Both WoW Insider and MMO Champion have posted their suspicions today that Goblins and Worgen will be added as playable races in the next expansion.
This prediction is based partly on the fact that new Hallow’s End masks for these two races have shown up in the latest PTR build. Previously, only playable races have had Hallow’s End masks available.
I’ve also seen some speculation from commenters that, since both goblins and worgen are generally not heavily aligned with either the Horde or Alliance, perhaps these races will be able to choose their side. I would have found that pretty far-fetched myself — until Blizzard went and announced a faction-change service recently.
Aside: Okay, so this doesn’t have much to do with hunters or pets. But after looking at that female worgen mask, I have conceived a strong desire to play a worgen hunter.
A wolf would be an obvious pet for such a hunter. Ooh, and a nice Kurken-esque core hound too! What else would work? Cats, bears … gorillas? How about a worgen/gorilla comedy team? Or am I just getting silly now?
[edit] Random Ravings of Warcraft has a much more detailed take on this topic that you may enjoy.
They might dance like Jack Skellington from Nightmare Before Christmas! That would be funny. Or, the Big Bad Wolf did a Dance in a movie before. they might have them dance like that. Although i have no Idea what the females would dance like…
Goblins would maybe dance like flaminco dancers! Or do the tango!
y is everyone calling me guthorn? its an M people. lol anyways, i do like the idea of mechanical tigers and skeleton wolves, thatd be pretty awesome. and speaking of dances,i just noticed that the male blood elf dance is the 1 on napoleon dynamite lol. but it is true that goblins will probably have some kind of mechanical mount, and worgen will probly have something to do with wolves, it actualy depends on what creatures are in the worgen zone, since no one knows what its like, could be brand new creature. didnt they come out with moths in BC?
ima double post here, but Z on post 186, i think it is more likely that playable worgen would be natural worgen, it wouldnt truely be new races if they made human-worgen, itd be like having high elves and blood elves.
sorry for 3rd post in a row, but i ment high elves and blood elves both being playable.
-Guthorm
Natural Worgen are the “Completely evil, from another demension, pleasure and tearing you apart while still alive” kind of guys. The Human-Worgens were at one point human, but were changed with a spell and lost their sanity. And i think someone said (too many posts so im not gonna try and find out who) that a guy in Dalaran said something about being able to give Worgen back their sanity if he had enough funds. And if they are the type of Playable Worgen, than most likely they will be Worgen skins not human skins, although being able to shift from human to worgen would be awsome. But these are just my ideas.
kk, i see your point, however they could easily make worgen lore so they had something like the orcs bloodlust and were cured of it, but truely, i just really want them on the horde lol…
If anyone here hasn’t found out the news yet…
Worgen and Goblin are confirmed as the new races. Worgen belong to Alliance and Goblin to Horde.
They will both have mounts, Worgen (odd boar-pig creature) and Goblin (moto-car).
Worgen will be able to shift between a human and their natural worgen state. Goblin males and females have already been added into Cataclysm Beta,
while worgen have only had male installed so far.
It’s apparent that Blizzard is having trouble with the appearance of the females. I believe they are coming close to how they will look, so Beta shall be coming soon.
-Elaadra, Eredar server.