Originally Posted by
Haidaes
Sylvanas was never gonna be the pure archetype of a class, she, like most major actors of wow today, is unique and doesn't abide by any class system (because it's pants on head retarded bullshit and would never work in any realistic setting). As far as rangers and hunters go, having melee weapons for when you are forced into close quarter combat is natural, hunter's used to have these as well in the beginning before Blizzard changed their systems to simplify it to one weapon equiped only.
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They are self sufficient by only absorbing energy from their foes, not healing others. Claiming these are the remanants of a healer spec is ludicrous to say the least.