New race to be the Draenei

[MrHat]

Those invisible guys from TFT.

The ugly bastards will encourage more horde to alliance?

gamespy link


Imagine this:


But blue and gay looking.

[Trippy]

Damnit I wanted the Panderans. Oh well no resub for me.

[schild]

Zing.

[Lemming]

How stale is that?

[Strazos]

So what....they made out-of-shape trolls?

[Merusk]

Wow the race that was predicted ages ago is actually it.  Big surprise.

And the idea isn't to get more Horde to play Alliance... it's to get more Alliance to play Horde.  This helps as much as the Blood Elves.

If you read Hat's gamespy link, that's not what they look like.  The Draenai we see currently are some kind of funky 'corrupted' version. 

[Strazos]

So....pink instead of green?

[Triforcer]

Zing.

At first I was going to ask what circa 1998 EQ fansite you got that from, then I realized it was ours.  I guess it HAS been a couple years since I've seen the frontpage...

EDIT: Oh, and the alliance get ANOTHER race with an invisibility racial? Great...between NE and rogues 90% of the alliance is invisible at any given moment anyway.

[Chenghiz]

Way to jump to conclusions.

They also have a large tail (maybe scaled)

The Dranei don't have tails.

[Strazos]

I would have rather seen Pandas.

[Sairon]

Let me roll Bounty-Hunter Drenei like in DoTA please 

[Jayce]

I would have rather seen Pandas.

They have only been saying that it's not the Pandas since.... last year or something.

[Ironwood]

Yeah, China would have gone to war had it been Pandas, or stopped farming gold or something....

[fatboy]

Yeah, China would have gone to war had it been Pandas, or stopped farming gold or something....

LOL!!!  ............  that alone might take care of the overcrowding and queues if they all left ........    :-D

[AcidCat]

The Player-Controlled ones should look more like this:

[Paelos]

So, the Horde gets the hawt elves the alliance had, and alliance get the big uglies the Horde had.

Balance ftw.

[Morat20]

So, the Horde gets the hawt elves the alliance had, and alliance get the big uglies the Horde had.

Balance ftw.

Only if you can have Bloodelf paladins -- I suspect the Draenei will turn out to have shamans, which probably means the Bloodelves get Paladins.

[Ironwood]

What really worries me is that they're already hammering on about the Draenei's 'shamanistic' roots.


Oh dear.

[Simond]

Minor detail: This is not a draenai. This is an eredar.
You know, the powerful demonic race who lead the Burning Legion?

Well, it's finally proof that the Alliance are the Bad Guys, I suppose.

[SurfD]

if the alliance actually DO get eredar, i may just say fuck it all, and re-roll.  Being able to play a fucking Demoinc wizard (and from the lore, they are practically demonic nobility) would just rock.

[Chenghiz]

Latest rumour is that they're actually wisps who were infused with the essence of Archimond at the Battle of Hyjal.

[stray]

if the alliance actually DO get eredar, i may just say fuck it all, and re-roll.  Being able to play a fucking Demoinc wizard (and from the lore, they are practically demonic nobility) would just rock.

Weren't they all just warlocks (and why warlocks as a "class" came to exist in the first place?)?

[Teleku]

As the thunderous steps of Archimonde's army approached the summit of Mount Hyjal, all hope seemed lost. The camps of Jaina Proudmoore and the Warchief Thrall were overrun, and the forces of Archdruid Malfurian Stormrage were fighting for their life.

Then, the moment feared by all those fighting for the fate of Azeroth arrived. The Night Elf army was overrun, and the great Eredar warlock, destroyer of countless worlds, arrogantly marched to the World Tree. With flames surging in his eyes, he grasped the trunk with one vile claw... and the entire summit was shattered in a burst of brilliant, white light.

