In other words just slap on a class skin and you’re good to go. A voidy hue and some renaming on abilities 
You are kind of contradicting yourself here I feel. So on one hand you’re talking about soft and hard powers and how hard powers are very well thought out with their ins and outs, but then you say that if it’s meaningful and thought out and explained in the lore, it should not be added… ?
I am a paladin fan, of course I am gonna focus on that more then the others.
I am also against lfd rogues, void elf shamans, worgen monks and a few others, but I am more vocal on paladins over all.
As for high elves I could care less about them anymore. Your group ruined that for me.
How bout no on that notion.
Just Make a new class with void knights.
I asked kindly to explain what you mean for race class skins. No need to be aggressive about it.
I’d argue the opposite, actually. Class restrictions water down the uniqueness and individuality presented in the game. If restrictions were lifted, blizzard would have to make an actual attempt at presenting the races front and center with themes and cultures that surreound them.
Player agency in character creation is not homogenization. More unique characters and more unique stories is an increase in diversity, not a decrease. Nobody is asking for blizzard to add a clan of gnome druids front and center to the story, but if a player has an interesting story, or just a passing interest in playing a race/class combo that doesn’t make sense to you, they should still be able to do that.
If you don’t like Tauren rogues, don’t play one. Blizzard isn’t going to suddenly turn the Tauren culture into a bunch of mages and rogues who live in cities and steal from each other and burn down forests for fun.
My Tauren could be a pirate, or a member of the grimtotem clan. My Orc priest could be an orphan adopted into a family of blood elves, or a previous warlock who wanted more power than just the fel and stumbled into the realm of the void and now he’s a shadow priest.
I could have a tauren mage who had no aptitude for nature magic, but was very adept at arcane magic. These are new stories that I can tell now, that I can create for myself, and it’s at no actual cost to the lore. What I decide for my characters isn’t canon, and I don’t expect blizzard to make it so.
It’s up to blizzard to create unique racial identity, and that racial identity should draw people in who want to play and role play that way. People that play druids should look at the options and the history of the races and go “Oh wow Tauren seem like they really fit with a druidic theme, I think I’ll choose them” or “Lightforged really give me a holy paladin vibe from their aesthetics and story, I think I’ll make that my paladin”, but none of that should prevent somebody from being a blood elf druid or forsaken paladin if they want to, it’s their character.
Good races and good stories create interesting choice and racial diversity, not needless restrictions.
Or instead of being civilized and more open I guess you can just be rude. And btw our ‘‘group’’ literally ruined absolutely nothing for you. You are just hurt that void elves can now look more natural. If that’s the hill you want to die on be my guest, lol. And btw the white, black, orange and even blonde hair are actually useful for the void theme too. Sooo again we didn’t ruin anything. Not our fault Blizzard delivers customization in bread crumbs.
She’s not being aggressive. And we don’t need a new Void Knight class. Here Blizzard is barely able to put together Drakthyr and have to focus all their resources on it and you’re asking for a brand new class? Not happening.
Says the one that tossed out accusations. That is rude by definition.
looks at SL and BFA and Legion
(I’m sorry…I had to…)
I just said you were getting tiring. But I’m sorry you’re not really being ‘‘tiring’’. But you are biased against Void elves and anything related to classes for them. I’ve said it many times before no matter what class we ask for you people are against it.
If you mean in past wanting void elves to be based on their namesake VOID elves is baised against them then;
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There was nothing aggressive about it. Simply stating my position, that’s all. There’s no negativity involved. Just clearing up my position on things.
Now, Void Knights sound interesting.
They could be a melee version of warlocks essentially, but less merciful and use the void only. The void seeks to currupt, torture and consume all things if not control it. The void knight would use his powers to torment the minds of his victims while soaking his blade with void energy, allowing the void to feast upon the blood and flesh of his victims and leech onto them, attempting to currupt if not torture the victims.
I would view the class as a 2 spec class, one could be named torment, the other consumption.
If your interested in void lore and can come up with things about such a class hit me up.
I am always up to discuss all kinds of magic baised knights or swordsmen.
What I mean is i’m not an absolutist in being against new class/ race combinations.
For example, making everyone able to be a mage or rogue seems a bit excessive.
Perhaps just allow it where it’s fitting and justified.
But making something out of nowhere is a bit much too, like the Sunwalker Paladins.
It’s best when it’s pulled form established lore and built upon and explored further instead of being pulled out of seemingly nowhere to fit.
The game itself, the lore of it, the idea of races standing for something, is Warcraft, if you change this the game stops being Warcraft, (debatable if that’s already happened) and it morphs into something different slowly over time it loses its roots.
If every race can be a druid then there is nothing special about the commitment to the class, in the circumstance of the horde, the vast majority of players are blood elves. You forego this aptitude to play the favorable races to play the less used races.
If anything it keeps the game from being World of Elf Craft.
How dare I want to play a class with a race that knows proper footwear.
Just because they disagree with you doesn’t mean they shouldn’t also be free to share their opinion. Plenty of people think the no restrictions route is the wrong course.
Pandaren will gladly train new monks in exchange for druids and paladins.
I disagree. This is just conflating two things that aren’t the same and making them one thing. Is warcraft the fact that tauren cannot be rogues, and blood elves cannot be druids? No, warcraft is the culture around those races, regardless of what the players do.
Every race can be a warrior, but that doesn’t mean every warrior is the same. It doesn’t mean people can’t tell interesting stories or create interesting characters as warriors. Player characters are not poster children for the race they choose. You can already explain away whatever you want in your own head and again, I don’t think anybody is really asking for blizzard to develop lore for every possible race/class combination.
Our characters are just nameless bodies in the scheme of the story, there’s a reason nobody refers to my character as “Mifa” or yours as “Heal” and it’s not just because of technical limitations. We are all the Maw Walker, we are all “Champion” or “hero”, and never has Thrall questioned why my undead priest uses holy spells, just as there’s no way to reflect that my character draws power from the light of the moon or whatever background I choose.
God forbid people be able to play whatever race they want. People like elves, that doesn’t stop blizzard from telling compelling stories about non elf races. It shouldn’t be up to blizzard to decide who does and doesn’t get to play their preferred race, who does and doesn’t get to tell their preferred story or create their preferred character.
I dont see anything wrong in taking the game mechanics, giving them a void tone, and giving them to void elves
That would not break lore, it would make sense for the race, and most importantly it would give people the gameplay they love on a race they love.
I have huge issues with giving void elves normal paladins due to light vs void.
But a reskin for gameplay sake is great by my book.
Maybe keep them out of legion content like with evokers but yeah