Senseless QQ pt. 3

The Final installment of Sensless QQ. So far we've looked at all the New race/class combos. When the new class combos were announced i began made a chart listing the number of class option for both factions with 31 being the total for each side. Based on current lore info I tried to figure out what classes each side would have, for worgen I was dead on, Roques, Druids, Hunters, Warriors, Death Knights, Mages, and Warlocks, only missing one, Priests. Goblins I figured would end up with the same classes as gnomes, Warrior, Mage, Warlock, Death Knight, and Priest, which was right, but I didn't expect them to receive Shamans and Hunters as well. With thus line up however the races remained even at 43 each including the knew class combination, but with the worgen priest, and golbin hunters and shamans it became 44-45 horde, furthermore the horde gained one more hybrid over the others. The reason is that the alliance recieves one less new combination than the horde gnomes become the only race with only 6 options, where as before they tied with tauren at five. Of course both problems could be fixed by one simple, yet dreadful act, giving gnomes paladins. I hate the idea as much as the rest of you but it would give back the balance. Now onto the lore.

Worgen - We've already discussed the worgen druids in the first post, with the whole ancient druidic order angle. So we'll move on. Worgen mages and warlocks are fairly common place in WoW at the moment just head to grizzly hills, there all over the place so this was expected by all players as was the warrior. Priest was on the fence but seeing as they are former Gilnean humans priest could be cursed, but i guess paladins can't. Rogues, seriously, if werewolves couldn't make rogues there would have been a riot at blizzcon and there would have been blood. Hunter's are even more common than mages and warlocks, again grizzly hills, but with this you get an interesting angle. Worgen were former Gilnean citizens, which could mean that some of them were hunter's before they were cursed. What if some of them weren't cursed? There you have human hunter. This could potential solve that human hunter lore problem we discussed earlier.

Goblin - Mages and Warlocks aka the smart classes, were required for goblins. Warrior aka bruisers, yeah there everywhere. Rogues, short races have to have rogues, its an unwritten law that dates back centuries. Priests like worgen could go either way but with that Giant statue outside of booty bay, Janeiro's Point, you can be surprised that they showed up, besides gnomes got priests why not goblins? Now onto the unexpected. Goblins are notorious for blatant disregard for nature, just look at stonetalon mountain. Based on this it was a bit of a surprise to see goblin hunters and shamans. Now the hunter is built for engineering with guns and ammuntion being made by engineers. Most hunters in fact are usually leatherworkers of engineers, which provide the best benefits to hunters. So If you stray away from the natury Feed-Stuff-To-Animals BM side of hunters you get the Shoot-Stuff Marksman and the Blow-Stuff-Up Survival hunters which seem pretty good for goblins, besides who wouldn't love to see a Goblin with a giant Rhino pet, or even better make mammoths tamable! Shaman one the other hand seemed less likely, but they do exist in game. Geologist and gemologist are normally a fusion between a mage and a shaman, but lean more towards the shaman angle with the whole rock stuff they shoot lightning and fire with a fire shield. Though they are not shaman in the spiritual sense they could be a new way to play a shaman, one through the intellectual side of things. From studying weather patterns and fault-lines. Harnessing the power of element from studying them not communing with the spirits. Didn't see that did you? Just like the idea of Golbin money religion changed the idea of the priest the geologist could change the idea of the shaman.

And that brings to a close this little foray into WoW lore i hope people enjoyed my insight into the topic.