WoW Forever: ogres and gnome paladins come up in dev chat

More race and class combinations are planned for WoW Forever, but Blizzard does not want to add them too quickly. Executive producer Holly Longdale and Clay Stone spoke about it in a video chat with content creator Nick Beckwith, published on 4 November.

Asked about new races, Longdale said the team is struck by how often people bring up ogres. Stone said the game already launched with a lot of new race and class combinations, more than the team planned at the start, and that there is still a lot to do and a lot planned. He called it probably just a matter of time before the team gets to the extra things players are waiting for, and said players should guide what comes next.

Stone also explained why it will not be a free-for-all like the modern game. Combinations such as dwarf shamans and Forsaken paladins needed a good story behind them, and the team has to be very careful not to move too fast. He said that shortly before the reveal the team had asked itself what would happen if it added even more combinations, say, 4 to 8 months later, and that once you say something like that out loud, you cannot take it back.

Longdale then let slip 2 words, gnome paladins, before joking that nobody should have heard her. Nothing was announced: no new race, no new combination and no date. The only hints so far remain the ones in the launch video with a night elf shaman and a tauren mage.