People never really chose a race for aesthetic
Aye. Them not liking goblin shamans is so weird. Shamans literally were enslaved by trolls, enslaved them back, came from Pigmis until they were uplifted, and all these races study or used shamanstic arts. Why wouldn’t the goblins know how to be shamans and use that to their advantage and it fitting with their culture.
The elements have needs as well, as we saw in lord of clans and unforgiven stories. Goblins are known to deal with things and they have a lot of will power, which is needed for shamans. They are the perfect shamans.
That literally is only because of blizzard being lazy, nothing to do with the lore. Remember when Blood Elves used to have their own animations in BC from Human and dwarf paladins? Yeah, too much work after that and they stopped.
Yeah, that is called…a world evolving. Do you want to play in a stagnant world?
The only class I think that should be restricted is evokers and that is literally because they were lab grown to use those powers. They are an experiment, you can’t learn the aspects powers.
Well maybe goblins and gnomes, they love to experiment on themselves.
They want a stagnant world it seems. God forbid an Orc talks to a blood elf and learns more about the arcane and gets interested.
How dare Goblins, who enslaved trolls and have ties to shamanstic arts…being shamans…for profit.
How dare the trolls and taurans learn about the light! That is a human and dwarf thing only!
I just do not get it. It is like living on Earth and not eating German, french of Mexican food because that doesn’t fit your culture.
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This is what people who know they are wrong say.
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Race should be a cosmetic choice only.
I mean if you payed attention to the lore you may consider it being part of the lore. Goblin shamans… they are said to originate from pgymies which are also very shamanistic, goblins were uplifted by kaja’mite. Making their shamanism evolve into a more contractual nature. More along the ways of dark shamanism or contrual much like vanilla shamans made contracts with earth elementals. As for stuff like troll paladins they are based an An’she who is elune’s brother. Basically the person responsible for druidism is related to a being possibly related to being responsible for the light or related to light realms. Or loas having holy powers which isn’t so unrealistic since they are nature beings and we have seen other gods have access to stuff like shadow magic. Makes sense some of the aligned with the light.
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This is something else no one really talks about, but I feel like ‘class flavor’ kinda dies once a class is available to everyone.
Blood Elves, Orcs, and Forsaken all had a special relationship or history with Fel energy, for example.
All that is basically whitewashed because everyone can be a warlock. Even that Dracthyr over there.
Do they have a history with the Fel? No, they absolutely don’t.
Idk, it’s just one of those things we get because of gameplay, but it absolutely tramples on established lore, and that’s what I don’t like.
If Dracthyr Warlocks exist, give me my Gnome/Goblin DH then. No reason you can’t at this point.
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I don’t exactly agree with you, but i’m also a “Ok, there doesn’t need to be gnome demon hunters or mecha gnome druids”
I mean, i think we have a pretty good mix of things now.
Tauren paladins aren’t actually paladins, they’re like, sun warriors.
But because sun=light ect the use paladin moves to simplify balance and streamline gameplay ect.
I don’t believe tauren paladins think they’re like, holy light crusaders
I mean, it would be really cool if blizzard would just, you know make actual theme’d abilities to fit the actual lore of what the class/race combo is suppose to be,
but “Too confusing for “””““new players””“”" too much art work wah wah wah"
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The thing with Warlocks that is different from lore and gameplay is that Warlocks are people who study ALL FORMS OF DARK MAGIC not just fel. They use arcane, necromancy, fel, fire, etc. If it can be done, a warlock will use it. Hence why everyone can be a warlock if you seek power.
Illidan is a warlock, he is also a demon hunter but he also use warlock arts and arcane arts as well.
Wow, look at you knowing the lore and the culture behind it. Too bad people on this thread can’t see the differences because the in game animations are the same.
It’s weird as hell to see a Tauren or a Dracthyr riding a fel-horse, and always will be.
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I mean, I won’t disagree with that at all.
Dracthy having fel wings would be dope though.
Warlocks are basically witches. Warlock is the male figure of such named for a whole class. All of these societies have dark casters even lightforged, which would make sense fighting fire with fire, or fel with fel.
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Bingo. Warlocks are the outliers of society in the game, all the way back in vanilla. For every 100 warriors, there will be 10 mages, out of those 10 mages, there will be 3 warlocks and out of those 3 warlocks, 1 will survive the dark arts and continue.
Warlocks are supposed to be super rare, super secret, and super into all types of powers. Not just demonic power, but curses, soul ripping, necromancy, extended life and healing. Immortlaity. YOu name it, a warlock will find a way to use it.
It isn’t like there is a whole army of warlocks from one race. The black harvest alone was a hodpodge of different races and a small number of memebers.
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Warlock is one of those classes that doesn’t exactly have a culture. It’s an underground subculture of mages(usually) that pursue the dark arts for power. They can be from any background. Warlocks don’t generally care about that stuff. I think Warlock is one of those classes that is justified for just about ANY race with close to human-like intelligence. Lightforged are the only ones that are iffy but they went the “fight fire with fire, enslave demons for the light to use them against themselves” route. I do wish cultural differences could be represented in game though. Warlock is just the one example where there is not really much culture difference between races and never was even back in vanilla. Save for the individual warlocks were shaped by a culture(warlocks would fight for their faction for example)
If I have to deal with people in a one-sy wearing wings you have to deal with a Cow rogue.
As one of the greatest philosophers said it: Times change 
Highmountain out law rogue feels so good to play. Idk why people don’t think tauren don’t fit rogues. Outlaw and highmountain just go hand in hand tbh. Especially if you are blood totem. Fits really good. Basically like a mountainclimber assasin.
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races not being able to do the same things as each other is a big no no
And that got him killed.