Post by Christopher AdamsPost by Nikolas LandauerPost by Christopher AdamsThat said, the Alliance & Horde Compendium for the
Warcraft Roleplaying Game contains statistics for
the bearlike furbolg race. I'll do you a favour and
And I hope they're the Alliance playable race in the
World of Warcraft expansion. <grin>
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I doubt they will be - all the furbolgs seen so far count
shamans among their numbers. Since I doubt that blood
elves will be capable of being paladins, you'd need an
entirely separate tribe of furbolgs to join the Alliance,
one without a shamanic tradition;
Or they could decide, with the changes they've made to paladins, that
it's okay to give Alliance access to shamans without giving Horde
access to paladins. Personally, I wish they'd just give every race
access to every class, and make the differences between the races a bit
more pronounced, so there are still clearly preferred race/class
combinations.
For that matter, having Alliance shamans would make the Dragonscale
leatherworking spec more able to contribute to a Guild (my Guild's got
three leatherworkers; the other two, both hunters, are insisting on
Dragonscale spec; I, also a hunter, have offered to take Elemental or
Tribal spec, whichever would most benefit the Guild).
Post by Christopher Adamssince the neutral Timbermaw furbolgs are supposedly
the only ones left uncorrupted by demons, that seems
unlikely.
Not quite only; there is at least one individual formerly of one of the
Ashenvale tribes who is uncorrupted. He's a quest
destination/quest-giver in the Rayne's Cleansing quest series (you even
have to be polymorphed into a furbolg to talk to him).
It's also possible that many furbolgs will become cleansed of
corruption. There have been suggestions that there may be major changes
to some quest structures and certain locations, including true home
areas for gnomes and trolls (cleared Gnomeregan and the Echo Isles,
respectively). I'd certainly like to see some actual results of the
quests millions of people have been doing. :)
Post by Christopher AdamsPlus, there's the argument against using furbolgs that
applies to four-legged races and the naga: they're not
depicted as wearing clothing, and several kinds of
armour would struggle to fit them.
I don't think this argument is really valid for the furbolg, though. It
fits for the naga and the quadrupeds, but not the humanoid furbolg.
Tauren and gnomes can wear the exact same suit of armor. You can't
honestly say that furbolg are farther away from any baseline than that
difference...
Post by Christopher AdamsI really have no idea who they're going to choose for
the new Alliance race. It's not out of the question that
it might be something entirely unforeseen.
Unforeseen, perhaps, but not unseen. None of the WoW races are new to
the series; every one has existed in the games before (blood elves are
just renamed and cataclysmically altered high elves). So far, the most
likely (IMO) is the Draenei, to mirror the blood elves' former Alliance
nature, and to provide an Outland link.
http://www.wowwiki.com/Rumored_Races is a good site to review the
current status, I've found.
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Nik (from Google)