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Snicka
Number of posts : 1229 Age : 38 Location : Budapest, Hungary Registration date : 2008-05-27
| Subject: New masks - new races? Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:52 pm | |
| I found the pictures of these masks... We all know that the first two, worgen and goblins will be the new playable races in Cataclysm, and Blizzard released them as a hint... but does that mean that in further expansions we'll get murlocs, vrykul, ogres and naga? Gotta admit, I always loved the idea of playable ogres. Also, it's the first time we see a female ogre! The female murloc - well, looks exactly like the male. | |
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| Subject: Re: New masks - new races? Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:04 pm | |
| Naga wouldn't make sense as a playable race, especially not with Azshara coming into the frame. Hopefully, if Murlocs do become playable, we might see some nature realism and have the females bigger than the males. Personally, I can't understand why Ogres haven't been made playable before now. They are clearly a race that works alongside the Horde (see Brackenwall Village) and have been in the game from the start. The female looks scary though, almost pig-like. I'd guess that the Alliance could well get the Vrykul when Horde get Ogres, seeing as both are giant races. Question is, where would these races start? You look around the map and there are very few places currently available that you can add another racial starting area. Azshara being what it is (a place very few people go unless they are farming) it made sense to turn it into a lower level area than it currently is, but I can't think of any other places that could have that done to it. 4th continent maybe? |
| | | Alaster Grymm
Number of posts : 102 Registration date : 2008-06-16
| Subject: Re: New masks - new races? Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:07 pm | |
| Considering the link between Ogres and Goblins shown already and Goblins being Horde ... Perhaps Undermine might be opened up? | |
| | | Chassandra
Number of posts : 199 Registration date : 2008-12-18
| Subject: Re: New masks - new races? Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:11 pm | |
| Well, would those new races start at level 1 or in a more "heroic" manner similar to the DK? If they would start at, say level 65, then the Ogres could start in the extremley unpopulated area called of Outlands (very correct lore-wise), while the Vrykul could start in a secluded part of Northrend. Both would exit their starting zones at 68 and start right away in the regular northrend quests, all with their shiny blue gear. Sounds believebly familiar, anyone?
As for murlocs, all I have to say is Nrglrglrlrl. Murlocs=WarCraft And Nagas as a teaser for Cataclysm, as those will play a major part.
Just my 2 coppers... | |
| | | Snicka
Number of posts : 1229 Age : 38 Location : Budapest, Hungary Registration date : 2008-05-27
| Subject: Re: New masks - new races? Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:18 pm | |
| - Gurfang wrote:
- Naga wouldn't make sense as a playable race, especially not with Azshara coming into the frame.
Not to mention that leg and foot armor would not be bearable for them. - Quote :
- Hopefully, if Murlocs do become playable, we might see some nature realism and have the females bigger than the males.
Yeah, I'd love to see a race where females are bigger, and murlocs are ideal for that. Although there are fish species where the males are bigger. - Quote :
- Personally, I can't understand why Ogres haven't been made playable before now. They are clearly a race that works alongside the Horde (see Brackenwall Village) and have been in the game from the start.
Exactly, I've expected them to become playable before the goblins! - Quote :
- The female looks scary though, almost pig-like.
Yeah. I've made some sketches of how I picture female ogres - they looked much more feminine (I may even say prettier) than this one. - Quote :
- I'd guess that the Alliance could well get the Vrykul when Horde get Ogres, seeing as both are giant races.
Probable, although I experienced that in the expansions it was a tendency for Horde getting small and physically weak races (blood elves and goblins), while Alliance getting large and strong ones (draenei and worgen). - Quote :
- Question is, where would these races start? You look around the map and there are very few places currently available that you can add another racial starting area. Azshara being what it is (a place very few people go unless they are farming) it made sense to turn it into a lower level area than it currently is, but I can't think of any other places that could have that done to it. 4th continent maybe?
Well, lore-wise ogres are connected to Outland, vrykul to Northrend... However, I can imagine Dustwallow being turned into a low level area, considering its closeness to the Barrens and Mulgore; Brackenwall Village being the starting area for the ogres. I don't know much of the vrykul, so I have no idea where they could start - perhaps some snowy island to the north of Quel'thalas? | |
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| Subject: Re: New masks - new races? Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:19 pm | |
| Isn't Undermine going to get wiped out by the flood? GIEF NOAH!!!
As for "heroic" races, I don't see that happening tbh. Mainly because people will stop playing the other races due to the ease of getting to 80 with them.
Hmm, thinking about it, with the fact that vanilla is going to be basically remade, I wouldn't be surprised that if they do intend to bring in new races then they will create space for them to be added in later. |
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| Subject: Re: New masks - new races? Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:29 pm | |
| - Snicka wrote:
- Gurfang wrote:
- Naga wouldn't make sense as a playable race, especially not with Azshara coming into the frame.
