Last edited by mmoc71680805c6; 2013-11-04 at 10:48 PM.
I've been saying all along that ANYTHING is possible if the lore is written for it. Lore Knights get hung up on the idea that Paladin (gameplay) = Holy (Lore). The two are not mutually exclusive. I was merely demonstrating there are ways to make a Race/Class combo possible without breaking lore. Like Gnome Druids. Gameplay = Mechanical suit which simulates the animal and the spells/attacks. Lore = A small group of curious naturalist engineers on expedition in Anvilmar to study the Druids and their movements. Anything is possible. If you don't like how someone phrases it, tell them how it SHOULD be phrased, and not that it is impossible
Paladins are immune to the plague. The undead that are priests lore wise are only able to use shadow spec. Like others have said they only reason they have holy and disc spec are due to game play reasons.
fine, let's just have all classes for all races and say hell to the lore
here you can find undead paladins
http://www.wowhead.com/npc=30202#abilities
Avenger's Shield
Holy
Hammer of Injustice
Rank 4
Holy
Unholy Light
Rank 13
Holy
EPL is full of them post cata actually.
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I feel they should rid of class restrictions altogether. Who cares, if gameplay is good? Leave the lore to the story and not mechanics. It would make the game a hell of a lot easier to balance. If we can justify jumping timelines and revisiting story from ten + years ago, we can justify every race playing every class. Fantasy is fantasy. The game is still standing and we have cow paladins. Some bitched about that, most people didn't give a rat's ass.
I hope so because horde paladins only having to choose blood elf or tauren is pretty meh when you have no DPS increasing racials from either race.
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I'll lay waiting, just waiting for my time to come.
When they added Troll Warlocks and Druids I honestly thought Forsaken Paladins would have been added as well. You can't use the Holy magic burns undead theory because Forsaken priests exist.
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Please look up the Crusader Bridenbrad questline in Icecrown.
Undead creatures using holy power exist in warcraft lore, people are giving examples in this thread all the time (sir zeliek, undead scarlet crusaders in tyrs hand, reanimated crusaders in icecrown and more). Even if lore states it hurts undead to use it, it still doesnt mean its impossible. Saying that after Lich Kings death (or sylvanas, since she died like 3 times already) forsakens ties with the undeath has loosen and more and more forsaken members found they new path in light wouldn't be a bigger lore bend than giving taurens sunwalkers that were created out of nothing. Were there any tauren paladins before sunwalkers? Does it make any sense that a sunwalker has spells like crusder strike (lol what? shouldnt they have a spell called Sunwalkers strike instead? O.o). Allowing forsaken paladins would require less lore butchering (or let's call it nicely - inventing) than allowing tauren paladins.
TLR - in current state of wow undead paladins are unlikely. With a tiny bit of lore twisting/creating - they would make more sense than sunwalkers.
I love the "Dark Paladin" or "Shadow Paladin" idea. Saying the UD Pally uses Shadow magic the same way the UD Priest does to heal. Lore would be explained that they are not using the Light, and Gameplay mechanics would stay intact with the understanding that melee and spells are shadow, not Light.