In your opinion, what is the most thematically “fitting” race/class combination in the game?
Do you immediately go to more classic combinations like Dwarf Warrior, Night Elf Hunter, Vulpera Warlock, and Tauren Shaman?
Or do you gravitate towards more contemporary iconic combinations like Mechagnome Monk, Lightforged Draenei Paladin, Pandaren Death Knight, and Void Elf Shadow Priest?
What race/class combinations never fail to make you nod your head and say, “Right on.”? Which do you think are the most appropriate and memorable?
What is it about the combination that appeals to you?
Well sure but I mean I totally get why night elves and Tauren would choose the place with gargoyles and castles instead of a forest where their nature gods go to be reborn
Night Elf Demon Hunter. Nightborne Mage would be a close followup.
Even if I don’t RP, I do want my character/class combination to “feel” like it belongs in the Warcraft Universe, even if I have to make up my own head cannon to explain it. So long as the head cannon sounds reasonable, I have a much easier time enjoying the character.
Vulpera Rogue, Night Elf Druid, Orc Warrior, Draenei/Lightforged Paladin, etc. When I’m unfamiliar with other people’s “headcannon”, race/class combinations that “make sense” (lore-wise) feel pretty good.
Otherwise, I’m personally of the opinion that all races should be opened up for all classes. Lore-wise, there’s no reason this couldn’t be the case now.
Honestly, I feel like there are some archetypical class OTPs.
Humans are a generic malleable race that can easily fit everything from warrior to priest and look like it belongs, while races like dwarves aught not be caught casting lest their beard fall straight off.
Then there’s orcs, the classical look of ‘hit thing hard with larger thing’ where I feel it’s nearly sacrilege to play a caster as one but adversely, trolls, gnomes, and goblins feel like casters and rogues to me.
Undead rightfully have a meme status as rogue, and ‘undead male rogue energy’ is a palpable thing, imo.
Elves are a weird bag, the males generally look like muscle laden hunks and arguably have one of the weirdest casting animations (forehead casting looks super weird in nelf’s case) but females models have pretty good animations both melee and caster-wise, so it fits in that case.
