When a friend told me about this I was shocked as hell, this was before the actual announcement, it went a little something like this.
"The next WoW expansion is looking... interesting..."
"Oh? How so?"
"Well, they're creating more race/class combinations..."
"Oh yeah? Like what?"
"Well, Human hunters, Orc Paladins, Dwarf Shamans... Gnome Priests..."
"WHAT?!"
"WHAAAAAT?!!!"
"FUCK... WHAT?!"
"WHAAAAAT!!! FUCK!!"
"Oh, they're also giving Horde the Goblins and Alliance get... Worgens..."
*silence*
"WHAT?!"
(my reaction was 100% genuine and I've honestly cut it down by quite a sizable amount, to save you the bother of reading it.)
But yeah, that was just him reading out a post of speculation at the time, So hopefully Gnome Priests aren't in it.
Don't get me wrong, it'd be awesome if they could get Priests, I'm a fan of Gnomes and have been for as long as i've been playing.
But I'll be damned If I'm going to delete my undead priest (something I had to wait for Blizzard to take the faction barrier down on my server for) just so I can finally have my other dream of having a Gnome Priest...
On a more positive note, I'm actually really interested in the idea of HEROIC Deadmines...
[Edit]: Awh hell, I must have missed it on the first read through... Gnome Priests...