In the announcment of the new Expansion

[Indaria-wyrmrest-accord]

People who threaten to quit because someone else wants to wear Cat Ears in game, or wants to be a certain class/race combo are ridiculous.

TAKE your football and go home then.

Also, Panda Demon Hunters would be AWESOMELY hilarious. Yes, please.

[Breakcog-proudmoore (Breakcog)]

@Mevanou-wyrmrest-accord

Edit: Also I won’t lie that part of my opinion there is influenced by the fact that KT Druids already makes a joke of a bunch of old lore so sure why not decay druids…

The common misconception is that they’re ‘death’ druids when they actually despise the death magic from the Drust. Worse for them is that the Drust has corrupted the Thornspeaker’s connection to the Emerald Dream (is important for druids) which turned Thros into a dark nightmare.

[Vixinara-wyrmrest-accord (Vixinara)]

I would like this, personally. Racial identity could be maintained/heightened by stat buffs and strong racial abilities. There is no reason that a gnome couldn’t wander off into the woods somewhere and learn the ways of the druid. I realize a lot of work would go into this, but I like the idea.

[Khronys-aerie-peak]

I don’t know what’ll grab my interest but it being 10.0, I feel t hat’s a nice number to really do something big.

[Sydda-jom-gabbar]

the only wacky race/class combo i could get down with is goblin druid because i like to imagine their druid forms basically being machines. kind of plays off what goblin shaman’s totems look like.

but i dont really want anymore race/class combo loosening. Some of the combos we have already bug me and I know im just a single person with opinions but I do care about “”“MUH IMMERSION”"" (eye roll)

some of the race/class combos we inevitably got make sense. Gnome priests, human hunters (still CANT believe they werent a thing for so long), troll druids, dwarf mages, blood elf warriors mainly.
I still cant get down with nelf mages and i’m still very much on the fence about tauren pally/priests even tho i have a cow shadow priest. Tauren pallys feel so natural and normal now but ehhh. Idk.

[Akadruid-barthilas]

@Lunaera-azgalor

There will be the ones who will be against of it, but, please. The game is 18+/- year old, and I am a lore geek on my own as well, however, at this point, restricting certain classes from certain races is just nonsense.

It makes even less sense when there are NPC’s who have a race/class combo that we cannot have, the whole "It’s not in the lore crap is just that, crap. If they have an NPC with something like an Orc Druid, than we should also be able to do it because technically that is the lore.

P.S. No, I don’t want to be an Orc Druid, but I am waiting for cross faction guilds.

[Lunaera-azgalor]

@Akadruid-barthilas

NPC with something like an Orc Druid

Nightborne druids…in the Nighthold and in the Suramar… ehhh…

[Terranox-stonemaul (Terranox)]

I too hope I can make more paladins, druids, shamans and my goblin monk. Shamans for everyone please

[Cäynä-hyjal (Cäynä)]

@Grimharrow-barthilas

No. Not all races should be able to be all classes.

Agreed but Horde does need more Druid races.

[Cäynä-hyjal (Cäynä)]

@Akadruid-barthilas

but I am waiting for cross faction guilds.

So an I.

[Vênom-sargeras]

Ummm undead paladin ?

[Akadruid-barthilas]

But we already have 4… a troll, another troll, and 2 cows.

[Truaillichte-destromath]

Agreed. I mean honestly. Can be holy priests,frost,fire mages which are natural elements.hell They even finally incoorperated hunters not long ago, so to me makes sense,could shift into those plauge bears you see in EK and such.

[Varagul-bronzebeard]

im open to that
EXCEPT FOR UNDEAD BEING PALLYS.
NO, NO, NO NO NO

[Varagul-bronzebeard]

so its dimwitted for people to not have any idea of how game development is done? i play games. not make them.
at my job, im a robot tech. i service robots that weld things.
but i wouldnt call the operators of those robots dimwitted because they dont know how to set up and keep the timing parameters so that the robots dont smack into each other.
they operate them, not maintain them.

[Cäynä-hyjal (Cäynä)]

@Akadruid-barthilas

But we already have 4… a troll, another troll, and 2 cows.

We have 2 I just want a race that isn’t a Troll or Cow. There races I hate and will not play Troll is at the top of that list followed by Gnome and Undead.

[Mevanou-wyrmrest-accord (Mevanou)]

@Breakcog-proudmoore

Worse for them is that the Drust has corrupted the Thornspeaker’s connection to the Emerald Dream (is important for druids) which turned Thros into a dark nightmare.

What connection to the Dream? They’re gilnean settlers doing hedge magic, the connection came from Ysera’s blessing (which predated the schism between the kaldorei and the remaining quel’dorei)

[Breakcog-proudmoore (Breakcog)]

@Mevanou-wyrmrest-accord

They’re gilnean settlers doing hedge magic, the connection came from Ysera’s blessing…

I think you have your wires mixed, I’m talking about the Thornspeakers.

The Harvest Witches are from Gilneas-- weirdly closer to shamanistic but supposed to be able to turn druidic when contracted with the Worgen curse. Mainly the curse amplified druidic power as it was a druidic boon.

[Mevanou-wyrmrest-accord (Mevanou)]

The drust, in that equation, would still be the ones with a lore justification for druidism, not random arathi humans

[Akadruid-barthilas]

I really am hoping they just open it up, you know with the whole first ones thing going on and the old world getting new assets, rework the whole thing to start again in some funky new timeline where we have more options.

At the very least they will 100% remove the faction barrier so at least we can play NE or KT or whatever else Alliance has and still raid with our Horde guilds.