If money wasn't a limiting factor...

[Alex91213]

And now you decide you want to make for yourself, the most RPG and Lore heavy class to race combinations for all of the 12 classes in WoW and on your account.

What class/race combinations in WoW comprise the most immersive 12 man roster? Which combinations take the most inspiration from the source material. I'm keen to see your lists!

[Daetur]

Quick and off-the-cuff:

Demon Hunter- Blood Elf
Death knight- Human
Druid- Night Elf
Hunter- Tauren
Mage- Human or Blood Elf
Monk- Pandaren
Paladin- Human
Priest- Draenei
Rogue- Human
Shaman- Orc
Warlock- Orc
Warrior- Orc

I think, more than anything else, this shows to me the amount of lore, organizations, and NPCs that exist (or originally existed) for certain races versus others. When I try to think of "Iconic" or "lore heavy" characters or organizations related to each class, the majority are human and orc.

[Nathasil]

Demon Hunter- Blood Elf

I think, more than anything else, this shows to me the amount of lore, organizations, and NPCs that exist (or originally existed) for certain races versus others. When I try to think of "Iconic" or "lore heavy" characters or organizations related to each class, the majority are human and orc.

You might want to check your lore on this one. Just sayin.

I tried to come up with my own list, but it's really hard for some classes. For example, i would put Female Night Elf as the most iconic Priest character - simply because Elune is the only real diety in the universe and for the "Holy Light"-Priests it's hard to justify a difference to the paladin races.
Also, the most famous rogue in Warcraft is definetly Garona. But i would NOT put Orc as my rogue race. Still, going by the lore, it should be.
Similarily for mage...basically ALL the famous Warcraft mages were Human, yet i would prefer one of the elven races or even Undead as my mage.

If you go strictly by "what is displayed most prominently in the official lore?" you will end up with human for an awful lot of classes...sadly.

[Asotcha]

Here's my list---

Belf--mage
Goblin--rogue
Troll--shaman
Tauren--shaman
Orc--warrior
Forsaken--warlock
Nelf--druid,priest
Gnome--mage
Dwarf--hunter, warrior
Human--paladin, rogue
Draenai--paladin, priest
Worgen--warrior


On a couple of these I 'cheated' and listed two because I could see both options as equally viable.

[Razion]

Death Knight - Undead
Demon Hunter - Blood Elf
Druid - Night Elf
Hunter - Troll
Mage - Gnome
Monk - Pandaren
Paladin - Dwarf
Priest - Draenei
Rogue - Human
Shaman - Tauren
Warlock - Goblin
Warrior - Orc

[Amaterasu65]

Death Knight - Human
Demon Hunter - Night Elf (can't see where BE comes from on this)
Druid - Night Elf
Hunter - Night / Blood Elf
Mage - Human / Blood Elf
Monk - Pandaren
Paladin - Human
Priest - Draenei / Dwarf But best Shadow wielders: Forsaken.
Rogue - Human
Shaman - Tauren / Orc / Troll
Warlock - Orc
Warrior - Orc / Human

Gnomes/Goblins don't have a class which they could be main representatives of. They are known for their machines. Maybe a tinker is in order after all? W/e. Worgen matches with Warlock imo, but not that heavy representation.

[Sithalos]

You might want to check your lore on this one. Just sayin.

Right. Because Varedis Felsoul wasn't a Demon Hunter prodigy or anything.

[Kyphael]

Paladin - Human
Warrior - Orc
Death Knight - Human
Shaman - Troll
Hunter - Blood Elf
Druid - Tauren
Rogue - Blood Elf
Demon Hunter - Night Elf
Monk - Pandaren
Mage - Nightborne
Priest - Draenei
Warlock - Orc

[Daetur]

You might want to check your lore on this one. Just sayin.

I tried to come up with my own list, but it's really hard for some classes. For example, i would put Female Night Elf as the most iconic Priest character - simply because Elune is the only real diety in the universe and for the "Holy Light"-Priests it's hard to justify a difference to the paladin races.
Also, the most famous rogue in Warcraft is definetly Garona. But i would NOT put Orc as my rogue race. Still, going by the lore, it should be.
Similarily for mage...basically ALL the famous Warcraft mages were Human, yet i would prefer one of the elven races or even Undead as my mage.

