First of all, I really like the look of the Dracthyr (though I personally prefer the visage forms), and I’m very intrigued by the Evoker class. Especially happy it’s a caster/healer, instead of tank/melee!
I totally understand the reason for locking Evoker to Dracthyr. The class was conceived based on dragon aspect power. I’d like to present a request to reconsider making Evoker the only class Dracthyr can be, however. There are many classes that could easily be taken on by a Dracthyr character, even though they haven’t had direct interactions with other denizens of Azeroth up until this point.
Mages - Norgannon blessed Malygos with arcane powers. The blue dragonflight can use frost and arcane magic. Fire mage spec can easily be handwaved as the Dracthyr using fire magic from the red or black dragonflights.
Warriors - Pretty obvious here. Smashing things with swords/maces/shields requires no special teaching.
Hunters - Dracthyr that developed close relationships with other creatures on the Dragon Isles and fight alongside them.
Rogues - Again, no special teachers required to gain the talents of stealth and subterfuge.
Druid - The green dragonflight was charged with protection of the Emerald Dream, so the step to druids is an obvious one here.
Shaman - Being a master of and communer with the elements makes sense for a dragonkin.
Paladins, priests, warlocks, monks, death knights, and demon hunters are out for various obvious reasons.
So yeah, I like the look of Dracthyr, and I like what we’ve seen of Evoker as a class so far. But I really can’t help but wish this race had other classes to play, to provide greater variety of experience, especially when the lore justifications seem (to me, at least) very simple.
Seems to me the OP was suggesting the new race could also be Mages, Warlocks, Warriors, etc… Rather than a race with only one class option, let them have multiple, including the new class.
O no, then same logic. If they were born to Dragons and had no involvement from mortal races which actively use those classes they wouldn’t have them.
Remember even if the dragons take a mortal form they are just using their dragon abilities or their natural abilities. For instance a blue dragon in a human form can use arcane magic but they aren’t technically mages.
It makes perfect sense a rare humanoid dragon race wouldn’t have the chance to develop normally seen classes yet, especially if they had no reason to adapt to them like war etc.
The impression I got was that they are effectively new creatures emerging into the world with the reawakening of the dragon isles. So it makes sense that they are just “themselves”. They have these innate powers that they fight with.
But perhaps interacting with the mortal races will unveil new paths to them.
It makes far more sense and lore progression wise to make them only the Evoker, and then progress them to more classes the next expansion as they become more spread throughout the world.
I was so hyped to race change this character (my main) until I learned that Drachthyr could only be an Evoker. Why can’t they have it like when they introduced Monks? Instead of having a Pandaren in every starting zone as done for Monks, they could add trainers from other places in Azeroth to the new starting zone.
As someone who has sworn to main a dragon if they ever became playable, it makes me sad that I now need to learn a whole new class I won’t even know if I’ll like or not.
Also, they could’ve easily made the Drachthyr a preorder bonus, but now they can’t.
I expect that as Dracthyr become more spread through Azeroth, they will both learn new paths and teach their own. I don’t have a problem with things starting this way.
Eh… I’ve honestly had enough of waiting for common sense things to be added to the game. Launching with an incomplete class list for a race doesn’t feel immersive, it feels annoying.
I’m personally reluctant to wait multiple years to be able to maybe play anything other than Evoker on a new playable race… especially when the dragonflights have been the direct sources/had direct connections to magics on Azeroth since the beginning.
They’re a mix of dragon and more mortal races. They’re not gonna have full access to dragon abilities like a full dragon. Just bits of all of them that they use as evokers.