What will you be on WoW? - Page 4

Warborn · 2003-07-30, 06:07 AM

Originally posted by Sleepwalker
is there ANY proof of this, though? or perhaps any clues blizzard has released? info is greatly appreciated. i REALLY REALLY REALLY like the trolls, and i'm with robot. if i don't get trolls, i am NOT buying it.

Well, if you've played the Orc Campaign in The Frozen Throne, you'd see that the Island Trolls are brought off their little island off the coast of Kalimdor and transported to the relative safety of the Horde's territory. Essentially, the orcs saved the trolls from annihilation and made them their neighbours. Including the fact that Trolls are one of the oldest and clearly a much-loved race, and I think that it is completely obvious that Trolls will be the Horde's third race.

And that's completely discounting the fact that the Horde lacks an agility-focused race. The Alliance has Night Elves for their agile types, Dwarves for their brawn, and Humans for casters. The Horde mirrors that, with orcs taking the place of the Humans and Tauren the place of the Dwarves, but they do not have an agile race like the Night Elves. It's important for all sides to be relatively balanced in the sense that all playstyles are provided by each side, given that Horde can't group with Alliance. With sheer game mechanics in mind, it is logical for Trolls to be the final Horde race.

And I say final Horde race, because I also believe that there is a third side, as of yet unconfirmed. That side being, of course, the Blood Elf/Naga/Draenei team.

Mr1337Duck · 2003-07-30, 08:54 AM

What the hell are those last three? I never played Warcraft I and II.

Sleepwalker · 2003-07-30, 12:44 PM

Originally posted by Warborn
And I say final Horde race, because I also believe that there is a third side, as of yet unconfirmed. That side being, of course, the Blood Elf/Naga/Draenei team.

haha, that brightened up my day

yeah, undead probably WILL be playable, but i see that as being part of an expansion. or something. but i didn't know it was actually broken up into horde and alliance. if it is, then i don't see how trolls could NOT be in it, what with the 2v3 ratio.

NCG JMan · 2003-07-30, 01:55 PM

Originally posted by r3d
I intend on playing both.
PS is my FPS dose to my FPS addiction.
Whilst WoW sets my fantisy/RPG needs.

Red, I totally agree with you on this. I need both the FPS and the RPG action to get my fix.

On a side note, is PS getting so boring (nothing to talk about) that we are talking about WoW? Oh well this is the lounge....hehe. I don't know what I would like to be yet. I am going to try em all

That's usually what I end up doing anyway. I have noticed that when a RPG game comes out I say I am going to be this and after playing it, I decide to play another character type. I won't know for sure until the game comes out and I get to play the characters for awhile. With that said, I kind of like the idea of being a Warlock...man those elementals look impressive

Warborn · 2003-07-30, 04:00 PM

What the hell are those last three? I never played Warcraft I and II.

They're races from the Warcraft III expansion. Blood Elves are the now renamed High Elves, who've turned to Demon magic after the destruction of their Sunwell and therefore their source of "normal" magic, which occurred during Warcraft III's main campaign set. The Naga are large snake-men, (spoiler)who are actually the Night Elves who almost brought about the destruction of the world 10,000 years prior, and were blasted to the depths during the Sundering. And the Draenei are, well, the Draenei. To give away a little, they're the other race which lived on the orc homeworld, and when Draenor was supposedly destroyed, the Draenei and some of the Fel Orcs lived on.

yeah, undead probably WILL be playable, but i see that as being part of an expansion. or something. but i didn't know it was actually broken up into horde and alliance. if it is, then i don't see how trolls could NOT be in it, what with the 2v3 ratio.

Well, they could always add Pandaren instead of Trolls. How lame would that be.

MuadDib · 2003-07-31, 12:44 AM

For me it's gonna be some strange character like an Orc who wants to live with dwarfs, a Night Elf cook, Human driud with a crow as a familar.

My serious character is of cource the wandering orc blademaster...like the wandering samuri.

But of course when undead are a playable race you will all fall to my Nerubian warrior

BTW: IS eveyone realived at the step Blizzard is taking the art in this game? It's nice to see something that looks like it was annimated rather then the Everquest2-esque "bad CGI from 1997"

Warborn · 2003-07-31, 01:16 AM

One nice thing about WoW's graphics is that they are low poly, but have really excellent textures which compensate (imo). So if you like the style, great, but as an added bonus, the game will run very well also, just like Warcraft 3.

MuadDib · 2003-07-31, 08:45 PM

One thing I'm not so happy about is that female orc don't look like the promo pictures blizzard put out for Warcraft 3...

http://www.wallpapershq.com/img.php?...ux&id_img=5157

Searo · 2003-07-31, 08:59 PM

Night Elf Hunter here. When my subscription to PS is up, and they haven't made it retardedly great by then, I'm grabbing WoW.

Nice Bow, with a Longsword too. Yeah... And a cool pet.

I bet Female Orcs will be made any way you want. Character customization is massive.

Mr1337Duck · 2003-07-31, 09:23 PM

Night Elf hunter, I'll be using bow and sword as normal weaponry while I collect stuff to make my bad ass-uber 1337 super rifle. Then at a really high level I'd just ride around on my panther (my guess about what the Night Elf mount will be) and guard for people in dangerous areas. Take care of animals, if that doesn't work, rip out super gun if it's really tough and blow its brains out. They get attacked, I walk up to monster... *chk-chk* BAM!! Monster is blown away. But this sounds like an awesome game, I seriously look forward to it.