Why can't Warlocks speak Demonic?

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Still I imagine some Demon grimoires are written in demonic.

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Maybe the Demons they do contract with know their language.

Kinda weird from a lore perspective as you’d imagine they’d all know demonic commonly.

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Speaking demonic was always my head canon for why man’ari eredar characters lacked that rich draenei accent and instead all sound like very constipated americans.

They kind of need their own voiced lines and access to demonic now that they’re playable.

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That would be fun and add flavor to the game

We can’t allow that

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Those things were a better fit for DH’s, but it wasn’t “lots” of things.

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mutters
Still could have shared.

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nah, we have enough homogenization.

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Then remove it from Demon Hunters and add it to Warlocks.

Why would some random Elf know Demonic and a Man’ari Warlock wouldn’t?

Demonic is the language of the Man’ari lol

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… yea I’m not touching that with a ten foot pole.

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Probably has something to do with gameplay issues that were either never addressed or Blizzard simply doesn’t care. According to the game you’re still just a Draenei with another skin color option.

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Cannot, unless that’s changed since Pandaria

All news to me

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Its because they didn’t study enough.

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They’re behind on their duolingo lessons.

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Gameplay. The answer is quite simply because of gameplay.

If you want to learn a universal language you have to put effort in as a player to learn it. The one exception to this are demon hunters and Dracthyr, because partially they are a race rather than a class. Demon Hunter is a class yes but with the specifics of how you become a demon hunter for all intent and purposes it has more similarities with that of a race rather than a class.

Add on top of that general factionalization and you have your answer there. As others have pointed out, you can learn more languages and if others understand it as well then you can communicate it. Even if it is unlikely for some languages such as Draconic or Demonic to be spoken more ‘freely’ as we have no idea what actually gives characters the ability to speak those languages.

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Pandas have been able to talk cross faction for years. That was changed way back in Legion.

The dracthyr racial language is also cross faction, as is the DH class language, blood and void elves can both speak thalassian, and anyone can speak furbolg if they do the DF rep grind.

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Have a warrior spell reflect everytime you want it.

Forsaken used to know common long ago.

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You used to be able to; but like everything else fun about Warlocks; Blizz took it away.

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And yet there’s a potion that lets you understand the opposite faction. Blizz are just silly that way.

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Wow, I didn’t realize they took it away. That sucks… :dracthyr_lulmao:

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And yet all demon hunters, pandaren and drac’thyr can speak to each other. And void elves and blood elves can talk in Thalassian.

:dracthyr_shrug: