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Last weekend’s Blizzcon ’09 saw the announcement of the Cataclysm expansion and instead of a new class like Wrath of the Lich King’s Death Knight, Blizzard decided to go the way of The Burning Crusade to release a pair of new playable races. It’s been rumored for a while now that the Goblin and Worgen races would be new races for the expansion because of the Goblin and Worgen Halloween masks that were discovered from data mining game files. At the time it seemed like strange choices for new races but turns out that they were indeed the new races as announced.
Goblin
A while back I made a list of possible racials for the Goblin and the Worgen assuming for a second that they were the new races. well now they are the new races and the real racials are listed below (Taken from WoW Wiki). These were apparently announced already at Blizzcon and I missed it for a few days due to its relatively low key status. For people like me who still haven’t seen them, here are the real Goblin and Worgen racials. I have to say that while I didn’t get any of the racials smack on with my speculations before, some of the ideas have manifested themselves in some other way.
GOBLIN| source
Playable classes: Warrior, Death Knight, Rogue, Priest, Shaman, Hunter, Mage, Warlock
Racials:
Rocket Jump – instant – 2 min cooldown
Activate your rocket belt to jump up to 20 yards.
Rocket Barrage – instant – 2 min cooldown (shared with Rocket Jump)
Fire your belt rockets at an enemy within 30 yards.
Time is money – passive
Cash in on a 1% increase to attack and casting speed.
Best Deals Anywhere – passive
Best possible gold discount, regardless of reputation.
Pack Hobgoblin – instant – 30 min cooldown
Calls in your personal servant, allowing you bank access every 30 min.
Better Living Through Chemistry – passive
Alchemy skill +15, your potions give more health/mana.
WORGEN| source
Playable classes: Druid, Death Knight, Rogue, Mage, Warlock, Priest, Hunter, Warrior
Racials:
Viciousness (Passive)
Increase damage by 1%.
Abberation (Passive)
Reduced duration on Curses and Diseases used against you by 15%.
Flayer (Passive)
Skinning skill +15, skinning speed increase, no knife required.
Darkflight – instant – 3 min cooldown
Activate your true form, increasing movement speed by 70% for 6 sec.
Two Forms – instant – 1.5 sec cooldown
Transform into your currently inactive form.
Worgen will be able to switch between human form and worgen form while out of combat using the two forms ability. Entering combat in human form will automaticlaly shift you to worgen.
Don’t you think that with goblins and worgen having 6 racials and the others only having 4, this could be a sign that the other races could get at least 2 more cool racials to match up to them? It’s definitely a thought to ponder.
Actually for all those retarded whore err… sorry I mean horde players complaining about the worgen sprint ability: you all fail epically at wow. Why? Because worgen sprint is only 40% speed boost and shares the same cooldown with rogue sprint. This means that worgen rogues DO NOT, and I repeat DO NOT get to sprint twice. Why would a worgen rogue choose to use the racial sprint anyway? The rogue sprint is better.
Faster skinning that doesn’t require a skinning knife? LOL! That’s one of the stupidest ideas for a racial yet. When has skinning speed ever been a real issue with skinners? So the worgens can shapeshift between human and werewolf forms. Oh wow big whoop. This does absolutely nothing to benefit worgen players for pve and pvp. Compare that to a goblin warrior… two leaps to close the gap coupled with the warrior stuns in CATA is way OP. Goblin mages can now blink and have the racial leaping to kite… wow OP.
The goblin’s automatic best discount racial is way better for pve than any racials the alliance has. Horde players want to whine about human diplomatic racial? LOL it’s near useless because nowadays it’s ridiculously easy to reach exalted with ANY RACE with just about ANY faction. Once you hit exalted with all the new factions, the racial become useless because not many people want to go back and grind rep for older factions that have outdated gear and items.
For those of you horde idiots complaining about gnome int boost: please just STFU already. Will of the forsaken was so OP that blizzard HAD to nerf it and I’m not sure if the nerf they did on it is still even active because so many horde crybabies whined about it. Blood elf aoe silence is still OP in arenas and bgs. Their mana drain was so OP, blizz had to nerf it. I’m glad they did that but it took them a long time to nerf the damn ability. Now horde gets pallies with an aoe stun. Hello OP! Pallies capable of a short stunlock is plain stupid and broken. All your horde crybabies just need to learn to play and stop crying already. Unlike you retards, most of us alliance players have to learn to adapt to the horde OP due to blizzard favoring you fucktards most of the time.
