Because fox are cute and cow is not ? Fox can be DH if they want to
Because fox are cute and cow is not ? Fox can be DH if they want to
Well, to be fair, the Vulpera are more like nomadic goblins. Obviously less obsessed with money but they're focused on being very pragmatic and aren't nearly as spiritual as the Tauren. Just look at how they say goodbye, "May your ancestors watch over you" vs, basically, "laters!"
For the record I tend to agree with you, the player character is already exceptional so it's not hard to believe that one of these exceptional Tauren chose to pursue the path of a mage. That being said there is a big difference from the around ~20 years of regular interaction with Arcane users and literally countless generations of closer connection to Arcane users. For the most part classes are determined primarily by their connection to the culture of a race and simply put that takes time and more than just a generation. Of course there are a lot of exceptions so this isn't applied anywhere near evenly but, it's still probably the reason.
They do, but they don't really cast spells. They manipulate raw celestial power, which is why their arcane abilities are limited to laser beams. They can't conjure food, bind constructs, or transform objects. It's all a manifestation of their nature abilities. They get tenacity from the spirit of the bear, they get agility from the spirit of the tiger, they get arcane powers from the moonkin. It isn't that they are unable to use arcane, its that the majority of tauren haven't had exposure to organized magic for long enough to justify a playable tauren mage.
By now you should know that most of the race/class combo that are not playable is just an arbitrary decision by blizzard with the false pretense of "lore"
Tauren lack the basic intelligence needed to be mages, and lack the desire to be a warlock because of that whole "demon" thing. Also, it would mean the only thing a tauren would be barred from is Demon Hunter. That's kind of dumb. I said the same thing about Tauren Paladins, though. In my judgment, lore doesn't support it. Doesn't really support priests, either. But hey, Taurens are currently the only race capable of being all of the healers in the game, so, there's that.
So, why do vulpera have the mage and warlock class access? Because they lack druidic ability. The culture of the scavenging nomads in Vol'dun is not the same as the nature-loving tauren.
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Sunwalkers are bad enough. Now you want Arcane Tauren?
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That's just flat out wrong. Tauren are incredibly intelligent. Look at Thunder Bluff. It's an engineering marvel. Great lifts, suspension bridges, and the logistics needed to get materials to BUILD an entire city from the ground up, on top of a plateau with sheer vertical cliffs, with not a tree in sight and a general unwillingness to mine or quarry. And all this without a formal education system or experience with construction. They figured out all this on the fly. That takes intelligence, and lots of it.
Vulpera probably should have been more limited to shaman, as that fits the whole tribal-nomad thing better and shaman originally was the tribal-wild-mage of the franchise. But since they are little people and they rat around in all kinds of places I guess one can somehow pretend that equates to something like a formal education in magic. I mean besides the whole "everyone of culture z can only do x but not y" being studpid in the first place, it's Blizzard that keeps pretending their hare-brained explanations matter, which they only ever do selectively if it fits their narrative. If we go by what a mage in WoW is (Heavily formalized dalaran conjurer curriculum) it makes little to no sense for them to be one.
Tauren mages are just .. I mean I don't really care, because the lore excuses are rubbish in the first place, but from classical tropes tauren usually just aren't the studious types. They should be fucking brutes.
Personally I'm in favor of dropping the pretense and just opening up classes. I wouldn't mind a druid race on horde that uses shoes and has 5 fingers for example..
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Tauren aren't nomadic. They built their home on tall rocks to hide from pig people. That's the opposite of nomadic.
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They are smart but thise aren't suspension bridges. Hell I'd say they are secretly enslaving mages to operate those lifts. You see any hydro or steam power? No ropes or pulleys. Somethings going on there?
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How smart does an arcane mage need to be to spam 1-1-1-1-4 all day. Come on now.
They were until Warcraft III, the orcs slaughtered the centaur that kept them from settling down, and they joined the Horde in return.
What mages? The only mages on the continent before World of Warcraft were in Feralas, and they were in hiding. And those lifts are powered by windmills.
Woah, who would have thought about that.
Bingo. The whole basis of WC3's Orc campaign was that orcs should absolutely reject demons and don't try to harness their power as it always leads to corruption.
Now it's perfectly fine that they decided to change that in WoW, to make Orcs more tolerant and to sometimes get a "end justify the means" mentality.
With a backstory that even would be a good character development for Thrall. It's fine really. There is no retcon here. It also suits gameplay well, no real problem.
It's just a bit like if, in the Return of the King, Frodo found out that instead of destroying the ring it should be wielded to fight Sauron in battle, and that he needs to be strong enough to resist its corruption. It would not have been a retcon either, but it would have been a change of theme compared to the previous two books.
But again, it's okay, and Blizzard definitely could do a new cultural shift for Taurens if they wanted to.
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That's literally against the ENTIRE concept of the One Ring - you simply can't wield it and not be corrupted, not even if you're a Maiar, let alone a mortal. That's not just a retcon, it's a fundamental change in the entire concept of the story.
Basically you're saying that Denethor was right all along. One of the whole points of the story is that trying to use ultimate power will directly cause your downfall, the One Ring cannot be used without corrupting its wielder.
Your example guts the narrative intent of the LotR story - it's a horrible example.
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That's like asking why a nomadic people in the Americas doesn't speak the language of a nomadic people on Greenland...
Hairy races should not be able to be mages, they'd just put themselves on fire the moment they cast a fire spell. I guess the vulperas excuse is that they are somehow more fire resistant, they evne have a racial for it.
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