A fellow player from another guild had recently let on that he knew someone who worked at Blizzard. I usually just give people who say such things the benefit of the doubt and wait to hear what they say. In this individual's case, he has been on the money more times than I can count, successfully predicting all sorts of miscellaneous changes that have inevitably ended up in each successive patch. And he usually makes these predictions months in advance. So...at present, I currently lean very heavily towards him telling the truth, rather than just causing mischief.
Yesterday, he let a doozy go. The possibility that Blood Elves will be Paladins and Draenei will be Shamans in TBC.
At first, when I heard him say this, it sounded completely game breaking, and I dismissed it. However, in the back of my mind, I was almost positive I had seen something...somewhere...to lend evidence to this argument. The evidence was this image I found on wowguru, littered amonst a bunch of other blurry TBC shots...
http://www.wowguru.com/gallery/original/1332.jpg
Regardless of whether the image is fake or not...given that Blizzard has certainly done a good job at suprising the hell out of people with changes completely out of left field...and the fact that this friend of mine has been right much more than he has been wrong...
...what does this mean for us? Trying to balance a raid by figuring out how many Shaman slots to cut...to make room for Paladins?
(I almost shudder to ask him what the Blood Elf Priest racial will be...as I expect he'll answer "lol fear ward").