The goblin facials are to good and the chemistry one makes me pissed since i do it then goblins gets a head start and they had jump stuff rocket stuff and a butler. Ultra unfair
I test them and I personally think that the racials between those two races are equal.Goblins have some rocket abilities when Worgens have tha 70% speed increase every 3 min ( this like rogue’s sprint ) . Also goblins have the spell for the bank which is very useful to new player that wont have enough gold to spend on bags . Finally , Worgens can change races , they can be human and worgen , I think this is awesome . By the way goblins have an awesome bike for mount when worgens DONT have a mount , they ‘re running wild ( they put hands too on the ground and they run like warewolves ) which is awesome too.Genjuros server PWNS !
You’re either a spoiled horde bitch or you’re retarded. Both sides are only equal to a dumbass like you. You are clearly blind to not see the uselessness in some of the worgen racials. Shapeshift that does nothing for beneficial gains in pve and pvp? Useless! Faster skinning and no need for skinning knife? LOL what if you’re not a skinner? However, the real issue is: when has skinning speed ever been a problem? Answer: NEVER!!!!!!!!!! Does the goblin race have ANY USELESS RACIALS? At the moment, no. GTFO blizz’s cock already bitch.
No i think the worgans have really cool racials just as good as goblin.
uhm… ya if these are correct…. blizzard simply ruined WoW even more. Ever since BC Xpac they have made extremely bad decisions and to make the goblins have these insanely over powered racials.. Sorry to say guys but WOTLK was the beginning of the end of wow. i believe cata will be the end of wow for good as is. but if they make the horde race have that much of an advantage over all other races… ally will drop off fast, once they r pretty much gone.. horde will quite as of nothing to do. Grats blizz. on ruining the once greatest game ever. WTB Classic wow realm.
You guys are such a crybabies.. you blizz stupid and fail just because you want to play a goblin or worgen,and after seeing their raiceals you are starting to flame you guys want that all 6 racials were imba??omg get a life 1 or 2 good racials with some low boost is already ok, thing is in difference between the races not in their IMBApossobilitytoownwithracials……
lmao the skinning no knife required racial from worgen cracks me up, its like blizz is seriously toying with you, lol, what if your not even a LW lmao then your pretty much fucked… if worgen was intended to be the a druid class then lmao tauren will always me the best druid class both pvp and pve…
I like turtles
i would like to know if anybody here knows if the goblin race entering the horde will prevent alliance members from being accepted in places such as booty bay, or other old goblin factions
the worgen only have 5 racials btw not 6
Engineers are worth it because they get an AH in Dal.
As soon as this stuff releases, im going worgen with my rogue… 3 sprints and decrease in debuffs. crazy shit.
Okay lets look at this honestly…
The only goblin racial that doesn’t make sense to me is the + to Alc..there are two forms of engineering, gnomish and goblin. The Gnomes get + to engineering and the goblins get alc? Granted Engineering sucks but it’s the point. As for the rest of it, the belt and the jump match the goblin engineering recipes that you’ll see out there, bombs and rockets etc. The 10% discount which matches exaulted makes sense because they are trademen by nature (see bootybay, ratchet etc) and the bank dude…well that’s just a space filler.
The worgen also make sense if you look at it from a racial standpoint more than a “they have and we don’t”. The Worgen are wolves by night and human by day (see the Shadowfang village in silverpine forest. The citizens are human during day hours, frendly with the alliance and worgen at night, frendly to noone). Skinning increase, every race has a crafting / gathering increase..tauren get herb increase…cause their cows? Worgen have claws and wolfs tear animals apart so it kinda makes sense. Speed increase? i’d imagine that you switch into a wolf similar to a shammy ghost wolf and beat feet for a short while. The ability to switch, we’ll your a warewolf..what more do you want?
All in all I think these are good choices for the races if you look beyond horde and alliance.
cant ppl just be happy with the racials their fractions are going to receive…..lol lets not forget this is a game ……games are supposed to be about having fun not about pointless arguments with strangers……
Just STFU already mr I suck blizzard’s cock so much I’m full of semen in my stomach. People pay to play wow. It’s not a one time fee, it’s a monthly fee. When you pay for something for entertainment, you expect quality. What blizzard did with CATA stuff is not quality. They basically fucked over alliance once again and gave horde players a better race. So why not go horde say some of you retards? Why would I shell out another $25 to change faction? If I don’t do that, I have to level up a new toon on the horde side and no way in hell will I do that because I already have many toons on alliance side with many things such as lots of gold and items in bank. You seriously need to open up your eyes and see when one side of the gamers in wow are getting screwed over by blizzard’s stupidity.
