I’m going to be honest, dracthyr picking other classes looks and sounds really dumb. From my understanding of Deathwing’s crazed skeletons and experiments: to be dracthyr is to be an Evoker and vice versa. A lot of evoker spells are intrinsic to being a dracthyr. If you’re not an evoker, you can can barely use your dragon-esque abilities in combat.
Can someone make it make sense other than it just being blizzard just doing what blizzard does best, i.e. fan service
Dracthyr Evoker early questlines make it clear: Evokers are the pinnacle of Neltharion’s armies, the cream of the crop. All Evokers are Dracthyr, but only a small elite number of Dracthyr are able master the necessary skills to be an Evoker. That’s been the case since Dragonflight release.
I’m super excited to race change to dracthyr on this toon.
Same! Double jump Warlocking.
… didn’t we learn at the very start of DF that ONLY the top Dracthyr were evokers?
Like, fairly sure that was in their intro and you, as the player, were an evoker essentially to play as a mock “chosen one” type of thing. You know, like how Death knight lore is that you were already a prestigious warrior or something beforehand.
Or Demon Hunters essentially being Illidan’s chosen to fight against the legion.
Playing as other classes simply means that you, the player, are not playing as that “you are a top of the top” character.
You know, like any of the normal classes on your other characters.
I’m counting the days I can reroll to dracthyr shadow priest. It definitely fits the lore. Warlock doesn’t make sense tho.
From my understanding of things, the non-evoker Dracthyr are from creches that the Scalecommanders discovered while looking for more Dracthyr in the Forbidden Reach.
Lore? What’s that?
Oh I looked it up, it’s Data’s evil twin brother from Star Trek.
The lore behind non-evoker Dracthyr is not the right question. The question is: What’s the lore behind Dracthyr being hunters and warriors?
And the answer is you don’t need any because the classes they gave Dracthyr are canonically those anyone can easily learn.
Should they still have breath abilities? Of course. Would that break the game? Yes. So there’s a sacrifice for gameplay.
im really confused why DK doesn’t get dracthyr, lore wise if it dies it can be turned into a DK.
The lore is simple; survivability.
You could also argue that Neltharian locked them into being Evokers to better control them. So, once they were free from his control, it’s only natural that they’d explore other options.
looking forward to dracthry disc, holy priest
the thing that make sense to me is stay in human form, only turn to dracthyr form for RP, shadow priest spec and the group flight thing
At least im finding my subjective reasoning for priest, but im still finding the lore / reasoning behind other classes too
Afaik without a Lich King / the Helm of Domination, new death knights can’t be raised. Even in Legion when the player was raising the Horsemen, they did so using power granted by Bolvar.
Since the Helm was destroyed years before the first dracthyr started waking up, there’s zero possibility of any being raised as a death knight. This is why earthen can’t be death knights either, and this will likely be the case for other allied race candidates such as the harronir or Arathi.
first gen deathknights preceded both the lich king and the helm of domination. its possible to make a deathknight without the helm or artifact weapon.
also consider that DKs spearheaded the push into the shadowlands, its more than possible we picked up new magics while there and brought them back to Acherus for further study.
I think the “lore” has gone out the window a LONG time ago my dude.
Neltharion created more than just Evokers for his various armies.
Idk, whats the lore behind gnome warriors
gnome anything that isn’t a caster really
They’re supposedly Nefarian’s foot soldiers, so they should, in theory, do a lot of things we can do as mortal races.
Maybe the Evokers were just the first wave out or something.
Similar to how allied race Death Knights worked, they were available, just later on when it was more relevant to the story.
Lol many of the top commanders for the Alliance as a whole, are gnome warriors.
Master tacticians and all that, they have massive brains ofc. And probably last on the frontlines because they’re less useful there.
A gnome general would probably put a human general to shame, lol.
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_Tread_Sparknozzle
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Razak_Ironsides
I’d go as far as to say, even Mekkatorque himself is a warrior. He just fights inside a giant mech suit.
A lot of races in WoW are just innately better than humans at a lot of things.
I just hope they figure out the lore behind dracthyr wearing damn proper transmog items. I am not paying for race changes just to wear shoulders and a belt. NOT WORTH IT!
evokers are likely they creme de la creme of his dracthyr experiments
those that are not were likely dracthyr that, while a success, were ultimately a failure as they were not good enough to be evokers (but they could still serve a purpose as a “lesser” dractyr in a different capacity)