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World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade
est:
at first i felt that the Blood Elves are a little bit of a cop-out also, but if you read some of the stuff coming out about the whole deal you'll see the reasons for it. have you seen some of the models of the home town? they are amazing. you can hardly call it a cop-out because of the player models when you see the amount of work that is going into everything else. i read an article that said that the models have been redone with more polygons, also, so it's not like they are just re-using the night elves.
i have always loved the High Elves, so i am just happy that they are in the game in some form. i would rather have High Elves on our side, but people seemed to like the Blood Elves in the WC3 expansion, where they had a pretty major role to play. they were treated pretty crappily by the alliance and were convinced to leave it. this was in WC3 not just recently, so that can't really be seen as something made up right now for convenience sake.
as for something weird like the centaurs, they are a no-go because they would need to create duplicate models for every piece of leg and foot armour. if i remember rightly, something like that would add to the amount of model & texture memory used by the game, which is something that no-one wants.
another reason that the Blood Elves are going to the Horde is to give them an attractive race in an attempt to address the Horde:Alliance balance problems we're seeing on a majority of the servers. if it helps even shit out and gives us more chances to play BGs then that is a pretty good thing.
Trollstormur:
Yea, too bad us allies aren't getting pandarens. Stupid china!!
est:
i'd hate it if we got Pandarens, though. i just don't like the idea at all. there is no place in the WC lore for them other than an april fools announcement that turned into a running joke & a cameo in one small tacked-on part of the WC3 expansion.
Maverick:
pandarens are teh shit! more than just a novelty if you ask me, but i think they would be better suited to the horde. Played the bonus orc campaign as a part of WC3 expansion? pandarens have a place in the game as much as a goblin if you ask me....dwarves have technical expertise too, but who supplies alcohol? that aside, the pandaren is an awesome hero.
anyway, on to my rant:
I havn't as yet played WoW, but i have played the warcraft series hitherto....what the hell is with these suggestions? how on earth do centaurs fit with the alliance? same deal with the ogre suggestion.......what the? is it really that hard to figure where a race's alliance would lie?
would like to agree that yes, the blood elves played a large role in WC3 and thus have a place in WC lore. why on earth they are being added to the horde is beyond me, but i guess they have the whole 'thirst for power' thing going.
AbsolootGeek:
After being essentially treated like slaves by the Alliance, the Blood Elves can't go back to them. Besides, the Alliance exiled them after they accepted aid from the Naga. Since the expansion centers on Outland, the Blood Elves that remain in Quel'thalas wish to find a way there to reunite with Prince Kael. They appeal to the Horde to aid them, particularly to the Forsaken. The Forsaken and the Blood Elves share some common bonds. First of all, the Forsaken's leader, Sylvanas Windrunner, is a former High Elf herself. Both her and the Blood Elves have it in for the Scourge for destroying their homeland of Quel'thalas. Now there are those who will argue that the Elves and Trolls hate each other. This is only partly true. The High Elves and Trolls did war in the past, but those were Forest Trolls. Technically speaking, the only Trolls in the Horde, the Darkspear tribe, are Jungle Trolls. No bad blood there. It's true that Blizzard has said that they wanted a "pretty" race for the Horde, but there's plenty of lore to back it up too. People have gotta learn to trust Blizzard when it comes to keeping in line with their own lore.
As for the new Alliance race, I'll agree that Draenei seem pretty likely. The only problem is that they don't really fit in anywhere on Kalimdor. And to have continental balance for starting areas, the new race should start on Kalimdor.
So my idea for the new Alliance race is Furbolgs. They can start in the currently closed-off area of Hyjal. Most of the Furbolgs are corrupted, and the Timbermaw barely trust anyone, but perhaps there is a remaining tribe in Hyjal fighting off the remnants of the Burning Legion's assault on the World Tree. And since the Furbolgs were always closely aligned with Night Elves before, this new tribe joins the Alliance. As to how they connect to Outland, well I'm not sure of that. Not like any of this is up to me anyway. :)
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