This site makes extensive use of JavaScript.
Please enable JavaScript in your browser.
Classic Theme
Thottbot Theme
Draenei offical swept under the rug..
Post Reply
Return to board index
Post by
631479
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
Garenzo
One of the most important characters in Vashj'ir is a broken shaman. He saves your life and guides you throughout the zone. Most other broken and draenei so far in that faction are flavor NPCs. Can recall at least one (uncorrupted) questgiver though.
And yeah, from what I've seen so far there are a lot of new draenei questgivers in old places like Astranaar. Not sure if there are any entirely draenei-based settlements though but never saw them as the kind who builds bases all over to be honest. Aren't most if not all of their settlements temples? (or crashed spaceships... :-P)
That sounds good, I hope there are a lot, or at least some Draenei (Quest givers, background NPCs, etc) in the Eastern Kingdoms zones too.
There are a few in WPL at least... also worgen.
Sidenote:
big
patch being downloaded atm... let's see if there are any Draenei in Uldum when servers go up. :-P
Post by
coston89
There are a few in WPL at least... also worgen.
Sidenote:
big
patch being downloaded atm... let's see if there are any Draenei in Uldum when servers go up. :-P
I hope that its crawling with dwarves and draenei curious about the past of Azeroth.
Post by
Garenzo
No Uldum in this patch... :-( assumed it would be in since it was such a big one.
Post by
coston89
No Uldum in this patch... :-( assumed it would be in since it was such a big one.
Shame. I'm really dying to hear about that zone.
Post by
FarseerLolotea
And the Flight Master for the Exodar is in the city itself. I'm holding out for a flight path to the Exodar, since they can, and should, do it.Oh, right...WoWWiki does also say that Stephanos is getting moved into the Seat of the Naaru (that sort of terrace area in the center, above where O'ros is). That's certainly a start. But...
yeah
.
Well it's apparently been 25,000 years sense they've left Argus, there's probably been tens of thousands of births sense then, and while they were on Draenor I'm pretty sure their population would have skyrocketed too, I doubt there would only be a thousand~ of them left by time they got to Azeroth.They're very long-lived, and canonically subject to the
immortal procreation clause
. However, we don't know how quickly they mature (our two possible hints contradict each other) or gestate.
Also, as ShadCroly pointed out, somewhere around three-quarters of the race were killed by crazed orcs.
They didn't kill all of them, if there were only a thousand of them left by time they got to Azeroth, I doubt they would have ever left the Exodar and joined the Alliance.While I've speculated that there
could
be as few as a thousand (unlikely), I've also speculated that the old estimate of the population of the Exodar (now removed) might be closer to it (around 17k). However, it'd probably be somewhere in between.
WoW is a terrible game... that we all are addicted to. Honestly, can any of us state that the current version of WoW is our favorite version of WoW.You're feeding a troll (and not a Darkspear, and one who might not even be around any longer).
That said: no. I preferred BC. Then again, that's because I find demons cooler than undead, and death knights are nothing to write home about.
QQ'ing has always gotten blizzard to make changes to the game in an effort for "Balance." I personally have always been opposed to balancing a game, tends to make more issues than it solves. Additionally, why wouldn't some classes be better at PvP and others better at PvE? I get the "all created equal" ideal, but it doesn't mean "all equally equipped to handle every possibility."
Just my thoughts on the matter, couldn't stop them after reading this guys belief that Blizzard doesn't listen to the complainers... Does he honestly think that the things that are blasted in forums just happen to be the things that get changed? And no, I am not going to list the vast examples of that, because if you have played long enough, you have watched the changes and already know.Hear, hear.
What I don't want to see is the Broken overshadow the Uncorrupted DraeneiThis. I mean, Broken are cool and all...but it'd be like felbloods or Wretched or naga overshadowing blood elves, and I'm sure
someone
wouldn't want
no one would want to see
that
happen.
