Ever since
we heard way back at BlizzCon last year that Death Knights would be available for all races, the lament has been heard:
Gnome Death Knights will ruin it for everyone else. Death Knights are,
by their very nature, supposed to be pale and scary and imposing, and given the fact that there are bound to be a ton of Gnome Death Knights out there just for hilarity's sake, the Death Knight starting area is going to look more like a nursery than a gothic bed of evil.
But will it really ruin the lore? Daniel already pointed out very insightfully that
Gnomes definitely have a dark side -- we all seem to overlook the fact that Gnomes can be Warlocks, and that doesn't make the Felguard they send after you any less scary. And while yes, on launch day, there'll be a lot of Gnome DKs running around (the starting areas will be chaos no matter what gets rolled), after that it should settle down for sure. After all, if Gnomes were all people wanted to play, we'd never see Humans or Dwarves on the realms, and there are plenty of those.
So I'm all for Gnome Death Knights, pigtails or otherwise. If nothing else, it'll give us Horde something to laugh at -- right before we go in for the kill.
Filed under: Gnomes, Analysis / Opinion, Virtual selves, Blizzard, Humor, Classes, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King
Feb 9th 2009 at 2:00PM 
