I want to play a druid outside of the traditional races, perhaps even a traditionally nature-hating race like Goblin. One who has to fight and claw every inch of their way toward the Cenarion Circle accepting them.
You know what I’d even do for this? Quintuple exp to level. Gimped powers until I prove myself. No boosts allowed obviously.
No, its not unfortunately. Instead they seem to be opening everything up even when it makes absolutely no sense at all.
I would, see it all the time if you glanced at the forums in the past 6 years.
They seem pretty reasonable, tbh.
Sorry, I disagree. Opening up classes does make sense. Fifteen years of being Horde and blood elves aren’t gonna give shamanism a try? On top of that, as mentioned players are the exception to the rule. We should be able to choose our role in the world. If a random blood elf NPC can be a shaman, so should I.
But then unless more people are like you that would mean that story telling would either make less sense as you’d be an exceptional individual doing lesser task. I’m not personally agaisn’t it but there are exceptions still which I would find a bit more extreme. Lightforged dk would be one… but that’s ingame. Blood elf druid would be another where I might disagree a bit. I think classes that can be shamans should also have access to druids (and the reverse). Classes that can play priests should be able to be paladins.
I would say there shouldn’t be random BE shaman npc’s. And players shouldn’t be either. It completely contradicts what it means to be a BE.
Luckily for you they seem to be moving in your direction. I mean we have NE Warlocks now, you can’t really argue against any other class combo’s after something that dumb gets put into the game.
I don’t think it would mean storytelling would make less sense. Does Worf not make sense? He’s the first Klingon in Starfleet. His arc was one of the better ones. So was Quark’s. You know why? He’s secretly a good person.
Storytelling about the average, over and over, is not nonsensical but it is boring.
I’ve come to expect it from everyday posters. Heck, there are probably 20 examples of me being guilty. But when you see someone you thought had to be above reproach do it, then you have to wonder how they even earned it in the first place if this is who they eventually devolve into. I don’t want MvP or Council, but not sure using a trope to insult me as gay or single was necessary. My brother and daughter are both LGBT and I didn’t care for his use of the trope.
At 50, I am a happily married man who enjoys this game, but am woefully disappointed in a WoW Community Council member whose requirement for being part of the program is " to encourage discussion with players from a wide variety of different playstyles. To help ensure this, part of the application process will involve sharing your areas of interest and expertise. Whether it’s cutting-edge raiding, playing alts, completing achievements, accessibility, or collecting transmog, we want to know your perspective and ensure you’re heard. "
I don’t know that reference I’m sorry xd
A Champion.
A King Slayer.
A God SLayer.
Yet I cannot tell a A/H dooshyleader to go park it, I’m out, and going to help party we are ‘subduing’.
*Actual reason I quit Wow in BFA.
Also I personally would also have enjoyed deserting, and fighting against both A/H during Panda if it had been a choice.
Yet apparently God Slayers have no choice.
You also have all those cooking titles don’t forget them.
Then just understand that in fiction, we are more often following the exceptional than the average, and that’s good storytelling.
It really depends of the storytelling, you can have humble beginning and become something, not everyone on Azeroth is an adventurer and as worked to save Azeroth.
You know how I can be someone who never helped save Azeroth? By not playing.
If I’m canonically an extra, a farmer, or anything like that, I’m an NPC and I don’t need to do anything.
Or you could have stayed on the wandering isle and leveled to max level by gathering without ever joining the Horde or Alliance 
We also had a farm in mop. So still checks out.
Remembers one player who did get max level on a Panda without choosing sides because of the “race war” beginning of MoP. I think it was also the last thing they did in Wow.
Doubleagent kept doing it for a couple expansions, I don’t know if he still plays.
Such thin skin….
I think this part went out the window a while ago. The player-characters are implied to be exceptions on a number of levels, not the least of which being freakishly powerful and skilled for no apparent reason. It’s nowhere near the level of MUH HERO FFXIV has going on, but it’s there.