restricting by race has literally never made sense.
“Sorry mr Orc, you can’t become a Druid even though both of your closest allies practice druidism, simply because most of your people don’t”
it’s always been stupid
I would disagree.
If you divorce races from culture, then races themselves become completely meaningless.
They may as well all just be Humans at that point.
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- Culture isn’t a monolith, individuals have interests, hobbies, education that is less traditional than others in their family, birthplace, etc.
- 8 months, really? Did you fall into a time vortex on the way to post this?
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nobody cares about the lore…
This is how I look at it too - well said!
no im not kidding
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No I am not kidding, that’s usually the wife’s function.
I feel like giving all Demons a Lightforged Form and making that the default for Draenei and Lightforged would fix part of the problem.
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I hope a blizzard gets rid of all these RP fanatics. Wow was never about a story. Vanilla was just a loose storyline. They need to get back to their roots, and keep the focus about gameplay above everything else.
You think Blizzard focuses on the story too much? Really? They just published a new lore book that has been ridiculed for getting basic details wrong.
This game has always been gameplay first.
And Vanilla has a lot more storytelling than you’re giving it credit for. Not to mention they had 3 previous Warcraft games building it all up. They just didn’t have cinematics.
And Vanilla was also far more strict with race/class combos.
(Draenei Warlocks are still fine. Play the quest.)
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It would, but then you’d get people being vewy vewy angy that they can’t just be edgy demon goats for story reasons. Which is to say people to whom the story doesn’t matter being angry that it exists and has any influence on anything in the game of which it’s a part.
At least until something happens in the lore to facilitate something they like or which offends the mental scarecrow of their opposition they’ve developed, then it’s suddenly grace straight from the hand of God.
Now there ARE lore for red skinned X-Demon draenei but warlocks still feel weird. However already in BC, the arrival of the Draenei, we saw Draenei that had fallen from the Light. Draenei now seem to mee as a people that have a need to belong somewhere, ENYWHERE, and as such, if not guided by a well-meaning hand may fall and join a cult. This could be why the Eredar joined the Burning Legion and why some joined a Naruu led cult to become Draenei.
No they don’t care in fact they set it up to intentionally piss off those who care about things more than they do.
Draenei rogues/monks Tauren rouges/monks, little hunters excluding Dwarfs and Mechagnomes, Mechagnome monks don’t make sense. They don’t care about that, they applied some logic that is only appreciated by those who have those characters to be goofy attention seeking maybe even good at the game but wants to stand out for being a Tauren rogue, it’s ridiculous. There’s toys and stuff for that.
I think the neat thing about Draenei Warlocks is it completely invalidates any criticism for remaining class/race restrictions, cause it was probably the biggest cultural taboo and since Eredar and Warlocks are now accepted in Draenei society, there’s zero reason we can’t be Goblin Druids or Human Shamans or whatever.
Like yeah, those combos wouldn’t (or shouldn’t) be common within the lore, but as adventurers, we’re by default exceptional and unusual members of our races.
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Warlocks should be able to summon them as minions. Cause they are technically demons. They are Man’ari. Our Wrathguard (if you use it) is Man’ari Eredar - who just happen to go extra steps with fel to get their bodyguard / frontline look lol.
Would love me Goblin Paladin and have our racial mount all decked out in silver and gold trim with gaudy lights.
Also… you get new glasses mog? Cause those are absolutely killer on your toon.
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Someone call?
Oh I’d love to see you try to “enslave” me. Be warned, the ritual requires Dinner and expensive booze~
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But while it would take more work it would be nice if npc’s reacted to odd adventurers. So, when our Manari warlock waltz around in the Exodar a certain displeasure among the locals could be noted. Came to think of it, we got elves on both sides. The Manari, if rejected by the Draenei could have joined the Horde.
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It would be nice to have some flavor like that. Like you have holier then thou turn their nose up and maybe some young draenei expressing a secret interest.
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Nah, I’ve been using these for a while. I often swap between these and the Karazhan Witch hat with this mog. Maybe you’re just noticing cause they’re a bit bigger on Dwarves.
I mean I agree, but think on it from a random NPC’s PoV.
What’s more unusual, what would be more strange to see walking around Orgrimmar or Dalaran or wherever.
a) A goblin with a green thumb?
b) Or a former CHAMPION of Illidan or Arthas.
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That’s definitely not true.