Not to mention that leg and foot armor would not be bearable for them.
- Quote :
- Hopefully, if Murlocs do become playable, we might see some nature realism and have the females bigger than the males.
Yeah, I'd love to see a race where females are bigger, and murlocs are ideal for that. Although there are fish species where the males are bigger.
- Quote :
- Personally, I can't understand why Ogres haven't been made playable before now. They are clearly a race that works alongside the Horde (see Brackenwall Village) and have been in the game from the start.
Exactly, I've expected them to become playable before the goblins!
- Quote :
- The female looks scary though, almost pig-like.
Yeah. I've made some sketches of how I picture female ogres - they looked much more feminine (I may even say prettier) than this one.
- Quote :
- I'd guess that the Alliance could well get the Vrykul when Horde get Ogres, seeing as both are giant races.
Probable, although I experienced that in the expansions it was a tendency for Horde getting small and physically weak races (blood elves and goblins), while Alliance getting large and strong ones (draenei and worgen). - Quote :
- Question is, where would these races start? You look around the map and there are very few places currently available that you can add another racial starting area. Azshara being what it is (a place very few people go unless they are farming) it made sense to turn it into a lower level area than it currently is, but I can't think of any other places that could have that done to it. 4th continent maybe?
Well, lore-wise ogres are connected to Outland, vrykul to Northrend... However, I can imagine Dustwallow being turned into a low level area, considering its closeness to the Barrens and Mulgore; Brackenwall Village being the starting area for the ogres. I don't know much of the vrykul, so I have no idea where they could start - perhaps some snowy island to the north of Quel'thalas? The armour would just have to be for a lower part of the abdomen I guess, but as we seem to be in agreement that they shouldn't be a playable race it doesn't really matter. Don't think that the species stuff matters that much. It's not like Blizz really cared about that when making the other races, playable or not. Pretty Ogres? Post a scan? Thinking about it, I'd imagine them to be a tubbier version of a Troll female. That said, I'd love it if they made them similar to Princess! Down with the sexiness, in with the ugliness!!! It's true that recent expansions have brought physically bigger and stronger races to the Alliance, but then the Horde did start off with Tauren, Orcs and Trolls. Undead are the same size as Humans, but the undead are the smallest of the original Horde and the Humans are the second tallest of the Alliance! Brackenwall being the Ogre equivalent of Brill/Goldshire/Kharanos etc would be good, but I hope that they end up splitting Dustwallow in half if they do that. But that still leaves the Vrykul as a challenge. They seem to like the cold weather, so I suppose the area to the west of Gnomergan could be used and then have a road over the mountains so that they go to IF to start their roaming of the map. |
| | | Snicka
Number of posts : 1229 Age : 38 Location : Budapest, Hungary Registration date : 2008-05-27
| Subject: Re: New masks - new races? Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:55 pm | |
| - Gurfang wrote:
- Pretty Ogres? Post a scan? Thinking about it, I'd imagine them to be a tubbier version of a Troll female. That said, I'd love it if they made them similar to Princess! Down with the sexiness, in with the ugliness!!!
Unfortunately I couldn't find any of the old sketches, but I've drawn a new one, of a female ogre priest/mage. OK, she's far from pretty with her gorilla-like nose, tiny tusks and obese body, but you can't deny she's feminine. | |
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| Subject: Re: New masks - new races? Tue Sep 15, 2009 2:42 pm | |
| Well, I know having Naga as a playable race wouldnīt make sense.... but I love them, so screw lore and gimme some naga! And the leg and foot armor could be solved by it being kinda... sock-like... or something... I mean, if Lady Vashj can drop Cobra-Lash Boots, I guesss Naga could have a boot...? And one spare... |
| | | Snicka
Number of posts : 1229 Age : 38 Location : Budapest, Hungary Registration date : 2008-05-27
| Subject: Re: New masks - new races? Tue Sep 15, 2009 2:46 pm | |
| Well, if you look at Vashj, you can notice that she wears a ring around her tail, just above the ground - the closest thing to a boot I can imagine on a naga. | |
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| Subject: Re: New masks - new races? Tue Sep 15, 2009 2:58 pm | |
| Yea, thatīs what I mean in "leg armor" Just something they can wrap themselves in.. And a boot.. well they can put a boot on the end of their tail.. And throw it at people if they get pissed.. (thatīs why they would have to bring a spare one) |
| | | Snicka
Number of posts : 1229 Age : 38 Location : Budapest, Hungary Registration date : 2008-05-27
| Subject: Re: New masks - new races? Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:40 pm | |
| Another example of a creature with worm-like body wearing clothes is Lowly Worm from Richard Scarry's books. He wears a shirt, pants and a shoe without having arms and legs! | |
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| Subject: Re: New masks - new races? Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:29 pm | |
| - Snicka wrote:
- Another example of a creature with worm-like body wearing clothes is Lowly Worm from Richard Scarry's books. He wears a shirt, pants and a shoe without having arms and legs!
