It’s still early enough for Blizz to turn this around and open this incredible new race into something that’s more widely available to players. I get where they are coming from, why they have some limited knowledge skills but many classes are way basic. Pick up a sword. Tah dah you are a warrior. They make the lore and story as they want, so it isn’t unreasonable to say ‘yes this can be so’ when it comes to the other classes. Please bliz don’t make us wait expansions or even patches for other classes.
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I honestly dont mind that much because this is an MMO and people who want an RPG experience are in the minority. I’m just saying I understand what they’re going for here.
But if a race can only be one class, wouldn’t that make them more of a race, or rather, specific culture?
Don’t tell me that ion said no There will be others for the dracthyr not god why?
Why wouldn’t they? I mean, why couldn’t they be their own kind of warrior that uses those abilities? When we fight dragons in WoW, they use those abilities against us, so why can’t the dracthyr have a similar melee/tank class?
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Ion said that it was “Definitely possible” that they could get other classes and used warriors as an example. He said that they’d probably be starting out with nothing but evoker though.
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I think it’s stupid to create a new race; racials, animations, all that jazz and tied it to one class?
Lol.
That guy did mentioned they might add more classes to Dracthyr later, but still I can’t help but lol.
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Nah, it makes them shallow and unrealistic.
There’s not a culture in the world that only employed a single type of warrior in real life.
Expecting a whole race of people to all do the same thing is just silly for a variety of reasons. lol
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I mentioned it before in this post, being a warrior is not just picking up a weapon and hacking away…
Warriors are still trained be experts and masters otherwise you wouldn’t have any skill or ability.
As there are no warrior in the Dracthyr society, where would they learn the necessary skills?
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I’m sorry, but how do you know there isn’t any Warrior in the Dragon Isles?
Are you implying Centaurs, Tuskarr, something else I forgot are simply enjoying their time in the Dragon Isles with Dracthyr?
This is one of the reasons why I thought it’s funny seeing a new race only have one class available.
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To be fair, if you look at the warriors we play in game… they aren’t trained at all.
It’s a bunch of wild flailing. haha
I know they’re supposed to be and it’s just funky animations but yeah.
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All classes used to visit their trainers every other level.
So even tho it is not like it anymore, the lore is still there, heck the trainers are still there. 
Basically what we know is, based on the deep dive and interviews, Dracthyr were asleep the whole time the island was hidden and only stirred awake with the arrival of the Dragonflights.
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Oh I know it. I was just commenting on the animations.
How did the first Warriors people learn to use swords? there’s no reason to over think it, it’s a game after all and Fun can and should be the first rule, there are lots of ways they could explain how they gained these various skills.
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Balance concerns. You can’t have a Warrior that can fly around and blast you with dragon flame.
People who want to be a Dracthyr and be another class really want to be a warrior that just hits things with a stick and not do anything with their dragon powers. You’d have to give up all those draconic powers for Slam.
The point of the dracthyr is that you do dragon things. How do you people think they’d balance the race around being able to do dragon things and also having the abilities of other classes?
Having a racial ability where you have a short wave wing buffet? A breath dps racial that does miniscule damage? That doesn’t cut it.
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At this point, you seem incredibly dense.
OBVIOUSLY the spells/attacks that you would do where you could fly, or perform a strafing attack, would be Evoker specific.
Flying out of combat via DR style self flight, is the racial for Dracthyr, not flying while in combat.
You don’t seem to understand the point at all.
We see Dragonkin in game using weaponry like warriors, all the time. We likely will in DF as well.
Being a Warrior, Mage, Monk, whatever, doesn’t mean you’d get to do ANY dragon-y things, because that is not the skillset of the class.
Just like ELVEN WARRIORS don’t fling spells in combat. Your arguments are exactly that. WHY WOULD YOU WANNA BE AN ELF WARRIOR, IF YOU CAN’T DO ELVEN THINGS. Elven things are magic based in all sources of fantasy, lol.
Like this is an incredibly DENSE mindset, honestly. Like people who would CHOOSE a Warrior, as a Dracthyr. Would SOLELY want to do WARRIOR things, while looking like, and playing as the DRAGON race, and their customizations.
NO ONE, expects all Dracthyr class options to potentially have the abilities of the Evoker class…lmao.
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Nah, I understand the point very well. The dragonkin we see in the game are different from Dractyhr.
It does. Because nothing any of those classes do is related to dragons in anyway. You’re just a big lizard with wings that hits thing with a stick.
Not even remotely the same, because not all elves have magical powers. All Dracthyr have draconic powers.
You can continue to @ me, but you know this isn’t going to change for DF. And even if it did, again, you’ll be fighting for the ability to be a dragon that just hits things with a stick while all the other Dracthyr actually use their powers.
WRONG, ALL Elves in WoW have magic, and come from evolution due to MAGIC. In fact EVERY ELVEN RACIAL mentions magic as well.
Those classes don’t relate to specific races either, with FEW excpetions, like Druids and Night Elves for instance. Like the classes are not mutually exclusive to those races in their lore either. Try actually knowing the game?
Clearly you don’t. Why play an Orc Mage? You don’t get to do ORC things, like being a massive barbarian, which they essentially are.
That’s not true either. Since any class a character has, uses thier own powers. Just because a Dragon based race doesn’t breathe a breath weapon, doesn’t mean that the magic it would cast, is not it’s own power or ability. Same with literally anything it would pick up or do.
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The point is that Dracthyr can strafe and breathe fire on targets naturally. So a Warrior Dracthyr should be able to do the exact same thing a Dracthyr Evoker can, because their draconic powers are INNATE. They aren’t trained to be Evokers, they are born Evokers.
Sure it does. It’s purely for thematic purposes. The numbers are fairly irrelevant so long as it is barely good enough to warrant pressing on occasion.
Honestly, looking like a dragon and being able to fly around on my own in the Dragon Isles would be more than enough for me to be immersed.
Like I’ve said a dozen times though. They can add a dragon themed tank class/spec to them or another class (such as warrior) that can tank. I honestly do not care so long as they have the ability to tank.
The fact that they cannot tank in a game so focused on the triad of combat is bizarre though. It locks out an entire section of players from even being able to enjoy the race at all.
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