So When Do Goblins Get to Assassinate Gallywix?

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So, I discovered my love for goblins by accident. I rolled a Belf paladin (Lemony) months ago in an attempt to try out tanking. Her boot mog options were suboptimal, so I found a pair of boots I wanted, and the only moggable drop for the boot model for Horde is from the goblin starting area.

I had never rolled a goblin before. I had never even considered rolling a goblin. But this was about my lovely Belf’s leveling mog. It was IMPORTANT. So I decided I would level a goblin from one to 10, get the boots, and that would be the end of it.

I loved everything about the goblins. My gorgeous goblin, Bernice, did indeed get that boot appearance for Lemony, but I just loved everything about being a goblin. Color me shocked, every time I log in on Meriweather here, I think, “I wish I could go back over to Bernice on the Horde side.” Sigh. I didn’t put Bernice down until I was almost to level 90, and I only put her down because my Horde player friends left and I was forced to re-roll Alliance.

Anyway, that wasn’t my point. The goblin chain sets up the player from the beginning to know that Gallywix is not representative of all goblins. His disdain for his people, his betrayal of his people, and his lies (which are how the entire Horde and Alliance regard ALL goblins) are diametrically opposed to how the goblin player, himself/herself behaves, believes, and thinks. The player goblins and all the other goblin npc’s in the starting scenarios are legitimate heroes. They are self-sacrificing and the story is actually a pretty deep one.

So when do we get to kill Gallywix and get our revenge? Get our due? Get our people what they deserve for leadership?

It’s been a LONG time. Goblins (and Gnomes, too) get ZERO love from the game. Goblins are SO fantastic and so well-introduced. The voice acting for their emotes and sayings are marvelous. The way they look and the quest chains designed for them are magnificent. So what gives?

The orcs got rid of Garrosh. Their suffering at his hands was REALLY well discussed and dealt with. The goblins are also being led and represented by a sociopathic nightmare who literally enslaved his people, left many of them for dead, extorts, lies, steals, and cheats. I want him dead. I want his family dead. I want his island turned to ash. I want Bernice’s revenge.

When do I get some goblin story?

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It is said that Gallywix is essentially the most goblin of goblins. He is a goblin that nearly everyone wants to be, but can’t or just lacks the motivation to do it. The moment you get to assassinate Gallywix is the moment he is no longer the true exemplar of goblins.

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But he isn’t. I mean…the game itself shows that for the lie it is. Goblins are inventive capitalists, but they are not ward bosses. They love to make profit. They love to build things. They love to use their hands and the raw materials around them to amass power, wealth, and improved standards of living. But they aren’t evil and they don’t lie and cheat and manipulate. That’s the starting area story of the goblins.

Now, I get that in the novels and such, the goblins are constantly portrayed as shifty, untrustworthy beings who love only gold and would sell their mother for a shiny coin. But that isn’t what we see in the game, and that isn’t what the stories throughout Kezan and Aszhara set up.

Gallywix is the enemy of goblins…not their exemplar.

I want him dead.

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Gallywix is not evil. His interests are just in conflict with other goblins. Law of the jungle. Kill or be killed. He is the apex predator. Now if you think you can kill him, then you in turn become the new Gallywix.

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Honestly, Gallywix in the starting zone is kinda Gallywix at his worst. He lets the worse impulses overpower his Goblin Business Sense.

Gallywix is greedy, impulsive, and ruthless… but he’s not stupid. He learned his lesson on those Islands. He doesn’t waste his resources, at least not deliberately. Hell, he might even feel sympathy for the plights of others, but he will never apologize for causing those plights.

In the end, it’s all about profit, the most Goblin-y of goals. He’s ruthless… but he gets the job done. He’s the most effective Goblin for the job. It’s a job that requires one be willing to make decisions that will be unpopular for the sake of getting the best results. And he’s got no problem with being viewed as the bad guy for the sake of getting the results he and his people need.

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It’s been a LONG time. Goblins (and Gnomes, too) get ZERO love from the game.

Completely and utterly false. I love how goblins are doing right now. They actually do have a lot of lore and a pretty cool overall theme to the race. Although its true that gnomes have been kinda lacking in the lore department. Lets observe a few things:

  1. Since cata they have had 3 classes new classes released for them. Priest, monk and hunter.

  2. The prospect of tinkers and junker gnomes are around the corner.

  3. Officially confirmed as Mechagon which will have cyborg gnomes out.

  4. They actually have their model updates and under the respective actually look very good. I think they look very good in may mogs. Same with goblins.

  5. There is a heck of a lot more discussion about them then goblins and they are played more than dwarves and pandaren.

So goblins and gnomes are actually in pretty good shape right now and things are improving for them.

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I think it would be far better if the player had the opportunity to discredit and bankrupt Gallywix. For him, that’s a fate far worse than death.

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I like it.

(still want to burn his island to ash, though)

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Goblins won’t overthrow or kill Gallywix until they find a way to profit off his death somehow.

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Didn’t Deathwig burn it down?