Its annoying that everyone is okay with culling the population of some bears, nightsabers, or raptors; but loses their minds when you start whittling down some humans or orcs…
Pro Tip: Orcs make for cheap, plentiful, and easily renewable compost.
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That explains why the Botani did so well.
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I still wish they had been the Night Elf AR, instead of a handful of Elves no one but Shandris has ever bothered to talk to.
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I know right? The Botani are awesome. Imagine the team up where they turn Ashenvale into a death world for any Horde who dare cross the border?
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I think they use the male Night Elf skeleton, anyway. If so, just paste the textures onto the female model, and they’d be good to go.
Like the Vulpera were the “Goblin Allied Race,” I’m holding out hope that the Botani are still an option as the “Forsaken Allied Race.” Given to the Alliance, the way the Elf Allied Races were faction switched. Horde can get Saberon as the “Worgen Allied Race.”
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It’d be weirdly / ironically fitting if horde did get saberon so both factions ended up with the opposite’s animal symbol as a playable option. I’d love to main a saberon, although I’m not holding my breath.
It’d be funny just for the jokes about cats and dogs fighting, at least.
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That’s going to be awkward, if Z’tenga is still around.
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Made another Demon Hunter just so I could transmog this set:
https://render-us.worldofwarcraft.com/character/draka/105/170935145-main.jpg
Title: Flame Warden
Ground mount: Primal Flamesaber
Flying mount: Flameward Hippogryph
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I think if you squint hard enough, you could pretend the character is an offbeat druid of the flame and your demon forms could be your temporary shapeshift cooldowns.
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I don’t know why they never gave NE Druids customization options to be them. I get they were almost entirely wiped out but when has that stopped Blizzard before? All it really takes is one Druid surviving to pass on the teachings. Although burning tree form may be a little tasteless in light of BfA lol.
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Am I the only one that misses when glowy Elf eyes were full-on headlights?
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Oh hey, we’re talking about themes we love? I could use some positivity right now.
I am a pretty simple man. I love nature. I love animals. I love biology. I love theoretical alien evolution and subsequently alien cultures. I love inhuman minds that operate outside the human scope. I love dinosaurs. And of course I love dragons, which are more or less the fantasy apex of all these things combined.
I just love the different. And I also love when vastly different civilizations or even creatures can find common ground and work together and form close bonds in spite of how different they are. That is a theme I always like to see explored more, which was part of the appeal of WoW once upon a time.
Also to jump in on the nature vs civilization discussion, which is another theme I love (along with flesh vs steel in a sci fi setting with advanced biological and technological sciences), civilization is indeed a product of nature.
However humans are an invasive species on every continent that isn’t Africa. This is true for a good chunk of fantasy work too.
When an invasive species threatens to unbalance the whole sometimes measures need to be taken to prevent them from causing more harm than good.
Some of my favorite druid characters I’ve played in non-WoW games have been ones who see civilization as something that must be tended to. Some light pruning here and there to keep it from growing beyond its means but still acting in defense of civilization if something threatens to wipe it out entirely.
True neutral. A careful balancing act that leads to being the monstrous villain some days and the hero others. Very fun.
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Out of curiosity, were you tempted to race-swap to Zandalari druid for the dinosaur forms? If you were, what made you hold off?
It is said different that makes me like Pre-Searing Ascalon, Maguuma Jungle, GW1 Crystal Desert, Shing Jea Island, Kaineng City, the Jade Sea, Echovald Forest, the Domain of Pain and Depths of Madness!
They are so different from what I’m used to(and so Fantastical) that they please me!
Note that I mentioned Pre-Searing Ascalon as both Ruins of Ascalon and GW2 Ascalon lack the wonder of Pre-Searing Ascalon(and especially the Wizard’s Folly Zone). GW2 Ascalon is basically a Military Base combined with Rohan and Isengard.
I am a roleplayer, so Zen’Kisin here already had a personality, a history, hopes, and dreams. Race swapping him would functionally kill the character that is Kisin and replace him with something new.
I did make a new druid for the Zandalari forms, though. That brings me up to four druids all floating around max level. A Tauren (who was my main for Wrath and part of BC and ICly is Kisin’s mentor, as I also did not want to race swap him when troll druids became an option in Cata), a night elf druid, and now a Zandalari druid.
All of them are roleplay characters with their own motives, methods, and world views. They’re also mostly all different specs. Kisin is feral, the tauren Iktome is resto, and my night elf and Zandalari are both Guardian but on different factions. So I still get a range of playstyles from them too.
Factions was definitely my favorite of the GW1 expansions. Echovald Forest had such a unique feel to it, and Kaineg City was incredible to look at even if it was also kind of a depressing place.
Did you hear that we’re heading to Cantha next expansion? I am super excited for that.
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It had three contrasts: Slums(dreary), City(beautiful) and Palace/Temple.
Slums and City were in every Kaineng City Zone where the Palace/Temple wasn’t present. The fact that the City portions of Kaineng were separated from each other by the Slums means that Nobility can’t escape the reality of the Slums.
There were Slums and City in the Undercity while Xaquang Skyway above it seems to be just Slums(the Undercity filled with the most vile criminals has beautiful hidden City areas for Rich People while the Skyway above it is all Slums)!
It’s hilarious how Kaineng City’s most hideous place is the Upper City while the Undercity has hidden pockets of beauty!
https://imgur.com/a/RjpCinH
Uh… you sure they’re not just chillin’?