having a few npc that can be what a player can't isn't a reason to remove some barriers. You will always have this situation. Kelthuzad is a necromancer, does it mean that human should be? maybe not. If the dev decide that it won't be ok for stormwind humans to be necromancers just like dalaran was against it then you won't.
A night elf can be paladin, ok but it's not the culture of the night elves to fight like this, so enabling the player to be a night elf paladin is going the wrong way.
Fod Sparta los wuth, ahrk okaaz gekenlok kruziik himdah, dinok fent kos rozol do daan wah jer do Samos. Ahrk haar do Heracles fent motaad, fah strunmah vonun fent yolein ko yol.
Sure that`s a fair point, and i`d like nothing more than a short questline that introduces the reason behind why every race can be every class now.
It`s a great way to add content and flavor, and if you pair it with a host of new customization options, it would probably be really well received.
Same, there was precedent in the past for quite a few race/class combos that arent present to this day, but at this point nothing fucking matters from a narrative standpoint. They have designed the game to such a degree that the content demands retcons to merely exist, so nothing narratively justifies limiting gameplay in any capacity anymore.
Even Bethesda is more careful than to fully railfuck their lore to such a degree, and theyre sloppy with retcons. Blizzard basically killed Warcraft as a concept from the storytelling/worldbuilding perspective.
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Fod Sparta los wuth, ahrk okaaz gekenlok kruziik himdah, dinok fent kos rozol do daan wah jer do Samos. Ahrk haar do Heracles fent motaad, fah strunmah vonun fent yolein ko yol.
Yeah, I also used to care about lore restrictions but these days...meh. Combos like Lightforged Draenei Death Knights already exist so how much more stupid can any other combo be?
And what's probably even more important to me; introducing new classes is one of the most sure ways to give long-time players something completely fresh to do. So restricting those to just a couple of races that folks may or may not like to play is stupid, imo. Even though it's been the only new class in years, I still haven't played Demon Hunter because I'm just not that into playing Night Elves or Blood Elves.
There is a Gnome Druid in Hearthstone.
Lore is not arbitrarily.
That's why you have different races and classes to begin with.
Not all. But, a lot more.
Rangers already tap into nature magic.
Broken don't have Druids. Lost Ones do.
Wildhammer can already be Druids in lore.
There's a Dwarf Demon Hunter in Hearthstone.
There's a Gnome Druid in lore.
Doesn't make sense in the slightest.
They don't have either.
Literally goes against their very being.
Was retconned.[/QUOTE]
I don't care what Burning Crusade, Warlords of Draenor and Reforged show you, in more sources than those 3 he is green. Someone didn't play Warcraft 3 or watch the Undead/Night Elf end cinematics. :P GG
Seems team Tauren Rogue scored a victory!
New Race/Class Combos with Dragonflight
Tauren Mage
Highmountain Tauren Mage
Orc Priest
Highmountain Tauren Priest
Tauren Rogue
Highmountain Tauren Rogue
Draenei Rogue
Lightforged Draenei Rogue
https://www.wowhead.com/news/eight-n...nflight-326955
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I've been telling it for a long time already. Class - isn't something, you born with. It's something, you can be taught and trained. Some races don't like certain classes for "reason"? There are always exiles, who still want to do something forbidden. It's not hard lore-wise to justify it. Some race-class combinations are already in game. For example Grimtotems can be rogues. I don't remember, if it was Cata or MOP, but there was Horde quest line against Grimtotems, where I expected them to join Horde, but it didn't happen.
But there are cons. For example will Horde would be Blood Elfs and whole Alliance will be Humans, because majority of playerbase lacks imagination and players play as themselves, not create avatar for themselves instead.
I don't care about Wow 11.0, if it's not solo-MMO. No half-measures - just perfect xpack.
On my druids I switch to the artefaft skins the first chance I get. I think I and many others could do without super diverse racial skins and let's be honest for a moment, a company like Blizzard could easily afford it anyway despite that. Afaik they already started to outsource art.
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You are welcome, Metzen. I hope you won't fuck up my underground expansion idea.
Imagine that you are a GM and your friend who doesn't care about the setting, lore and ROLE component whines that he wants to be super duper unique (because in life he is a worthless clerk who has never been on a date) again and again, you just want to give slap him at this moment
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Demonic blood does NOT prevent you from using Light(or Void). We have examples of how the demons themselves use the Light.
Well, they literally told how they want the race to not matter when it's about choosing your class - where it makes sense. Also they mentioned the fact that some classes need additional animations they have to make for the newly added races so it may take more time to unlock more combinations.
Maybe we won't have all races can do all classes but over time a great majority of them should be covered.
Non ti fidar di me se il cuor ti manca.
Nah i feel they already are to loose with what race cant be what classes.
This didn't age well.
I personally agree with OP. The races made sense when Warcraft still portrayed each race as their own unique thing that occasionally come together to help each other out, but now pretty much every nation lives on top of each other. No-one really has any uniqueness left and as far as lore goes, there's no reason why specific individuals of each race (players) couldn't have gone off to learn from the other races on how to be another class.