Is there a class/race more attached to WoW lore than others? Or is basically all evenly distributed? I feel the NE’s and Orcs seem to have a lot of impact over the years 
A bit confused on your question, but I would say warriors are the class least attached to lore and more like the generic fantasy class, wheras classes like Druid are some of the main lore characters like Malfurion, Shaman has Thrall, Mage has Jaina, etc.
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Mechanically or in story? Humans, orcs, and night elves have the lions share of visibility. It’s hard to compete or compare then these races have classes designed specifically around their motifs. Even mage is more heavily influenced by human themes than elven.
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“Pivotal role” better?
That’s a good point… I mean I was thinking more from a story line. Who keeps messing things up or trying to make things better in our cool game
I don’t think night elves existed in Warcraft lore until WC3.
It’s all about the orcs and humans.
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Were any of the guardians / members of tirisfal non human? All of them were either half or completely.
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Ah, well in that case it’s easy to know if you count the number of zones designed around certain races. Night elves have caught major ground since Legion, but it’s always been humans and orcs with their funny sidekicks.
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“sidekicks”
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TRUE… but, then night elves became like 90% of the lore after that lol
hence the basis for “the tenuous pact between the Horde and the Alliance has all but evaporated”
I think WoW needs a tauren and dwarf xpac.
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slightly OT the two races that seem to care at all about history, aside from certain class biased history, are the pandaren and dwarves. Even if the dwarves follow the motto of “activate first, learn about later”
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I feel like shamans are probably the most “original to wow” interpretation of a class. If you want specifics, then Thrall as the representative orc/shaman was probably the beginning of Warcraft’s “the monsters aren’t always monsters” theme that has continued to this day.
Other than that, I’d say the hero classes (Death Knights, Demon Hunters, and now Evokers) are the more unique additions to the game that go beyond generic fantasy.
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Its unfortunate I relate Shamans to Captain Kirk… I have played this game too long (edit - WoW commercial back in the early days for some of you newbies :))
We were robbed of a Barrens Warfront in BFA.
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Things have shifted focus a lot over the years but originally the game started out as mostly orcs vs humans. That said, in the lore most things can be traced back to the night elves. One of them helped the demons invade which led to orcs invading later, and that basically kicked off everything we have seen since. Trolls also have their roots in a lot of wow history.
Classes are a bit harder because it’s individual characters more than the class as a whole that have impacted the story, but some of the biggest characters have been Arthas (Paladin>Death Knight), Gul’dan (Warlock), Thrall (Shaman), Illidan (Demon Hunter), Garrosh (Warrior), Varian (Warrior), Anduin (Priest/Paladin?) and honestly theres loads more I could say from pretty much all classes.