✵ PSA: Undead Paladins are justified in the Lore ✵

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Lore wise, you are 100% correct. That being said though, there has been plenty of times that Blizz has retconned their own lore to justify a game mechanic. When players call them on it, their go to response has always been “a Wizard did it”.

Adding more Race / Class combos could easily be one of those times where it comes down to Gameplay Vs Lore, and Lore looses that fight every time it’s convenient for Blizzard to make the change. Hell, they even retconn their books! Look at the Chronicles; they have been retconned so badly that Blizz had to respond to it, and their excuse was that Chronicles was written by a “Certain point of view”. If that’s not a fancy way of saying that they really don’t give two coppers about maintaining their own lore, I don’t know what is!

Now let me add in another wrinkle; (AND I AM NOT SAYING THAT I WANT THIS TO BE A THING, IT’S JUST A “WHAT IF” SITUATION)

We all know how much Activision likes to monetize anything they can think of, so what if Blizz started offering full Race / Class combo unlocks for $25? Swipe that Credit Card and you can now be anything (except Druids until they make more shape shift forms). Tauren Rogue? Yep. Undead Paladin? You bet. Dranei Warlock? Go Ahead. Bloof Elf Shaman? Do eet.

The point being is that when Blizz wants to change something that goes against their own lore (especially if $$$ is to be made in the process) they have already shown repeatedly that they don’t give a darn about lore and will retconn it in the most lazy way possible, sometimes without even bothering to acknowledge the change “in universe”. Just Bam! “A Wizard did it”.

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This would never happen.

Blizzard has full creative control over their games. 100%, no ifs ands or buts. They don’t take marching orders from the Activision-Blizzard c-suite or board when it comes to what content gets put in their games. So no, there will not be a ‘pay $25 to unlock all race/class combinations’ feature.

If Blizzard did decide to go the route of abandoning the lore to allow all class/race unlocks (which would be detrimental to the game), there are only two ways I can see them doing it. One would be to just rip the band-aid off and allow it in either an expansion or a major patch. The other would be to introduce a system like Star Wars: The Old Republic uses, where once you’ve reached max level on a given race, you automatically unlock the ability to create any class with that race.

But the odds of them doing either is slim to none. Despite the belief of the forum crowd, Blizzard actually cares about the lore for their game, so they’re not going to throw it in a trashcan and set it on fire so a few folks can play Draenei Warlocks, Forsaken Paladins and Gnome Druids.

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They could make it make sense lore wise. They did with Tauren paladins.

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