Why every class every race doesn't and will never make sense

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Controversial I know
I’ve seen people ask; but wait, we have warlocks and mages and priests be every single race and warlock MECHAGNOMES DON’T MAKE SENSE. (lol?) So we should get blood elf shamans!

a warlock is simply someone that is in pacts with their chosen power, they make deals usually through contracts or pacts and study, why would a mechagnome not be able to do that?
A mage, is someone who is a scholar most of the time or have natural affinity towards using magic and then are “classically” trained. and that’s pretty much true across all fantasy and WoW.
Also, I’ll extend this mage thing to lets say “tribal races” like, orcs, trolls, vulpera, ect. While they might not have been trained in the halls of dalaran or their local mages college. I’m almost certain they had their own versions of mages or magic wielding warriors and their own rites and rituals, it’s just of course not being reflected in gameplay because well… it doesn’t NEED to be.

Priests I don’t need to touch on because blizzard has attempted to touch on this before, priest as it is in the game is a “generic” term for the class. Previously priests had extra racials to show that priests in every race were culturally different and not just simply “light users”.
They’re spiritual leaders of their tribes or communities not simply just “light worshipers”
They use “light abilities” because simply, blizzard doesn’t feel like making 100s of spell effects and names in racial tongue of each priest ability based on the race you play.
On top of that there is also lore to state that the religion of each of these communities may BE closer than they think be we know that because of META knowlege about lore, the characters in the game don’t actually know that Elune and light may be connected, the Loa could be connected to Elune ect. We know that as observes of the world, End of story. (I can’t believe i have to explain the concept of media literacy)

Lastly, this is why, druid of all races and shaman of all races and by extension Demon hunter, evoker ect.
Simply put, Shaman and Druid are more similar to religions than they are “professions” or “jobs” If you think a blood elf that was raised in Urbanized areas for 1000s of years or gnomes, a race that has been urbanized for 1000s of years ect could be a shaman, ask yourself, how many people in our world are from New York City and are making spirutal journeys to leave their life behind and live in the southwest United State on a native reservation and doing the rites and passages to be a tribal shaman. It’s very very very very very few people (or those that do I would imagine are insane yuppie types that also believe in breathing in specialized air is getting their chakras in balance)

How many people in Cleveland are making journeys to Celtic woods and old religion sites to take part in Pegan rituals? Not enough to matter.

How many people from your home town are leaving it to go train to be a shaolin monk? Meet spitural leaders in Tibet and vist the sky burials in the Himalayas?
How many people from your OFFICE are going to Mongolia to meet with spiritual leaders and falconers?

Most people can’t stop their fast food addiction and smart phone addiction to do anything besides waste away.
and why historically in our own world, why did we not become shamans, druids, ects or even why aren’t you a baptist priest?
Because you/we are sit in our own ways and are fine with the ways things are for the most part or don’t want to leave our lives behind, ect.

Why would a blood elf that lived 1000s and 1000s of years, suddenly want to leave their regal life behind to go be a dirt magic user.
Sure, maybe 1 or 2 right? but then it falls into the fact that players just want this to simply be “unique” and stand out. I mean, look at he fact that we have race/class combos right now that even on heavily populated servers have less than 100 of that class active or at max level.

/rant

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I think that logic tracked in the Classic era when our toons were rank and file nobodies. Basically individually controlled RTS canon fodder.

But nowadays for better and worse our characters very much are exceptional. They’re the Highlord, the Commander, the Champion, etc. They’re even in the cutscenes with the big named hero characters doing action movie ledge jump escapes.

So they very much would be that one guy from rural Kansas that winds up mastering ninjustu in Japan or whatever. They are That Guy.

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lol yeah I second that rts comment. We’re basically a hero unit now.

Man that makes me miss garrisons. Wish we had it on Azeroth as an optional cool base building character or guild housing just to hang out.

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You were the Commander, the Big Cheese in those garrisons as well. Heck in Legion as High Priest, you even bossed Calia around.

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Yeah it’s definitely kind of a hard pill to swallow for me to go back to the adventuring nobodies, especially narratively.

As you mentioned, leading the draenor expidition as commander, cemented us as living legends if weren’t already for participating in the LK’s and Deathwings fall.

