The Egotistical Priest
An irreverent and opinionated discussion of the many classes
in the World of Warcraft gaming universe.
Scrapped Ideas the Housewife class.
by Kwane
As the expansion gets ever closer we are seeing tidbits of info. Some go through the trouble of data mining each small patch to look for any minuscule amount of information as can be found. We here at Ego are willing to even go above and beyond that! Ego has sent me personally to dig through trash and hide in air ducts just to secure world first knowledge pertaining to changes in the game and the ramifications those changes can have. Here, for you readers, is the first taste of those efforts.
The Housewife Class
Housewives are the masters of their domains. You can rest assured, while having one in the group that not a single strand of a raid member’s hair will be out of place! They are ready and willing to clean that smudge from your chin with a smidge of spittle on a ready napkin. Much like racial buffs, every Housewife receives a +10 skill bonus to cooking, and are capable of discovering recipes as they spend more time cooking! They bring powerful group buffs, such as the Reassurance Aura (5% Stamina and Spirit increase to group members).
In addition, it turns out that Chastise was originally a housewife spell, but they cannibalized it for a priest racial when the class was scrapped.
The original text copied from in game group chat:
Vonya: For a short period, they toyed with the idea of having a Housewife class - someone who would furiously scrub the enemies with harsh scouring powder, bake cookies to buff the raid with Sugar Rush or apply a debuff of Oh My God Is That A Dead Beaver In My Soup, and give an AOE bonus of Babysitting to all gnomes in the raid.
But they abandoned it after they realized that nobody wanted to do the daily quests of The Dishes and Taking Out The Trash in order to be eligible to raid.
Sad, really.
Aensu: That class still has a few diehard proponents though…but all they can do now days is head for goldshire to roleplay waitresses, and dream.
May 2nd, 2008
You’re going to get me in trouble for laughing at work if you keep this up!
May 2nd, 2008
Were there gender requirements of the Housewife class, or was there also the Househusband class as well?
May 2nd, 2008
@ChirsGlad to be of service!
@teh Khol Abides I hope you will excuse the omission. A good amount of the paper had been shredded and had ink poured on it and set afire before we were able to obtain it. It seems in reexamining the material, there was in fact a proposed pseudo-sub-class for males who picked the Housewife class.
The starting garments were to be the same, frilly pink apron over hideous coveralls, and the males of this class would actually have been given female voices as to demonstrate that their genitalia had been removed in making the choice.
Kidding!
May 2nd, 2008
BWAHAHAHAHAA!!
May 2nd, 2008
Wow, just wow. this had me going so hard it made the dog nervous. thanks
May 2nd, 2008
@teh kohl abides why when I picture the male version does it always come out a blood elf?
May 2nd, 2008
@ Dechion Belf males are all nancies?
May 11th, 2008
Not even funny. I cannot believe you were allowed to waste the space to post that blog. Clearly you have no respect for others or for yourself.
May 14th, 2008
@odenessa
Lighten up Francis…