My only issue with the removal is the fact that orcs’ monopoly over PvP is just getting worse.
You hit the nail on the head. Stylisticly the Draenei have NO BUSINESS being Shaman, and we’ve never recovered from that blunder since.
If every race could be every class we would have nothing but god damn elves and vulpera running around. No thank you.
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I don’t know why people still think this is the case. lol, because of like stats on gear? haha.
tldr i didnt read but youre wrong, very few combos should be limited
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They are coming so get used to it!
Given how intertwined the horde races are there is no reason they can’t be all classes at this point. The only ones that have an excuse are hero classes.
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I think an Orc Paladin would be badass, but I don’t think they should be playable. It detracts from both Orcish culture and the tone of the existing Paladins.
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I mean does it? Mag’har are priests, soon there will be orc priests. It seems delving more into the light is the natural progression for the orcs now.
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I want to be a draenei Rogue and a huaman shaman. Don’t care about anything else.
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Tabletop games might, but thats outdated. Video games live or die by whether or not they are fun and that is all.
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Even video-games need to have rules and boundaries.
I mean, if none of this stuff mattered, Blizzard would just release an interacting Microsoft Excel sheet. Fighting games would only have one character. Hell, WoW wouldn’t even have “classes”, they’d just give everyone the same abilities to choose from.
Rules and limitations have a place, and sure, they can be changed or altered, but it seems like Blizzard is on a path towards just eliminating any and all of these distinctions that make Races and Classes so interesting. In the end, we’re just going to be left with “options” that are completely bereft of meaning. Because what’s the point of having a bunch of DPS classes and specs, if the only thing distinguishing them are a couple of mechanical differences?
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Why, though? What narrative purposes does that serve? How does that contribute to the world? What is the goal?
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lol no.
Seriously, calm down. This is a game.
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I want to faction change my Resto Shaman, but I can’t make a Gnome Shaman. Games like a prison.
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Maybe we’ve just been stuck in the Emerald Nightmare all this time.
And yet, the player character is not. We abandon our racial starting zones by level 10, and the greater “region” by like the mid 30s, then the entire rest of the game is spent doing nothing at all that’s tied to our racial identity. Hell, the modern game skips the whole “racial region” thing and skips new players to BfA after their initial starting zone.
The player character is an individual, and not one that needs to conform to the cultural norms of their race.
The WORLD can still follow those norms.
It would even be a good opportunity for some added flavor for certain race/class combinations.
A Draenei Warlock runs by a Draenei Guard NPC? They get a (client side) emote/tell in the same vein as the DK intro run.
A Night Elf Mage tries to use a Night Elf auctioneer? Grats! They take an additional 5% AH cut.
That kind of thing.
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That still lives inside of the world that was created by someone else, and still needs to follow the rules that person created.
Blizzard is changing things, but I agree with the idea that it still needs to make sense.
Draenei abhor what happened to the Eredar. However, if Blizzard came up with a compelling narrative reason to allow them to make up with the Eredar and/or allow the Draenei to become Warlocks, I’d be behind that 100%.
It just needs to make sense. Rogue, Priests and Mages make sense because they are core fantasy tropes (as are Warriors and Hunters, which I initially overlooked). Death Knights make sense because there is a story reason for their creation.
What is the reason we have a single NPC Draenei Warlock? If they can flesh that out, I’m on board.
Because Draenei are still Eredar and they’re still prone to corruption. They’re also not infallible.
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The source of that particular “corruption” was Sargeras, and it was specific. The Draenei were the incorruptible ones.
Why do we have a Draenei that is a Warlock now?
That’s an entirely different story that we have zero details to explain. Someone needs to give those details.
Additionally, what would be the reason for the other races that are not Warlocks to become them?
WoD showed us that even those that were Draenei weren’t safe from the corruption.
Because power.