Ohhhh, so a goblin shaman is negotiating for power, not for or with gold. I never understood why the elements would want gold in exchange for power, but now I see I was thinking of it the wrong way.
Thanks for posting this, it makes a lot of sense. I mostly play Alliance as you can see, lol.
NO
Blood elf druids
1.) Night Elf Paladin - Easy…there’s a Night Elf Paladin in the Legion Class Order Hall.
2.) Blood Elf Druid and/or Shaman - The lore has been there, to support Thalassian Elf Druids and Shamen, since the RTS game of Warcraft 2. They’d be just as much a Farstrider as the Hunters are.
3.) Lightforged Draenei/Worgen/Goblin Monk - Since literally everyone else can be this class.
4.) Worgen Shaman and/or Paladin - There is a Worgen Shaman NPC in Ashenvale, who is a quest-giver, but only appears if you are an Alliance character. The NPC’s in that area are replaced by Horde NPC’s if you are a Horde character. Worgen Paladin makes sense, because they were probably once Paladins before the Worgen Curse afflicted the Gilnean Humans.
Any others that you can think of that make sense?
See, with the Monks, I do understand the logic for those that cannot access the class. Worgen are cursed. Goblins are inherently greedy. Lightforged are zealots. There is no potential for inner peace in those cases.
But then again, less-logical things are playable.
Ones I’d like to see that make sense in lore and not because “Lawl battle pet droods be dorble squee!!!”? Thought ya’d never ask!
The way I see it with current lore the only race class combos left are
Night elf paladin: legion paladin class story
Worgen paladin: hearthstone sheds some light on this, plus the playable faction of worgen are light worshippers technically.
Kul Tiran paladin: though not as prevalent, some Kul tirans worship the light as well
Worgen monk: if an undead can achieve inner peace, why not a worgen?
Draenei rogue: if a race can be a hunter, they can be sneaky, hooves or not (actual hunting not pet taming hunting)
Lightforged Monks: I highly doubt they can’t achieve inner peace
Lightforged rogue: see draenei
Tauren rogue: the big meme, see Draenei rogue for my reasons why tauren should have this class
Highmountain rogue: see Tauren
Goblin monk: doubt greedy gobbos can’t find inner peace
Stretch classes:
Dwarf druid: this one comes more from the wildhammer who seem more in touch with nature, but it’s a bit of a stretch and likely to not happen
Tauren mage: with basically all their allies learning the ways of the arcane, don’t see why the Tauren wouldn’t dabble, again a bit of a stretch
Highmountain mage: see Tauren
That’s about it as far as I can see . . .
Let every race be every class. Screw this “make sense” idea it’s a fantasy video game.
Though if you have to “but the lore” it up:
Demon Hunter: There should have been Orc and Draenei Demon Hunters in Legion, and there still should be now. It isn’t a leap to suggest the Illidari attracted Orc and Draenei followers.
Druid: Pandaren. It gels with their worldview and Pandaren Druid forms make me giddy just thinking about them.
No Highmountain Warlocks? Always seemed off to me that we have an entire tribe representing the class, but we can’t play as them. Makes just as much sense as a few “leftover” Orc Warlocks.
It’s really a matter of isolation, as from what we see all the highmountain Blood totem warlocks were firmly in the The legion’s pocket, and those blood totem we see who left their mad kinsmen did not bring the fel with them. This to me atleast indicates that highmountain practitioners of the fel died out with the bulk of the blood totems. I could be wrong about this but again it’s what we’ve seen story wise. Blizzard could easily come out tomorrow and say some bloodtotem who left took up the practice, but for now the highmountain seem to hate any corruptive magical influence.
Same story for Orcs. Yet we’ve had Warlocks for 16 years.
Still waiting on blood elf druids. Warcraft 2 the elves of Quel’Thalas sent rangers, mages, and druids to aid the alliance of Lordaeron. Just waiting on those druidic forces to come back to us… It sure has been awhile.
Orcs didn’t really purge their warlocks until Garrosh ousted everyone from Orgrimmar then shouted to the world “Come at me bro!”
