Let’s just continue to ignore Mag’har, whose society was shaped by being supplied with goblin technology; undead, who build their own siege weapons and concoct deadly biological weapons; blood elves and nightborne, who build arcane- and blood-powered constructs; and earthen, who also have an engineering corps and build their own mechs.
This is the problem with the proposed tinker race restrictions: they close the door to some of the most advanced races, but open it to a race that’s about as advanced as the tauren (who at least have functioning elevators in their city), based on flimsy arguments like “their models are based on goblins” or “the other races would be too much clutter when they’re in their mech”.
Orgrimmar is absolutely not a technological marvel on the level of Gnomeregan, Mechagon, or the Undermine.
Show me where all this took place, because I’m looking at the race’s Warcraft Wiki page and it says nothing about engineering, only that they have a talent for alchemy.
I did, just like I’ve played through the majority of post-Cataclysm stories. The sheer arrogance you have to suggest otherwise speaks volumes, mainly because I’ve long been the one to call out when people try to rewrite what happened there and/or use the events as a basis for their conspiracy theories.
A tinker, as defined by the people demanding its addition as a class, is someone who fights using robots, explosives, flamethrowers, energy weapons, etc. There are plenty of examples of gnomes and goblins doing that, not so much for vulpera.
So it’s settled, a tinker class should be open to every race instead of a handful that would tank its popularity, one of which would need to have its culture rewritten.
we can only hope.