Playing anything other than an Evoker would functionally be offering players a starting experience that has them playing as an Orc that flunked out of the Valley of Trials. Or as a Human Squire to a Knight. A Cult of the Damned necrolyte going on missions at the behest of a Death Knight. To borrow a phrase from SW:TOR, this just isn’t a game where you play as Owen Lars.
That’s not it at all. You’re the sidekick to plenty of other characters in the beginning. You get sent on side missions to bolster yourself while the heavy lifting is done by your superiors. It’s only once you’ve got some victories of your own under your belt that you’re afforded independence and titles of merit. Hell, Exile’s Reach is entirely you being the sidekick that’s proving themselves!
Exactly. Proving yourself. Which any Dracthyr who is not an Evoker failed to do, by definition.
Right, so the character couldn’t make it as an Evoker. So begins their journey as a Warrior, or Priest or such.
Which will only bring this discussion circularly if I were to repeat:
We don’t play as trash tier characters.
No, you’re mistaken. We don’t end up as ‘trash-tier’ characters. Our origins can be any manner of goofball or edgelord. Our Gilnean is stupid enough to get RIGHT NEXT to a Worgen. The Forsaken PC is CONSTANTLY bad-mouthed (or at least was when I did the starting area). Other origins can be just as awkward or stumbling.
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And we succeed and rise above. Dracthyr [other] would be defined as failing to become an Evoker. And their endgame would still have them as failed Evokers. Playing as a dragon that is too terrible at being a dragon to breath fire or fly would be a bad look.
Instead, we have dragons that are utterly confused by the idea that ‘a shield can protect you’ or ‘a polearm can attack enemies from safe distances’ or ‘a bow/gun can strike from even farther away than your breath weapons’ which, uh, is not charitable to the image of the ‘perfect soldier’.