When the radiance faded, nothing remained of Archimonde but a charred skeleton, resting in the branches of the fatally-damaged Nordrassil. Malfurion, Jaina, and Thrall emerged from hiding; it was all an elaborate trap designed by Malfurion to take advantage of the demon's arrogance. In his lust for the World Tree's power, he did not notice the gathering flock of wisps take their positions around him and detonate themselves in a torrent of nature's fury.

With their commander gone, the remainder of the Burning Legion's army was cast into disarray. Malfurion and his companions escaped from the summit of Mount Hyjal, and the remaining Night Elves silently reflected upon the sacrifices of their Wisp companions.

Yet, the spirits of the Wisps lived on. Floating invisibly throughout Mount Hyjal and nearby Felwood, they began to slowly intertwine with the demons that had taken up residence there. Almost imperceptively their presence began to twist the forms and minds of the local Satyrs and other foul, demonic creatures.

Now, a handful of these creatures have been transformed in mind and body; they have the thoughts of the Night Elf spirits coarsing through their veins, yet their bodies mutated to take the form of the last creature the Wisps had made contact with -- the Eredar warlock, Archimonde.

Ashamed of their foul appearance, these creatures took into hiding beneath the roots of the shattered World Tree, Nordrassil. Despite their attempts to hide themselves from the outside world, they found themselves under constant seige from the demons who came to view them as abominations.

Now, with their very existance threatened, these Eredar -- demon in form, Night Elf in mind -- have made an impassioned plea to join the Alliance.

Somebody just posted that on my Guild forums.  Neglected to say where the hell he got it from though.

[MrHat]

Cool enough.

[Rasix]

I can think of only one thing gayer than Night Elves: blue emo, outcast demons with the mind of a Night Elf. It's like the bastard child of Drizzt and Raistlin. 

Bravo.

[Strazos]

And I hate Night Elves.

I REALLY hate them. Fucking floppy-eared easy-mode pieces of shit.

[Teleku]

You dont find emo outcast elves worst than standard generic wood elves?

And I hate Night Elves.

I REALLY hate them. Fucking floppy-eared easy-mode pieces of shit.

.....
As opposed to easy mode Undead, Taurans, and Orcs?  Fuck off.

[SurfD]

You dont find emo outcast elves worst than standard generic wood elves?

And I hate Night Elves.

I REALLY hate them. Fucking floppy-eared easy-mode pieces of shit.

.....
As opposed to easy mode Undead, Taurans, and Orcs?  Fuck off.

Dont even start.  <cough>paladinstotallypveeasymode<cough>

[Strazos]

Yeah, I also hate paladin bubbles.

And Night Elves? They're the race of newbs who use meld as a crutch when they roll their hunter.

[Jeff Kelly]

(..)

Somebody just posted that on my Guild forums.  Neglected to say where the hell he got it from though.

That was Blizzards April Fools joke for 2006

[Teleku]

I thought that as well at first, but I went back and read it, and that passage is nowhere from it (at least from what I could find).  Also, the joke was that you had wisp......not wisp melded into Demons.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/burningcrusade/townhall/wisps.html



And easymodepvpshamans?  Man, everybody is easy mode!  I guess that means everyone in the game is a newb!

[Zetor]

EDIT: Oh, and the alliance get ANOTHER race with an invisibility racial? Great...between NE and rogues 90% of the alliance is invisible at any given moment anyway.

And I hate Night Elves.

I REALLY hate them. Fucking floppy-eared easy-mode pieces of shit.

Cry more noobs. Alliance = easymode pve, horde = easymode pvp (hay wotf/stunresist/warstomp). Hell, wow itself is easymode.

Now where's my pandaren dammit!


-- Z.

[Jayce]

Seriously... I don't see now NE are easymode.  We get meld, big deal.  It's a pause button, not an advantage.

Now shamans... everytime they touch the class, they buff it.  Because it's not already powerful enough.

[Simond]

Because it's not already powerful enough.

You're correct - shaman are useless past the 5-man dungeons...unlike their paladin counterparts.

[Ironwood]

  It's a pause button, not an advantage.

You don't see the advantage in a pause button ?!