Gnome Fans, Are You Paying Attention?
by Its_Immanis - 8 years ago show comments
There’s been a bit of fun chatter and speculation in the Twitterverse since last night when Jeremy Feasel (@muffinus) tweeted out one word: Soon.
This generally is associated with some sort of impending mega news drop. Since it didn’t include the usual “™” we’ve come to associate with “sometime between now and the end of time” we knew it would be happening sooner rather than later.
Today it seems our hopes and expectations for significant news have been realized with Alex Afrasiabi (Creative Director) apparently confirming that Gnome Hunters will be available in the future.
https://twitter.com/Abrosiabi/status/665213527657996288
Not mentioned in the tweet but suspected based on the screenshot above is that there is the possibility for mechanical pets in the future with the addition of Gnome Hunters. In the image above there is a mechanical chicken placed where the hunter’s pet usually appears. This could just be a placeholder or it could be an indication of the Gnome’s starter pet.
Additions to race/class combinations are generally added during expansion launches so we may not see them until Legion, but it is definitely exciting news for fans of Gnomes and Hunters.
Interesting. I like new race/class combos. With rare exception, I hate that there are restrictions at all. Okay, maybe an Undead Druid is pushing things, but I say open it almost entirely.
I know a lot of people tend to get upset when you mention combinations that would be rare (“it doesn’t make sense for there to be that many”) and therefore players shouldn’t have access, but by that logic, Elves shouldn’t be playable at all.
It’s time to stop treating lore as unchanging, sacrosanct law, and allow it to be molded to whatever’s cool.
I agree some of them would feel very strange at first, but my long stance has always been that there’s a precedent for almost everything buried in WoW and, if not, its inventive fantasy can make room for it, much like with Tauren Paladins, etc.
Not to mention all of these races have been at each others throats for decades (if not centuries or millennia, depending on the race) and would logically have picked up new skills, anyway.
Kind of hoped they would add racial variations of some classes, like you pick an Undead Druid and it cosmetically changes some of its tooltips, visuals, and class name to a subset that makes more sense for its fantasy.
I think it would be fascinating if there was a story about a group of Druids trying to help “heal” the Forsaken and, somewhere in their attempts, some of the Forsaken learned how to use Druidic powers. Undead Druid turning into a rotting zombie bear just appeals to me on every front.
I have wanted a panda DK and was told because of the timing in lore there could not be any but then I have a follower in my garrison that is a female panda DK…GIVE ME
And all races should be able to play either horde or alliance just as the pandas can…