villains and storm-trooper-tier fodder for the daily curb-stomping runs that the Florida People Murder Hobos Champions of Azeroth do as a form of cardio.
There’s always been that tried and true story of breaking out of a toxic mindset/community/identity when you spend enough time around the ‘outsiders’ and realise, no, you were the jibbet all along and how you go about trying to make amends in the future, which I will loudly proclaim Blizzard has repeatedly dropped the ball with every time they’ve tackled Scarlets working with the rest of the planet.
It will be fascinating to see if these Crusaders actually embody the Tenets of the Light and are indeed noble champions, or if they’re just Diet Coke Zealots, and we get to play yet another rousing game of Fashies get the Bashies.
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Its very on the nose how they’ve apparently been listening to the discourse about a desire for “evergreen” features so much that they included that phrase in the expansion’s description
https://i.imgur.com/02T8dxR.png
I’m happy they’re trying to take that feedback to heart but I don’t think “continuing dragonriding in other zones” really counts as a “new feature”. That was a Dragonflight feature, thanks for not deleting it, but it isn’t a “War Within” new feature, and nobody was talking about “dungeons and raids” when they used that phrase because we all know dungeons and raids get added in every expansion.
Avoiding expansion-specific systems is great, but if they’re gonna tout new “evergreen” features I wish they had something more robust to show. Like 1 reskinned race is not traditionally an expansion-tier feature, and warbands appear to just be QoL without any special gameplay changes. When people used the phrase “evergreen feature” I think they wanted something bigger and newer, maybe something that rhymes with mayor rousing, not “hey, you liked BfA’s allied races? well listen to this, what if we did that again, but instead of ten we did just one?”
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This alone has me more excited than anything they have announced for War Within. 
The fact that we made it through most of Dragonflight without this just baffles me, because Dracthyr just inherently look ridiculous on dragons if you don’t make sure to have your visage up every single time that you mount.
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Throws money at the screen I will now seriously consider maining a Dracthyr if this comes through.
If they give them access to other classes, I love my other characters but I will probably be posting as an angry lizard twink till the game shuts down or the heat death of the universe, whichever happens first.
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