So ever since warcraft 3, I’ve loved the huntress/sentinel moonglaives. For years and years after WoW launched, there were posts made about them asking for them to be added to the game. They’re easily the most iconic weapon of the night elves, I would say even more so than bows (in war3, only the priestess of the moon hero unit used a bow).
Then, we finally get them added… as warglaives.
Warglaives.
A weapon only usable by demon hunters, who without a doubt are nearly as hated by night elven society as demons themselves. A weapon unusable by any other class that would be more iconic for night elves, such as hunters, priests, warriors, or druids.
I get that there have to be some limitations on weapons in the game, but wouldn’t it have been a better idea to make these things fist weapons instead? At least a fist weapon could be used/transmog’d by other classes, while still being available to demon hunters.
My dreams of recreating a night elf huntress a la warcraft 3 have been shot >.>
They should either add new Night Elf glaives as non-Warglaives, or add a Cosmetic Glaive for Night Elves only, or add a Night Elf Racial that allows all Night Elves to equip glaives.
I’d say hunters too, but they went and screwed survival by making it 2h only.
All they need to do is make a moonglaive that’s a fist weapon (there are already plenty of fist weapons that look like warglaives anyways, including the legendary from illidan that warriors/rogues/etc. can equip).
This might’ve happened before Legion, but you can rest assured that moving forward (after Legion) anything that is classified as a glaive is most likely going to be DH only. They created a class after an iconic Warcraft boss that uses those weapons, and built up an entire mythos around him – that’s a lot of exclusivity, and the glaives are as iconic a weapon as the demon hunter is now as a class.
If it’s any consolation, Survival Hunters have an ability named “Chakrams” that used to be called “Glaive Toss”, in which they throw two Night Elf Glaives at the enemy.
Except the Moonglaive was a Sentinel weapon and it’s an insult to all Nelfs to watch a DH walk around with one. They aren’t the same as a warglaive and Blizz should know better. They better not do this.
Tradition set by WC3 or is this another case of some novel that was a tie-in to the game, that NEs consider canon law and trace back their silly complaints?
I don’t think it’s bad so much as trying to keep some things separate. Then again, until NEs get their heritage armor – probably going to be the last round of it, with humans/undead/orcs – this is kind of a moot point. If NE heritage armor comes around and the moonglaive isn’t a part of it, then they’d have a legitimate concern – since, apparently, the moonglaive is so iconic to the NE identity.