Quest givers asking me to water stone sheep and pick herbs still makes me laugh. But it keeps my character humble lol.

I don’t want to be telling my faction leaders what to do but I respect their dialogue options talking to us somewhat like equals or recognizing our worth. Even with the “champion-title-status” that we have, we’re still subordinates (in my head cannon) acting as those “nameless commanders” of those games were the cinematic narrator is talking to you ( I e command and conquer.)

Could new characters being made have some
Kind of option to be referenced differently in dialogue?
Could the game add sound files for all the titles we have so they can be mentioned in in-game speech?
Idk fun questions and thoughts.
Sorry for the long response lol

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Yup, and let us be fair. We were that guy in vanilla as well towards the end.

Now we are THE GUY that everyone goes “oh snap, we need help, get the [insert title here]”.

While my dude is out fishing

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Your argument is because the average American American doesn’t care about other spiritualities or the rest of the world, the same applies to WoW races? Lol. You also don’t seem to know the difference between closed religions and open ones.

Also, there aren’t any groups like the Cenarion Circle irl.

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Well Europe even less so, Not many londoners are going to be shamans not many people in Berlin are going to go be Tribal Chiefs in Africa.

In order to justify something like blood elf shamans you’d either A
Have to say a massive cult or something sprung up around and they now use “shaman-like abilities”

Be simply ok with generic quest “Some blood elves just turned to the elements” (Which is generic)

or be ok with no explanation no story, they were here the whole time.

Or also, be ok with a tiny sub culture and for some reason they are now a playable class.

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Being a “tribal chief” is not comparable to changing your religion lmao. The equivalent would be having a Blood Elf lead a troll tribe or something. No one’s asking for that.

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Whats wrong with X character wanted to deepen his or her connection to nature and the elementals answered the call sort of thing? Not everything in game needs an overly complicated explanation to justify it’s existance

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The Deathlord, even!

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All classes all races is bad because its dumb and not cool. Tauren paladins, draenei warlocks and whatever else nonsense combos will always be dumb.

“But muh super special OC”
Shut up

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racial abilities being a thing that blizzard evidently has to balance when opening races up to other classes likely means the everything can be everything isn’t going to happen.

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Yes, let the hate flow through you!

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I’ll never understand this need for people to be monolithic. It’s like everyone is terrified of people being different and not fitting into little boxes they can file away or even keep away.

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Having a race be a monolithic hive mind makes it easier for certain people to gatekeep their favorite things. You don’t fit these parameters, so you aren’t a real fan of X

It’s one of the worse things about online interactions.

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Races and cultures aren’t a monolithic hive mind like the Borg. In the presence of free will, there are going to be societal outliers and exceptions. Just because a small group of individuals decided to go outside their culture’s norms doesn’t mean that culture suddenly shifted to be something else.

Thunder Bluff didn’t become a bastion of the Holy Light just because Tauren can be Paladins. Orgrimmar didn’t suddenly become a second Dalaran because Orcs were able to learn some Magecraft. The Night Elves didn’t suddenly became Fel-slinging demon worshippers because they can now be Warlocks.

Stagnation is a bad thing.

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The thing is, we did just have that in Dragonflight with the Primalists. There were elves among the primalists, including Blood elves. There were survivors after Amirdrassil, either scattered or captured, as well as defectors who followed Vyranoth. It wouldn’t be that much of a stretch to have further narrative that sees them repent, even if they remain ostracized from general society, as that’s essentially what both death knights and demon hunters did. Specific to the matter of the Sin’dorei, most of Kael’thas’ surviving forces who hadn’t fully committed to the Legion surrendered and rejoined their kin in Silvermoon after the Sunwell raid, so it’s not like the Blood elves don’t have a history of accepting repentant elves back into society.

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Since you mention blood elves, I only need two words to rebut your argument. Farstriders and Windrunners. The former are disparaged by Silvermoon urbanites for their woodland ways and the latter are practically Night Elf throwbacks.

Like how Nobundo became the first Draenei shaman after his people had been on the planet for thousands of years?

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the only thing dumb about tauren pallies was the ablative baby armor story in MoP.