One is a short stick with a long blade on the end, the other is a long stick with a blade on the end. What kind of logic is this? Maybe it made sense back in Classic when itemization was actually a thing, but there is no lore reason why this is a thing.
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Swords are more civilized and Axes are more barbaric. Shamans are meant to be the primal class.
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Lore reasons I guess. I have mained shaman for 18 years and remember getting pissed when I was a teenager when a sword would drop and I couldn’t drop some raid points on it… I guess its lore stuff. Shamans are inherently primal, making a sword is a lot of work. You have to smelt, and you have to get a mold of the weapon itself. Should watch some Japanese swordmakers on youtube it’s pretty complicated and extensive. Shamans, you just get some sharp rocks or bone fragments, stick em in a stick and you’re good to go.
Because they started as a Horde class that was diametrically opposed to Paladins. Then they came out with the DK and made them the inverse of Paladins. And since then, the developers have been trying to give Shaman an identity, while at the same time favoring Druids, AND giving Bloodlust to every other class in the game.
They need to sit down and figure out what shaman are. But theyre hoping the problem will go away on its own.
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only shamans mages and evokers have lust thats hardly every class
drums are a thing but they suck and you should feel bad if you use them
Hunters dont have lust?
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ooh sorry forgot about them ok so 4 out of 13 classes is still not even half
Shamans are a bit more earthy and a little less civil. If we take blunt or sharp rocks tied to sticks as Maces and Rock Axes it makes sense. The metal works are a little more refined.
I should also note they made fine flint and bone weapons, just not always that of metal.
What is an ability half the classes have?
Warlocks have lust.
Not Bloodlust, just regular lust 
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…and Hunters.
Shaman need axes to make totems.
auto-attack. 
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As a healer I carry Drums and #DoesfeelBad if no one else in the group has lust and I have to use them. Sorry#NotSorry.
Too much blade, not enough haft.
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Swords require actual skill, while axes are designed to just swing and cut.
Sword has stabs, thrusts, parries, overheads, side cuts, lateral, feints, blade twisting…not to mention the hundreds of variations of fighting style and design.
Axes generally come in big, small, medium and throwing. You swing them as hard as you can to crush bone and cleave through flesh.
Anyone with sufficient strength can swing an axe. The harder, the better.
Some swords literally break if used wrongly.
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outside of ressing is the most spell that classes will share
4 classes have lust
4 classes have bres
other than those 3 abilities classes dont really have similar spells
Nah. Axes can parry and counter cut. While a swords length is spread out, an axe can heave up a sword just with the upward lift of its weight and physical trajectory. Vikings often successfully weilded axes that countered popular swords in battle.
Vikings were also the equivalent of barbarians and generally tried to overwhelm their opponents with brute strength and numbers.
What you just described is swinging…hard.
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No, it’s weight and physics. If you’re weilding a pencil and I’m weilding an eraser I muffle out your swing, and possibly swing you off guard.
I will concede the sword is the better weapon. Not because of physics, but because of the user.
But in a good fight I’d take a trained duel weilding axe bearer over swordsmith any day.