They use arcane magic to warp and mutate nature. The blood elves made their forest a permanent spring and that’s something a druid would fight against.
And I’m not saying I’m against belf druids, I’m just having a discussion on these race/class combos.
Druids have their nature magic amplified by the Emerald Dream which elevates above simple nature spells that Harvest Witches and Quilboar can perform however becoming weaker near the Emerald Nightmare.
I would say the Nightborne do have a connection as they are consuming fruit imbued with the magic of the Emerald Dream to cure their addiction.
Enemy factions cannot count as they’re only against us by falling to this power.
That would just ruin their purpose. They turned to the void to protect their people.
No actually. They were studying the void, but were banished after being told to stop. The only reason why they transformed to who they are today is because some dreadlord captured them and used some etherals to transform them, but was only interrupted during the transformation when a drama queen that disappeared came back to rescue them. Or something like that.
They are not paladins. They are not classed as paladins.
The only way to come to that conclusion is to assume they must fit into one of the existing classes. (And that the mana is not a mistake but is intended)
The Nightborne druids existed even before the Arcan’dor tree.
Thousands of years ago, when the Highborne culture was flourishing and was just in the beginning of unraveling the mysteries of the arcane, a small group called the “Keepers” who were proto-druids, at the same time the Highborne, formed an order, to seek the knowledge, which could bring balance to both nature and the arcane magic in one grand cycle. Little did we know, that in the shadows of the arcane shield, which would protect Suramar for thousands of years, one has already achieved something, which was not common for others nor it was possible to explain to simple minds. High Botanist Tel’arn
“-Suramar owes its beauty to my blooms! I alone have mastered the delicate intertwining of magic into nature’s grand cycle.”
Tel’arn had always been captivated by plants, their adaptability, and tenacity, the ability of ordinary grass to capture the sun’s energy, the way a tree may be divided into two, or two branches grafted into one. With the power of the Nightwell, Tel’arn had changed his humanoid form into something far greater, combining itself into one vessel of Arcane, Nature, and Solar energy. Tel’arn was able to nourish plant life in Suramar, without the Sunlight.
The Riftblade don’t even have any abilities in Telogrus Rift but they could have some strange point to the Void Paladins in N’zoth’s vision of Stormwind however it mostly replaced paladin spells with void aesthetics which will ruin the argument anyway.
I will count on that and then even if it’s below true Druid magic the fruit should help them reach that power level.
…just at the time, allied races had to balance the amount of classes and the Highmountain Tauren already had Druid to counter the Lightforge having Paladin. Nightborne Druid was sacrificed for the balance of Void elves having no special classes.
Now the situation would be worse as if we made Nightborne a Druid then we would need to offer an alliance allied race a special class too-- concerning how Kul’tirans had a druid to balance Zandalari druid then we might have to offer a new druid.
You are correct but do you remember how Blood Elf Paladins started? The Blood Elves captured a Naaru ans siphoned the light, “bending the light to their will” instead serving it. It wasn’t until the Sunwell was purified that the Blood Elves freed the captured Naaru and came to serve the light as all other paladins. (Which is why Blood Elves can now have golden eye color, if they were close enough to the purified Sunwell it couldve cleansed the fel tainted hreen eyes).
Personally I would’ve liked to get my High Elf blue eyes back but I’ll take anything over green.
Not really sure we know what she is. Possibility, but kind of vague.
That botanist is not a Druid. He twisted Arcane, Nature and Solar magic into an abomination that created what he is to gain more power. He has no connection to Wild Gods, nor the Emerald Dream, nor does he do anything except twist Nature to his command.
See above with the twisting of Nature and Arcane just for power and still no connection to Wild Gods or the Dream.
I don’t remember seeing a Dwarf Druid?
Incorrect. The Naaru was stolen from them, killed and M’uru’s spirit cleansed the Sunwell, turning it into a font of Arcane and Light.
Still doesn’t make Nightborne, 10,000 years later, give two poops about the Wild Gods or Emerald Dream.
Would’ve been better to have a new Nature class than try to bs more druids into lore.
Naturalists are druids, and same title can be seen on Grimtotem Naturalists, they shapeshift into animals, meanwhile the Nightborne naturalists cast wraith, roots, thorns, and etc. Also, they have couple of mana sabers walking by, no wonder if those are shapeshiftted Nightborne.
Nightborne fought the legion and everything it had connection with, instead of giving the warlocks, they should have sticker to the lore and give us the druids.
Sooner or later it will be a reality though, right now it is just matter of time.
The Drust (and Thornspeakers) tended the Emerald Nightmare in Gol Inath and there are remains of Night Elves and Vrykul on Mechagon isle linking a connection.
Alright whatever. I’m not in the mood to argue this. Blizzard said they were probably (but not definitely) giving us all race/class combos so these debates are pointless in the grand scheme of things.
Like I said in my first post, I was just trying to have a discussion about it.
