Today I am pleased to announce something even bigger than a new WoW expansion. In fact, it has nothing to do with WoW at all, but it's still something every single person reading this blog will want to know about. It's something that will bring excitement to all of our lives. Our inner children will burst forth in joy at this announcement. This is something that's 17 years in the making, folks. That's probably longer than some of you have been alive.
Over the course of the classic game, Blizzard changed the Druid (and, I would estimate, the Warlock) more than any other class in an effort to make them more attractive and compelling. However, for most of WoW classic, players continued to see them as a second-banana healer with dismal offensive capability, little of their much-hyped versatility, and lackluster performance in PvP. Despite Blizzard's many buffs to the class, in the transition to Burning Crusade we still clocked in around the least-played or second least-played class (depending on the data you want to use). As of today, we are either the fourth or third most-played class at 80. How this happened -- well, that's an article for a different day.
In all honesty, I don't think we'll see any new races. If we did get them, though... based on Tom Chilton's recent comments that they'll be attempting to seed new races in the game world ahead of time rather than dropping a bomb on players like the Draenei, I'd go with races we've met in Wrath of the Lich King or The Burning Crusade. I would pay good money to have playable High Elves, Ethereals or Vrykul on the Alliance, though all three are incredibly unlikely.