Originally Posted by
Evangeliste
I think it can be reduced down to.
Night Elves deal and depend on Nature. Their withdrawal from the Arcane (before Cataclysm) allowed them to continue their original ways.
Nightborne spent thousands of years dependent on Mana and Arcane after the War of the Ancients, nearing 12,000 years currently.
You can't force the Druidic connection when no one continued to teach the Nightborne, individuals like Cenarius or Malfurion.
And clearly defined parameters such as Arcane was everywhere for them.
They were cut off from other forms of magic in due course.
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Monks carry the same principles in this context as the Pandaren did. You ad a ruling delegate, with cruelty passed down the line. You clearly played in Suramar and saw those effects, in some cases and in quests of a World Quest armed the individuals with weapons.
If you're willing to fight in a resistance, you are also willing to do it bare-knuckled as you feel so righteous to do so. You don't need weapons to fight the oppression you're feeling.
Not to mention, not all Nightborne had access to mana and Arcane. Or being able to use that magic. You are however always able to find comfort in philosophy, calm and other similar ideals relative to the Monk ethos in-game.
And most importantly, everyone Humanoid has arms and legs... You can always kick and punch with those.
The classes are never an exact perfect fit. Priests for Night Elves were not as they used Moonlight not Holy Light. But that is the gameplay and lore clash that has been in-game since the MMO existed.
Although you don't really have to have pre-existing druidsm to introduce it, but in the nightborne, you can use the night elf connection, noting these are night elf individuals not a whole new generation that are still around and still bear their races nature affinity and love, which is not preposterous seeing their botanists and seeing how well the arcan'dor (a nature and arcane tree of power) serves effectively.
The nightwell is no more, the Arcan'dor is, you wouldn't be surprised either if the arcan'dor was used as the excuse for accessing an enhanced nature power either.
I am merely pointing out elements in the nightborne story that can be used. This is in addition to druidic Valewalker Farodin, Val'sharah druids and priests all joining in with the ni ghtborne and providing possiblities to teach that race, that has shown to have some skill and love of nature (cannot ignore the botanists).
Now obviously blizzard hasn't used any of these to give a druid class, but can youhonestly say a monk is more likely?
But as you say, classes are not altered to fit perfectly in wow. They are generic dicsiplines that draw from elements of lore across several races that blizzard has bothered to provide, often they are just generic fantasy tehmes imported in in many of their abilities or just invented for the gameplay and offered with no explanation or descriptive lore. Never modified to fit the lore of a race well even when appropriate, especially considering alterations can be superficial (i.e. just name and visual/special effects customising to fit the race rather than a different mechanic altogether which would be a balancing nightmare for the systems team - but they don't do it)
It is a game afterall, not a real world. They can do this. Which is why any race class combo, including new classes are quite possible.
The way people go on sometimes about x not being possible or not making sense, you wonder how they process new classes being created and introduced that didn't exist before. Or do they only accept them if they've been introduced into thewider story first , before making their way to the race? Yet even if this is the preferred choice/root blizzard many a times do not oblige us with explanations, and just dump it on us. Many like myself don't like when they do this, it's disappointing, it makes us feel they don't treasure their work enough and we don't like it because we've emotionally invested in their project and such treatment exposes us as being foolish for having lent so much time or even affection to something that isn't good or taken seriously enough by the developers.
But it is a business for them now, even if it was once more than that. They own the rights and can do what they please, yet I'm wasting my life energy typing about fictional stuff , going into depths knowing full well no developer will ever read and if they did, it won't change anything.
Acceptance is the first stage, in time my sluggish brain would accept the full truth of what it knows and will forever turn its back on Warcraft and never look back. If you don't value your work, don't expect others to.