Main thread: No Zandalari Paladins?

[Deleted]

No monks or paladins, guess I'll have to change up my allied race plans and roll something other than a zandalari

[The Man in Room V]

dark iron have paladins

They changed their minds on it recently.

[NoiseTank13]

They changed their minds on it recently.

That's massively disappointing.

And concerning, honestly. I can't wrap my head around why they would double back.

Dark Iron paladin is ALSO something I was looking forward to.

[Mazeari]

Well , not sure why people are soo mad about this...

Theres many npcs we dont see as class / race combo.

Because horde wise there are only 2 option for a paladin, of which 1 is very niche.

[Sett]

Yeah Jin'rokh in vanilla Zul'gurub talked about how the blood priests of the dominant Zul'Gurub empire routinely routed and eliminated "heretics" for their ideas and such, and gave the player Paladin the "Freethinker" armor.

Ah, the zealots or 'freethinkers'. Forgot about that set as it's been years. They personally sounded more like narrow-minded berserkers with one goal in life but the lore is quite dated.


Paladins are unique because they're one of few non-hero classes that had factions that made up the paladin class per *race. Vindicators for Draenei, Silver Hand for the Dwarves and Humans, Blood Knights for Sin'dorei, and finally Sunwalkers for Tauren. They haven't ever put a race in yet that just happens to have the paladin class open with no background lore like that. I imagine they would have to for Zandalari too had they given them a paladin choice. Why they couldn't do it I do not know.


I personally think it would have been too much. Uniqueness from both druid and paladin? Too much in one sitting.


(*= LF Draenei have their own structure and I am unsure of Dark Iron.)

[Traveler Voltin]

They changed their minds on it recently.

they have paladins. Ion said the wowhead thing(or whatever) was misquoted.

[Stardrift]

ok?
cool...
nice thread?
i mean yeah, a race cant be a class that doesent REAAAALY make sense for it, but ok. feel free to complain, but maybe make more of a thread other then

"No Z paladins? ok fuck you blizz"

not really much anyone can say

Need I remind you of Tauren paladins? Or Gnome priests?

[zito]

did i miss some official info about dark irons and zandalari or are y'all getting fake leaks?

front page, it's datamined. Dark iron still no classes yet besides paladins.

[Zahlen]

That sucks... only thing I was looking forward to in BFA. /sigh

[rarhyx]

great, wanted to play zala pally and druid
guees only druid then

[Yuelle]

What is blizzard's problem with giving paladins as a class. This is such a major letdown for me. They gave us the usual boring batch of classes for them as expected, nothing different, nothing unexpected. Typical. There really better be another Cataclysm moment where they loosen up the restrictions and let new races "learn" to be new classes because this sucks.

[seleri]

They changed their minds on it recently.

Don't want to derail, but is there a source for no dark iron paladins? I've been leveling allied races over the last week and haven't been keeping up with news.

[Ramz]

One mob type having paladin-like abilities doesn't equal getting a paladin spec.

Sunwalkers came around in Cata. MoP brought in the Prelates unless there was something in old ZG/ZA I missed.


It was probably either druids or paladins for a choice. They went with druids and devoted the unique art to their travel forms. I can't imagine one faction getting unique druid forms along with a paladin mount/lore while the other gets nada.

It's not one, Zandalari had:

Freethinkers in vanilla
Juggrnauts (mobs with paladin abilites) in 4.2.
Prelates in 5.2.

They were paladins since forewer, they draw powers from their Loa gods, and their golden empire filled with temples to honor loa fit their theme.

What is an odd choice is that there is warlock class that makes very little sense for them to be playable.

Demoniacs were stated to be very few in numbers.

But prelates are military unit that has numbers to support it and which is quite revered in society.

I mean I get that people sees paladin mostly as medival knight kind of thing, but Zandalaris are zealots that devoted their life for Loa, they have different theme but same mechanics still.

[Zorish]

eh... no paladins, no DK, no monks... hello? lore? are you there?

[Friendlyimmolation]

I mean I'd say I was surprised yet another fuckup was made, but i'm not.

I was fairly excited against my better judgement.

[RobertMugabe]

I'm glad it didn't happen. Last thing I wanted to see was trolls dressed up like Uther or Arthas.

Exactly this, lol.

[Stooned]

good decision, now just remove paladins from tauren to make it better.

Nah - Dezco is my boi.

[Sett]

I mean I get that people sees paladin mostly as medival knight kind of thing, but Zandalaris are zealots that devoted their life for Loa, they have different theme but same mechanics still.

They easily can twist it and say those were just priests. Not the type we're use to but.... yeah.

I wouldn't be surprised if they develop a story for bringing Zandalari paladins into existence during BFA to be honest. If we're due for more races unlocking class specs, that would be up there to hook people in.





....Now that I think about it the warlock thing is odd.

[Malico]

Troll can never be paladin! It is just no!

[Retlul]

Blood elf for life