Because Blizz saw the Pandaren Monk “DH” being RPed on Moon Guard, and said not today kidlets.
In all seriousness, DHs weren’t out at that point, and it was listed as a Sword.
I’m sure they’ll change it when enough people complain about it. I thought I’d see way, way more of them over time, but I hardly see anyone using them as a mog anymore. Seems a lot of people want to be upset by it, but very few of them would actually use it? Idk. I have the Glaives on 2 Rogues (this one and my formerly-locked level 70 with Blindfold and full T6, before they level squished and ruined him gg), I still don’t use it on my multiple DHs. But I’m also a massive RPer, and having Illidaddy’s weapons on a DH who’s an RP char seems a bit cheap. They meant way more having the actual weaps displayed on my 70 locked Rogue. He’s pretty much a bank alt, now. I went back and got the glaives on this guy specifically so my DH could unlock the mog, for the achiev.
Anywho, TL;DR - I’m sure they’ll open it up eventually, Blizz just likes to fix the not-broken things before they fix the rest. And given the dumpster fire that the Time event is rn, I think there’s bigger fish to fry.
The argument is that in its respective content - during TBC - the glaives were literally created for and used by Rogues & Warriors. Demon Hunters were not even a playable class until Legion.
They meant “loot it” as in “loot and equip it”. DHs cannot equip 2-handers.
Unfortunately, the transmog is only unlockable after completing the Black Temple raid in Timewalking mode when BC TW rolls around. Thankfully, you don’t need to sit through the whole raid, and you can try to find a group at Illidan.
Warriors have no reason to use such unwieldy weapons. DHs get special training to use them, which is why they have extremely unique running and fighting animations to complement them
With the way all of the lore has been basically retconned or flat out ignored or bent regarding race/class combos. I see no reason for this restriction to still exists. I mean EVERY player has a drake but plays who used to be able to actually USE the weapon cannot just use the appearance? That’s just dumb.
I disagree. Warriors are quite literally weapon masters according to lore. There are also in-game examples of Arms warrior Sentinels wielding glaives. The glaive restriction was only arbitrarily introduced as a perk for a new class seven years ago. The restriction doesn’t align with lore whatsoever and quite frankly needs to go.
The real reason is because Blizzard doesn’t want people farming old BT for them when DHs can only get it from TW BT. Which… is fine.
If warlocks can’t keep their eyeball because ‘the silhouette is confusing’, then imagine the silhouette problem with non-DHs using warglaives, lol. (This is a joke, for those of you with broken humor detectors).
Indeed. It is sad and disappointing that the most common counter-argument is:
“B-b-but it’s iconic for DHs”
We know it is. And? As if giving it to warriors and rogues somehow makes it less cool on DHs? Does it desaturate the warglaives’ colors on a DH? Does it shrink them down on a DH? Of course not.
These gamers reek of the kind of IRL folks who benefit from something (a “ladder”) and then destroy the ability for others to use the same ladder. They just want less people up there with them, even though others being present doesn’t hurt them at all.
Warglaives were enormously iconic for warriors and rogues back when we could get it. Allowing warriors and rogues to use it takes NOTHING away from DHs. Any excuse other than “I don’t want warriors and rogues to have it because I’m greedy and want to feel special” is straight lying.
There is no “special training” mentioned or shown about Demon Hunters for Warglaives within the game. Demon Hunters are not even the only people to use Warglaives in Warcraft lore, even going prior to WoW to WC3. Even the significant Warglaives in the game, such as the Aldrachi Warblades, were used by Warrior races, even prior to the Aldrachi ever encountering demons.
The only actual reason Warglaives as a weapon class are limited to DH is out-of-game, and arbitrary. There was no lore reason specified, or supported, and the idea given several races using 2-handed edged weapons, and even demonically infused weapons, that classes like Warriors, Monks, Rogues, etc., could not train to use Warglaives is frankly ridiculous. The Warglaives of Azzinoth themselves were obtained by Illidan in the same way that Warriors and Rogues used them from Illidan in BC - by killing the previous owner, and looting them.
Yo yo it’s me ya boi, coming again to create easy solutions.
Step 1. Allow all classes that are able to equip the glaives to mog them.
Step 2. DH players who get the ach to mog the glaives will instead get HD and off color variations of the glaives.
So not only will you get HD azzinoth glaives, but in multiple colors, preferably colors that match DH tattoo colors.
Step 3. Worship Tahonto
Bonus: allow all classes that are able to equipt the glaives the ability to use all glaives and retroactively change the warglaives of azzinoth to be warglaives instead of swords to avoid any confusion