Posted by Heartbourne on Friday, August 21st, 2009 - 41 Comments
Tags: blizzcon, cataclysm, worgen
The newest addition to the Alliance is indeed the Worgen.
The kingdom of Gilneas assisted the Alliance during the Second War. However, going into the Third War, Gilneas realized that there was little the Alliance to provide to them, and they were just fine governing themselves behind the impenetrable Greymane Wall.
The curse of the Worgen began to spread, perhaps because of the Scythe of Elune. Regardless, Archmage Arugal of Dalaran became fascinated with these creatures and retreated into Shadowfang Keep to study them. They were great weapons for him in fighting back the Scourge during the Third War. The curse of the Worgen, however, is infectious, and it quickly spread and reached the nearby kingdom of Gilneas. The Gilneans, being confined to their kingdom, quickly fell to the curse. Civil war broke out, and their kingdom became ravaged.
The Gilneans have managed to control their curse somewhat and seem to able to transform between Worgen and Human forms. The Cataclysm has been disastrous to them, and the Greymane Wall has been destroyed. Gilneas shares a border only with Silverpine Forest, which controlled by the Forsaken. The Forsaken push southward into their kingdom, and the night elves came to their rescue, perhaps with a sense of responsibly regarding the Scythe of Elune. Now, the Worgen fight along side the Alliance. The exact story behind the Scythe and the Worgen’s origins remain unclear, but I’m sure the story behind the Worgen’s origins will slowly be uncovered.
The worgen racials include +1% damage, 70% run speed for 10 seconds, duration of curses and diseases reduced by 15%, and skinning skill increased by 15. They also don’t need a skinning knife!
Worgen can play as Death Knights (likely starting in Ebon Hold, and likely the coolest thing ever to grace WoW), Druids, Hunters, Mages, Priests, Rogues, Warlocks, and Warriors.
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By Littleraven on Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 2:56 pm
sweet!
By Alex0111 on Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Amazing!!!
By madarra on Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 2:58 pm
is it just me or the only race not geting a new class in draenei? ill be sure to play worgen in about a year or 2 when it comes out
By Unfallen on Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Haha. Worgen death knights. I’m more than likely gonna do mine a rogue or a lock :D. No details in their mount yet though. :/
By Octaviax on Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Worgen Death Knights, eh?
…
Time to grind for Hierlooms
By Josh (Dajosh) on Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 3:35 pm
OMG this looks epic, screw the rouge im lvling when this comes out, im playing worgan forever!!!!
By Drenton on Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Maybe they should do what they originally did with Tauren, give them a racial ability at level 20 (mount level) and just have them run on all fours, I believe the tauren ability was called Stampede, maybe theirs could be something along the lines of…Night run or something Worgen oriented.
By Trial on Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 3:41 pm
my choice
By LolConnor on Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 3:49 pm
@Drenton
Yeah, would be good, the tauren one was Plainsrunning i think? Was removed because after X amount of time the mount speed would engage, and the Tauren could rocket into mobs and aggro, who knows, maybe?
By Nick on Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 3:58 pm
i am definetly (sorry if my english is dead) make a worgen…much better than goblin!
P.S. screw human transforming! worgen ftw xD
By Drenton on Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 4:27 pm
@LolConnor
Let’s hope by five years they have a better system, and this expansion seems more “off” then the other. Goblins ride cars, Worgen really can’t ride a Worg, that’s like a gnome riding a human XP.
By Phanttas on Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Worgen druids? Why would you wanna shape shift into something else? =P
Still, I really want to roll a worgen, just not sure which class. I would’ve really liked to go shaman, but I might go warrior since it’s not an option. I’m used to ranged classes, and don’t want to make 2 of one class particularly (no matter how cool worgen hunter is). Besides, the world is in need of tanks, so I guess I could step up to fill one of those rolls.
On the mount situation. I really doubt this will be released, but it would be cool if the mount was in fact them running on all fours, so they transform into a ‘travel-form’, and then alliance can be given a dose of the controllable curse, to transform at their own will also. Not sure how much sense having different purchasable colours would be though and why they would need training then an extra dose of cursage to be able to do, but still.
By 5thlive on Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Damn i think i have to remove my gnome dk and lock to make 2 worgens when i get this or just make a worgen in any class
By Shuggah on Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 5:14 pm
>< I might have to go to Alliance for this…
By Shuggah on Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Switch to Alliance*
whoops
By Trian on Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 5:23 pm
What about worgen’s racial ability??
By Drenton on Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 5:57 pm
@Trian
Posted by Heartbourne: 5:03: Worgen Racials: +15 Skinning, no knife required, 15% less time on curses and disease. Worgen form is cosmetic only, can shift at will. Can stay as human if you want.
By Pegraath on Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Goblin racials are so OP compared to these. +15 Skinning? You don’t need +15 for any gathering profession (just go Skin/Mine/Flower-pick fifteen more times), and what if you don’t want to take Skinning?
I’ll be deleting my 20something NE Druid that I haven’t played for years for one of these (also a druid) anyway.
By Heartbourne on Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Updating this is the racials I forgot to add earlier…
By Dkhero on Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 10:20 pm
dang man, i’m sooooo gonna role this bad boy! I’m gonna have to switch horde<alliance xD sorry horde but worgen is too cool. Goblin, pfft, another gnome.
