Tauren Rogues: A Mistake In the Making

[Anorave-moon-guard (Anorave)]

Just gonna point out the fact that if they can stealth as survival hunters, then they can stealth as rogues.

[Tridiak-barthilas (Tridiak)]

From a Gnome’s point of view humans and orcs are too big to be rogues.
They are still figuring out how they manage to be stealthy for their size.

[Brahmina-khadgar (Brahmina)]

@Arthurie-bleeding-hollow

Poison Brewing – Cows can’t use herbs to brew poisons if they’re eating them and chewing cud.

Funny. I’m an alchemist because of my herbing racial.

[Diamonds-icecrown]

Hey if they can shoehorn “Dranei Deathknights” into the lore… anything is possible including Minotaurs with stealth booties on their hooves.

[Zèlina-aerie-peak]

@Xorno-illidan

A bull in a china store.

About to be a bull in the Hall of Shadows next week

[Tikzii-wyrmrest-accord]

accidentally read the title as Tauren Rogues: A mistake in the milking.

[Calistrian-garrosh]

I do think it’s a rather weird decision…

[Motorz-emerald-dream]

@Arthurie-bleeding-hollow

Taurens talk too much – This isn’t Hearthstone. What is a rogue without secrets. Have you met a tauren player? They never shut up. You let a tauren be a rogue and next thing you know they’ll be telling everyone how Secret Technique works. Most rogues don’t even know how Secret Technique works, that’s how secret it is.

There are individuals in each race that do not conform to racial norms. There is plenty of room for a quiet Tauren who likes to backstab others or attack from the shadows. I don’t really see any problem.

[Snozberry-malganis]

@Arthurie-bleeding-hollow

Most rogues don’t even know how Secret Technique works, that’s how secret it is.

Literally died here

[Zerde-sargeras (Zerde)]

Just assume all the tauren rouges you meet are Outlaw rogues. Problem solved.

[Ambius-wyrmrest-accord]

It’s always been my personal policy to hold in low regard the logic of those that argue for realism in a fictional fantasy world full of magic.

[Swarf-proudmoore]

@Arthurie-bleeding-hollow

I know that the current devs don’t care

Period.  

[Carhagen-moon-guard (Carhagen)]

@Arthurie-bleeding-hollow

Lore - Unlike mages and priests which represent more broad caster archetypes, the warcraft rogue has unique lore and story that just doesn’t mesh with certain races (High Mountain Tauren/Smooth Horn Tauren). It’s like opening Hunters Death Knights Monks Demon Hunters to every race. It just doesn’t fit current lore.

Actually it kind of does. Grimtotem exist, and a portion of their number have joined the Tauren as a whole, having done so after Magatha used poison on Garrosh’s blade to ensure that Cairne would die in the Mak’gora between the two. The Grimtotem consist of outlaw/thug type characters who fit the Rogue class quite well.

@Arthurie-bleeding-hollow

Realism - At some point we need to maintain some realism for players suspension of disbelief. I know what you’re thinking ‘oh god he’s going to bring up the hooves’. No, anyone with eyes can see satyrs stealthing around since the RTS. The problem with tauren rogues not making sense is they have two toe fingers on each hand. They can’t properly grip a dagger like that. Their going to be back stabbing and disarming themselves every other stab.

This entire argument falls flat, because blacksmiths would design weapons specifically for the hand of their wielders. So a Tauren who used daggers would have those daggers specifically designed for his hands, meaning he’d have no issue holding them.

@Arthurie-bleeding-hollow

Noise – Have you been to Thunderbluff? How are they suppose to stealth around when all your hearing is that bell ringing every step?

??

Tauren don’t wear cowbells. The only noise they’d potentially make is the sound of their hooves, but that only applies if they were shod, meaning, wearing metal shoes on their hooves. Which most Tauren don’t do anyway.

@Arthurie-bleeding-hollow

Taurens talk too much – This isn’t Hearthstone. What is a rogue without secrets. Have you met a tauren player? They never shut up. You let a tauren be a rogue and next thing you know they’ll be telling everyone how Secret Technique works. Most rogues don’t even know how Secret Technique works, that’s how secret it is.

How is this a valid argument at all?

@Arthurie-bleeding-hollow

Poison Brewing – Cows can’t use herbs to brew poisons if they’re eating them and chewing cud.

Tauren are not cows…

@Arthurie-bleeding-hollow

Furries – Okay, I’ll say it because it needs to be said. Taurens opened the furry floodgates and look at where that has gotten us. We are drowning in furry degeneracy. The rogue order hall can at least be one last bastion against the flood.

This is not a valid argument.

TLDR: All of your points are nonsense. GTFO.

[Rabizu-hydraxis (Rabizu)]

Tauren are known for being successful hunters (no, I mean hunting for food), and this involves making sure your prey doesn’t know you’re there. If a tauren can hide from animals with powerful senses, they can hide from some dumb human.

Also, trolls have two fingers and we manage just fine, you monochromatic furbolg.

[Nalin-nesingwary (Nalin)]

@Arthurie-bleeding-hollow

Draenei can be rogues because they are like demons and demons are very rogue like. Also female Draenei are attractive in an unconventional way, so they get a pass.

But they still have those cloven hoofs that can clip clop just as loud as a Tauren. Though females are daintier then both males and Tauren so they probably don’t clip clop so they do get a pass.

[Borkenstein-old-blanchy]

Ah yes. If my minotaur can transform magically into a flaming cat first, and THEN go invisible - it makes sense.

[Skeitheleman-thrall]

If Tauren rogues go Meta, it’s going to be the biggest chad move on the dev team to date!

[Arthurie-bleeding-hollow]

Listen, I covered this in the OP.

You can stealth with Hooves. Tauren shouldn’t be rogues for far deeper reasons.

[Moused-cairne (Moused)]

Well if we can have Tauren rogues we can have Gnome Pally then…

[Shalil-wyrmrest-accord]

Any race can turn to the criminal life. For poisons, Tauren have knowledge of herbalism meaning they know which plants are poisonous.

As for Tauren mages, I don’t know, Tauren don’t seem very bright or interested in the arts of magic. I wouldn’t have the patience of teaching one.