I played horde in vanilla. Came back to classic yesterday and wanted to make a human hunter for farming but there was no option for it
Correct.
Don’t know when that was added. I think it might of been Cata.
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Yeah lot of head scratching with early class restrictions.
They limited races to only 6 classes in classic and BC and I guess they thought the first 6 fit more.
Not everyone can be everything, this is just how classic wow is. Some of it makes little sense when compared to early Warcraft lore, but whatever it’s just a game.
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Wait till you get a load of how many races can be druids
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Warrior is the only class that every race has historically been able to be, I think. Anyone can just run up and hit someone in the face, after all.
Later on I think hunter also became a universal class in which any race can be, with rogue as a close second because for some reason races with hooves are just too loud to sneak.
At least with druids, it can be explained easily lore-wise. But things like gnomes not being able to have a single healing class and HUMANS not being able to be hunters is pretty mind numbing.
Well, lore is sometimes useful. But you can’t design a game entirely based on lore – that would be an awful game. Any class of Taurens could easily crush any class of Gnomes. How do you even kill an undead?
No, the game design (including class/race restrictions) comes first, then the lore explains some of it.
Why no human hunters? The lore doesn’t explain that one…
I was in the same boat when I started last September. I wanted to create my main from retail, Vorena was a gnomish priest, but gnomes can’t be priests in classic so I decided to make her a mage instead and I’m really enjoying the class.
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Blood Elves could not be warriors in TBC. That was added later, in Cataclysm.
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I believe the earlier WC range units were either mages, high elf rangers or dwarf rifleman.
Classic human’s are of Stormwind while the more woodsman type are of other settlements. Most notably Arathi.
I don’t know much about gnome lore but at a layman’s level, I thought this made a lot of sense. Gnomes are highly intelligent tinkerers, and considering all the healing classes either have some link to the Light, Nature or Elements, I assumed it reflected gnomes being some Nietzschean atheists who believe only in their own abilities and value reason above faith.
Even Warlocks and Mages rely more on intelligence inasmuch as they are manipulating otherworldly powers, as opposed to embracing them as a Priest or Shaman would.
Yes, but gnome warlocks know a ton about healing both themselves as well as their minions, not to mention soul stones. Add to that likely practical knowledge of anatomy and medicine, and that leaves no legit lore stone unturned to explain total lack of healers.
I disagree - even though Warlocks have some self-heals, they still revolve around manipulating fel energy to the caster’s advantage. Transforming soul shards into health/soulstones is almost a transactional relationship.
Compare that to Druids/Priests/Paladins/Shamans, where you need to commit yourself to a relationship with Nature/Light/Elements. In traditional games, these classes usually derived their power from Willpower/Wisdom (symbolizing their connection with their patron), whereas Wizards (Mages) and Sorcerers/Warlocks derived their power from Intelligence.
If we consider that Gnomes have no faith, it makes sense that they have no access to healing classes (since there are traditionally no Intelligence-based healers in fantasy games).
Edit: Dwarves were also unable to use magic in most traditional fantasy games, and in WoW are conspicuously unable to be Mages or Warlocks. If I recall correctly, Humans were also unable to be Rangers in early versions of most tabletop role-playing games.
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Trolls not being able to select Warlock is the biggest crime.
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Human is my BiS in retail, but in classic Human brings nothing to Hunter. No reason to want the combo.
Humans could be Hunter in Cata, where they had EMFH, so there was good reason to play a human hunter.