Rumor: Next World of Warcraft Expansion to Add Worgen, Goblin Races
by Nick Breckon, Aug 10, 2009 12:50pm PDTSeveral sources "close to the situation" have told WoW.com that the next World of Warcraft expansion will diversify the game's population with two new playable races.
The expansion--rumored to be dubbed "Cataclysm"--will add the Goblin race to the Horde side, with the Alliance gaining the werewolf-like Worgen race, according to the report.

Left, the diminutive Goblins. Right, the beastly Worgen.Blizzard has yet to announce a scrap of information related to the next World of Warcraft expansion. Any official word is likely to come at the company's BlizzCon convention, set to begin on August 21.
As a former Horde player, the prospect of facing an army of players affiliated with the Son of Arugal--that elite level 20 backstabbing son of a bitch--is certainly intimidating.
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Goblins: The Steamwheedle Cartel is just one of several goblin cartels so its possible that another cartel has joined forces with the Horde. Goblins like money and someone in the Horde handed over the cash.
Worgen: There are two types of worgen, the ones from another dimension and those that are curse humans (aka werewolves). Pyrewood Village in Silverpine Forest is an example of the wereworgen. Pyrewood is friendly to Alliance during the day so one theory holds that the villagers figured out a way to keep control of themselves at the cost of being permanantly in their worgen state. Knowing Blizzard they could pull something out of their ass like they did with the Dranei......The worgen aren't evil, they're just corrupted!
Personally I think the Halloween masks were just that and not an indication of new races. I am betting on a new mail/plate healer class, like a Death Knight but based around using "The Light."
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