Prior to 8.0 in an early stealth hotfix right before Uldir raid launch, DH were able to equip daggers. It as been removed to them because the Demon’s Blade talent would have been too powerful with daggers.
What was laughable was the Class section of the Official Website still saying they can wield it until 8.2, when it got updated.
One of the worst Stealth nerf happening in recent years in my opinion.
Yes, it made sens balance wise, but i remember fondly that day when i became weaponless, 3-4 days before the raid without any official post from Blizz to explain it XD
Worse, since they can’t equip it anymore, you can’t farm dagger appearances in old content anymore, while Warrior still can equip every kind of weapon, even if gameplay wise they cant.
If anything, warriors should be able to use warglaives. They’re friggin warriors, they should be able to use anything as a weapon (and can except warglaives and wands)
The Warglaives of Azzinoth were not “made for Demon Hunters”. They were taken from the demon Azzinoth by Illidan, just like we’re able to take them off Illidan’s corpse, or take any weapon from any monster or boss that we defeat.
Aside from an arbitrary decision Blizzard made in a patch several expansions into WoW’s lifecycle, there’s no actual precedent or lore claiming Warglaives are some DH exclusive weapon. DH’s even in the current game can obviously also use other weapons so aren’t limited to just Warglaives, and Warglaives are clearly present as cultural weapons used by many non-Demon Hunters of various races, such as Night Elf Sentinels and Huntresses, Shadow Hunters, etc. We literally had an entire questline in-game centred around Vol’jin’s.
Lore wise, many elven warriors used glaives as their ancestral weapons. So it’s kind of silly that only Demon Hunters can use them now, since the weapons predate their existence or concept even.
I mean like – What, they get accursed or something?
If any classes other than DH should be able to use warglaives, it should be rogues and warriors. Hell, warrior should be able to use any weapon except wands, we should even be able to use gnomes as weapons! Ya know, just grab them by an ankle and swing them like club.