Aren't most if not all of their settlements temples? (or crashed spaceships... :-P)They actually only have two settlements explicitly identified as temples. (Well, Telredor was a priests' retreat...so, maybe three.)
Post by
Adamsm
Rise of the Horde said that the Eredar were split between the three Leaders; a faction followed Archimonde, another followed Kil'jaeden, a third followed Velen; so, considering that, it was probably a 33% split... and of course, some of Velen's faction was seduced and transformed into Man'ari as well, so you can consider, possibly, at most that 20% of the population of the original Eredar followed Velen and escaped Argus.
Add in for 25 thousand years, the Draenei, the Exiles, were on the run from the Legion, finding planets and landing there... only to have said planets either consumed or corrupted as the Legion and their 'cousins' found them and battled again, with the Exiles fleeing again; so even if births occurred every 50 years or so(as an example), there would still be a heavy loss to those new planets.
200 years ago, Oshu'gan crashed onto Draenor, with most of the Draenei race on board it; those Draenei then started a new life on the planet, and met the orcs. So that's more or less a peaceful time, with probably quite a few new births(justified by Durotan seeing a 'child' near his own age... or so he thought, and later the same 'child' is seen defending her city). After the orc - draenei war, roughly 90% of the population of the Draenei was wiped out... with another 1-3% transformed into Broken, those survivors of the Battle of Shattrah and the after affects of the Fel Gas poison that was used.
Fast forward to 6 years ago(game time) with the attack of the Blood Elves against the Draenei, with a new war between them broiling up and causing heavy causalities among the Draenei, with roughly 80% of the population escaping Outland on the Exodar.... and the rest scattered among the Shattrah city, the Aldor cities, and the Temple in Hellfire.
More then likely, population wise, they are equal to the Tauren race; as they share some similarities in history.
Post by
FarseerLolotea
(justified by Durotan seeing a 'child' near his own age... or so he thought, and later the same 'child' is seen defending her city).It's never actually confirmed that that's the same girl. In fact, it seems to be deliberately left ambiguous.
More then likely, population wise, they are equal to the Tauren race; as they share some similarities in history.That makes sense.
Post by
Adamsm
(justified by Durotan seeing a 'child' near his own age... or so he thought, and later the same 'child' is seen defending her city).It's never actually confirmed that that's the same girl. In fact, it seems to be deliberately left ambiguous.
More then likely, population wise, they are equal to the Tauren race; as they share some similarities in history.That makes sense.
To the first, it's meant to be the same age of draenei youngling, who is defending her city from the attack...which again, seeing as we don't know how old she/they were, it's hard to tell if they were 'children' or not heh.
To the second; yeah... which does raise the question; why aren't they doing as the Tauren did heh? Once they have a 'secure' home, start a baby boom; that's one of the first things Cairne and the other Tauren elders said for their race, as many new children as possible now that it's safe... which could mean that the Draenei only have a certain period that they are fertile.
Post by
Ental
When is someone going to change this stupid title of the thread to
officially
instead of
offical
?
Drives me nuts.
Besides, Draenei aren't going anywhere, and neither are Blood Elves.
Post by
436809
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
FarseerLolotea
To the first, it's meant to be the same age of draenei youngling, who is defending her city from the attack...which again, seeing as we don't know how old she/they were, it's hard to tell if they were 'children' or not heh.He sees a girl of about the same apparent age as the other girl. He briefly
thinks
she's the same girl (either an actual resemblance, Durotan's guilty conscience, or the fact that Christie Golden makes it sound like draenei are more uniform in appearance than they are in the game), but isn't certain. So yeah; ambiguous.
To the second; yeah... which does raise the question; why aren't they doing as the Tauren did heh? Once they have a 'secure' home, start a baby boom; that's one of the first things Cairne and the other Tauren elders said for their race, as many new children as possible now that it's safe... which could mean that the Draenei only have a certain period that they are fertile.It could also be that they're not entirely sure that they
are
safe yet. There's the problem of arcane corruption going on from pieces of dimensional fortress scattered across the islands, after all.
