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		<title>By: teh Khol Abides</title>
		<link>http://toomanyannas.com/paladin/mondays-are-for-oom/comment-page-1/#comment-4822</link>
		<dc:creator>teh Khol Abides</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Poco-Skywall

Adding the Worgen as a playable race seems to be a good opportunity to develop their culture more fully, then, doesn&#039;t it?  I mean, at least they&#039;ve been previously established and don&#039;t required a GINOURMOUS retcon to crowbar them into the existing lore like some recent additions I could mention.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Poco-Skywall</p>
<p>Adding the Worgen as a playable race seems to be a good opportunity to develop their culture more fully, then, doesn&#8217;t it?  I mean, at least they&#8217;ve been previously established and don&#8217;t required a GINOURMOUS retcon to crowbar them into the existing lore like some recent additions I could mention.<br />
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		<title>By: Kestrel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kestrel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Anna, I&#039;m with you re: Goblins and Worgen. &quot;Stupid&quot; is a good enough reason to me. On the other hand, I &lt;i&gt;would&lt;/i&gt; like to see High Elves as a playable race. (No, I don&#039;t want to hear the &quot;we already have two kinds of elves&quot;argument, because my answer to that is, &quot;So what?&quot;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anna, I&#8217;m with you re: Goblins and Worgen. &#8220;Stupid&#8221; is a good enough reason to me. On the other hand, I <i>would</i> like to see High Elves as a playable race. (No, I don&#8217;t want to hear the &#8220;we already have two kinds of elves&#8221;argument, because my answer to that is, &#8220;So what?&#8221;)</p>
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		<title>By: ItanyaBlade</title>
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		<dc:creator>ItanyaBlade</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Anna,

I&#039;d like to see more than &quot;they are stupid.&quot;

What&#039;s your reasoning?
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Anna,</p>
<p>I&#8217;d like to see more than &#8220;they are stupid.&#8221;</p>
<p>What&#8217;s your reasoning?<br />
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		<title>By: Poco-Skywall</title>
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		<dc:creator>Poco-Skywall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I never understood the fascination with Worgens either.  Their involvement in WoW lore is very limited and largely self-contained.  The Duskwood quests felt like reading C-grade cross-over fan fiction.  The Scythe of Elune quests were a huge let down and are not revisited by... anything, ever (in fact, Elune is never again associated with scythes as far as I know).  Even the Grizzly Hills quests felt like they were left unfinished (&quot;Oh dear, we&#039;re dealing with werewolves here?  Well, jolly good, why don&#039;t you lass fetch me that do-hickey from the mine?&quot;)  

Overall, they feel like a bad joke from the devs when they thought &quot;hey, lycanthropy is cool -- Let&#039;s put in some werewolves!&quot;  Moreover, animorphic races feel cheap to me.  Taurens are well done as a race, with their take on First Nation-esque culture and pacifist / naturalist philosophy.  Worgens have no culture, no personality, no values, and no real motivations to speak of.  They are, as far as I&#039;m concerned, non-canonical; their presence or absence in no way affects any canonical events aside from the ones that feature them exclusively.

With Goblin, at least, I feel more attached to.  They&#039;re bloody everywhere in the game already.  I can see interesting cross-faction potential, if Bliz would abandon that old hat.  At the very least, the engineering rivalry between goblins and gnomes touches a special place in my heart ^^  Still, from game play stand point, I don&#039;t want to see any new races.  They add an inconsequential frill to a dimension of the game that few ppl care about.  Nobody wants the need to reroll their human mage or dwarf pally or nelf hunter for a goblin one because of a unique +5 Do-Thing-a-ma-jigger bonus; nobody wants to read more whining about Will of the Forsaken / Perception / Cow stun.  The only silver lining I can see is if goblins leads Bliz to doing something to facilitate cross-faction activities / communication / RP.  I can see a lot of potential there, but I distinctly remember Bliz wanting to promote Alliance-Horde hostilities (as pointless as it strikes me, from an RP point of view; and as exasperating as I find it, as a PVP-adverse player).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I never understood the fascination with Worgens either.  Their involvement in WoW lore is very limited and largely self-contained.  The Duskwood quests felt like reading C-grade cross-over fan fiction.  The Scythe of Elune quests were a huge let down and are not revisited by&#8230; anything, ever (in fact, Elune is never again associated with scythes as far as I know).  Even the Grizzly Hills quests felt like they were left unfinished (&#8221;Oh dear, we&#8217;re dealing with werewolves here?  Well, jolly good, why don&#8217;t you lass fetch me that do-hickey from the mine?&#8221;)  </p>
<p>Overall, they feel like a bad joke from the devs when they thought &#8220;hey, lycanthropy is cool &#8212; Let&#8217;s put in some werewolves!&#8221;  Moreover, animorphic races feel cheap to me.  Taurens are well done as a race, with their take on First Nation-esque culture and pacifist / naturalist philosophy.  Worgens have no culture, no personality, no values, and no real motivations to speak of.  They are, as far as I&#8217;m concerned, non-canonical; their presence or absence in no way affects any canonical events aside from the ones that feature them exclusively.</p>
<p>With Goblin, at least, I feel more attached to.  They&#8217;re bloody everywhere in the game already.  I can see interesting cross-faction potential, if Bliz would abandon that old hat.  At the very least, the engineering rivalry between goblins and gnomes touches a special place in my heart ^^  Still, from game play stand point, I don&#8217;t want to see any new races.  They add an inconsequential frill to a dimension of the game that few ppl care about.  Nobody wants the need to reroll their human mage or dwarf pally or nelf hunter for a goblin one because of a unique +5 Do-Thing-a-ma-jigger bonus; nobody wants to read more whining about Will of the Forsaken / Perception / Cow stun.  The only silver lining I can see is if goblins leads Bliz to doing something to facilitate cross-faction activities / communication / RP.  I can see a lot of potential there, but I distinctly remember Bliz wanting to promote Alliance-Horde hostilities (as pointless as it strikes me, from an RP point of view; and as exasperating as I find it, as a PVP-adverse player).</p>
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		<title>By: teh Khol Abides</title>
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		<dc:creator>teh Khol Abides</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Worgen make me squee.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Worgen make me squee.<br />
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