That is the precedence they’ve set ingame, if the basis of your opinion is blizzard has no need for improving their storytelling, do you mind sharing why? Instead of just contributing useless phrases to a conversation like “there is no need for it”?
You assume more classes opened up = better story telling. No, it isn’t. Like red draenei, lightforged warlocks, etc.
And Demon Hunters are still playable when as a class, there hasn’t been anyone new.
It’s bad gameplay wise to have such exclusivity.
Relating class availability to the story is better storytelling.
But you seem to want storytelling elements to be removed in the name of better gameplay? So your example of how they handled lightforged warlocks is perfect for you.
I think the phrase, “you either die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain.” works perfectly here for WOW in general…
This has never been the case for wow before, and it’s better not to start now. It’s the same reason why undead priests can be disc or holy.
Hamfisted justification to placate player base. Should not have happened.
so what you’re saying is you have no individual opinion other than being a shill for how blizzard handles storytelling?
No, I’d rather Lightforged warlocks never happened, red Draenei too. But limited time race/class combos are something to be avoided in name of gameplay.
Source for this? The island is literally filled with mechanical fauna.
One word: Ardenweald.
Forsaken priests can be Disc and Holy because the Light isn’t as restrictive as Human Male Paladins want it to be.
It doesn’t care who or what you are. Just that you have strong convictions.
That’s the lore. That’s been the lore since classic.
We don’t have any lore preventing Forsaken Paladins from existing. Just angry HMPs who don’t want it to happen.
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Bro, transformers? Hello? That sounds so cool too.
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I agree. Blizzard was regularly making updates to do away with the race & class restrictions during dragon flight. It seems that has taken a backseat for now with the latest content updates.
No, lore literally was that the only reason forsaken could be disc/ holy is because of gameplay reasons.
Tell that to the genuinely shocking number of NPC undead paladins.
It’s actually kinda nuts how many there are.
One?
Zeliek.
there really isn’t.
class lore is already contrived at best and barely makes any sense as it is.
A worg can be a priest but not pally
the playable worg race, which are strictly Gilnean citizens during the fall of Gilneas could be Deathknights back in Cata, etc.
“class lore” is just a convenient excuse to keep the restrictions.
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Zeliek, a couple dozen undead Scarlets in the plaugelands, a bunch of undead Argents in Icecrown, a fel powered ghost night elf in the order hall from legion.
Where?
And being part of the faction doesn’t make them a paladin.
Undead Scarlets were a cata thing, when the lore was decided was vanilla. And, it involves Dreadlord demon magic.
Worgen DKs are escapees from Arugal’s Shadowfang experiments. They were turned into worgen, and later DKs, prior to the fall of Gilneas.
If you play a Worgen DK, the starter quests actually go out of the way to clarify that.
When were undead druids added?