The Worgen Are Doomed!
November 20, 2010
No, I have not been listening to my local doomsday cult too much. However, Blizzard’s recent devchat with Bestbuy gave us some more ‘official’ lore teasers that cannot be ignored. The implication is Darnassus (specifically, the Worgen District) is, at minimum, going to be receiving a big visit from Deathwing at some point in the near future. No, the city cannot get the ‘Stood In The Fire’ achievement, it doesn’t want one of those. But it will likely get one nonetheless. First up, let’s see some of the transcript, shall we? (pardon, these were cut and paste with no editing)
Will darnasus be re built to be a real tree or will it always look like a dead stump with trees at the top.
- …but now that Deathwing is doing his thing it makes much more sense than it used to! ;]
– Deathwing hates trees.
What happened with the Worgen district in Stormwind?
We decided it didn’t really fit very well, it was looking kind of awkwardly forced into the city. Plus deathwing would have destroyed it anwyays.
Okay, let’s let that sink in for a moment. ‘Deathwing hates trees.’ and ‘Plus deathwing would have destroyed it anwyays.’ Now, from those two sentences, one cannot be blamed for being under the impression that Deathwing might just have it out for the Worgen race. Or Darnassus. Or both. Likely both. Blizzard is giving us a giant goblin signal flare that, yes, worgen are going to take it on the chin from the Big Bad Piano-playing Dragon. Will Deathwing play ‘em off? I certainly hope not, but it looks that way. Azeroth is going to get a major can of woopass anyway, so this could be a part of his entrance. But it could also mean more. We don’t know. And with the Worgen Doggy Tree setup in Delf Town, and the ‘Deathwing hates trees’ quip, I dunno. Blizzard is pointing to Darnassus and saying ‘bring some marshmellows, things are gonna get hot’. You tell me.
Druid
Is the Moonkin form for troll and worgen on the beta and ptr the final form or is it just a placeholder?
Final!
What. A. Bummer. The art department ran out of time to get Moonkin done in time for release. Not a shocker, I hate to say. Hopefully, we’ll see it later on in the expansion. With the new Moonkin pet and revised Drood forms, I believe we will. Eventually. You don’t redo Drood’s Tree form (with a shiny new COOLDOWN, ahem) and then NOT redo Moonkin. You just DO NOT do that to Droods, Blizz. I also hope the entire ‘cooldown’ thing stays with Tree of Life and DOES NOT spread like an evil alien virus to the other forms. NO. DO NOT WANT. Not cool. I get it that Blizz wants to give Resto Droods the chance to actually see themselves (and their Tier armor), and let others see them as well. But it SHOULD NOT BE for all forms. I’ll just put that out there for all worgen droods and hope we see some solidarity. DYSLEXIC NORGEW UNTIE! Hoo-ah!
