Blood Elf shamans anyone?

[Cooleoj]

Is there any particular reason why they can't be shamans? I mean the horde oughta taught them by now right?
I really, really want to be a BE shaman soooo... Get on that Blizzard!
What are your thoughts? :P

[Yagyu4k]

maybe not bad for pvp because of the racial

[Shiny212]

Makes just as much sense as most of the crap implemented from cata----now.

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its not that simple. it just doesnt work lorewise. if anything they should be druids before shamans

[Violent]

Makes just as much sense as most of the crap implemented from cata----now.

I don't think they add things, or take things away from the game based on sense. It's actually quite apparent, they don't.

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its not that simple. it just doesnt work lorewise. if anything they should be druids before shamans

Since when does a Undead Hunter work lorewise? Or a Gnome Priest?

..Exactly.

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I don't think they add things, or take things away from the game based on sense. It's actually quite apparent, they don't.

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Since when does a Undead Hunter work lorewise? Or a Gnome Priest?

..Exactly.

anyone can pick up a bow and be a hunter.... and priests be priest doesnt need any specific attunement to anything really other than "omg the light"

[Frozenbeef]

I want worgen shamans/ monks Worgen is my favorite race but their class choices are terrible

[Raiju]

anyone can pick up a bow and be a hunter.... and priests be priest doesnt need any specific attunement to anything really other than "omg the light"

Which goes against everything in gnomish culture. Hunters are nothing to do with a bow they are to do with the bond with the animal, even if only one spec focuses on it.

Add: Night elf mages, tauren priest/paladins.

[Deleted]

anyone can pick up a bow and be a hunter.... and priests be priest doesnt need any specific attunement to anything really other than "omg the light"

If gnomes can go "omg the light" and become priests, why can't blood elves go "omg the elements" and become shaman?

[madokbro]

anyone can pick up a bow and be a hunter.... and priests be priest doesnt need any specific attunement to anything really other than "omg the light"

You are right on the priest part, even an orc can be priest, he just needs to abandon worshipping the elements.

However, hunter is a different story. Lore-wise, hunters are not much different from druids in terms of the source of their power, aside from being excellent marksmen, they are also affiliated with nature and use natural magic/spirits to enhance their abilities. Like animal aspects, magical camouflage and tracking, communicating with random animals and dominating them in a matter of seconds and so on.

An undead humanoid can be an archer, a marksman, a rifleman, but it can never be a hunter, druid or shaman.

[Stormspellz]

Which goes against everything in gnomish culture. Hunters are nothing to do with a bow they are to do with the bond with the animal, even if only one spec focuses on it.

Add: Night elf mages, tauren priest/paladins.

seeing that night elfs were the first to play with magic, it makes a lot of sense, cows have always been open to "the greater powers" so them attuning with the light isn't far fetched.

[Raiju]

seeing that night elfs were the first to play with magic, it makes a lot of sense, cows have always been open to "the greater powers" so them attuning with the light isn't far fetched.

You have got to be kidding me. That is the basis for the reason night elf mages were "never going to be playable", because they fucked over azeroth.

[Syfy]

How about remove this gay retarded race completely.

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[Venziir]

How about remove this gay retarded race completely.

The tolerance and reason in this post IS TOO DAMN HIGH!

Anyways, I hate these thread honestly, they always become infested with half-assed lore, which is mostly outdated, some guy always says something about Sunwalkers being silly, then that debate takes over for a while, before it returns to the original subject... Sigh...

To summarize; If the Blood Elves were interested in learning about Shamanism and the Elemenst, and found a conduit and a teacher race - then yes, they could become shamans.

Oh and please, move on with the "duhh new cata race-class combos makes no sense" rambling, the horse is dead, stop beating it.

[Stormspellz]

You have got to be kidding me. That is the basis for the reason night elf mages were "never going to be playable", because they fucked over azeroth.

not all highborne were all cuddly with Azhera, in fact dire mall entire story arc is about those highborne magic users who didn't side with azshera and lived in seclusion (who ended up repeating the same mistakes but that is another discussion)

[Shiny212]

not all highborne were all cuddly with Azhera, in fact dire mall entire story arc is about those highborne magic users who didn't side with azshera and lived in seclusion (who ended up repeating the same mistakes but that is another discussion)

I laughed. You're wrong btw. Those highborne in the dire mall (haha) are split between insane/living out penance as ghosts for eternity for what they did.

[Deleted]

An undead humanoid can be an archer, a marksman, a rifleman, but it can never be a hunter, druid or shaman.

WTF , ?? you high or something ??

[Venziir]

I laughed. You're wrong btw. Those highborne in the dire mall (haha) are split between insane/living out penance as ghosts for eternity for what they did.

And yet, the Night Elf Magisters, who acted as envoys, and who went to Darnassus - came from Dire Maul/Eldre'Thalas. They aren't living out any penance at all, they simply just sought refuge; "The Shen'dralar were an obscure and secretive faction of Highborne who used to dwell in The Athenaeum within Dire Maul, before they returned to the elven society and now can be seen in Darnassus, training night elven mages. They are a remnant of the quel'dorei who once populated Dire Maul, or Eldre'Thalas, as it was known in antiquity." - http://wowpedia.org/Shen%27dralar ... So actually, YOU are wrong, and he's right, sucks huh?

[Shadowrynn]

I'll take one druid and one shaman please

[Venziir]

WTF , ?? you high or something ??

I doubt it, you aren't however catching his point - not that his point really matters, as it's not right - his point was that an undead would be unable to commune with the animals, which is required to tame them, but since all the Forsaken Hunter trainers have an animal companion next to them, that's clearly rubbish.

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You have got to be kidding me. That is the basis for the reason night elf mages were "never going to be playable", because they fucked over azeroth.

Actually, it's the basis for them being playable - they were among the first real proper arcane spellcasters on Azeroth, however due to the War of the Ancients, they were obviously stigmatized and banned from ever using the arcane powers again, however prior to the Cataclysm, the Shen'dralar re-emerged to teach their kindred about the Arcane power, to help defend themselves from the coming Cataclysm, see it as a "fight fire with fire" thing.