They said exactly the opposite but ok. you’re making a mechanical distinction. of course it requires a class to go along with it. dragon race doing dragon stuff is their vision
I didn’t change their wording, they could easily have made it to where certain races, get a Dracthyr class option, that has everything the Evokers will. They’ve proven they can do this with both DHs and DKs.
They CHOSE to say it’s a DISTINCT Race, and it’s special because Evokers can Only be Dracthyr.
That was there literal words from the reveal event.
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yeah because they are dragons
Maybe a trade off should be (and likely why they can’t be other classes) if you choose a different class you start at 1. Or maybe it’s story reasons.
They should get more classes. Maybe that’s in the works for next expansion, after they’ve had interaction with other races and are taught. Maybe I’m just giving Blizz too much credit…
Pandaren were also cut off from the world. They had classes other than monk.
They said they might someday.
You really think they will come in DF when they didn’t want to do it at all?
dragons can be any humanoid race in their visage form, per the lore. They could’ve chosen specific races, and them made Evoker be a hero class. Heck they may’ve done Humans and Blood Elves specifically.
DKs are undead versions of the races, so Envokers could be Dragons that chose that race specifically.
They made the choice though to make then their own race. That’s on Blizzard, and that’s why this whole thing is such a mess.
My best idea, would be to eventually make them like an AR, where they start at lvl.10, in a whatever non-evoker clases they get in the future. That way they can avoid a starting experience for them.
Also they’ve said that Dracthyr have a “definite possibility” to get other classes past 10.0, because they want to make sure people know that the new classes came as an exposure to the Horde and Alliance. Per their interviews. So we can hope.
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not the lore for dracthyr.
they said maybe. that is better then no. that is the most you will get
The only lore we really have Dracthyr to be fair, is that they are Dragons experiments that succesfully merged all 5 dragonflights.
The lore for dragons, is that they can be any humanoid race in any gender. Onyxia has been known to swap forms.
And in Before the Storm, they mention that Dragons have a special ritual essentially for when a Dragon choses the form that they most identify with, and want to use as their version of how they see themselves.
So I’m just using the lore we have, which is for dragonkin, which they are.
They’ve talked about making Dragons FOR A LONG time, apparently, but never could get it approved until now. I think they did or might have wanted to make it for more classes. But they spent their dev resources on systems and gameplay for the whole game, rather then just making one race get to do things. Which is fair and understandable.
Honestly, I would be surprised if we saw more classes before the last patch of 10.0, but I do think it’s a decent chance we could see them opening up by the tail end of the expansion.
they wanted true dragons. where you fight as actual dragons. this is the closest to that they could get.
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I don’t tank, but I agree with those who say Dracthyr need a tanking class. If, for whatever reason, they NEEDED to limit the race to only two classes, I honestly think it would have been better to have made it tank and heals rather than DPS and heals. We have DPS out our tails. Do something, anything, to encourage more tanking.
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You are absolutely right tanks are missing and there are plenty of melee dps, I say it as a tank and as a dps; but the case is not that although the subject should be touched
The fact is that more classes are requested for the new playable race and I agree with that issue, because for a long time a new playable race with classes was requested and now it does not have them
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Since we are doing Cata 2.0 with dragons, that’ll be in MoP 2.0 where we travel to another land that’s all japanese based. I’ve been joking we’ll get playable Tanooki Samurai/blademasters…it was the first creature that felt strictly japanese 
I dunno about that. I’d very much like to see ogres and vrykul made playable and the faintly glowing flagon of mead toy that turns you into one would be a fantastic height for playable ones. No issues I’ve ran into either.
Would be a cool addition. I’d say just tie it into some teachings that Tyr left behind or something to that effect. He built the building in the trailer.
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we have druids, monks and paladins already, why do you want more competition to fill the tank/dps/healer utility roll. I get that they will be shiny and new everyone will want to play one but they don’t have to fill every role.
remember that one time when everyone was riding around on water striders, yeah kind of the same thing here.
lets give them a chance to work out existing balance issues with the limited designee before asking for more flavour to be added
I’m asking for more classes to be added. That doesn’t really affect balance as racials are mostly inconsequential outside of their niches.
I just want to play a Dracthyr on as many classes as possible because I have wanted a reptilian race in WoW for as long as I can remember.
I almost exclusively play reptilian races in games that allow it (such as TES, Divinity, EQ, et cetera.)
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Why? We have lots of tank capable races and classes.
We haven’t had a new ranged class, ever.
It’s not like a new tank spec is going to bring people into tanking. People already know if they like tanking or not. Most don’t.
This is the First RANGED Dps since the launch of the game …
Sure we have a lot of overall DPS but Less Ranged dps than Melee dps
Every New class had a Tank spec so far…
We still have a Tank deficit…
I don’t think adding yet another one will change anything about it.
Either people want to tank or they don’t.
New tanks do bring people into tanking though. Maybe not a noticeable amount, but more tanks always helps. One of my friends finally got into tanking because they enjoy DH and its what they feel most comfortable with. Even if dracs were given an existing class like warrior to go along with evoker, i think just the aesthetic of a dragon warrior alone might get some people to check it out if they weren’t into it before.
I’m VERY thankful we got a new ranged class (and one that wears mail!) but there’s never anything wrong with more tanks imo.
Also it’s just kind of really weird to me that a dragon can’t tank.
For death knights, the members of the race only need to be killed and raised by a powerful nercomatic user to be one…
we are talking about the race here, not the class. Although is dracthyr remains a single class race it might as well not even be a race.
They should not fight in their visage form at all…
Yup