By Krath on Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 at 2:27 am
how does a worgen druid go into cat for when its a dog?
By epicwin on Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 at 3:00 am
what about their mount ?
By Trian on Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 at 4:03 am
Thx Drenton and Heartbourne :]
By danny on Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 at 5:01 am
that worgen is awsome. i think it should have every class because it is so pro looking and it will be the same playing it
By epic on Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 at 6:08 am
Finaly!
I’ll now be able to play an Alliance druid lol
Love worgen! Just so badass, especialy a rogue worgen
By Ashleigh on Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 at 6:11 am
I am gonna make Priest. No one else is gonna do it
Goblins are still cooler, and I would in no way ever ever leave the horde, and anyone who would abandon their high level horde toons. your just plan goofy, but, this would make me roll one alliance toon, maybe on a PVE server, far far away from my original server.
Just wondering though, when they showed the transformation on the trailor…did anyone else think of thriller? Cause I did.
By Henryzx on Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 at 8:15 am
Stupid, stupid goblins……………………………….. but hey, our mounts are the like the chopper!
By cocopuff on Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 at 8:16 am
i think the abillity to shape shift into a worgen should be more for the tanks and melee tabjs like a boost of strengh and stamina in that form like the DKS presences or warrior stances wich i guess would sack if you went a warrior or a DK. funny how neither of the new races can be pallys this game supostu come out november of next year same month that WOTLK came out
By Spwany on Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 at 8:52 am
what is a wolf going to ride thou …………………………..ah i got it BIG wolfs oh w8 thas orcs >.<
By Taver on Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 at 9:18 am
@ Krath
Maby there ‘cat’ form will be more of a wolf for kinds like a worg.
As for a mount I think that if the made it like the taurens plainstridding they would get torn up by player for by being original. So I guess we just have to trust they will make something cool and new :S.
P.S we don’t know what knew animals are going to be in it so anyone of those new beasts could become the worgin mount
By bloodysir on Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 at 10:32 am
O.O worgen druids
By bloodysir on Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 at 10:54 am
XD you could stay in human form and be a worgen druid and say IM A HUMAN DRUID =O
By Drenton on Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 at 12:55 pm
I keep forgetting Worgen is a race and not a class, when I think of it in human form I see it being utterly useless (NO CLAWS!!!) but then I remember weapons and spells, I just think the Worgen form would be more then just a mask you basically wear to scare people, though it is major BA all on it’s own, I think maybe a bonus unarmed or + strength, correct me if they already have these planned!
By Valcane on Sunday, August 23rd, 2009 at 11:14 am
I am hoping that as far as the ability to shift back into humans go that they at least get unique models in that form. Maybe tall and gangly with customizable tribal tatoos.
By Latane on Sunday, August 23rd, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Excuse me for saying but does anyone feel this is a bit wrong in a sense? Cause i don’t if i was locked behind a wall to contain infection when i was heathly uneffect, i would have a grudge agianst the alliance well humans in particular. Don’t humans and Night Elves have hang up’s about things that are unnatural? I don’t know a prime example would be the undead who were once human(just like the worgen) that were then hunted down for being alive yet agian even though they were free from the Lich King’s Control. I have to say that the worgen would present another problem to the alliance because they’re always saying by the light and crap like that, wouldn’t “Lok’tar Ogar For Blood and Honor” be a more true phrase for the worgen to live by? Another point would be that adding Worgen (AKA werewolves) to the alliance would be a major mistake simply because worgen’s are halloweenish unlike the character of the allaince that are more Christmasee. Worgen would fit in better with the Horde because Orcs, Trolls, Tauren, Undead(Zombies), and blood elves are halloweenish just like the Worgen. A better choice for the alliance would be Furblogs simply because there a naturally occuring in nature and they have more ties with the night elves. I mean come on they basic would be a perfect fit in the allaince sigh…..I’m writing a letter to Blizz about this…….
By valcane on Sunday, August 23rd, 2009 at 10:32 pm
@ Latane
I think Blizzard was tired of the Alliance being associated with pansy creatures and wanted to give players a chance to play a darker more psychotic character. the opposite of this is seen with the Blood Elves. Even though they are now savage in nature because of their dependence on magic they are still pretty and Blizzard was tired of the Horde needing to be ugly e.g. Orc females
By Drenton on Monday, August 24th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Yeah! Humans are so awkward, gnomes are vertically challenged, Space goats speak for them selves, Dwarves are always drunk, and Night Elves give to many lap dances. Worgen can just howl and rip yow face off!
By Darkkelly on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
yay worgwn hunters!
By Deathomatikk on Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 at 6:41 am
the worgens mount should be humans lol
By Lolmaster on Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 at 11:02 am
Yeah, humans.
Gnomes: They would simply collapse by the weight of the worgen.
Dwarfes: They’d be too drunk to run forward.
Night Elfs: They would just shadowmeld at night.
Draeneis: They would fly off to Draenor again before you could tame them.
But humans! They have the perfect size, the perfect amount of alchoholics, the perfect amount of magic and the perfect amount of technology! =D
By joey on Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 at 11:28 am
dam i wish they were in the horde cause they are very evil creatures
and what does horde get a dam goblin…
that only thinks about money