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- Are there plans to add other Retail races with changed/adjusted lore in a reasonable way to preserve both setting and design goals? Also, are there plans to treat WoW Forever as an alternate timeline?
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Like for example Draenei being added in a way without the TBC lore? To give an example, they could just have the crash landing of the Exodar with telling other races of where they come from, but since TBC isn’t part of WoW Forever, the “cosmic plotline” would stop right there. No Illidan. No Burning Legion beyond “they forced us to flee” story bits.
I understand the design goal to stick to that post-WC3/pre-Molten Core timeframe. But you can’t ride that era forever. At some point, there has to be expansion vertically.
- Are there plans to also add optional World texture updates?
Reasoning
Given you will have to rework the old World anyways for Retail, it would make sense to re-use these textures for WoW Forever zones as well. Also, maybe I missed that being already the case. Was a lot of info.
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Will there be achievements in WoW Forever, and how about mount & pet collecting tab?
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Will we have Necromancers at some point as new class or some kind of cosmetic to unlock for warlocks where we replace voidwalker with abomination for example?
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The storylines of WoW: Forever are unique to it and not Retail, but is it an Alternate Universe situation where the lore is also its own thing, or are the stories and locations of Forever also lore-wise true in the narrative of Retail?
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Small comment on that, given the Skyborne Elves, this is already technically a no.
Unless they add them to Retail as well.
It wouldn’t be the first time a hitherto-hidden race appeared out of the blue, so to speak. Or in the case of the Arathi, an entire empire hidden away in faraway lands.
But I get your point.
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Can get trolls become demon hunter class?
Amani/forest troll playable please?
Can professions’s knowledges points and recipes in warbands?
Would nice ground mounts learn can flying, please? True wish.
When will Gnomes get more classes Like Paladin or Druid?
What is preventing you from just enabling the older classes for other races? Is there a reason for it and which?
Can we please have a road map for more class/race combinations?
For a long time Gnomes have had the least amount of class choices, could we please get another class choice or failing a gnome Evoker visage form (like Chromie).
Is retail going to continue after Titain?
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With Wrath of the Lich King Remix.
Will we finally be able to get Frostmourne into our hands and Transmog collection?
With the removal of transmog restrictions to give the player freedom of expression, will Entropic Embrace, the Void Elf passive racial, be reworked into something that can be controlled by the player? The lack of agency over the visual of the character goes against this design philosophy.
whats next for mop classic? will we ever get our mog and mount collections on retail?
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With the coming of Forsaken Paladin, will the Forsaken have the possibility to stand-up like orcs?
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Will the Single-Button Assistant be available, or are there plans to make it available in Forever? My partner is disabled and struggles to engage with Classic WoW due to her illness making it difficult to play, and the Single-Button Assistant has helped her immensely in enjoying retail WoW as a substitute, though she would feel more at home in Classic.
When the skyborne were revealed their druid forms were shown. Why was a Flight Form displayed when there is no flying in classic/forever?.
Will we be seeing them in retail too and if so why them and not the highly requested High Elves?.
hELLO WE NEED WOD CLASSIC
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Can we have permanent realms for tbc wrath cata and mop? Or even for tbc and wrath?
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