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Death Knight races - some should be removed
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shibbysean
I definitely agree that lore wise gnomes can be death knights. I just don't think they should because gnomes suck.
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jeddic
This game is based on finding the right balance of mechanics, gameplay, new additions, and items to keep as many people as possible paying the 15$ a month.
Why don't you think that the LK could have any appeal to or use for gnomes? I don't like gnomes much myself, but I think that the LK will take any volunteers he can get.
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xaratherus
I don't like gnomes much myself, but I think that the LK will take any volunteers he can get.
If you'll read back in the thread, your Death Knight apparently didn't become a Death Knight by choice. Your character was a minor hero of the Alliance/Horde who died in battle against the Scourge and was forcibly reanimated as a Death Knight.
Thinking about it with an evil mindset, I believe the Lich King would be more likely to enjoy using the "pure" races - Humans, Orcs, Tauren, Night Elves - than the "evil" or "immoral" races. What better way to get your jollies than to take your most righteous foes and force them into the service of pure evil?
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GenXCub
To answer everyones' question (as I'm in the beta).
When you're in the DK starting area (Acherus), you see PILES of dead bodies.
These dead bodies are being reanimated to become Death Knight Initiates by NPC's.
Death Knights aren't simply someone who has agreed to work for the Lich King, they're actually reanimated dead (insert race here).
If ANY race has died against the scourge, their bodies can be stolen to Acherus and made into death knights (except possibly the Nerubians, as they, in life, are immune to the Lich King's influence, and in death, just became reanimated Nerubians).
This isn't happening "before the time that the draenei came." You have to remember that even though it's been 4 years since WoW came out, 4 years have not passed in game time.
There is no reason why Lore wouldn't allow this, even despite the fact that Blizzard can make up whatever lore they want.
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thundagard
Unless I am wrong a death knigt is a man ( or a gnome ) corrupted by the power of the lich king. Some may have given their soul to Arthas for additional powers or a way to get revenge. Others could have surrender to avoid a very painful death followed by a eternity of damnation.
I don't see why gnomes ( or all of the others races ) can't be the victims of such destiny, Arthas want to conquer and enslave all azeroth, not just humans.
P.S: I really don't know much about WoW lore, All I remember is based on w3 and such.
Quoted for truth.
A Deathknight (this kind at least, keep in mind the meaning of a Deathknight has changed throught the lore) is simple somebody who has become corrupted by a desire for more power.
Everyone is succeptable to corruption, it's not about "this race isn't Bad@$$ enough to be a DK"
Uhhh... death knights want free will. Hence them getting it when Arthas gives up. They're all dead heroes who were brought back by Arthas as Death Knights... (except Forsaken, who entered the "mindless state"), but Arthas figured they were too awesome to just be another Zombie and allowed them a limited amount of free will.
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adashiel
Lets stop with the pointless flaming.
For those of you wanting race restrictions on the Death Knights, I can say pretty much definitively that all your hopes are dashed. The Scourge doesn't care what you were in life. I mean, not even a teeny tiny little bit. You're just meat to be reanimated. If the meat that was once you comes out of the Scourge oven properly cooked, you'll be empowered and thrown at the enemy. If you're a little undone or overcooked, you'll be fed to the ghouls. It's that simple. When you are still under the lich king's power, you are a monster, not a gnome, or a blood elf, or anything else. When you are freed, you regain
some
of what you were, but above all else you are a death knight.
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Shinshiva
Lets stop with the pointless flaming.
For those of you wanting race restrictions on the Death Knights, I can say pretty much definitively that all your hopes are dashed. The Scourge doesn't care what you were in life. I mean, not even a teeny tiny little bit. You're just meat to be reanimated. If the meat that was once you comes out of the Scourge oven properly cooked, you'll be empowered and thrown at the enemy. If you're a little undone or overcooked, you'll be fed to the ghouls. It's that simple. When you are still under the lich king's power, you are a monster, not a gnome, or a blood elf, or anything else. When you are freed, you regain
some
of what you were, but above all else you are a death knight.
Well a green post beat me to it. I was running down this forum and thinking: "Hell, all these people are needlessly attacking each other over something so damn simple."
Come on people!
DEATH KNIGHTS!
RRRRAAAAWWWWWRRRRR! D
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Selina
I don't really agree that all races should be able to become DKs. Therefore I've decided to choose my DK from the races that seem fit to me, but I won't begrudge anyone the chance to play their beloved gnome DK or a tauren or whatever.
Also gameplay and happy customers have always been more important to Blizzard than a few lore concerns. So it shouldn't realy surprise anyone that they made some alterations/expanded on existing lore/whatever and created a background where all races are plausible as DKs. That's the way it is now and we should all deal with it because no amount of moaning and bitching wll change it.
Besides we already accepted blue aliens crash landing their space ship in Kalimdor, so what harm could a few pink haired gnomish death knights possibly do ? ;-)
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adashiel
Deleted all faction bashing posts.
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