Because why? Do you think their fur gives em magical power?
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Exactly. Legion proved they can be Paladins, too, it's just not common.
This is why I've been saying for years we should be able to unlock race/class combinations, in ways similar to unlocking allied races. The Paladin Order Hall campaign should have unlocked Night Elf Paladins, for example. It would open up some really awesome combinations that already exist in game but are too rare to just flip the switch and let everyone play. A quest where a few forsaken get blessed by a Naaru and become paladins, please? A Feltotem Tauren redeeming himself to join the Horde and unlock Tauren and Highmountain warlocks? The Botanists in Tempest Keep rejoining the Horde to unlock Blood Elf Druids.
Like undead paladins wouls literally be the most played paladin race if they simply enabled it, but a short questline to justify their existence culminating in unlocking the combination.... Thatd be so fuxking cool.
Have Vulpera teach tauren how to be mages.
The orcs that Thrall freed from human prisons definitely included warlocks. I was always under the impression that the New Horde rejected alliances with demons, that binding them to the Horde's bidding was still acceptable. Regardless, humans can be warlocks, and their culture definitely isn't okay with it.
My unpopular opinion is that it is past time to remove racial restrictions for all classes. This move would give players more agency and choice. But I'll get blasted for this idea being against lore which is a thing of the past now IMHO.
I'd be all for it so long as we got one quest for each new combo to unlock them. If they just threw us undead paladins with no explanation theyd be the most played class on that race and would break my immersion every time I saw one...... They should be rare, and therefore require an easy achievement.
druids and warlocks both use life magic, just in the opposite direction. But when druids go crazy they never quite turn into warlocks, was fire with staghelm and nightmare in legion. it's possible to make something work there but it just seems too much of a stretch compared to just thinking of something completely unrelated.
tauren pallies and priest have the whole sun as their power justification, which you can probably stretch to mages. or come up with some other arcane through nature kinda crap if you want.
even rogues you can come up with something that would work quite naturally if you wanted.
it's just warlocks and demon hunters i don't see working for them without some external lore from a new allied race.
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Okay, THAT I can get behind, but it would take some work.
There would have to be a specific tribe of Tauren who had, during their wanderings, came in contact with a Titan facility, maybe a secret vault in Desolace. They lived there and studied it, their specific tribe developing a religion that teaches the Earth Mother is Azeroth and one of numerous other similar beings that are the Titans. They join the Horde after the player helps them out with their problems, and it is much the same as the Highborne rejoining the Night Elves. Other tauren would see them as heretics, or just plain odd at least, and create some interesting internal conflict within Thunder Bluff that could be utilized in future stories.
Vulpera are vagabonds at heart, they learn what they have to when they can and anyone can read a spell book. Except maybe that one orc in Terokkar.
That doesn't really count. Mage is all arcane, the fact that they use frost and fire and all that is because they use arcane spells that alter the world to create those effects, they aren't channeling the element itself. Their arcane is through their connection to nature as well, they aren't casting 'spells' as mages do. It's raw celestial power, not mana manipulated through spells.
Vulerpa are traders/thiefs and live near atleast three magical societies.