When is someone going to change this stupid title of the thread to
officially
instead of
offical
?
Drives me nuts.It'd have to be either the OP (and we haven't seen him for a while) or a mod.
Besides, Draenei aren't going anywhere, and neither are Blood Elves.That's just the problem: They're sitting on their tails. (As for the blood elves, they get at least
some
activity.)
Maybe blue squids just arn't as sexy as cow people.... that some how sounded less wierd in my mind.And it mystifies me even more that people call draenei "squids" than that people call them "goats." While one could argue that the hooves (and occasionally the horns) look caprine, the tendrils
don't
particularly look cephalopodian.
Post by
Alliari
When is someone going to change this stupid title of the thread to
officially
instead of
offical
?
Drives me nuts.
When I first noticed it, I freaked.
Besides, Draenei aren't going anywhere, and neither are Blood Elves.
Again, it's been stated several times that the Blood Elves (granted, along with the forsaken) are heading into a couple of the new zones. Also in the plaguelands, the Blood Elves help Ms. Lich Queen in acquiring new
scourge
Forsaken.
With the news that there is a large presence of both Draenei and Broken in the Earthen ring, and the possibility of the Exodar having a flight path put in to the main land, I'm beginning to hope.
Post by
631956
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
Skreeran
He sees a girl of about the same apparent age as the other girl. He briefly thinks she's the same girl (either an actual resemblance, Durotan's guilty conscience, or the fact that Christie Golden makes it sound like draenei are more uniform in appearance than they are in the game), but isn't certain. So yeah; ambiguous.I personally am of the belief that it was the same person. It's more poetic that way.
I for one actually hope they give the Draenei more roles, so I can keep killing their goat-like people. Your tears polish my armor.Precisely why I'm rolling a Draenei mage in the xpac. I get to kill axe-crazy orcs like yourself, since I can't do it on my main.
Post by
Adamsm
No one respond to the above poster; he's only attempting to troll and cause a flame war to get the thread locked.
Edit: I meant Jaxi, not Skreeran.
Post by
631956
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
401374
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
JamieK
Neither of the BC races saw any changes to their starting areas yet, if that gets to happen the Draenei will have their own time in the spotlight again.
The only zones that are getting worked on are Pre-BC Azeroth, nothing more.
Post by
FarseerLolotea
I personally am of the belief that it was the same person. It's more poetic that way.Again, it was deliberately left ambiguous. (We've only got two hints as to the maturation rate of draenei, and they contradict each other...)
warlocks, druids and rogues are the only classes a draenei can't be
none of which make sense.First off, this isn't really a class thread, from what I can tell.
Secondly, either stealthninja could be explained rather easily (and, considering blood elves get warrior just because they don't have it,
should
have been).
Warlocks I could see maybe but being that the Draenei are big time Light worshippers it is probably tabooWarlock is the one class that I will flat-out say
should
never happen, unless every race ends up getting every class. (And I will /headdesk, then proceed to destroy a lot of cheap ceramics, if
that
happens.)
druids, not gonna work, You could argue that because they can use nature magic as shamans they could become druids, but infact they are more in tune with the elements than nature itself. Shamanism was brought into their culture during their slavery under the orcs.I suspect you're not very familiar with draenei lore, and suggest that you read
Unbroken
.
Additionally, some of the early Azuremyst quests were set up almost perfectly for a druid intro quest to be added in later. And there are already Lost One druids in Zangarmarsh; while they're not interested in being anything to uncorrupted draenei except trouble, it indicates that the race is
capable
.
rogues idk only thing I can come up with is that big lumber bodies + hooves =/= stealthiness. Kinda like the TaurenDraenei are
not
tauren-sized. Male draenei are only slightly larger than male orcs; female draenei are the size of female trolls. Additionally, they have a higher base agility than dwarves, and hooves are irrelevant.
Post Reply
You are not logged in. Please
log in
to post a reply or
register
if you don't already have an account.