I assume Shaman are true neutral since they just keep the elements in harmony, and aren’t affiliated with any school in Cosmology.
All Classes: Chaotic Neutral.
Literally everyone just does what they want.
You’re telling me the Demon Hunters is Northrend have the ability to wear shirts and they don’t?
Who would wear a shirt when they have those sweet tats?
This. Unless you’re playing D&D, where a paladin has to be lawful good, unless he’s an Oath Breaker, then lawful evil. It’s up to the character, really.
However…
If we were to go by the D&D guidelines for what is typical for classes, I would go by this (D&D closest classes in parentheses for comparison):
- Death Knight (wizard, necromancer archetype): Lawful evil, possibly chaotic evil
- Demon Hunter (n/a): Chaotic Neutral; does not fight for good or evil, fights for vengeance and protection of the homeland using any means necessary
- Druid (Druid): Neutral Neutral, believes in the balance of nature
- Hunter (Ranger): Neutral, possibly neutral good.
- Mage (sorcerer): Chaotic neutral
- Monk (Monk): Lawful neutral/Lawful good
- Paladin (Paladin): Lawful good, possibly neutral good (such as with the vengeance archetype)
- Priest (Cleric): Lawful good/neutral good
- Rogue (Rogue): Chaotic neutral; self-serving
- Shaman (Wild Magic Sorcerer|Druid): Chaotic Neutral | Neutral
- Warlock (Warlock) - Chaotic Evil (I’m working on a 5e home brew warlock where I have a Solar patron instead of a Fiend patron - same spells and abilities, but with good flavor
) - Warrior (Barbarian/Fighter) : Either chaotic neutral or lawful neutral
It really depends on your character’s background and how you play it. You could play a rogue as a spy working to tear down an evil enemy, and RP it as lawful good if you wanted.
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Oh that’s been thrown out ages ago
It’s still the guideline. I had a friend play a chaotic paladin to great effect.
True. My fav lately has been Fjord from Critical Role. Travis Willingham swore he was lawful good but almost no one in the group believed him lol. They were focusing more on the brief moments where he made some really strange ( but still in character ) choices. Like creating a specter, and even summoning a demon. Buuuuut the handbook says Lawful Good “Can be counted on to do the right thing as expected by society”
I was still quite surprised at first when I ran Rosenivy thru multiple alignment quizzes. He kept getting Lawful Evil. Then I refreshed my memory on Sindorei culture and had a “Oh thaaaaaaaaaaaat explains it” moment lol.
My favorite D&D character I ever played was a chaotic neutral (sometimes almost chaotic evil) monk. That dude loved to get into fights and kills stuff for funsies. Or money. Or when he’s getting paid. Or if they’re bothering him. Or if there’s a girl involved. Mostly when he was gettin paid.
He was a Jayne Cobb D&D monk.
My fav most developed character is a true neutral Tiefling named Preacher. The only thing keeping him from going full good is just trauma. But he’s not vile.
He was a arcane trickster rogue multiclassed later with Celestial Warlock. His patron he believed was Boldrei in this homebrewed setting that included her. But unknown to him the patron was really his Incubus father pretending to be a celestial for his own goals. Long story, nothing gross or anything. He just wanted his son back. That’s the easy and short explanation lol. Hints to this was sometimes his stronger healing spells would leave small burn scars. Or sometimes Preacher’s shadow would move, something he never witnessed himself.
From a DnD perspective:
Lawful Good: Holy/Disc Priest, Paladin
Neutral Good: Mage
Chaotic Good: Hunter, Warrior
True Neutral: Druid, Monk, Shaman
Chaotic Neutral: Rogue
Lawful Evil: Warlock, Demon Hunter
Neutral Evil: Death Knight
Chaotic Evil: Shadow Priest
As a warrior this meme sums up my motivations
I can’t find the comic / meme that did this but I like to imagine the warriors out there are just working out on some gym equipment to bulk up their arms. And they’re just “IM GONNA BE SO GOOD AT HUGGING”
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Night Elf anything is evil due to murdering innocent animals within Teldrassil.
I guess it was karma what happened next and why Elune pranked Night Elves in the end. 
We are kill for loot.
Not much good going on here.
I feel like blindly labeling each class with an alignment is discounting racial identity, a blood knight is VERY VERY VERY different than a knight of the silver hand.
and that’s putting the very flawed nature of the alignment system aside. What law are we defining “lawful” by? orcish law? forsaken? human?
What’s good to one culture might be anathema to another.
To mag’har orcs the light is evil and the reason their world is gone, to most of the world it’s good and a source of hope and strength.
Fel helped the blood elves survive after the sunwell was corrupted, so they’re far more tolerant of warlocks than the draenei whose world was consumed by it.
A SI7 rogue is a protector of stormwind and humanity, a sentinel rogue is a force of nature that keeps the forests safe, but other races rogues might be seen as the dregs of society, cheaters and scoundrels.
No class can be defined by a single alignment - except maybe druids because for the most part they’re the same across all races.
and none of that is counting how players choose to personally roleplay their characters motivations.
I don’t believe this has been a thing for a little while, now they just have to follow the tenets of their oath. Though realistically you’d have a hard time justifying that oath of redemption subclass on your chaotic evil character.
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I’d have it more neutral. I mean back in the day you kind of had to take the satyr quest he sets up for bad kills. It was xp and rep you couldn’t pass up imo.
Even in classic/tbc I redid this quest knowing how it runs out. Elune may be the NE goddess but if she won’t give out the xp/rewards a night elf has to do what what a night elf has to do.
Also in the lore for druids at least this need is covered. Part of the lore of feral is sometimes you have to thin out the herd. Too many deer is bad. Too much of anything is bad. So…so feral works down some of that excess population as it were.
Some classes would have little bearing on morality, I think. Several do not fit neatly into a traditional alignment system.
For example, I would consider this character neutral-good and my mage chaotic-good despite what I am about to list.
That being said…
Neutral
Warrior, Mage, Hunter, Rogue, Monk
Good
Paladin, Priest, Druid, Shaman
Evil
Death Knight, Warlock, Demon Hunter (?)
Lawful
Paladin, Monk, Death Knight
Chaotic
Demon Hunter, Warlock, Rogue
I like alignment - it’s always fun to discuss.
Of course, it’s a general guide. There will always be outliers based on personal preference.
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