Damn, handclaw, you've been on a roll lately.

And yes, this sounds about right.

SO COOL.

But Troll Druid? Orc Mage? Hmm....

EDIT: And WTF? Undead Hunter?

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Quick, we need to spead this rumor before MMO-Champion claims that they found it themself!

Dwarf Shamans... One can dream...

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Amen to that.

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Thank you so much handclaw for our second "loresclusive".
http://bwtl.wordpress.com/2009/08/14...now-new-races/

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Have you forgotten about Nathanos?

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Submitted the BWTL blog article to buffd.net

http://buffd.net/story.php?title=pot...-for-cataclysm

EDIT: Yes, actually, I had forgotten. Thank you for reminding me.

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Well most of those classes make sense but...... TAUREN PALADINS?!?! WHAT THE FUCK......

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If priests why not paladins? Tauren certainly have the physical and mental resolve to be paladins if they were exposed to the light.

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Back in the day taurens were meant to have priests, that would make some sense, but paladins?

I simply refuse to believe it

Edit:

Wait wait wait...lets put all this into perspective
as far as I can see now they seem to indicate NPCs, could it be
that what we are seeing is only the establishment of new class trainers?

that the new highborn will be night elven trainers and the tauren "paladins" and priests could be trainers in their own right, but without these classes being added to the races itself?

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Because right now it there is no explanation on why the taurens would begin to worship the light.

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Light of the sun. The dialog in Thunder Bluff suggests that some Tauren will turn to sun worship. Their paladins would be warriors of the Light who gained their power through An'she. Same with the priests, but without melee.

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to me it doesent indicate that they will turn to outhright light worship (by reading the quest and dialog text)

them turning to worship the sun would make way for priests (like the night elves use priests who worship the moon)

I just dont see them founding a paladin order, it is way too far stretched, it makes zero sense to me

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Light of the Sun? I am sorry but that sounds a bit far streched. Those two taurens were specifically talking about druidism. How the practice of it was lost after the sundering and who the new teaching they recieve from the elfs are affected by their worship of Elune.

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An’she is a god like Elune though, he isn’t “The Light” as we know it that paladins use.

The dialogues doesn’t really suggest they will turn to sun worship. What it suggests is that as druids the Night Elves specialize and interpret the art of Druidism incompletely because of their focus on the Moon. That Tauren says that you need both or you are not complete as a druid. To me, that indicates that you would need to understand BOTH the sun and the moon, indeed all aspects of nature, to become the ultimate druid. If you phase out the Moon, then you’re just as incomplete as the current state of Druidism is, only in reverse.

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It just struck me. Think Blizz is widening their stance on classes for the faction transfer system, so that you wont be shoehorned as badly? If I'm a horde shaman and I transfer to the alliance, I'll at least have a choice between dwarf and draenei (though I wonder if the wildhammer shaman will use standard horde totems or the futuristic draenei ones).

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Are you suggesting that the classes (like the proposed tauren paladin) would only be avalible for transfer characters?

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I'd imagine that, if they were wildhammers, they'd use standard wooden totems since there is nothing particularly futuristic about them. Maybe a slightly different design to avoid PVP confusion.

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He may not be "The Light", but is he not the ultimate source of Light in general? Is it not he who lights all darkness? Would it not be possible for the Tauren to become paladins using An'she the same way that the Blood Elves became paladins by stealing the Light, or like, apparently, the Trolls who are druids through what is probably loa? Paladins only in name?

I can also see where you are coming from on the use of both the sun and the moon in druidism, but I interpret that to mean that the Tauren should focus on An'she's power and the night elves should focus on Mu'sha's to create the balance in that way.

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No, but I think the faction transfer might have been an incentive for them to expand the playable classes .

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but its still distasteful, paladins only in name are still paladins, and to me, tauren paladins makes no sense (priests do)

however, what about the troll druid? that would give them one druid class race more then the alliance

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Well, remember when we were arguing about possible goblin and worgen classes and I said I really wanted a worgen druid, but they said they wouldn't put in a alliance druid without adding a horde one?

Yeah...

Plus, as I've said before, the trolls do have a history of turning into animals.

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So because the sun is a giant ball of fire that iluminates the world, its related to the holy light? a cosmic divine source of power? Probably the encarnation of good in opposition to the shadow? As Metzen has implied in the last years?
The blood elves got their light from a being which is realted to it, if not empowered by the light. You could call it an embodiement of the light.
Trolls being druids make much more sense since we have seen for example Dranei(Lost ones) druids in Zangarmarsh for example.

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well I dont think I took part in that debate, but I can see what you mean,
my main point of frustration remains the tauren paladins though, it strikes me as being so amazingly odd

I can understand priests, but paladins?

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Again I said paladins in name only . While not paladins of the holy light, they would more so be warriors of An'she. And how do we know what exactly the sun in Azeroth is? The way things work on Earth are not necessarily the same for Azeroth. Again, I am not suggesting that the Tauren begin worshiping the Holy Light, only that they have a class with the same gameplay abilities as paladins with a different lore twist. Similarly, why would the Trolls ever turn to druidism? They NEVER had contact with Cenarius, and there is no good reason to say that they would learn from Tauren. They could, however, invoke the power of the Loa, and get similar powers to druids, just like the tauren would get similar powers to paladins, but both will play exactly the same as druids and paladins.

EDIT: And, last time I checked, the Lost Ones weren't actually druids, just desperately turning to the powers of Outland's animal spirits.

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