The bloodtotem that embraced the fel became the feltotem, no feltotem rejoined the rest of highmountain to our knowledge, and the bloodtotem that did rejected the use of fel energy, hence no warlocks.
The orcs meanwhile had warlocks in every clan by the end, it had kinda become apart of them, and now their outlook on warlocks is akin to humans . . . namely disgust.
Thrall had a ban on Warlocks since the very founding of Orgrimmar. It was (is?) a pretty key questline in the early Horde leveling experience, the first time you get to interact with him directly, when you’re investigating a coven that seems to have cropped up.
Warlocks are kinda banned everywhere, that’s why most warlock trainers are hold up in the darkest parts of a city or town (basements, caves, ect) as well as why most folk don’t shout “I consort with demons!” from the rooftops or summon their imp buddy or succubus waifu in the middle of town (players don’t count, cause we’re players shrug)
That said warlocks never existed within Highmountain until the bloodtotem joined up with the legion because they hate outsiders so much (kinda ironic to team up with the legion just so some non-highmountain doesn’t touch your mallet and walk on your rocks)
Now that the feltotem are dead and a remaining bloodtotem never embraced the fel, it’s be odd for warlocks to pop up there, what with the only ones who did scattered and or dead.
But again, you can say literally the same thing about Orcs. Pretty much verbatim, just switching out Orc for Highmountain. They “never existed” until the Legion came around with their offer. Then the Legion was defeated. And yet, a few still linger.
And I do recall this being a bit of a controversy when it was announced, by the way.
As do I, never got it personally . . . always made sense to me because I was under the impression that the bloodtotem as a tribe were wiped out (their spot on the totem taken by the stonedark drogbar) with not enough refugees to reform the tribe, doubt any of them were of caster stock (druids included) . . . then again they made an entire allied race out of “a handful of people” so ya never know.
Warlocks are an interesting lot. They are pretty much always frowned upon by the general populace and, like you said, practice their ways underground and hidden. That strikes me as not being part of a races culture which is so often cited by Blizz for why a race can’t be a particular class.
WoW has been around for 15 years and our characters are addressed numerous times as the hero. Removing class restrictions would allow characters to fully achieve that hero status as they shouldn’t be held back by cultural restrictions.
Highmountain warlocks? Well I guess there’s Feltotem. Give them glowy antlers and I’m down.
My big picks:
-Draenei rogue (Rangari)
-Tauren rogue (Outlaws)
-Zandalari warlock (which they really should have had instead of monk)
-Pandaren druid (through August Celestials)
When they made every race be able to be a DK they kinda opened a path to have what I want which is every race can be every class. Undead Paladins baby!
I talked about this in another thread. But.
But it’s also important to bring up NPC’s that have Race/Class combo’s that players don’t have available. Because it proves that these combinations are possible. It’s just the dev team hasn’t made them available yet
*Hearthstone cards can at times not be considered canon. With stuff like Undead Anduin. But for stuff like NPC’s I think expanding on their lore to be canon could be interesting
**The reason Draenei have Shamanism is because of their Broken forms being heavily interested in it, and the Feralfen Druids are also ancestors of the Draenei
There’s even currently an Orc Priest in the new starting zone for Horde side players.
New players who may want to dig deeper into these options would see this and realize that Orc Priests aren’t actually playable. That option is limited only to Mag’har Orcs. (Which new players won’t have available to them immediately)
Which may just bring up confusion as to why there’s only one Orc Priest
Again, at this point. Like, yeah there are some more oddball picks like Draenei Druids and Blood Elf Shaman that I don’t see coming in unless the writing team goes ham on writing lore for why they exist.
But there are a few that already have established lore (Like the Rangari) in the game that feel like they should’ve already been included.
Hell, I still find it weird that it took Humans until Cataclysm to be able to play as Hunters. Like, at that point, what sort of lore is really holding them back?
Warriors, Hunters, and Monks feel like they should just be available to every race, since anyone can learn it with enough effort and practice.
(Hell, the Nightborne who were walled off from everyone else in the world are out in a courtyard post allied race recruitment showing that they’re learning how to become Monks right then and there)