Most classes are pretty obvious or have lore explaining it.
But what about mage? They just read some books and can use magic? Do they have to say special magic phrases? what language is the phrases in? Is it just willpower? Do you have to be born with some innate affinity or talent. Or can literally anyone learn magic? Do you have to have some level of intelligence or can sufficient determination allow anyone to use arcane magic? Where do mages get their power?
Priests get their power through faith in the light or a divine source.
Warlock get their power via pacts with demons and drawing from twisting nether.
Rogue through training and skill. Most likely are self taught
Monk requires years of training and discipline.
Druid requires a connection to the emerald dream usually through some wild god/s.
Demon hunter requires intense torturous training which ends with infusing ones body with the soul of a demon.
Shaman must make connections, contracts, deals, or some kind of bargain with the elements/elementals.
Hunter requires practice and training with both bow, martial weapons and experience with beasts. Can either be taught or self taught but depends on the individual to succeed.
Evoker are born/created that way.
Warriors train and practice to hone martial discipline.
Paladins do everything warriors and priests do.
Death knights are corpse infused with intense necromantic magic.
So how do mages do the magic?
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They can feel leylines arcane energy and siphon from them
Is this an innate skill? Can they drain too much from leylines?
You receive a letter from an owl on your eleventh birthday inviting you to attend mage school.
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I heard goblins arenât allowed to attend that mage school though. Or use wands.
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Mages are kind of the elite in academia in WoW. You have to be pretty smart and be able to be trained by their instructors. I think thatâs about all I ever learned in game about them.
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Mages are, to put it nicely, utter turbonerds.
Just about everyone has some ability to use arcane magic, much like how most people intuitively know how to use basic math
Mages take that basic ability and study and train for years (if not decades) to get really REALLY good at it.
Being able to conjure Mana Buns is like the magical equivalent of advanced calculus: theoretically anyone can do it, but youâre probably not going to know how unless youâve studied
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Buy a hat, a fancy one, wear it. Buy robes, long ones, wear them. Buy a cane or staff, hold it. There you go.
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Oh man, I highly doubt the Mages are gonna be happy with thisâŚ
The veil can only be pulled back so far, mortal!
Itâs a combination of natural aptitude and scholarly training.
For Elves magic is a lot more natural, but for other races some just have an inclination towards it, Jaina for instance had her âmagical talents discoveredâ, but that doesnât mean one without natural inclination canât learn, itâs more that they have to be way more dedicated to the craft.
But yeah, otherwise itâs training and studying and chances magic in WoW is cast orally seeing as you need to drink things to restore mana.
The way I understand it, its -mostly- a matter of intense study and practice.
even the most basic of magical cantrips would be the equivalent of high level mathematics. while more advanced spells would start involving quantum uncertainty and other such mind-boggling concepts⌠the kinda stuff where its difficult for the layman to even understand the -concept- of whats going on, let alone actually being able to work with it.
But just because anyone âcanâ learn it, doesnât mean they have any sort of âtalentâ for it. or can really grasp the underlying concept behind how and why it works. (most people can do basic math, but how many people actually -understand- how math works? 2+2=4 and 2x2=4 but 2+0=2 while 2x0=0⌠thats simple enough, but WHY does it work that way.)
so while âin theoryâ just about anyone probably -could- learn magic, most people would never be able to realistically progress past the most basic levels so its not worth the time or investment to train them unless they have some natural talent for it.
as for the more âinnately magicalâ races, such as elves etc. I think a lot of that can be explained by culture. Look at our modern world, math is absolutely -everywhere- and the general knowledge of mathematics that even children learn these days, is far more advanced than any culture say 500 years ago would have outside the higher levels of academia. (take algebra for example, which has existed since around 500 BC. but prior to 1700 we have no record if it being taught anywhere outside of specialized high-level mathematics programs. Harvard only introduced it as part of their standard curriculum in 1786, and it wasnât until 1820 that it became part of the admissions requirements, and it wasnât until 1827 that the first states passed laws requiring it as part of a high-school program⌠these days most kids start learning it in elementary school.)
so the âmagical culturesâ are ones where the basic principles are simply taught from a very young age (and tend to be rather long-lived races). but even in those, only a small fraction of the population will really be able to âgraspâ the concepts enough to actually pursue it to a high level.
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Ogres are pretty good mages.
Easy.
They pick one at the character selection screen.
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Yep, simple. No need to complicate this
Youâre wrong in so many ways about wow classes lore yet couldnât come with the most obvious answer for the class you have doubts about
Different people tap into different sources for magic.
â For instance, Illidan as a sorceror use to rely on the Well of Eternity for magic until he asked how Rhonin (whoâd travelled back in time) acquired powers over the arcane & magic without a link to the well of eternity himself; to which Rhonin had told him âFocus.â
I believe I read somewhere others tap into the Twisting Nether although thatâs described as rather dangerous, whereas thereâs also some that are simply born with an acute gift bestowed of raw magic over-flowing through & around their very being.
As for the leylines, focus and others becoming a mage - Many study, and learn how to harness & focus it in different ways â Increasing the potential of how far they can reach & what they can do. 
Individuals who have affinity with the arcane. The concept is sort of based of Jedi order.
Itâs difficult to say the origin of it for every races. But for example for humans, the Dalaran Council gave recruiters who visited villages once a year. Newborn and kids would be examined and the affinity with arcane would mean they have the potential to become a mage.
The Dalaran recruiter would inform the parents that their child has the chance and honor to become a wizard and study in Dalaran.
And then parents makes the choice to separate from the kid or not. In theory it is considered an honor to do so.
Most of those who does it by natural means are often considered âwitch / croneâ. They do magic but itâs not quite mastered. And that is how some bad manipulation or research can generally lead to become a Warlock.
Explain how I am wrong about the others.
