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[doronjosama]

Stole these links from okojosan, I have no clue where she found them. But I had to share with all my WoW-lovin' homies!

Male Blood Elf Animations I like how he seems like every megalomaniacal anime villain. Heh heh heh...

Female Blood Elf Animations Her dance is soooooo familiar, yet I cannot place it. I also like that she seems both evil and bitchy in all her emotes.

Male Draenei Animations He's so cool! And how can you not love his "Tunak Tunak Tun" dance? I was planning to make a male Draenei for that reason alone, but he's just made of awesome anyway.

Female Draenei Animations! The one I've been waiting for! They are cute as buttons! I just wish they weren't on the Alliance side, since I just prefer Horde these days. I am SO jazzed about her dance animation, too! It looks like they went with a Bollywood girl kind of thing, yay! Which means she matches the male Draenei. ^_^

Ranged Attack Animations Female and Male Draenei just look totally cool with their guns.

All in all, I am even more excited about the release of the Burning Crusade expansion now. ^_^ Although, I think the Draenei are way too cool, and thus, the "population balancing" hopes for the new races are probably going to be dashed. The Blood Elves aren't slutty enough to make people want to play Horde, unfortunately.

Comments

[hecatemahadevi.livejournal.com]

Hmm, yes. Blood Elves are way hot. The Draenai confuse me, though. Aren't they the ancestral race of the Orcs? Then why do they have hooves and tails? Are they supposed to be aliens or something?

Assuming I ever play, I'll probably still stick to Tauren =P

[doronjosama.livejournal.com]

They are aliens. The Protoss from Starcraft, I believe. Also, they are related to the Eredar and the Lost Ones. There's a bunch of lore about it out there somewhere. atomicpanda knows way more than me.

I think the deal is that Warcraft and Starcraft are related the same way Warhammer and Warhammer 40k are related. ^_^ But oh, no, Warcraft isn't a computer version of Warhammer, no sirree. ^_~

[the-mouthpiece.livejournal.com]

Yup. They's be Protoss. Back in the early days of Warcraft III, they were going to be one of the racial options and had gotten far enough into production with them that some of the art/animation was released but then *poof* gone.

They weren't obvious cut/paste Protoss, but in that "Look closely and you'll see it" sort of way the Draenai are. Of course, the WoW protoss, and the WCIII protoss aren't the same designs. These look much cooler and if I was a WoW player I'd be pretty excited about them. Y'know.. if I was able to pry myself away from the squishy bounce elves and their hypnotic ears @.@

[atomicpanda.livejournal.com]

Uh, nope. They aren't the Protoss. But, everyone has been saying they are as a sort of jab at Blizzard for, I guess, messing with Warcraft lore they way they have. Sort of like 'we have this nice little fantasy world and, oh look, interdimentional space aliens!'
I haven't kept up on and I don't know all that much about WoW lore but even Blizzard admitted they goofed on the Dreinai (Lorelol as the WoW posters call it). Totally broke lore in many places with them.
Ah well. No biggie. I mean, it's a game and they look neat.