The problem is logically a Necromancer and POTM are in the same boat, while you employ personal beliefs and excuses to try and exclude Necromancer for being too similar to existing classes, and shifting the goalpost for Priestess of the Moon which you just admit are more like Hunters.
It's a double standard no matter how you look at it. If I say Necromancer can be like Witchdoctors or Necrolytes, you say no that can't work. But you then turn around and say PotM can be Night Warrior, even though not all Priestess of the Moon are Night Warriors, ONLY Tyrande has ever become one and she's no longer a Night Warrior since last patch.
Yet you have no problem equating Necromancers to DKs, down to arguing that Necromancers can have a Rune connection. That is just like arguing Shadow Hunters casting spells, which they actually do since they had healing wave.Witch Doctors cast spells while Shadow Hunters throw their glaives. That would be like comparing a Hunter with a spellcaster.
You believe it would be hard, but at the same time you are unwilling to accept any Necromancer archetype that works like Priest or Paladin lore where they are different races and cultures mixed into one class. It's hard for you because your imagination is limited, that's all.Of course it can. No one expected the Night Warrior, for example.
But, what i'm saying is Blizzard already recently tried to expand it's lore pretty significantly with Maldraxxus. Topping that would be hard.
For a Night Warrior, it is like DK, DH or Monk where there is one 'culture' defining the class. And inadvertantly, you have chosen to value the Necromancer the same way, only using Maldraxxus Necromancy. So you're really arguing against a strawman argument.
As I said, the use of alchemy and brewing plagues, and using anima/necromancy-based healing, and delving into deeper rituals are things that DKs do not do. That can be expanded upon because those are Maldraxxian themes that DKs don't actually cover at all.
Remember, the context is that you believed the DK could cast spells and use rituals. I've proven very strongly that everything they use magically is sourced from their Runeblade. So really, we have a massive gap of Ritual-based Maldraxxian Necromancy that is not covered by any class, while we have a Death themed Spellcaster archetype that has existed since WC1 that is not yet playable.
If you want to talk about logic, then here it is.
And Necromancers can still use this magic and these themes. Rune magic is not the only way to manipulate Necromancy, there is also Rituals which DKs do not use.Maldraxxus is the birthplace of necromantic magic, where necromancy was developed by the Primus. He is responsible for the creation of Maldraxxi rune magic, which serves to manipulate necromantic energy, and its more powerful counterpart, Domination, whose purpose is the suppression of another.
And WoW has established that not all Necromancers use this type of magic. Every culture has their own sources and methods, some which draw back to Maldraxxian style Necromancy, some which do not.
If you are pointing out lore that says Primus made runes, then I don't see how that is relevant to Necromancers since they aren't using runes, they are typically users of Rituals. That is why the House of Rituals represents most of the Necromancers in Maldraxxus.
I mean it's no different than pointing out the Lich King has a Mourneblade and the Helm of Domination. So are you implying every Necromancer under the Lich King uses Runes and domination magic? Cuz I can tell you, they don't.
And that's fine.Your Necromancer would most likely be based on the popular depiction of a Necromancer, which would use Maldraxxus death magic and, perhaps, also Blood.
Paladin is mainly based on Knights of the Silver Hand and the Holy Light. This is the origin of the Paladin class.
If Holy Light is the origin magic for Paladin class, then are all Paladins using this popular depiction? Is this popular depiction different from the Priest? They use the same magic if we are talking about Popular depictions.
So I ask you, what is wrong with Necromancers popularly depicted by Maldraxxus Necromancy? You still admit that a Troll Necromancer would make sense using Voodoo, do you not? So we have lore options.
If people want to be a Maldraxxus type, they can choose to be one. If they want to play a Troll that used Voodoo, they can be one. Either way its the same as Paladin that uses Holy Light or choosing to be Sunwalker instead. Lore options are a good thing.