Hey, sorry this is just a flat, but I got some stuff coming up so I’m going to need to mass produce these a bit. Promise I’ll try to go back and fix these ones up with shading when I get the chance! >
Anywho, seems that the new Pandafarian race is going to be able to be rogues… which seems very odd to me. Well, I mean, I guess it seems fine lore-wise since the whole stealthy rougey thing works well with the kung fu stuff, but what about our beloved hoofed heifers? There’s not a whole lot of cheese burger difference between a Pandaman and a Tauren. Heck, even orcs are a bit hulking to be the sneaky types. And what of the ridiculously tall Trolls? They have to bend over to back stab someone!
Maybe it’s just me, but I always thought that you should be any class, regardless of race. Lore shmore! I want a gnome pally or a tauren mage! I play the races for the flavor, not the class, so I like to have more selection for what I can be and do.
Well the big diffence is that tauren have hoofs pandaren have feet (soft feet for that matter)
lol, when you say that, I think of the girl cat thief in the Puss in Boots movie. >)
I’ve always felt that they need to expand on the available races for druids. I mean, come one! Zombie kitties for the forsaken and biomechanical trees for gnomes.
come on* even…
haha! skeleton cat form! that would be epic!
Dwarven Druids = because blind cave fish need love too.
^this! dwarves ftw!
In FFXI you could be every class combo on any race (they had a main spec/sub spec sort of thing going on), but only certain classes were available to start out as, you had to complete “legendary” type quests to unlock some of the more desired classes, Samurai was a bitch and a half, Ninja wasn’t much fun either.
ah, unlocks! I like that system too!
Personally, I like the diversity because it reminds you that these races are need to be together…to pool their specialty and resources. Or else we wouldn’t need anything but Humans and Orcs… having every possible class and allowing devs to take the easy way-out.
I am more of a Lore-oriented guy though so that’s why I am feeling this way.
WoW has a persistant lore and the reasoning of how races need to hold their alliances in order to survive. Warcraft 3 displays the diversity of races can be the different of defeat and victory as every race had their specialty.
SWTOR also did it to an extend that how Pure Sithblood and an ”alien” race is treated in the Empire or so.
So yea, I like diversity. I like seeing unique stuff. It makes the re-runs or leveling Alts much more fun.
ah true… though the races dont ever seem to get along much… >\
but you’re right, it’s good for replay purposes
This makes me think of Chris Farley as the Beverly Hills ninja. If he was still alive, he would make a perfect celebrity endorsement for the pandas. Jack Black would also work. I wonder if he is allowed to do the Kung Fu Panda bit for other companies?
hmm, dunno. but the tv version of kung fu panda has a different actor. >\
I kind of have a problem with the idea of every race being able to play every class. This is mainly because I’m a RPer and like to see race/class combinations that easily fit into lore so I can RP them easier.
And the other reason is it would just look weird. I mean, for example, why would you have tauren warlocks!?
ah yeah, this is true for the rp. but maybe if there’s a type of racial flavor? like dwarves use guns and elves use bows? kind of like that?
tell me you wouldn’t want to valiantly ride into a group of players on your kodo and toss out a hail of dots and fears!
An undead paladin…?
That would be so weird since paladins are of the light and undead are, well, cursed. The same with undead druids. Lorewise a disaster and it would ruin the fun of the game to have all characters of the exact same race and look all the time.
So, I have to vote no.
In GW2 the idea of every class being every race is fine, because in that game it isn’t the class that is important, but the factions in the game.
In WoW terms, open the classes up and make that opening up a plot point. Like Undead paladins suddenly being a thing, and everyone trying to figure out why and so on.