Terrorists?
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Gnome priests are the best in vanilla.
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Cuz they are cool beans I guess?
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Gnomes can’t be priests so only 3 Alliance. Forsaken and Trolls both have them for Horde.
I am guessing that they wanted to make them standout while giving them more independence. Many games like EQ had issues with having enough priests or clerics (EQ) as they are harder to solo. WOW allows all classes the ability to get to 60 albeit some harder than others. But this is just a guess.
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Yes, class racials were a pretty flavouful mechanic to Vanilla. It would be nice to have more class-specific racials in the future, as well as stronger racials, if Vanilla is to receive more content.
For example, Night Elves originally had a Mountain Giant unit in WC3. So I think it would be a pretty cool and flavourful to the Night Elven race if Night Elf Hunters would gain the ability to tame Giants.
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That would be weird. I think it would make more sense if they could tame faerie dragons.
Anyway, yeah more racial differences might spice things up a bit.
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You don’t say… Well I’ll be!
They should rename these forums to “people who didn’t google stuff”. It would be more accurate.
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Because in Classic, classes are allowed to be unique.
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Becaus we’re awesome.
/hairflip.
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That’s a great idea! I hope we can tame trees too. If guardian protectors! Wow. That would be super cool
Trolls and undead for horde, you missed undead priests there =P
It’s just flavor, each one gets something unique.
You’d be wrong. Devouring Plague exists.
Dear Dill Pickle,
They edited their post. My response was to their original of 4 horde classes and the Troll race.
So I guess you will be but what it is I can only guess.
They ran out of time and resources to have race-speciric abilities for other classes.
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Its classic balance mate, if you gonna change that, then might as well give paladins taunt.
It’s cause I believe back when the first came up with the concept they wanted your race and class choose to matter, So by giving you a specific class racial it made you stop and think about your choose of race
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Because lorewise not all priests are the same?
Because a Priestess of the Moon (night elves) is VASTLY DIFFERENT from a witchdoctor (trolls) or shadowpriest (forsaken) or holy priest (humans)?
They’re represented by the same class in-game, but ability wise, they are different in lore.
The unique abilities were meant to reflect that.
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Either Blizzard had the intention of giving all the races a unique class mechanic and couldn’t work around it so they settled for the Priest, or it was added as a selling point to get people to play the class because perhaps Blizzard were under the impression during development that the Priest would be the least-played class.
Who knows?
undead shadow priest was a god too, devouring plague with all +shadow gear was like 8% hp per tick or something.