Blizzard's ups and downs

[ZeroX]

Ups:

They have relased the new flying mount that will be able to be used in outland. I personally think it looks sweet and I thought they would never do this becuase you could just fly into a city and raid it. Nope they have guards now with bows that shoot you done if you come to close. Plus the nether drake was really fucking cool looking in warcraft3

http://worldofwarcraft.com/burningcrusade/townhall/netherdrake.html

Downs:

Why didnt they just make a new class? They so just fucked them selfs on this one. That was the unquie part about the horde and alliance. They had their own class. But now since they make up some bull shit story line that the bloodelfs get holy and the what ever there called become shamans. It just upsets me that they would do this.

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/burningcrusade/townhall/classcombo.html

[Blaze]

WTF, there was a blue post that clearly stated Shamans were horde only and Paladins were Alliance.  0_0

[Screenor]

I agree with you on the pally/shaman thing, that's just stupid. I disagree with you on the flying mounts flying into cities however. I think it'll be fine like that.

[Joe]

You guys clearly don't know the pre-Warcraft lore. IIRC, the Draeni and the Shamanistic Orcs were evolved from the same race, and thus the same ideas -- the worship of the four elements. The High Elves were VERY close with the humans of Lordaeron. The council of Tirisfal was a brotherhood of men and elves. Remember what race the WarCraft III Human's priest unit was? Yup, elf.

[Screenor]

You guys clearly don't know the pre-Warcraft lore. IIRC, the Draeni and the Shamanistic Orcs were evolved from the same race, and thus the same ideas -- the worship of the four elements. The High Elves were VERY close with the humans of Lordaeron. The council of Tirisfal was a brotherhood of men and elves. Remember what race the WarCraft III Human's priest unit was? Yup, elf.

Thanks for proving our points?

[Joe]

I just disproved your points that it was stupid to give those races the said classes. But hey, you're welcome.

[ZeroX]

I just disproved your points that it was stupid to give those races the said classes. But hey, you're welcome.

Paladins were always Humans. Shamans were always Orcs.

[dark_drake]

So.... absolutely no new classes?  That's saddens me.  I can remember the first MMO I played, Star Wars Galaxies.  When I first logged in, I was amazed at all the options that were available to me in the ways of character development and whatnot.

[Kaleeko]

I'm pretty disappointed, too. While I guess they decided to insert their explanations on how these fit into lore, I'm going to be pretty disgruntled with having to play against Horde paladins in BG's, or, if Horde side, having to put up with totems. While it might "balance" things, sure, it was always nice to have something /different/ between the two factions. Now... Their just evening the playing field even more between Horde and Alliance. I'm not sure I like it so much.

[Sidoh]

So.... absolutely no new classes?  That's saddens me.  I can remember the first MMO I played, Star Wars Galaxies.  When I first logged in, I was amazed at all the options that were available to me in the ways of character development and whatnot.

Then again, I'm pretty certain that WoW is the most content-intensive MMO on the market.  The different ways you can approach the content may be relatively timid, but I'd wager that it's one of the most complex MMO's on the market.  I will not, however, argue that it is the most difficult.  From what I've heard, EQ/EQ2 are WoWx10 in terms of difficulty.

[Screenor]

I just disproved your points that it was stupid to give those races the said classes. But hey, you're welcome.

You're an idiot, that's what we've been saying.

[Sidoh]

You guys clearly don't know the pre-Warcraft lore. IIRC, the Draeni and the Shamanistic Orcs were evolved from the same race, and thus the same ideas -- the worship of the four elements. The High Elves were VERY close with the humans of Lordaeron. The council of Tirisfal was a brotherhood of men and elves. Remember what race the WarCraft III Human's priest unit was? Yup, elf.

Since when did you become a total fool? :-/

Almost 25,000 years ago, a faction of uncorrupted eredar led by Velen fled their homeworld of Argus, calling themselves the draenei ("the Exiled Ones"). After traveling through the cosmos they finally found a world which they called Draenor ("Exile's Refuge"). They at first shared a peaceful existence with the native orcs and traded with them. They followed the path of the Holy Light of Creation as shown to them by the Naaru. Unfortunately, Kil'jaeden eventually discovered the refuge, and found the combat-driven and honor-seeking orcs to be easily manipulated. As a potent act of vengance and a safety precaution, Kil'jaeden ordered the draenei to be exterminated by the orcs through his student, the warlock Gul'dan.

Notice it says "TRADED with them," not "FUCKED with them."

A number of draenei still remain untainted, and it is these that are destined to come crash landing onto Azeroth in a planar ship sabotaged by the malicious Blood Elves of outland (not the blood elves that joined the horde). The draenei will be the new Alliance race in the Burning Crusade expansion.

The Shamanistic Orcs that they interacted with didn't exist on Azeroth.

[Blaze]

Tempest Keep, a teleporting fortress, is a good save from the "Phew Phew Laserz" story. 

[Furious]

I can't wait to make an Alliance Shaman and fuck with the Horde >:|

[Blaze]

I can't wait to make an Alliance Shaman and fuck with the Horde >:|

Hehe, they get to feel the power of the grounding totem and the earthshock!  ^_^