Originally Posted by
Steampunkette
The heroic classes that we have in the game, currently, are Death Knights and Demon Hunters. Both were very important to the lore of the expansion within which they were contained, but any new character created as a member of either of these classes is, in turn, tied to the lore of the expansion within which they were created. As a Demon Hunter you trained directly under Illidan in the Black Temple some number of years ago, got frozen in a Warden Crystal, and eventually broke free to destroy the Burning Legion by ending the threat of Sargeras himself by shutting his ass down at the Seat of the Pantheon. Yay.
But when BFA launches: What the hell is a Demon Hunter supposed to do? After Cataclysm, Death Knights became largely irrelevant to the story, and the further creation of new Death Knights became impossible since Arthas was dead.
But. Now we've got the Order Halls. We've got independent bodies of unaligned people who have the power or knowledge to complete the task of creating or training new members of their class without tying it to specific expansion content. So why not -do- it?
We could have the Illidari fracture on the Kayn/Altruis line, with each of those companions leaving the Slayer to manage the Illidari and breaking off to form new schools of Demon Hunters for the Alliance and the Horde. These two could be seeking to build their own orders of Felslayers to continue fighting against the Demons who, while no longer lead by Sargeras, still pose a threat simply by their exorbitant numbers and chaotic nature.
Similarly, with Bolvar becoming active again through Legion, moving forward we could have Koltira and Thassarian working toward the creation of new Death Knights, possible against each other's faction-based interests since we know they're capable of making new Death Knights (By work-order, or quest-power!). Rather than being people slain in battle raised from the dead, these new Death Knights could be willing to die for their power, and drink some tonic to die and be raised.
In this way we could both lower the level of their respective classes (Say, to level 20) to allow allied races access to these classes at some time in the future, and create an "Evergreen" method of becoming a Demon Hunter or Death Knight rather than either choice being locked to the specific expansion content they were released for. Win/Win!
And, since we've got the Level Boost method in place, the best part is that players of races normally -allowed- to be members of those Hero Classes as tied to the previous content could still start at level 55 or level 98 and go through the Expansion-Specific content. So if Void Elves could become demon hunters they'd only be able to choose the level 20 Demon Hunter starting experience, but a Blood Elf would be able to choose between the level 20 and the level 98 experience. This preserves the Lore of the older content and gives players more options for what races to be members of different Hero Classes.
I shall now accept the heaping of praise/scorn as your particular post prescribes.