Their entire civilization evolved from clan warfare and they all live in Forest and Plains / Foot Hills.
Why weren’t they allowed to be Hunters before Cataclysm? Seems like it would just be natural.
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Because at the time, it was more “fantasy-y” to have dwarves and elves be the hunters.
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Because there were no ranged human units in Warcraft III, and nobody at Blizzard felt like making a compelling argument as to why this particular non-WCIII option should be introduced.
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Canonically they could; in-game it probably wasn’t available for reasons somehow tied to trying to maintain some sort of faction parity between the overall number of available race/class combinations for each side.
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If I recall correctly, the reason was because there was a then-hard cap of 6 classes available per race, and they already had warrior/rogue/paladin/mage/priest/warlock. Forsaken hunters were left off mainly to create a pseudo “parity” with humans sans the paladin option.
Edit: Blood elves couldn’t be warriors in TBC for the same reason, and the decision to axe that one was because it was the least-magical so it was half mechanics, half story.
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To be fair, Warcraft 1 had some crossbow men.
Same reason Blood Elves couldn’t be warriors. Arbitrary restriction they chose to lift as a partial selling point for an expansion.
Should of had Hunters instead of warlocks. Warlocks is the most recent class to the race in lore as well as being the least thematic.
I think that would have left gnomes as the only warlock options and my guess is they probably didn’t want to do the single-race thing with a second class since they were already doing it with druid. That’s actually why trolls got mages instead of warlocks.
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Maybe they should of tried being less balanced with the classes more spread out among the races/factions. Each Faction had 1 class available one race, 2 classes available to 2 races, etc… but not necessarily the same class distribution…
Well, anyway. Moot point to discuss it.
It’s established that Lordaeron had hunters fighting off the Scourge, and henceforth Nathanos prior to undeath was one of them (And whom had trained under the rangers of Quel’Thalas despite Lor’Themar utterly hating him for being human, and teasing Lor’Themar for being better) who fell against an Abomination that skewered him.
I suppose like people said, at the time Blizzard just preferred the aesthetic of races that had deemed hunters at the time. My guess is the aesthetic was built upon due to their bond with other creatures whereas humans are rather selfish beings that think of it as domination & subjugation rather than a relationship.