If you go strictly by "what is displayed most prominently in the official lore?" you will end up with human for an awful lot of classes...sadly.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but even though the most famous single Demon Hunter is a Night Elf, the vast majority of that actual Illidari organization that he trained were Blood Elves from Kael's forces, and Illidari in their original appearance in TBC were exclusively Blood Elves, and those are the Demon Hunters that are playable characters.

If I were to make my own choices based on what I find most interesting or appealing, my list would be pretty different- but the way that Priest plays and the theme of their abilities has moved far away from the Moon Priestess of yore.

Exactly what I'm saying seems to be the same thing you are- My list is based on "most prominence" in official lore (but includes organizations as a whole rather than just 'the most well known individual NPC,' hence the use of Human for rogue considering SI7 and Ravenholdt), and it's got a vast majority of human and orc as a result.

[Vampyr78]

Why would money be a limiting factor in this situation?

That roster of 12 classes would be exactly the same as it is now for me:

Tauren Warrior Berno Ironhoof
Human Paladin Frugon Nadell
Dwarf Hunter Gemil Driebeard
Goblin Rogue Rozzle Gobbletop
Undead Priest Anubos Rotteneyes
Orc Shaman Zorgen Stormbringer
Troll Mage Dange Tung
Worgen Warlock Cedrad Howley
Night Elf Druid Krukon Feralwoods
Pandaren Monk Leechong Wong
Draenei Death Knight Ruphus the Corruptor
Blood Elf Demon Hunter Manalin Starberry

[RoKPaNda]

Demon Hunter- Night Elf
Death knight- Orc
Druid- Night Elf
Hunter- ? I think Tauren/NE/Trolls/Orcs all have equal claim to this one.
Mage- Human
Monk- Pandaren
Paladin- Human
Priest- Human
Rogue- Gnome/Goblin
Shaman- Orc
Warlock- Orc
Warrior- Orc

So yeah there is a lot of Orc and Human in there. That isn't to say that other races don't get fair representation in terms of lore elsewhere though. Night Elves and Draenei get huge amounts of story involvement all the time.

[Thrif]

Warrior - Orc. Grom, Garrosh, Blackhand, Doomhammer, Bladefist, Deadeye, orcs have pretty much always been portrayed as clans full of warriors led by a strong warrior leader. It's basically what they are.

Paladin - Human. Arthas, Uther, Tirion, Turalyon and the whole class in War2 and War3 were all humans.

Death Knight - Undead. All the way through War2 and War3 they were undead units. What Arthas was in WoW is debatable, he didn't look quite undead, but I'm still going for it.

Shaman - Orc. Thrall is the most iconic one, and in War3 the shaman class belonged to the Orcs.

Hunter - Dwarf. The most iconic hunters are Rexxar and Alleria, none of who are playable races, so I'm going with the wow intro cinematic dwarf to represent the class.

Rogue - Blood elf. This one is the loosest of them all and I'm simply going blood elf due to Valeera and her being the hearthstone representative. Even had to google her name, shows how influential she is. Could've been Orc for Garona or Human for Vanessa as well. The class just doesn't have any larger-than-life role models or race connotations or anything.

Druid - Night elf. Malfurion is the obvious reason, and in War3 half of the race - every single male - was a druid except for Illidan. Cenarius is hugely night-elf inspired too.

Monk - Pandas. Duh.

Demon Hunter - Night Elf. Illidan is pretty much _the_ demon hunter, and the whole class were originally demon hunters in War3.

Mage - Human. Khadgar. Jaina. The entire council in Dalaran. Easy human.

Warlock - Orc. Gul'dan pretty much has monopoly on the class.

Priest - Draenei. This one is a bit tricky but priests are represented by light and shadows, think Naarus, think Draeneis. But this one is a big vague.