I think Blizz has gone too far with this already.
Some needed to be done for gameplay like Undead/Velf Priests and even that’s just an issue for one of the specs but others like Lightforged Locks make no sense.
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Kinda hoping dracthyr get more race options for their visage…human girl and elf boy ugly. Would also love to see transmog actually show up on Dracthyr body instead of just the shoulders and belt. Took a look at how the anniversary evoker armor looked on a vulpera and I really want a vulpera visage for my dracthyr now…armor fit perfectly on a vulpera
It does, though. Individuality exists in every race, I assure you.
You speak for a lot of us, OP. I think the development team vastly underestimates how much race/class combos create fun. Both existing and future.
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I recall one Paladin’s backstory involving them starting out as a priest, but darned if I can recall details beyond them being human/male.
Honestly I find it hard to believe that they don’t know because you see the volume of change when new class/races are released.
Look at how many people rolled and/or changed to Gnome when they opened up Priests/Hunters.
I think the problem stems from a combination of scope/capacity (cost) for certain classes, especially druids, and this internal battle around lore and what is/isn’t flexible enough to adjust.
They clearly already have a pipeline for armor because you can be on any race and “view” any item in the game on that race and it appears fine. So the only real complexity is forms (Druids), Mounts (Pally), Totems (Shaman), Demon Form (DH, although I’d argue they could just leave it the same as is it now for all races), and whatever they would do for evokers.
That’s not to say this wouldn’t be costly to do but if you look at just how much content gets pushed out even within a single major patch. Trading post is a perfect example, take a few months of that content to instead do this. I love the trading post, but I’d love this more 
It’s most of them. Some of them were knights who were devoted to the light but not yet ‘priests,’ some of them were priests who trained to fight with heavy armor and weapons. They learned battle tactics and practiced for a long time under a new division of the church.
They are literally just priests who fight like warriors and knights. There is no fundamental difference in the source of their power, just in how they wield it. They use the light to augment their own strength in battle while also using it to bless and protect their allies. Priests were more typically known to be back-line healers who tended the wounded, whereas Paladins were the big heavy fighters who took up the front line and blessed their enemies’ faces with holy fire and a big fat hammer.
Oh, a couple of my favorite toons are lore contrary no no’s like Lightforged and Night Elf Warlocks… 
You speak for a lot of us, OP. I think the development team vastly underestimates how much race/class combos create fun. Both existing and future.
Controversial, but I’d be okay with them locking certain current race-class combinations and giving players free race changes.
There is a unique appeal in reasonable restrictions.
I had thought of this too, it would be fantastic! It makes me wonder about what kind of cute animal forms they would be able to take 
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Bro, we got Tauren Rogues now. We don’t even have common sense anymore. None of the things you mention matter anymore.
I know, I don’t want to be a green Darkspear, I want to be an Amani Troll…
Oh, that’s not what this thread is about? Well, it should be about that.
Which we shouldn’t. What part of that do you not get through your worm infested skull?
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But we do. Blizzard doesn’t care about lore (nor common sense for the matter) so appeals to lore (or logic) mean nothing.
I feel like Lore wise though, anyone can be a Paladin or Mage or Warlock because those types of forces Holy,Arcane,Frost,Fire,Fel,Shadow etc are all easily accessible powers.
You are not wrong. At least they do not matter to the devs.
I understand why they crossed Paladins and shamans over but it really set a bad precedent. Now we got NE Warlocks and Tauren Rogues and none of it makes sense anymore. Still I’d rather they not just keep dumping more 
on top of the 
they have already done. They probably will though. /smh
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I used to be super supportive of Paladins, Druids, Shamans and Demon Hunters for all but some of those races that would gain those classes would be really silly so without the lore and story to make it make sense I’d rather not ever see it and them stay super restricted.
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I am unliving proof that either Anyone can be a mage, or that not everyone can be a mage.
The issue isn’t “that culture doesn’t favor that class”.
The issue is the idea that no individual from a species or culture could ever find their way into a path in life that ended up with them in that class.
And after everything Azeroth and the rest of the WOW setting have been through over the last 20+ years… that’s a somewhat silly idea.
But as I said in another thread recently… we still have a setting where a PC can talk to any cross-faction or exotic individual that The Story or some quest needs them to… but can’t have a conversation with a cross-faction PC who has been traveling the universe for 20+ years.