Well since everyone's talking about this, I may as well jump on the bandwagon as well. As you all well know,
Goblin and Worgen Hallow's End masks have been datamined on the PTR. Previously, only playable races got masks. So this has got everyone pumped up and excited over if they'll be the 2 new playable races in the next expansion. Personally, I've suspected (roughly) something like this for ages now, and if you read mainstream WoW blogs, there's a chance
you heard it too. (And if you haven't I advise you go read that article now.) (Props to
Kinless by the way for having a spot on guess. (Nearly.))
Now, if you want a detailed overview of the whole goblin/worgen mask debacle, I suggest you go check out teh
article over at
Random Ravings of Warcraft. But I'm sure most of you know all about what's happening with these masks and also the whole Cataclysm trademarking thing. Now one of the things people are speculating is that considering neither Goblins or Worgen have any particular ties to either the Horde or the Alliance, they maybe neutral factions, being able to choose their side at around lvl 20 or so. With phasing, this would be entirely possible, in fact, it would probably be a lot like the Deathknight starting zone. Yes, I know you choose before you start playing, but in all aspects, until that
final quest, you could be neither. You have almost no ties to the faction, both Horde and Alliance Deathknights coexist and play in the same zone, it would work out fine. And hey, maybe Blizzard won't even use phasing. When WoW first started, I doubt anyone would have thought phasing would be possible ingame. Hell, I doubt anyone would have thought of it all the way into TBC until it was announced! Blizzard has people paid to create new ideas, and new fangled things for this game
every day. Maybe along with the next expansion will come something new and crazy that we couldn't even imagine!
On to the subject of Worgen. Blizzard has already
mentioned that they plan on pre-seeding new playable races into the game, i.e, adding things inconspicuously to the game to get them ready, like character models, movement, lore, all that. For example, new in WotLK, the new worgen models could wear armor and carry weapons, and essential part of a playable race. And in any of you remember the book
Torment of the Worgen, in Karahzan, transforms you into a worgen for 10 seconds. You can laugh, jump, wave, use weapons, even mount up! As you'll know if you've ever been under the effect of a tranformation spell like that, (i.e, the Hallow's Eve wands they're incredibly more limited. A lot of work for an npc that will almost never be used huh?
Of course, Blizzard perfectly well knows that we're all eager little news whores and that we datamine
everything on the PTR. (Especially after that supposed 'Northrend plants' fiasco)
it may just be a big red herring, and someone at Blizzard decided to screw around with us a bit. And hey, they could still be used as masks for Hallow's Eve, so it wouldn't be like they were wasting productive work time either. And finally, as to people saying we will probably get new races in the new expansion because we just got a hero class, and Blizzard is alternating between races and classes, how are you so sure? How do you know that Blizzard decided at the beginning of designing TBC that they were gonna alternate like that? Maybe, they just added new races in TBC, and when WotLK arrived they realised that maybe the 1-Endlvl stretch was getting a little too long, and maybe they should add something to make high lvl players alt lvling a little easier? And hey, they'd wanted to put the Deathknight class in since Vanilla WoW, so why not? Hmm? What about that? What if they add races
and a new class? Or what if they make a goblin/worgen only hero class?
/rant over
P.S I give all credit to
Random Ravings of Warcraft and
MMOChampion for most of these ideas. I'm just giving my opinion and maybe adding a bit here and there.
Edit: Yeah! LiveSignature works!
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