Was just wondering a few things while looking into the gnomes (Gnomeregan and Mechagon) and, aside from the fact I feel like their lore is pretty sparse, even when combined with the Mechagon ones… I found it a little confusing with a lot of areas not really very well fleshed out.
for example, are the Gnomes actually taking back Gnomeregan or not?
Is Gelbin Mekkatorque technically a mechagnome now, with the spark reactor?
Where do the regular gnomes officially call home now? Has that been actually touched on or are we just to assume they’re in Mechagon now? I guess this kind of links in with my first question.
Unless I’m missing a big chunk of it somewhere, the lore on the little guys doesn’t seem to contain much meat, and what is there seems to have a lot of loose ends.
You’re not missing anything. There is nothing to miss. And we can only make assumptions about possible dev intentions to answer the questions, since neither the game nor trans-media sources give us answers.
I’d personally say Gnomeregan is probably never coming back, since the devs see no need for 2 gnome cities, “Mechagnome” is more of the gameplay term than anything of in-world condequence and gnomes probably are still spread out over pretty much all the Alliance lands, with the biggest population center in Mechagon, followed by Tinkertown and New Tinkertown. But that’s just me guessing.
Those little guys got their own race and classes - thats more than enough lore
Those race introduced as funny, light hearted guys need in mmo.
Also every mmo needs shorty.
Gnomes cant even lift swords - they excels at engineering and devices. Kind of backbone support for both factions. But still we have them as furious warriors wielding big swords. Even boss toenails bigger than them - I never digest those kind of things. I am not against gnomes but its one if the things I couldn’t digest in lore.
Blood elf couldn’t be warriors at the start either, does that mean blood elves were are actually weak as sin?
Yet a tauren (or insert any non-gnome race) tanking Deathwing, Onyxia, or Nefarion isn’t weird, I mean tauren and dragons are around the same size aren’t they?
Tell me, how does it make sense for a tiny orc in the lower right to be able to tank Deathwing, the second largest dragon ever? Yet they are somehow able to in WoW.
Or how about a human or dwarf tanking Deathwing, bigger than the Valley of Heroes + gate, how does that work than?
But a gnome bieng a tank is somehow unbelievable. You’re honestly just dimwitted and have a dislike for gnomes for absolutely no reason except that they’re smaller then dwarves and don’t fit your narrow World (of Warcraft) view.
They already have and no, unless we get a cata-like revamp it is not going to be reflected in game.
He isn’t from Mechagon so technically he shouldn’t be, but the distinction was rather questionable from the get go.
Major cities outside SW and Org are an afterthought, unless something terrible happens to them. That’s not a gnome exclusive problem, but more of a Blizzard failing to showcase anything beyond Orcs, Humans and Night Elves.
I don’t think there is confirmation on that, no. Certainly not for it being habitable. I think the newest source would be the gnome heritage questline (and technically the pet dungeon quests, if you count them) from BfA, where the place is mostly abandoned, but still very dangerous thanks to animals and rogue bots.