I agree that the goblins racials are better however, this inbalance in the racials is a direct defense against another class / race spree. Blizzard doesn’t want a repeat of the Death knight except in races… over populated alliance makes for hard server population balancing and lack of variety in the game. Most likely case scenario blizzard will leave as is until the spree is over and when people are bored of the graphic of the worgen, as it will be over used and everywhere. Then possibly nerf the goblin racials so it will even out.
If your that fused log on the official forums and make complaints. however i don’t recommended it, you’ll help to ruin the game just like DK’s complained and got uber buffed through the roof.
Stop thinking about the horde vs. alliance benefits for a moment and consider the reasons behind the racials. Blizzard was not thinking about balancing faction power when they made these racials, they were thinking about the lore and the actual characteristics of the races.
What are they known for?!
Goblins:
*WoW’s biggest merchants, can be found as neutral vendors anywhere and everywhere, doing whatever the heck they can to make a profit (IE – Best Deals Anywhere) You can also put money on most goblins hiring servants, or slaves to follow them and carry their gear and merchandise (remember we’re talking about the role playing/story/lore aspects)
*Known for their engineering feats, much the same as gnomes, though goblins play more into the explosive side of things (IE – rocket belt based racials, carrying around their gizmos with them)
*Aside from the undead, the most well known race for alchemy as well (Think Steamweedle Cartel and their involvement in the valentines day holiday as one example)
*Small, quick creatures, always concerned with making a profit in the fastest time possible (Time is Money!) <- as well as that being one of their well known lines in game.
Worgen:
*Werewolves are known for tearing their prey apart with their claws (IE – Flayer)
*As they are extremely ruthless creatures, direct damage bonus (IE – Viciousness)
*Werewolves are known to be extremely fast, lethal creatures (IE- Dark Flight)
*A werewolf is supposed to be a cursed creature already, and difficult to kill (Think silver bullets in our own lore) and therefore curses and such wouldn't be as effective (IE – Abberation)
Blizzard wasn't out to please faction rivalries, they were out to improve game lore and fun play.
Regardless of which race is better for what aspect of play, guaranteed at the least, 80% of players will roll both a worgen and a goblin when Cataclysm is released, despite which is better racial-wise.
Just as a fun little note, think…
Worgen racial + rogue haste + rocket boots extreme = 20 second flag cap in wsg.
Sorry to double post but in response to all players throwing out shit like “don’t whine, go play the other class/race/faction”: How about you shut the fuck up and level my character FOR ME and get max lvl and get all my tier gear and quests complete you ignorant dipshit. Oh I forgot, Blizzard broke WoW and made everyone friends and now we can not only ROLL the other faction on the same server, but FACTION CHANGE INTO THE OTHER FACTION LAWLROFLSTOMPED. So in conclusion, I’ll be race changing into a Worgen Wariror, and continuing to not play the horde like i should. AND I’ll continue to bitch in here till racials are even remotely adjusted to be minutely comparable. . . GG well played.
lol I’d honestly love to say the racials in this game are some-what on par, alliance being better with this and Horde better with that. Interestingly I figured out that Horde = offensive racials (more damage with axes, a stun, a silence, Alliance = defensive racials, a HoT, and Movment Breaking trinkets (although as some people like to ignore, the gnome racial is on chance, not on use so it works like what 1/1000 snares/immobilizes?) and some are mixed (different +damages and the undead cannibalism). As they say the best defense is a good offense and vice versa so whatever. But seriously no one can possibly believe that a 1% damage bonus, a sprint (ONE good racial) 15% shorter curses (like what, 3 fucking seconds if that) and FASTER SKINNING, could even come close to a portable BANK (ALL goblins are instant rich since farming will be infinite) THEIR OWN SPRINT (countering the worgen’s only good racial lawl), a DAMAGING belt thing, INSTANT EXALTED with all factions that matter, EXTRA HP/MANA with pots and 1% faster attacking/casting (again will help healers) They are not even on the same level, even the same ballpark as far as racials. No I DIDN’T mention human/worgen changing cause that is the single most useless fucking racial I have ever heard of. It should be taken out completely for something useful.
OMFG.. ppl its a game…
OMG!! I can soo feel a goblin level one AH meat puppet!? lol Rocket jump to the auctioneer and mail box. And so i would think i get to put things on the ah at the cheapest as if i was exalted? Picture his little green moudly arse in a tux? lol