Well you can probably replicate the breath attacks with magic. After all Mages can get Dragon Breath which is a conjured dragon head breathing fire. The wings…will take some fiddling.
I thought the light overwhelms the voice of the elements and blocks them from reaching out, and vice versa?
It’s sort of to how & why former-paladins of the Broken moved to Shamanism after losing their connection to the light, along with their personal emotions akin to the elements having a connection (Both feeling lost, and wanting to rebuild).
However it’d be cool to see questline for each race and how it justifies / fits in. Instead of just cowabunga slam the class on to the race. Flesh out the lore, worldbuilding, roleplay & whatnot, yknow?
It doesn’t block them out as far as I know. Most people that practice the Light just focus on it and what they can do with it. It’s like professional choice. You’ve mastered computer programming, why would you then try to pick up HVAC? You have to be willing to listen to hear the elements.
The proper term is Arathi.
Arathian or Stromic sounds cooler, fight me 
No it isn’t, it is Stromic.
The correct demonym for people coming from Stromgarde is “Stromic”.[34]
BE story for both Shaman and Druids!!
Tied to healing the land
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The source for that dumbery is Sean Copeland, who didn’t know that Grom killed Cenarius.
Arathi is in the zone’s damned name. It’s the adjective.
Sean’s lack of knowledge of who killed Cenarius and the zone’s name does not matter. Stromic is the canonical term for people coming from Stromgarde.
Except for where it isn’t.
They’ve been called “Arathi Highlanders” canonically.
Sean Copeland’s lack of a grasp over some of the biggest moments in Warcraft, as well as his belief that Trolls cannot understand concepts such as “erosion” without an elf teaching them, shows that his understanding of the universe is flawed at best and catastrophically maligned at worst.
Except for where it isn’t.
They’ve been called “Arathi Highlanders” canonically.
Where have they been called Arathi Highlanders?
Sean Copeland’s lack of a grasp over some of the biggest moments in Warcraft, as well as his belief that Trolls cannot understand concepts such as “erosion” without an elf teaching them, shows that his understanding of the universe is flawed at best and catastrophically maligned at worst.
Sean Copeland may have made some very poor (understating it) mistakes recently, but it still does not matter. Regardless of his decisions, his words are still canon (until those words get retconned). It especially doesn’t matter when he wasn’t even the one who named them Stromics; Chris Metzen did, he and Micky Neilson.
“Lore from Chris Metzen and Micky Neilson! Alteraci (“alterackee”), Lordaeronian, Stromic, Dalaranian, Stormwindian. BOOM.”
Yes but OTOH, the use of -i mediterranean descriptive terminations for Strom/Arathor territories is dumb and using Germanic terminations would be more coherent imho
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No lore wise druid, paladin and demon hunter would be easier. To be a shaman you have to embrace a kind of tribal lifestyle, you have to seek balance within your self and the world around you.
At least that is what was state in lore of the clans books years back. Maybe it has been retconed.
That may have been true back in Vanilla, but I don’t think the Draenei operated in any sort of tribal lifestyle.
Neither did the dwarves or the goblins for that matter.
Or the Pandaren.
Essentially it stopped being a rule from BC onward.
Well it were the broken that became shamans. ya goblins are weird, your right maybe it has change or retconned or few individuals dwarfs, dranies live that lifestyle. Hopefully it was probably retconned, Lord of the clans came out long time ago.
I’ve been suspecting that the storyline of the primalists would ultimately be what leads to race-wide shamans. That near the end of DF, they would learn the truth and be betrayed by the Incarnates and allow themselves to get absorbed back into the Alliance and Horde where that presumably came from. And so your new night elf shaman would either be an ex-primalist or the student of one.
I could see other storylines to get to where this needs to go, like night elves coming to recognize the elements as another aspect of the natural world they revere, or worgen rediscovering old earthtending or raincalling magic that used to be in the portfolio of harvest witches. But the primalist route could be much more simple and quick, and serve as an easy answer for races that simply don’t have a well-established connection to shaman practices like the gnomes, undead, or blood elves.
Vanilla content.
Voldigar references it in his videos, too.
I mean, he says that.
He isn’t a reliable source of information.
Again, if anything he says is canon, that means Grom did not kill Cenarius.
Vanilla content.
Voldigar references it in his videos, too.
Which content in Vanilla? Also, who’s Voidigar? Never heard of him before.
I mean, he says that.
He isn’t a reliable source of information.
Again, if anything he says is canon, that means Grom did not kill Cenarius.
Sean Copeland is Blizzard’s Senior Manager of Lore. Regardless of any mistakes he’s made; his words are indeed canon. Asides, Grom’s slaying of Cenarius has not been retconned - that is still canon.
And again; Sean didn’t say that, Chris Metzen and Micky Neilson did.
Apologies for a late reply to this.
If you acknowledge he’s wrong about cenarius, why are you utterly incapable of accepting that he’s wrong about Arathor - Arathi?
Might this be the dreaded rper bias??
Because, as I have said for a third time now; Sean did not say it. Chris Metzen/Micky Neilson did.