Yes they did, blizzard said leftover blood totem joined the horde. This is reflected with the red warpaints and red trinkets. Those are representing bloodtotem. The blue the river tribe, and the green the eagle tribes.
Mayla Highmountain looks like she has red warpaint, but that could also be because for the Highmountain Tauren, the paint can also show rank within the tribe.
Blizard might have said such, but I’d at least like to see a bloodtotem among the Horde before saying for sure.
They are in highmountain rn. They even make jokes of not taking the fel. The rare was of the blood totem clan. The feltotem didn’t join the horde, but they could have easily done so like the felborne nightborne warlocks.
They could easily right them back in to rejoin the highmountain and add feltotem customizations and warlock/demonhunter for them for example.
If you talk to some of the highmountain npcs you see they rejoined the highmountain after the events in Legion rn when they became an allied race.
Bloodtotem imo would also fit outlaw rogues from there tribe philosophies imo. They are similar to grimtotem in there rowdiness. The highmountain leather set also has tons of daggers on it, a great missed oppurtunity for blizz to add highmountain rogues.
Just make them make sense and if you need to bend or break the lore for them or find that one npc that justifies the class, maybe just leave it alone.
Also invisible cows are silly.
There was a stealth animation in classic for Taurens in certain quests.
And a silly it t’was
This is a fantasy videogame. Compared to real life, all invisibility is equally silly.
Kul Tirans are as large as Taurens. They can be rogues.
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A fantasy setting, not necessarily a comedic fantasy setting. At least in respect to the reasons for the class/race combos, minus goblin shamans perhaps.
KT rogues are also silly, but at least when they walk around they wouldn’t have hooves cloppin’ around lul like Draenei.
The fact is that lore always follows gameplay decisions by devs. They make a change that is incompatible with previous lore, and they retcon it.
Well let me know when cows and space cows either aren’t giants or don’t have hooves, which I’m sure will be a “lore reveal” in the next xpac’s intro.
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Most of the underhanded Tauren were ousted with Magatha, the Grimtotem that stayed behind are generally not that sort of temperament. I seriously do not see these sorts of culture shifts happening at all, without something absolutely drastic. (nor would I generally approve of such, as it would be extremely counter to Tauren culture as it has been well established)
The Bloodtotem that joined the horde are the types that saw what dabbling in fel did to their brethren, I seriously doubt any of them would dabble in darker arts.
It’s also not a factor of bravery. Tauren just aren’t (In general) stupid enough to dabble in dark arts that generally cost more than they provide.
After seeing their brethren literally die injesting demon blood, and the ones that survived completely got consumed by “power” and turned on their own? You think people will follow that example after they were all cut down? I’d be very surprised if there is any Feltotems left, they were basically exterminated due to their alliance with the legion and them actively working with them.
As I said, outside of a massive cultural shock that would feel extremely out of place, I seriously doubt Tauren culture would adopt these sorts of practices. The closest thing that could remotely be possible is a rogue. Doesn’t mean it’s plausible to me, just that it’s far more likely than the other options.
Tauren just are not the race if you want something underhanded or shadey. It’s also why we do not have mages. Tauren do not like those sorts of magic. They are nature and light based, because of the deeply rooted religious followings they have.
Oh that’s why we have Tauren priests lmfao. Maghar priests!?
Lore is made up by blizz. Lore means nothing
There was a time that I would have loved to see their take on undead druid.
With all of the shotty and unfinished work lately… Nevermind.
ah yes, nothing screams variety like, locking a class to 7 races (3 only available to alliance and 4 to horde) (oh and the vast majority are night elves regardless)
There’s so much flavour in seeing another night elf druid for the 1800 trillionth time, so bold and original.
Tauren’s are supposed to be about 3 feet taller in game than they are, according to WC3 and out of game lore, but we’re stunted for gameplay reasons (IE doors and camera) but I see and agree with your point.
WoW’s only rule for this seems to be:
Hooves = No rogue
100% agree, but then we also have the Grimtotem texture skin, and I think they would be ok with it… though I think lorewise only very few Grimtotem still live in Thunder Bluff.
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That is any race. We already see Tauren pirates. Dark shaman. Yaungol also are darker sides of tauren, they would be good fire mages, destruction warlocks, and rogues naturally for example should Yaungol ever join the horde.
The Taunka have shamans as dark shamans, they would fit frost mages, and been long enough in the horde to even use dark magics warlocks use in northrend.
Should grimtotem rejoin the horde they already fill that niche of bad tauren. Grimtotem tattoos would be nice. Rogue and warlock class would be fun imo. I hope blizz uses that fan art and make stories of grimtotem warlocks.
Highmountain bloodtotem that dabbled in fel are feltotem. They just have to express desire in joining the horde to save Azeroth, honestly. That can open them up to warlocks, rogues, mages - which tauren should already have imo with frost and fire mages and demonhunters if they say, oh wow feltotem could handle demons. The feltotem also made the demonhunter joke so it would be a nice callback to that and actually make them demonhunters.
Note a quarter of the grimtotem population stayed horde. Enough of them could easily fill a rogue niche imo. They are taught to kill in any way possible, they don’t really play fair which rogues don’t do either (like cheapshot). If any tauren study fel it would be grimtotem or like the blood totem already did. Your character would be like any other warlock race that wants to fight fire with fel fire.
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We need human Shamans too! Transmogs look so horrible on pandas, goats, furries and fat humans
The Yaungol are also mostly all dead because they tried to fight the horde/alliance along side their supposed god in pandaria… so again… your mentioning races / sub species that basically don’t exist anymore because they were our enemies, and the alliance and horde are quite good at removing enemies.
I would love if there was yaungols around still, however I highly doubt it, and the ones that might still be around would likely be like the mogu we found. Not the same as their warmongering brethren that threw themselvse at the horde / alliance in MOP.
Taunka don’t have dark shamans. They have different tradition with their shaman than Mulgore tauren do, but they aren’t dark shamans. That’s a massive stretch. Nor do I see them using warlock magic at all. (Also this assumes Blizzard remembers Taunka even exist, which is a bold assumption at this point)
Grimtotem split into two factions, the snakes that sided with magatha and were driven out (No, I will not accept them back) and the ones that stayed with the horde and drove their own brethren out for being snakes, so I highly doubt they themselves would fill any underhanded or non-honorable viewing positions as they literally cast out their own brethren for being snakes.
The feltotem are dead, and the bloodtotems, as I said before, are not likely to be dumb enough to dabble back into the same magics that literally killed 90% of their tribe. (50% of those deaths before they even got the power). So again… no Feltotems left to fill warlock or demon hunter positions.
These shifts just again, are not going to happen without Blizzard Retconning something.
Tauren are -not- the race to play if you want to play something dark-aligned or shady.
There are plenty of other races to play rogue or warlocks or demon hunters on, the Tauren just simply are not that race. Nor should they be.