Please reconsider adding monks, shaman, druids, and paladins.
Many players were excited to play those classes as Drac and are extremely disappointed.
If assets are an issue, consider giving us place holders similar to how LFD paladins had a placeholder charger until 9.1.5, despite releasing at the end of legion.
If lore as an issue, keep in mind the intro implies these classes existed pre stasis, which was 10k years before the war of the ancients. If locks can exist the others can as well.
As for monks, maybe just tuck in their wings for animations.
Lore wise, a group of dracs could have been thawed after the panda revolution to spy on them, learn how to be monks, and then put back in stasis.
This is so obvious though… Imagine being a new player and 90% of the classes have a double jump, move 40% faster and can adjust their trajectory in the air.
When you log onto a diff class you are literally going to think your character is bugged and not understand why everyone else is moving so magically.
The intro doing that is ridiculous and clashes with the announcement
Fun thing, the announcement makes it easier to justify: dracthyr learned from mortals after waking up, end of. No need for deep lore. Especially since druids did not in fact exist 20000 years ago (Farondin wasn’t that old). A green flight leaning dracthyr would just be more attuned to it or something.
I just would be concerned that they would nerf class mobility when adding drac. For instance I could see them nerfing monk Lighter Than Air because of glide.
Why on earth was anyone excited for this when it was super clear, at least for Monk, Druid, and Paladin that this was not happening?
Shaman, Druid, and Paladin are the most restricted classes due to specific animations and custom visuals. Dracthyr should not be getting access to these classes before other races that have been in the game for significantly longer and make much more sense as options.
Except nobody claimed that. The point was that these are classes with additional resources, so the chances of getting them are ALWAYS low for every race, so they generally have to have a good reason.
Earthen got shaman because fricking duh, and they got paladin because they’re dwarves and if Dark Iron can do it no reason Earthen can’t.
What would a Dracthyr charger even be? Ramolith was an easy slam dunk. They just had to put some armor on the existing ones and make it glow a bit.
But you really want a vorquin charger? I sure don’t.
And what would a Dracthyr look like during Avenging Wrath? Pretty dumb if you ask me, unless they did something dramatic to change the way that looks with their already existing wings.
Shaman would be incredibly strange for Dracthyr. Just not a great fit thematically. Neither is Paladin for that matter, even without all the stuff I already mentioned.