I made a post about this a month ago and asked for Draenei Warlocks. It happened. So I’m happy.
Now let me explain WHY this actually makes sense lorewise.
We saw, quite frequently actually on Draenor, that Draenei DO IN FACT join the legion. A whole group of them called the Sargeri, (however it’s spelled), Betrayed their people and began summoning demons.
Now that the legion is gone, that threat is passed. But the Draenei are so intertwined with the lore that it’s definitely likely they’re still dealing with legion corruption. As much as they love the light, isn’t it interesting how countless times, even after their exile, we see Draenei turn to fel? It’s kinda a rampant probelm.
All it would take for a Draenei to become a warlock would be for them to just… succomb to that temptation. That’s it. And with No Legion to join anymore, or at least not a whole one, they’d stay here on Azeroth.
A lot of people complain about the Draenei hunting down warlocks, and yes that’s true. And I hope that’s a theme coming up WITH Draenei warlocks. BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE A GREAT AVENUE TO EXPLORE IN GAME. Finally getting some Draenei content that doesn’t involve us going to outer space and farming invasion points? That would be great. We saw Velen opened up to the use of Fel as well, so… it might not be that tense anymore.
As for Lightforged Warlocks? Naw that doesn’t make sense. I ain’t got no defense for that, there’s no way they’d do that. Other than maybe… idk studying demons to figure out how to kill them faster. That’s about it.
On that same note, would draenei warlocks lose the thingy on their head and the racial heal that came with it? (I don’t play Alliance so I actually don’t even know if it’s still in the game.)
The problem is the Draenei starter zone is timelocked to TBC so you are literally waking up from a crashed ship that was just being chased by the Legion.
Eredar warlocks would have been fine with a different starter zone, like DKs and DHs get.
But it’s whatevs now. There’s no point in debating it because Blizzard is just throwing them into the game. You’ll have to either make the lore up for your character in your head or just say “IDGAF.”
The 5% of people that care about this… will do the former…
The other 95% (if not 99%!) will… do the latter, and just make what they want and play the game.
The vast majority of people don’t even read the quest text. Let alone know ANYTHING AT ALL about the actual lore to this game.
How many people are going to make an “unacceptable race-class combination”… that they will then do NOTHING but install TSM and play the AH. +golfclap+
The zealous adherence to lore-defined race-class combinations belongs in just one place: with the players.
If it’s THAT important to you, don’t make one. It literally is THAT SIMPLE. If that offends your understanding of the lore, don’t group with them. They are an offshoot that has “lost their ways” and you choose to ignore them. Whatever RP you want to do… have at it.
It’s not THAT hard to argue that for the people that CARE about this choice… it actually gives them a BETTER environment to play in the game, because it ONLY affects the RP-side, and now you can RP this decision into your play.
Sorry, it’s very hard for me to agree this IN ANY WAY has any sort of negative impact on WoW. It’s just not that kind of game. And for the people that it IS that kind of game, they can ABSOLUTELY fit it into their playstyle.
DRAENEI do not become warlocks or join the legion. The eredar do. Draenei was a name that current draenei adopted when they fled their homeland. It literally means exiled ones.