I loved those books! |
| | | Snicka
Number of posts : 1229 Age : 38 Location : Budapest, Hungary Registration date : 2008-05-27
| Subject: Re: New masks - new races? Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:17 pm | |
| The race I want to see as playable, and don't appear on the masks are the Children of Cenarius! They have humanoid (elven) torso so they could wear most armor; and about the lower (deer) parts, I can imagine the leg armor appearing on their front legs (covering only their legs and not their (non-existent) loin; while kilts/skirts may appear on them as blankets on their deer-back), while the foot armor appearing on their hind legs (not covering the hooves, of course). Class-wise, they could be more or less the same as night elves (apart from rogue). | |
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| Subject: Re: New masks - new races? Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:32 pm | |
| - Snicka wrote:
- The race I want to see as playable, and don't appear on the masks are the Children of Cenarius! They have humanoid (elven) torso so they could wear most armor; and about the lower (deer) parts, I can imagine the leg armor appearing on their front legs (covering only their legs and not their (non-existent) loin; while kilts/skirts may appear on them as blankets on their deer-back), while the foot armor appearing on their hind legs (not covering the hooves, of course). Class-wise, they could be more or less the same as night elves (apart from rogue).
If they did that then they should be bring a Centaur clan in on the other side. |
| | | Snicka
Number of posts : 1229 Age : 38 Location : Budapest, Hungary Registration date : 2008-05-27
| Subject: Re: New masks - new races? Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:37 pm | |
| - Gurfang wrote:
- Snicka wrote:
- The race I want to see as playable, and don't appear on the masks are the Children of Cenarius! They have humanoid (elven) torso so they could wear most armor; and about the lower (deer) parts, I can imagine the leg armor appearing on their front legs (covering only their legs and not their (non-existent) loin; while kilts/skirts may appear on them as blankets on their deer-back), while the foot armor appearing on their hind legs (not covering the hooves, of course). Class-wise, they could be more or less the same as night elves (apart from rogue).
If they did that then they should be bring a Centaur clan in on the other side. Centaurs in the Horde? That would be odd, as they are the no. I. bad guys on Kalimdor, hunted (and used as blankets) by both the tauren and the orcs. | |
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| Subject: Re: New masks - new races? Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:51 pm | |
| They could use the lore of the Desolace quests and have either the Ghelkis or Magram clans join up. |
| | | Opathu
Number of posts : 1047 Registration date : 2008-06-17
| Subject: Re: New masks - new races? Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:10 pm | |
| - Snicka wrote:
- Gurfang wrote:
- Pretty Ogres? Post a scan? Thinking about it, I'd imagine them to be a tubbier version of a Troll female. That said, I'd love it if they made them similar to Princess! Down with the sexiness, in with the ugliness!!!
Unfortunately I couldn't find any of the old sketches, but I've drawn a new one, of a female ogre priest/mage. OK, she's far from pretty with her gorilla-like nose, tiny tusks and obese body, but you can't deny she's feminine.
Looks like some of the women down my local ... | |
| | | Snicka
Number of posts : 1229 Age : 38 Location : Budapest, Hungary Registration date : 2008-05-27
| Subject: Re: New masks - new races? Wed Sep 16, 2009 8:18 pm | |
| The Children of Cenarius and the Centaurs would actually be perfect in an Emerald Dream expansion, because they are both related to the Cenarius storyline. | |
| | | Ilanowyr
Number of posts : 55 Registration date : 2008-09-11
| Subject: Re: New masks - new races? Wed Sep 16, 2009 8:51 pm | |
| - Snicka wrote:
- The Children of Cenarius and the Centaurs would actually be perfect in an Emerald Dream expansion, because they are both related to the Cenarius storyline.
We can only "Dream" that they go to that direction. Been trying to get a glymps of their hints to do the Emerald Dream. Would sure boost our RP out of the roof! | |
| | | Snicka
Number of posts : 1229 Age : 38 Location : Budapest, Hungary Registration date : 2008-05-27
| Subject: Re: New masks - new races? Thu Sep 17, 2009 1:47 pm | |
| Indeed, for the Keepers of the Grove, a Cenarius-oriented expansion would be as satisfying as... as a Zandalar-themed expansion for the Heritage of Zandalar, I guess. I guess they'll be more than happy to accept the playable dryads to their ranks. | |
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