Troll Druid > Nelf Tauren DruidFollow

Troll Druid? I must of missed the memo... So please forgive my ignorance... Are they opening up the druid class to additional races??

Strong chance I'll go Worgen druid as well.

NEs could have descended from trolls so I guess the troll druid make sense.

Worgen as druid make sense for other reasons.

Didn't they change berserking to so that it's a static amount of haste and not based on health? I think allowing Tauren Shamans or NElf Mages is worse than allowing trolls to be druids. Maybe that's just me...

I don't care about the racial, I'll be doing it because of the pure sexy awesome a Troll Druid would be.

Bear form with tusks? Hell yeah.



You mean Tauren Paladins, right? Shaman is kind of a staple class for Tauren already.

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Mazra, if you can find the right in-game book (I think it's in Booty Bay, possibly elsewhere as well), it suggests that Night Elves evolved from ancient Trolls who lived near the Well of Eternity and were altered by its power. I don't remember whether any trolls showed up in the War of the Ancients books, but they're definitely a very old race. Satyr and Naga, on the other hand, we actually get to see created during the books (well, Naga is implied but obvious), and High Elf origins are pretty well-known as well.

Edited, Aug 15th 2009 3:34pm by isyris

Yeah, I meant Tauren Paladins. Was thinking about the dwarf Shamans too, but that's not as much of a stretch.

I've been reading too much WoWwiki and after that three-hour sitting where I read about night elven lore, I must've mixed up some of the stuff. Makes sense that some of the trolls would be "cleansed" by the well and turn into night elves, though I thought it was the other way around, with some elves being corrupted by the burried god thingies. Maybe it's a mix, with a caste of pre-trolls being excluded from the pre-night elves, so they evolved differently from each other.

Anyway, I think troll druids, while cool (did you see some of the fanart on Cat form?), make one hell of a conflict. Remember that you can't just take a race and make them druids. They need to be accepted into druidism by the gods and so on. Earthmother and Elune (some theories speculate that they are the same being) would have to approve of them. Somehow I don't see Elune giving trolls the go order to learn druidism. Maybe I'm biased or stuck in old school lore, but in my opinion it would be just as much an abomination as draenei learning shamanism.

I'd actually prefer if they had made dwarves shaman instead of the draenei. I would've preferred if draenei never entered the game, but you can't have the cake and eat it too.

I dont freakin care if we get a new Stag FORM! Like Malorne, YES PlEASE!!!
They could either add it to a existin tree like they did to the bear and cat or simply a fourth talent tree for every class eh? Not bad~... I wanna be a cute stag like malorne so baaaad ;-;

Also im kinda curious how trolls forms will look, but im a rabid fan of the druid lore so yeah.. dont mess with it so much please blizz?

About the tauren paladin i think its awesome in my own opinion then again paladins ae nothing special just people who believe in the power of the light right? So I think everyone should be able to be a paladin plus I think ive seen other races in the Argent Factions all over the game no?

Not necesarilly if we use the excuse of the undead guy being a paladin before he died and still believed there was hope for him and the other forsaken and that classic corny stuff.
I mean, like that DK (not sure if he was a DK or just a dead paladin) guy who still calls the power of light even though he is dead and evil, he is one of the four horsemen I forgot his name.

It wouldnt be THAT weird, I mean forsaken were once human and I dont think every single forsaken is emo or evil, it would be too bland of a race if it was.
But I get the Massive irony that would come from it, just like the Redundant Undead DEATH(D) Knight (Dead Warrior...haha) ... like... duh?

And I still say I want stag form ;-;.. there are so many druids with different animal forms.. I want em all! Theres even a Snake/Serpent form from the guys in wailing caverns.

Edited, Aug 17th 2009 4:22pm by Manikku

Siz Zeliek, he's a Death Knight now, but a former Paladin. His lore states that because he was so valiant in life he still commands the Light in undeath. I'm more convinced he's a special case and not something you could back an entire race gaining Paladin's powers for.

Anyway more on topic, I was reading about Druids on WoWwiki and came across this:



Leads me a little more in the direction of it being hard to introduce new races to the Druid class. Tauren and Night Elves both have a very, very long tradition of Druidism. Why would Cenarius (while dead, his spirit still resides in the Dream) suddenly admit a new race(s) to Druidism?

Quite possible. I'm very interested, if this indeed turns out to be true, how all the changes will play out in the lore. But then, I'm not one of those people who QQ that changes "break old lore", rather I see it as "adding new lore". WoW evolves and changes like a real place would, and seeing it play out is part of the fun for me :)

If Trolls do become Druids though I must agree, they should definitely have tusks and a mohawk like the fan-art mentioned above. That was awesome.

I'm looking at the MMO-Champion forum now, I'll see if I can't track it down :)

More food for thought though, found this on a topic there:



Not saying I agree, but I'm not not saying it either, hehe. Possibility? Someone being a little bit retarded? Likes cake more den pie? :)

EDIT: ok, didn't take long at all, lol. just Googled it and here's the pic.

Edited, Aug 18th 2009 1:29am by Maulgak

No problem ;) It was worth looking up if only for that smiley. Made me laugh.

Doesn't state in the wiki article that they are warring with the elves.

Also with regards to all of the rampant speculation regarding the Cataclysm and Blizz changing lore.

I think that the Cataclysm, if it is the new expansion, will come with some world changing events in the weeks before it. Like the Scourge invasion but 9000 times more unavoidable. It will allow them a chance to create new lore, of course they could still be tarded and a do it poorly and not stemming from existing lore. But the point being that given such a massive world changing event will likely happen some of the things that seem weird could end up making sense.