Monkey,May 9 2006, 06:16 PM Wrote:Inadvertent leak about the playable classes. Looks like:

Priest
http://img422.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1...063992591yr.jpg

and...Paladin?
http://img506.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1...062531519sa.jpg

and my apologies to anyone getting tired of my obsessive updates. I guess I'm just a tad...excited  :w00t:
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castille,May 10 2006, 09:18 AM Wrote:Actually, those look like the PvP warrior shoulders.
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castille,May 10 2006, 09:18 AM Wrote:Actually, those look like the PvP warrior shoulders.
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Monkey,May 10 2006, 09:34 AM Wrote:The Alliance PvP Warrior and Paladin shoulders are near-identical. However, our friend in the picture has a book with a cross on a chain. It's a well-documented fact that warriors can't read, so that's obviously a paladin.
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Monkey,May 10 2006, 08:34 AM Wrote:The Alliance PvP Warrior and Paladin shoulders are near-identical. However, our friend in the picture has a book with a cross on a chain. It's a well-documented fact that warriors can't read, so that's obviously a paladin.
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castille,May 10 2006, 09:13 AM Wrote:I guess he -is- wielding a mace.

Wonder if that means Blood Elves will become Shamans..
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castille,May 10 2006, 10:13 AM Wrote:I guess he -is- wielding a mace.

Wonder if that means Blood Elves will become Shamans..
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Quote:Today, as the video game industry gathers here for E3, the top annual game convention, those players will start getting answers. In the biggest piece of news, Blizzard Entertainment, the company behind the game, plans to announce that in the expansion, to be called The Burning Crusade, players will be able to join an otherworldly species called the Draenei.

Much of the storyline in World of Warcraft, which now has more than 6 million paying subscribers worldwide, revolves around the strife between two competing factions, the Alliance and the Horde. Players can join either side of the fantasy conflict; the Alliance includes races like human, dwarves and gnomes, while the Horde includes orcs, trolls and the undead.

Blizzard announced last year that in the expansion it would add a new race called the Blood Elves to the Horde, but the identity of the new Alliance race has been a closely-guarded secret until today. On Web message boards, players have spilled hundreds of thousands of words debating what the new Alliance race would be.

In the Burning Crusade, much of the action will take place on a planet called Draenor. The Draenei are the remnants of a once-thriving culture there that was mostly destroyed by orcs after the orcs were corrupted by the demons of the Burning Legion — the big bad guys in the game, who oppose both the Alliance and the Horde.

In a twist, the Draenei are descended from the same demonic race, the Eredar, that produced some of Warcraft’s most fearsome foes, like the demon Archimonde.

“Lots of players have wanted to play demons, and Draenei are the closest you can get to looking like an Eredar,” Jeff Kaplan, one of the game’s top designers, said in an interview. “They have these cool forehead features, and one of the customization features is switching around these facial features and the tendrils hanging beneath the chin and so on.”

In addition to being able to test-play the Draenei, attendees at the convention this week, formally known as the Electronic Entertainment Expo, will get their first peek at the Nether Drakes, which are among several flying beasts that players will be able to mount in Burning Crusade.

Attendees will also be able to try out Naxxramas, the next big dungeon in the game, which is expected to be added free next month.

Quote:Just wait few hours. let's see what will happen on E3.

:D i trust my source.

lemekim,May 10 2006, 04:06 PM Wrote:For those who cannot login to read the article:
So it really is an uncorrupted version of Draenei, much like everyone expected.
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MongoJerry,May 10 2006, 04:34 PM Wrote:If you look through the images accompanying the NY Times article, there's definitely a priest and a paladin character there.
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lemekim,May 10 2006, 12:47 PM Wrote:I've seen those screenshots, but, somehow, the idea of a Draenei Paladin does not sit well with me. How did Blizzard go from the Shamanistic nature of Draenei (as per description of The Broken), to the Holy Light/Paladin?

However, I do like this better than the whole "wisps reincarnated as demons" thing. Things that are dead, especially in such grand battle as the destruction of Archimonde, should really stay dead. Ugh, what a lore nightmare that would have been.
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Artega,May 10 2006, 10:03 AM Wrote:Wonderful.  As though WoW hasn't destroyed the great storyline laid out by War3 enough.

MongoJerry,May 10 2006, 01:09 PM Wrote:For those of us who haven't placed Warcraft III, care to elaborate?  Keep in mind that we haven't heard the full story explanation, yet.
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Quote:In a twist, the Draenei are descended from the same demonic race, the Eredar, that produced some of Warcraft’s most fearsome foes, like the demon Archimonde.