Evoker being locked to a single race is extremely dumb (hi Demon Hunter), but it’s actually less dumb than locking an entire race, the Dracthyr, to a single class.
It’s like Blizzard learned all of the wrong lessons about class exclusion and why people were screaming for more options to open up across the races, or that the new race of an expansion somehow needed even more piled atop it in order for people to play the shiny new arrivals (hint, they wouldn’t). What’s worse is this actually hurts the ‘sacred and awe-inspiring lore’ of the Dracthyr by suggesting they and their creators are COMPLETE MORONS.
“A-HA! I know just what to do, I’ll have an invincible army ready to combat any foe and do any task!”
Watches an evoker go face-down to a boss cleave while a Gnome sits by with a shield tanking easily.
“By Alexstraza’s… What… IS that strange technology on that short one’s arm there?! A slab of metal? Meant to intercept blows?! Why didn’t I think of that?!”
Also, the fact that they’re trying to add ‘Visage Form’ speaks to their lack of confidence about the race they’re developing for two reasons:
- They just don’t want to do the art work to make Dracthyr work in all armor types
- They want people to have the ‘security blanket’ of two extremely popular models.
They’re demonstrating an unwillingness to commit to the aesthetics of the new race as well as shoving them into a single class. This is an entire race of dragon-people, dragon-people, that have absolutely zero idea what a wooden shield is. If that is not pitiable to you, then I have no idea how better to explain it.