Blizzard has NEVER called a Demon Hunter a Race.
That is a MASSIVE STRETCH.
Plus, the demon hunters we play, have varying level of Demonic Corruption, so we don’t even know for sure that they could feasibly be classified as having enough fel to be called Demons. Realistically.
No, they couldn’t. Because again DH is a Class, Evoker is a Class, Dracthyr is a race. They made the distinctions
Why are you so intent on shilling for Blizzard that you can’t even make the distinction between a playable race and a class? It’s getting old.
IMHO a DH can certainly be seen as a Sub-race.
Because they add demonic customization to the elf race.
Same goes for DK, it’s a Sub-race of all races adding a kinda undead appearance. Not as extensive as the DH of course.
And no other class adds customization to the race.
They never specifically called them a race, but consider that DH Elves got unique customization options and animations. Their models were also more updated than the base NE or BE models.
I’m sure there were plenty of elf players who would have liked to wear a blindfold, have glowing tattoos, be able to use Warglaives, or have demonic scales/claws as warriors, mages, or hunters.
Male Nelves can in SL.
Again weapons are always a CLASS thing, that’s Ludacris to lump in.
EXACTLY, they were NEVER intended to be a RACE. You made my point for me, now stop being a shill and move on. Because you’re not adding anything new, just rehashing what is already debunked.
That’s kinda fair. But then again, Blizz never called them a race, and they’re nowhere near being a Full race like Dracs are. So the comparison is nowhere near viable as a point for the argument.
I certainly can make the distinction. What I’m saying is that Blizzards purposeful design here is to link Dracthyr to Evoker. This is not an oversight in their view. Locking Dracthyr out of other classes was the POINT.
No it wasn’t, because Dracs are a race. The only intended Lock to be permanent, is that no rather OTHER then a Drac will be an Evoker. But they’ve stated they don’t have any hard locks or intent to hard lock Dracthyr out of other options.
I never said they were called a race, what I’m saying is that it’s the same argument; You want your class to look a certain way. Again, I’m sure plenty of elves wanted the customization options available to DHs without having to roll the DH class.
Then why is it so hard to understand that we are saying their purposeful design needs iteration?
If that wasn’t the point/plan/design goal, the Dracthyrs would be able to play other classes by default right out of the gate.
I never said I wanted my class to have any special cosmetics. I just said I want more options for the Dragon race. There is a different comparison.
I already will be maining Evoker. As I’ve said before, but I also am thinking about making my current main, become a Drac, should they get that option too.
Dracthyr having to be Evokers is the problem. Not that Evokers can’t tank. Evokers just got made up. Why are they the only type of Dracthyr? It would be reasonable to assume Warriors and Hunters at the very least would also be among these Dracthyr. We are being made to believe Neltharion was building an army. Why would he only make one type of soldier that has no melee combat skills or that is unable to tank and defend the healers and casters of the army?
Neltharion bwas creating the perfect soldier.
In that case a spellcaster that utilizes the 5 powers of the Dragonflights.
Dragons are mighty on its own.
And Dracthyr are dragons.
Not necessarily true. They said in the Twitter Chat thinger with Tali. That the story of Dracthyr starting zone. Is that you wake up with no memory of anyone or anything. Which is why you’d default to using natural powers like the Flight Magics of the Evoker class.
But with that in mind, and that they’re as a race, EXTREMELY adaptable. It also adds into Ion’s line, of wanting the story to show them as Evokers who branch out into the world. Learning new classes potentially, but ONLY due to exposure from Horde and Alliance.
This way they can tell a more compelling story, that provides both classes and lore for them, in an attempt keep it from breaking anyone’s immediate immersion. Even in the hardcore circles.
They could’ve made these new interview blurbs where they tell us this stuff, out of left field to appease those who are angry about the restriction. But as of now, this what they’re telling us the plan is.
Also random, I do want to say, that you’ve made some good points I’ve agreed with in this discussion, so I hope you don’t feel like I’m just going at it, to go at you or anything.
And that has the scrappy adaptability of the Mortal Races. Which is such a weird line to through in, if they are not going to be receiving more down the line. (Which I know you’re for more options down the line, I 'm just flowing with the point).
I agree. It feels SOOOOO limited. I don’t think it will be sustainable. Hope more classes will be available to Dracs.
It’s been expressed a handful of times that they could get other classes–from Ion himself no doubt.
I can link you to one of the interviews if you’d like. 
if there are going to be new classes in old races why can’t there be a dracthyr tanks in the new expansion 10.0?
And I hope that Blizzard listened to the request that we need dracthyr tanks and not that it says memes saying: what sword?
I recently saw the interview clarifying that you can only have one Evoker per realm and that you need to have a lvl 50+ on any realms you want to roll another one on.
Now, for a Class, that is all well and good. no issue there, they have done it before and then eased up the restrictions later down the line. I am 100% fine with the hero class restrictions.
But for a race, that is friggin’ ridiculous! this is just reinforcing my concerns in the previous post talking about how this feels like they gave us a class and are trying to convince us there is a race there too instead of just a fancy druid-style shapeshift. I’m sure there are plenty of people who have several dracthyr characters they have been excited to play or RP on their main server and they are all about to learn they can only have one. No other race gives you a character limit per server. Sure, if you wanted a second elf with horns in Legion there were some setbacks but by rolling a DH you didn’t prevent yourself from being able to role any more elves on that server. You could still make a night elf druid, priest, ect.
So now not only is this new race everyone has been pining for locking out people who like to tank and forcing everyone else into a single two spec class (thus also preventing people from race changing existing characters they would like to be dragons- basically giving us the ultimatum of starting over or not rolling at all) but now you can only have one character of that race per sever regardless. quite the fun killer indeed.
All of this could easily be fixed if they just added more classes. even if its just one or two, it would be a massive upgrade for a lot of people and add so much more fun to the game for so many people who have been waiting for this.
oh i’m late to the party here. From capabilities, to alignment as well as immersive these are the classes Dracthyr should be able to perform:
Warrior
Death Knight
Hunter
Shaman
Invoker
Rogue
Druid (Ysera’s flight blood runs through their veins)
Mage
Classes that don’t make sense and why:
Paladin, none of the dragon flights have any affiliation with the light or care about it at all.
Monk: Dracthyr are based off dragons and a product of war, its had imagining focusing on inner chakra and zen to do monk stuff with this race.
Demon Hunter: Dont need demon powers when you got dragon powers
Warlock: Sees the legion and fel as an abomination
Priest: Again no affiliation with the Light, and see’s the void as an abomination.
Doesn’t need to be light based, just use the dragon powers to enact teachings of Tyr, there ya go.