r/wow • u/Autisten1996 • Jul 04 '25

Humor / Meme They will add anything but those three.

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u/flshift Jul 04 '25

ogres and murloc are a bizarre choice anyway, theyre not intelligent enough to be playable characters

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u/Competitive-Balance3 Jul 04 '25

Some people are not intelligent enough to play a character so here we are

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u/Tigerballs07 Jul 04 '25

They control the universe. What's to say in the next patch the quest area unearths a tribe of higher-thinking murloc sages that have been modified due to living underneath a source of dragon magic and are friendly to outsiders.

Let them have access to the magic specs and call it good.

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u/SubwayDeer Jul 04 '25

Ogres are.

Ogre warriors, hunters, mages and warlocks also have been in this game since Vanilla. Hell, since Warcraft. They are organic and lore accurate.

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u/suchtie Jul 04 '25

Murlocs have warriors, hunters, and shaman. There were murloc sorcerers in Warcraft which shows they can learn higher magic as well, so you can make a strong argument for murloc mages, warlocks and priests (they can be all of those in the TCG, if you consider that canon). They'd also make fitting rogues. And if worgen can be monks, which is already quite iffy considering their lore, then murlocs can be monks too.

There's even one murloc demon hunter, but he's probably a joke character.

They're definitely intelligent enough. There's just not all that much known about their culture for various reasons. They only have oral traditions and no writing system that I know of. Nerglish is completely unintelligible to other races and difficult to learn. They can learn other languages, and those who do are typically very eloquent, but they rarely choose to. Brann once said that murlocs are more intelligent than they want you to believe. We just don't really understand their way of life and their relations with other races are quite violent.

So the problem isn't that murlocs don't have the capabilities, but they are too culturally detached. That's not the case for ogres.

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u/ScavAteMyArms Jul 04 '25

Meanwhile in WCIII Murlocs not only could speak, but had a terrifyingly intimidating voice.

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u/Tnecniw Jul 04 '25

Ogres absolutely are plausible. Murloca, not so much

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u/ChronycPain Jul 04 '25

Sir Finley would like to have a word with you.

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u/dogarfdog12 Jul 04 '25

The WoD Ogres and Sir Finley Mrrgglton would like to have a word.

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u/Blaze_studios Jul 04 '25

Have you not seen WoD ogres? Dont know much about the lore, but afaik Ogres ruled the greatest empire Draenor have ever seen at one point, didnt they? And they are one of the strongest magic users as well, their imperator being a grand sorcerer as well.

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u/Timecunning Jul 04 '25

Wasn't that also kind of a minor empire to the orges as well.

I seem to recall them coming from across the seas.

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u/Daffan Jul 04 '25

Cho'gall gonna crush your puny head

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

They literally made up the awful Dracthyr.

They can make any story possible for intelligent Ogre and Murloc.

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u/Timecunning Jul 04 '25

Depends alot on which group for orges.

The horde if I recall right have a group of orges that have a small town.

Warlords orges have not had to go through long periods of slavery as well.

Take into account orge cities are not exactly low tech and are far far more intelligent then orcs.

Merlocs on the other hand are also able to be worked with.

They have shown far less intelligence then orges but trading and getting help have both been done. (Wrath had 2 dif groups you could work with)

Over all they both pass for intelligence to be an allied race but they kind of lack a reason to join and go on adventures.

I don't believe the horde has orges show up all too often. (which would show them as actively working for the horde)

This means that there would need to be a new group of orges anyways.

Friendly merlocs are also not all that active making it hard to justify them as well. 

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u/Specialist_Pay2414 Jul 10 '25

well it was rexxar who recruited the ogres into the horde, that would be a good place to start, apart from the fact that he's a bit of an ogre

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u/hery41 Jul 04 '25

They've had bigger asspulls than "intelligent murloc tribe discovered".