I’m genuinely fed up with this nonsensical discussion. The idea that every race can suddenly pick up any class is absurd. Many of these “classes” are more akin to religions or deeply rooted cultural practices. And no, a few token quests won’t suffice to explain why Blood Elves suddenly commune with the elements as shamans or why Gnomes can now shapeshift into bears. It’s the equivalent of some weeb moving to Japan and thinking they can become a samurai overnight—utterly disrespectful and out of touch.
Imagine moving to Spain from middle America and expecting to be ordained as a priest. It’s laughable. In real life, you can’t just decide to be a “tribal cop” unless you’re actually from that tribe. But funny how the Twitter and Reddit crowd won’t call preserving culture supremacy, yet they’ll clamor for their cutesy Gnome Druids for a quick laugh and then abandon the character altogether.
Lore is already hanging by a thread, and I don’t need a cringe questline about how Undead suddenly have a spiritual awakening and join the Cenarion Circle because they feel guilty about burning down a tree. I don’t care about Undead Paladins, Orc Paladins, or Gnomes “finding the Light.” It’s stale.
If Blizzard pushes this through, I swear, I’ll make all my characters Gnomes and Goblins with the most obnoxious names, hairstyles, and transmogs. I’ll spam toys everywhere I go. I’ll roll every ridiculous race/class combo possible—a Gnome Evoker, Goblin Holy Paladin, Goblin Bear Tank, Undead Resto Druid—all of it just to forever break immersion.
Stop making insensitive irl comparisons, and learn the difference between closed and open traditions. Literally none of the religions in WoW are closed traditions.
meh…its a video game. I play it to enjoy myself. more options = more fun for me.
Bring on all races, all classes and dont even tell me why its happening. Just do it.
Players are always summarized in generic terms like “adventurers.” In terms of the lore, players barely exist so opening all races to all classes is fine, in my opinion.
It’s more an issue of balance with racials more than anything lol.
In my humble opinion this all races and classes is popular for the same reason it is in 5th edition D&D, because you are the hero or what not.
Ive given up on being agianst this. Its what a loud portion of the gamers want.
Personally i think wow would have always been better if for example. You dont have a warrior class, but humans had footmen and orcs had grunts as a class.
You could probably say the Cenarion Circle is closed. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t other ways to be druids. They literally did this with Tauren Paladins. They get their power another way and gameplay-wise it still translates to that class.
I am more or less fine with the analogy, I just don’t think it goes where the OP wants it to.
It’s like saying you can’t be a priest because you’re not a Catholic.
Well, that was the original intent with some classes, it’s why priests had racials in classic, to preserve identity. to show a priest was a different thing in every culture. now they’re more or less like, meh, everyone is a generic version of said class.
Very true. I never got behind the everything for everyone push. When everyone can be a pally and no differences exist, i feel pally lore gets hurt because everyone is just a human pally.
