In the RTS games it was razed twice by the Horde, though I believe they got retconned in the books.

Warcraft II : Tides of Darkness
Orc 13. The Siege of Dalaran
Pretty sure this one didn't happen as this occured post Tomb of Sargeras and just before Lordaeron's fall in the Orc Campaign.

Warcraft II : Beyond the Dark Portal
Orc 11. The Eye of Dalaran
The funny thing is this briefing mentions a rebuilding effort as if the first siege actually happened.

Even if neither of these events happened, I think we can all agree Blizzard has liked to target Dalaran for destruction in the past. I doubt they'd go as far to destroy it in WoW though, at most I'd expect something akin to Battle for the Undercity.

More game-based cutscenes. Getting the cutscene for the Wrath Gate (and an epically good one, too) rocked. Getting a "download this video of NPCs talking about Uludar and how they're going to ignore it" for 3.2 was lame.

If they're going to put the effort into a rendered cutscene, have it occur after a prodigious boss kill (Arthas kill deserves a cutscene follow-up). And for heavens' sake, tie it in with the players - at least we could pretend we were part of the Wrath Gate Offensive who fought on the edges and avoided the plague. The Ulduar cutscene was just a major letdown in all fashions.

Finally, up the scale of evil. Uther's tomb is right next to Scourge in Western Plaguelands. A fight against an Undead Uther would be all sorts of wrong - therefore right. How about Tirion vs. Undead Taelan, or better yet, Tirion's wife. Moves us a bit away from "It lives in a cave, therefore it must be evil and we're justified in murder and robbery."

My estimations were low for the Colliseum so seeing Anub'Arak and the lore bits and Arthas in it have already raised it in my opinion lore wise.

But really its just foreplay. I can't avoid that fact and it is boring. Yogg-Saron received some build up throughout the whole leveling process across four or five zones, killing him felt good even if Sara did seem to have been some part of Azjol/Saron that was directly transplanted and didn't make sense. Algalon is cool in lore as well from what he is doing, even if I thought his change of heart was ridiculous for what is essentially some sort of machine. The Coliseum is just foreplay though for Icecrown, I can't get away from that. More of the same shit we've been having from the angsty teenagers Varian Wyrnn and Garosh Hellscream, more of Thrall letting Garosh run rampant with no reprimanding, more of Wyrnn treating Jaina like a little girl instead of one of the most powerful humans alive.

For it to be enjoyable I think either Wyrnn or Hellscream has to kill or injure the other. People are just fed up of their emo whining at the moment.

No, this was players misunderstanding Garrosh's flavor text, which was referring to the "end of expansion" event where undead did attack Org/SW for a couple days, but nothing was really disrupted for players.

Even though Blizzard's official quotes should always be taken with a grain of salt, they are pretty adamant about not adding things to the game for the sake of adding things to the game. Subraces would fall decidedly into that category and would be clunky, contrived, and confusing. The one thing Blizzard has always avoided was unnecessary complication, and thats exactly what would happen with your suggestion.

The game doesn't need more races, or classes. We have plenty already. What would truly be cool, and actually feasible to implement within a respectable timetable are further character customizations and player character model updates. Shoulder pieces have particle effects but chest, leg and arm pieces do not. How cool would it be to to actually add lighting and particle effects to these segments? How about character tatoos? Or even mythical dance studios? Things of this nature, IMO, are far more important then being different looking troll with a new racial ability.

I guess having both new races be able to be Druids might help boost initial rerolls. That might incorporate that Druid balance thing too (maybe Tahu fails to convince the Taurens and leaves to teach Sun-based Druidism to the new race?).

Thought those notes were a kind of "bread crumbs" to point to the (future) implementation of the island Tel Abim (refering to the bananas) in the game supposedly in an patch/expansion covering just the bits of map without content around the shores of Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms. Remember that the Island of Doctor Lapidis and Gilijim's Isle was there in alpha and later removed and could also make a reappearance in such an expansion.

Well, we already have tauren druids just so there wouldn't be a second alliance-only class. At one of the early Blizzcons (2005?) they mentioned that the druid class almost didn't make it into the game for lore reasons. Based off WC3, druids should be night elf only, and male only at that. If that was a big issue for Blizzard back then, I doubt they want to stretch the druid lore any more than they already have.

I could see troll druids though. We've killed, what, 20 troll bosses who turned into animals? This game needs moonkins with tusks.

Everything in Warcraft 1-2 including the backstory before the wars has been retconned. :P

I could see that. In the same way that the priest class are all followers of different faiths, and how initially Alliance and Horde paladins were different, trolls' worship of animal spirits and relationship with nature are pretty similar. They wouldn't be druids in the strictest sense, but Blood Knights weren't really paladins in the strictest sense, either.

Probably not this late into the game, though.

I've always just assumed that after doing Starcraft; they realised they could create a more compelling story with one continuous story going through one race at a time rather than what is basically two different worlds (and then having to ignore x outcome to allow for a new game).

No new race/class free's up alot of time, if this is the way it goes; I'm going to end up having bigger expectations when it comes to environments than I probably should.

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