For the sake of simplicity, Blizzard is referring to similar magics under the same name. Sunwalkers aren't Paladins. Blood Knights aren't Paladins. Dwarves and Draenei aren't Shamans, etc.
It would be nice if Blizzard simply referred to each class by their lore name, but then it would be also odd considering that all these different classes have the same spells and animations.
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KT are not druids neither are Zandalari
Zandalari are dinomancers and KT are witches.
I like that there's more options for druids nowadays, which fits with the lore.
But druids are fun!
No, races dictating available classes is a concept of the past and it'd be better to just make all options available at this point.
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Discuss ideas/events in the OP or start your own thread discussing people.
Are people not allowed an opinion anymore?
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If you knew the candle was fire then the meal was cooked a long time ago.
I mean, they are a for-profit business...
But the reality is, opening up more race/class combos opens up variety, even if those classes are the same amongst them, you get the visual variety as well as racials (which are lol right now anyway), it's the option that matters.
If they did stick to their guns and say "Nelfs and cows are druids, that's that", there would be tons of people even more upset than the small corner of the community who cry "but teh lore!".
Furthermore, if they stuck with "Alliance Paladin" and "Horde Shaman" only, the outrage would be even greater, so expanding is only good for the majority as it offers more options, even if those options aren't game-changing technically.
And objectively speaking (because I really don't care one way or the other, TBH), but at this point in the game's run, opening more combos is the way to go for the reason above, but also because it makes sense.
Live with a race that practices druidism and you, Mr Human or Dwarf, could learn druidism and hear the call of nature.
Shamans, Paladins, they all have a calling of sorts and all it takes is the ability to hear it.
In teh paladin campaign, there's a Nelf paladin follower (I think follower option, maybe just a mission fetcher, can't remember), so there is precedence for bleed over.
Blizz stated before that the players are just cogs in the machine, whereas NPC lore characters are the ones meant to stand out, yet players just arose to the highest possible seat within their Orders (read: class), so are we not on the same level as these lore characters, thus allowed to break the mold?
TL;DR Side rant aside, I am okay with more race/class combos because it offers more options to the playerbase.
Thank you for your incredibly useful contribution I guess? Of course people are allowed to have their opinions, and I shared mine about this topic with my first post which you saw fit to quote. The one attempting to police here, is you.
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Oh booh hoo, nice victim mentality you got there.
Guess what? They won't grow money and keep the game going unless they at the same time make a game that players want, and give the playerbase features that they crave and have been craving for years. If you believe that they're making decisions in a vacuum of figures spinning past on a screen rather than a whole range of factors including player feedback, then you must be willfully blind. Which is probably the case with such victim mentality.
If their only goal was money, then they could've continued with WoD-style development and kept raking in 800 million USD on a bad year. Players would've kept being unhappy, but they only make the game for money, 'member?
To many similar Druids, I would rather we have a diversity of Druids instead of Tauren =/= highmountain.
Considering there's more people who care about faction balance than actual near-irrelevant lore details like that, it's a smart move.
Also nothing prevents them from explaining through the lore why these classes learn to be druids. After all, they duct taped some gigantic fucking unbelievable bullshit with pandas, we travelled through time, they can do whatever the fuck they want.