New Alliance Race Speculation thickens!

[MongoJerry]

I don't understand what's so hard about tuning new content to include this specific change?

It would be a wild extremely game altering thing. While there are differences between paladins and shamans, in most ways they are tuned to play the same niche role -- buffers, healers, and maybe occationally tank. Now, you'd throw these two groups who fill essentially the same roles in different ways together. Now, you'd get to combine paladin blessings with shaman totems -- blessings of wisdom with mana spring and mana tide totems, blessing of Kings with windfury or grace of air. The multiplicative bonuses would be crazy.

No, I think the two classes were designed to be different enough to give people who play the two different factions unique game experiences (Alliance = easy mode; Horde = higher difficulty. Just kidding! Well, half kidding...), and yet have the two classes fill similar roles in parties and raids.

And as for existing content, surely you don't suggest that running BWL as level 70's will not be easy enough as it is? After all, I doubt you plan on staying at level 60 once the expansion comes out?

You lost me here.