Just let any race be any class at this point. I personally don’t think it matters anymore.
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I would love more! Especially human druids. I’m just not holding my breath that much because druid is the only class that would actually require modelling work from the developers, as each race got unique forms.
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Just to kinda bring both of you in on this question. So we know that the Emerald Dream is a requirement to be a druid, but we are now learning about the inverse of that, Ardenweld.
As we haven’t had much information given to us, could it be speculated that if you’re bonded to Ardenweld you’d also be able to become a druid? As it seems the wild forces of nature cycle between the two realms? We also see in one of the pictures something that could definitely be a World Tree, though much different than the ones we’ve seen in Azeroth.
I would also love a Thalassian Elf Druid! Blood Elves could be that race, seeing they’re already Paladins, who bend the Light to their will. Same concept about Blood Elven “Druids” bending Nature to their will.
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Blizzard doesn’t exactly have this in surplus. Or really at all, considering the mess the game is in right now.
I still think the moment you start diluting the importance of racial history and background, the more the races lose all sense of identity. Everyone becomes a homogenization or the same race with all creativity simply absent. Because if everyone can be everything, then no matter how much you might change the lore behind why they’re a certain class, all it boils down to is that they’re just like every other class now. You see it as an evolving story, I see it as a full erosion of everything that makes these races unique in the first place.
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I don’t want to be a cow or a troll druid. So much so that my druid is currently sitting in the graveyard. 10 of 10 would undelete for Vulpera or Blood Elf or even Nightborne druid.
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Respectfuly, why do you feel racial history becomes erroded because members of that race choose to explore new paths? We add to racial history every day through our actions and choices. I’ve never viewed the evolution of class introduction into various races as erosion but rather progression.
I certainly respect your position on it. But that simply isn’t how is see it at all. For example tauren were (based on racial tradition) never paladins. But I don’t feel the decision to expand paladins to that race eroded them in any way. I feel it developed them further while keeping in mind their culture.
The difference between Blood Elves and Night Elves is their use of magic. Blood Elven culture revolves around the arcane specifically, and they have little to no connection to the natural world. Consequently, Night Elves have a long history of worshipping Elune and revering nature. Giving Night Elves Mages as a class cut back on their culture variation and what made them so different from their devolved cousins, and it was a move I disagreed with.
Same can be said about Tauren Paladins. The idea of “sun druids” isn’t even built on very well. Tauren have always been about the Earthmother and the elements, and involving Paladins and Priests made little sense because they didn’t even explore the explanations behind them very well. Everything is half done and it’s diminished from what made Tauren unique.
What I love about World of Warcraft is your racial choice matters. If you’re a Blood Elf, you’re limited to these classes but that’s because of their culture. If you’re a Nightborne, your culture shaped the classes that you can be and restricts you from what you can’t because of the rich lore and history of that race. By allowing everyone to be everything, there is no specialization of a race. Everyone is the same, everyone can do everything, there’s no uniqueness. It’s very much of the idea of “If everyone is special, no one is.” You may as well remove the other races from the game because their culture clearly no longer matters. If every culture had a variation of a specialty class (warriors and hunters don’t count, imo) then their is no uniqueness in that culture, and it erodes what makes them interesting.
I can respect people’s opinions when they say they want to play a certain race and class combination. But at the end of the day, it just feels like it’s eroding the very culture that made the race unique. You’re just wearing a hollow skin with barely supported lore for the sake of allowing you to play a race you want. I dunno, it feels beyond shallow for players to not want to play a certain race for a class they want.
True, especially with how HM tauren also give praise to An’she, yet you don’t see HM paladins.
Like I keep saying, won’t happen when some combinations are physically impossible, or really just because demon hunters exist in their current state.
What?
Players lost their minds over the dinosaur forms, so no it’s not “just trolls” and KT.
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What Terranox was trying to link before.
Please Blizzard, make it happen
Not opposed to this at all. More druids would be great.
Blood Elf Druid. The dream within the dream. -sigh-
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I’m still holding out hope for data mining finding some new forms. And an announcement of new race class combinations as this is the customization xpac.
blood elf botanist!
this is another yes vote for blood elf druid
clears throat
cough Undead cough
Taliesan had a million dollar idea of class skins and Blizzard should totally run with that. Make the classes different across the races visually