Marious
08-12-2009, 08:21 PM
So what do people think about the next expansion? What will it be? What races if any will they add? What classes do you suppose there will be? Skip to the last sentence if you don’t want to read my rambling and then post what you think.
The rumors about the next expansion are either Maelstorm or Emerald Dream, with Emerald Dream kind of winning out since people are of a mind that Maelstorm will finish WoW, end of story or is it? In EQ there was 15 Expansions, EQ2 currently has 8 expansions, with another announced to come out next year. Some say that patches end up being mini expansions or at least major patches are mini expansions with in the current expansion. So with that said why would they end it after 5 expansions? Really does not make sense since it is probably the most popular game. For Blizz, WoW is a cash cow that they will milk until it cost to much to maintain. But with there work on the next gen MMO will it be worth to continue to invest in WoW? And will there new MMO be as popular as WoW will we see WoW diminish in popularity with there new game? Or will WoW still be the proverbial cash cow that it has been these last 4 years? I am sure these are all questions that they ask themselves on a daily basis, but with new MMO's coming from different companies how many customers will they lose if they do not invest in a new MMO?
Well looks like its more questions really than answers but this is all speculation on my part :) So on to the next question, will there be new races and what will they be? The latest rumor is that they will add the Worgen and the Goblin as a playable race, there is of course the wish of many players for the Pandaren. So what do you all think? If you look at wowwiki.com and go to there future race ideas you will see Arakkoa, Centaur, Cenarius Favored Children, Drakanoid and Dragonspawn to me both seem dragonkin type races, Ethereal, Furbolg, Gnoll, Goblin, Kobolds, Mo’arg (Felguard type Race), Murloc, Naga, Nerubian, Ogre, Pandaren, Quilboar, Satyr, Tuskarr, and the Worgen. Out of this long list of possibilities I can see Goblin, Ethereal, Ogre, Pandaren, Tuskarr and Worgen as likely candidates over the other races. With some of the introduction of material and leaks from Blizz the current trend continues on the Goblin and Worgen being the next playable races,
Now let’s say it is the Goblin and Worgen that are chosen as the next playable race. What classes will they be able to play? Let us start with the Goblin, I would imagine they could be warriors since they seem to have a lot of warrior types in the various neutral towns. But what else could they be? According to some of the lore again this is from wowwiki and other places they can be rogues, techno mage (perhaps a hero class?), tinker (another hero class maybe?). Some of the other classes do not really currently fit WoW lore from what I seen. Also people believe that they will align themselves with the horde, if this is the case what does that mean for all the neutral Steamwheedle cartel towns? Will they all be turned to a horde town? If this is the case that means that what ever race the alliance get will have towns pop up and we will have no neutral towns at all. This is probably a tough sell but who knows perhaps they will unveil the playable races and some other info on the next expansion at Blizzcon.
Moving on to the Worgen, so what classes for them? Worgen seem to be natural warriors, as well as warlocks, lore also says that they can be mage’s and maybe priest. So what else could they be? Not sure about this one. Maybe some one else can fill in here about what they think they could be. Since it is believed that the goblin will go horde, then the Worgen will go Alliance. So this means new towns popping up through out vanilla, outland and Northrend plus what ever they introduce in the next expansion.
That’s all I have for now, please post some of what you think in the following format, what race? What class? Maybe your thoughts about the hero class that you believe will be introduced in the next expansion.
The rumors about the next expansion are either Maelstorm or Emerald Dream, with Emerald Dream kind of winning out since people are of a mind that Maelstorm will finish WoW, end of story or is it? In EQ there was 15 Expansions, EQ2 currently has 8 expansions, with another announced to come out next year. Some say that patches end up being mini expansions or at least major patches are mini expansions with in the current expansion. So with that said why would they end it after 5 expansions? Really does not make sense since it is probably the most popular game. For Blizz, WoW is a cash cow that they will milk until it cost to much to maintain. But with there work on the next gen MMO will it be worth to continue to invest in WoW? And will there new MMO be as popular as WoW will we see WoW diminish in popularity with there new game? Or will WoW still be the proverbial cash cow that it has been these last 4 years? I am sure these are all questions that they ask themselves on a daily basis, but with new MMO's coming from different companies how many customers will they lose if they do not invest in a new MMO?
Well looks like its more questions really than answers but this is all speculation on my part :) So on to the next question, will there be new races and what will they be? The latest rumor is that they will add the Worgen and the Goblin as a playable race, there is of course the wish of many players for the Pandaren. So what do you all think? If you look at wowwiki.com and go to there future race ideas you will see Arakkoa, Centaur, Cenarius Favored Children, Drakanoid and Dragonspawn to me both seem dragonkin type races, Ethereal, Furbolg, Gnoll, Goblin, Kobolds, Mo’arg (Felguard type Race), Murloc, Naga, Nerubian, Ogre, Pandaren, Quilboar, Satyr, Tuskarr, and the Worgen. Out of this long list of possibilities I can see Goblin, Ethereal, Ogre, Pandaren, Tuskarr and Worgen as likely candidates over the other races. With some of the introduction of material and leaks from Blizz the current trend continues on the Goblin and Worgen being the next playable races,
Now let’s say it is the Goblin and Worgen that are chosen as the next playable race. What classes will they be able to play? Let us start with the Goblin, I would imagine they could be warriors since they seem to have a lot of warrior types in the various neutral towns. But what else could they be? According to some of the lore again this is from wowwiki and other places they can be rogues, techno mage (perhaps a hero class?), tinker (another hero class maybe?). Some of the other classes do not really currently fit WoW lore from what I seen. Also people believe that they will align themselves with the horde, if this is the case what does that mean for all the neutral Steamwheedle cartel towns? Will they all be turned to a horde town? If this is the case that means that what ever race the alliance get will have towns pop up and we will have no neutral towns at all. This is probably a tough sell but who knows perhaps they will unveil the playable races and some other info on the next expansion at Blizzcon.
Moving on to the Worgen, so what classes for them? Worgen seem to be natural warriors, as well as warlocks, lore also says that they can be mage’s and maybe priest. So what else could they be? Not sure about this one. Maybe some one else can fill in here about what they think they could be. Since it is believed that the goblin will go horde, then the Worgen will go Alliance. So this means new towns popping up through out vanilla, outland and Northrend plus what ever they introduce in the next expansion.
That’s all I have for now, please post some of what you think in the following format, what race? What class? Maybe your thoughts about the hero class that you believe will be introduced in the next expansion.