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Eyonix made an interesting post about the coming stat changes in Cataclysm. Personally I am not sure if I like all these changes, since Shaman seems to ge go away even further fromt eh fun class it used to be. Basically they will remove all AP/Spellpower/Intelligence from our gear and design some way to emulate this. I fear we might end up like Retribution Paladins with no Mana Pool and give us some weird mana regeneration mechanic like example improved Stormstrike. This would limit our flexibility, which is what I like most on the shaman, even more. But well it is too early to judge about things.

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Not that I am particularly eloquent, but I have no words to express my disappointment with the newly announced race and class combinations for the coming expansion Cataclysm for World of Warcraft.

I was so looking forward to play Worgen Shaman, could already see that menacing Worgen, wielding fierce weapons in his claws, blood smeared over his mail armor, spreading slobber all around while baring his fangs ready to tear the enemy’s throat out – ROOOOAAARR!!!!11!!!.

It would fit so perfect … but now we get lol Priestlol Worgen and Roguelol Worgen … I personally find that they do not fit the class at all. And we have enough races that can do those already. ZzzzzzZ. Now I can dust in the Horde Orc Shammy I prepared to Faction Change into Worgen once it would become available – Awwwww!

The same goes for Goblins, I saw them already in plate gear, casting holy spells, casting hammer of justice. Instead they become the 4th shaman race for the Horde. With all their attraction towards technical devices and gadgets I just don’t buy them as shamans.

Here is the list

Horde

Cataclysm Class & Race Combinations - Horde

Alliance

Cataclysm Class & Race Combinations - Alliance

I am sure you are equally excited about the coming news form Blizzcon. Fortunately there are some free feeds with some sort of coverage! Thanks for sharing them!

Justin.tv

First one is from Justin.tv fastman1000

Second one  is from Justin.tv Kaiba12

UStream.TV

mentalanime.com on UStream.tv

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mentalanime.com

bconstream on UStream.tv

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bconstream

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wyle

http://www.xfire.com/live_video/lokkek/

Boubouile at www.mmo-champion.com, put his speculations about the possible upcoming Cataclysm Expansion into a new post.

Basically he is claiming that the new Races for Alliance and Horde are going to be Worgen and Goblins. Also he says that additionally new available class combinations are:

New Possible Cataclysm Class Combinations

• Human Hunter
• Orc Mage
• Night Elf Mage
• Dwarf Mage
• Blood Elf Warrior
• Dwarf Shaman
• Undead Hunter
• Tauren Paladin
• Tauren Priest
• Gnome Priest
• Troll Druid

This made me think, since stuff like Undead Hunter or Tauren Priest doesn’t really make sense to me. I noticed that Blizzard has been trying to even out numbers of mounts available for each faction, etc for quite some time.

So my speculation is what if you list up sum up current classes and add the ones listed above. Not like I am really sure about any of this, but it would not surprise me, especially since teh classes would fit quite well, too.

Worgen Druid

With the changes above Horde will have 2 druid races (Tauren,Troll), while Alliance has onlyNight Elves.

Alliance: Night Elf = 1
Horde: Tauren + Troll Druid = 2

Worgen would make perfect sense, as they are shapeshifters by nature and it would even out the numbers.

Worgen Hunter

Alliance: Night Elves, Dwarves, Draenei + Human Hunter = 4
Horde: Orcs, Tauren, Trolls, Blood Elves + Undead Hunter = 5

Alliance is missing 1 race and it would make perfect sense, too.

Worgen Warlock

Alliance: Gnomes, Humans = 2
Horde: Orcs, Undead, Blood Elves = 3

Alliance is missing 1 race and Duskwood already has some of those.

Worgen Shaman

Alliance: Draenei + Dwarf Shaman = 2
Horde: Orcs, Tauren, Trolls = 3

Shamans are tied up with nature, so this would make some sense – and some wishfull thinking, because that would make me reroll for sure.

Goblin Paladin

Alliance: Humans, Dwarves, Draenei = 3
Horde: Blood Elves + Tauren Paladin = 2

Goblin Mages

Alliance: Humans, Gnomes, Draenei + Night Elf Mage + Dwarf Mage = 5
Undead, Trolls, Blood Elves + Orc Mage = 4

Goblin Priest

Alliance: Humans, Dwarves, Night Elves, Draenei + Gnome Priest = 5
Horde: Undead, Trolls, Blood Elves 3 + Tauren Priest = 4

Worgen Warrior, Goblin Warrior

Alliance: Night Elves, Dwarves, Draenei, Humans, Dwarves = 5
Goblin: Undead, Trolls, Orcs, Tauren + Blood Elf  Warrior = 5

This just as specualtion, since all races have warrior as class

Worgen Death Knight, Goblin Death Knight

Policy with Death Knights is “available to all races” and I guess it wil stay that way.

Keep in mind that this is all speculation and just my personal thoughts about the listed changes on mmo-champion.com. I have left out rogues, because it would not make sense for either of these races and because their number is balanced.

Feel free to leave your thoughts below.

Now that I have quested through more zones I have set up a Screenshot Gallery here.

There is the Death Knight starting Area, Howling Fjord (ever been canoeing with a Tauren?), Borean Tundra, Dragonblight, Sholazar Basin, Instances and other Stuff.

I will update them every few days, so check back in if you are interested.