Except, not once have these “lore police” been able to provide a source on only Elves being able to be Demon Hunters. Absence of evidence not being evidence of absence and all that. Furthermore, we see the Illidari. We see the races that make up the Illidari, beyond Elves. We know that Illidan was trying to train Demon Hunters outside of Elf kind. It’s not a huge leap to make that he supposed in a couple rare cases.
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In my personal opinion, draenei and orcs are easy to add in. Both lived on and were in Outland. Kil’jaeden looks like a draenei DH in meta form. There are female draenei NPCs and a boss in Antorus that looks like they’re in meta form too. The assets are in the game, pretty much.
Easy retcon. The funny thing about lore is that once Blizzard does retcon something and make it lore, the same people protesting changes like this will be the first ones to defend said added lore. The irony.
It’s not even a retcon, since it wouldn’t contradict any established lore.
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In fact, Night Elf Demon Hunters are actually a retcon since Illidan only had Blood Elves with him when he sealed Outland away from external influence. Encountering Night Elves already on Outland during TBC was a bit of a controversy back in the day.
But they’re iconic, so rule of cool won out. As it should.
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I think they should have added nightborne and void elf DH’s during Legion as well, after the Night Hold. They could have added a short quest like they did with allied race DK’s. Walk up to Illidan and hand a quest in, with him implying you’ve been training for months and succeeded and survived the trials and rituals.
Hopefully the next expansion will find a way to add more DHs in. I don’t want to have to wait however many years it will be before Sargeras, the Legion and Illidan return before I can play another race.
That sounds like a completely legitimate thing.
Cheers! 
Very legitimate. If you miss 3 meetings you are forced to re-roll your demon hunter, its kinda like getting re-trained at work for messing up too much.
Its hard work being a demon hunter! Lots of sacrifices!
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I still have hope. It’s not alot, it’s not gonna give me a reason to wake up in the morning, but I still have a tiny shiny sliver of hope that says “One day, you won’t have to be a Night Elf”, and one day it will be answered for the gods are just.