This is done through arcane magic not spirit like monks.
All Pandaren priest are monks following the crane.
Yelia is literally a priest. She might follow the crane and might know some MNK skills but she is literally a priest, not a Monk. She is a champion in the Priest order hall. Her power have nothing to do with spirit.
… all shamans can do that…
Not sure how this is relevant to monks and blade masters being completely different.
The shado pan isn’t a monk order, they are the main pandaren militant force. They have monks, warriors, hunters, priests, etc.
They aren’t. If you bothered to do more than 10 seconds of research you’d learn that yourself.
Shamans are as far away from Elven culture as just about anything else. Like Orc Paladins. If we get Elf shamans, might as well remove class restrictions all together.
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(Observation): Not quite so much with Night Elves, to be honest. I mean, we even know Elune can have an affect on Water Elementals from some lines in the Darkshore questing, from Water Elemental NPCs. A Night Elf Shaman who forges bonds with the Elements through Elune probably isn’t the most unlikely thing ever. Moonfire would probably become an attack type, like Shadowfrost.
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So how many Blademaster you see wearing heavy armor.
Your argument is that they use 2H swords but with that logic we could argue that all night elf priestess aren’t priestess of Elune since they don’t use a bow like Tyrande…
Garrosh was a arms warrior and he fights nothing like a Blademaster.
(Query): Is there a social contract dictating that all Warriors need to wear heavy armor?
(Commentary): The Warrior skillset more closely matches a Blademaster than a Monk’s does. That doesn’t mean certain monk skills weren’t inspired by Blademaster abilities, not unlike how Warlock skills were inspired by Demon Hunter abilities.
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Actually in the lore Tyrande uses a moon glave, but she excellent with a bow too.
Excellent point once again. They could be their own flavor of shamans like the tidesages.
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In just seems that blademaster are agile while warriors are tied to strengths
Monks can summon clones just like the blademaster.
Blademaster ability in warcraft was called windwalking and monks literally have a spec called Windwalker.
Blademaster is clearly an eastern inspired idea… just like monks.
But warriors can use 2H swords and monks can’t
But why does a blade master have to be one or the other? We know the sometimes npc’s can be combo classes. Example a priestess of the moon is a priest/paladin/hunter combo. A Blademaster could be a warrior/monk combo, just like a Warden is a monk/rogue combo.
Shamans are currently the only class that has not been been made playable for elf players. Please keep it that way.
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Velen is the leader and teacher of all draenei priests. Draenei priests can become paladins, eg, YREL . Do the math.
Also, night elf priests don’t need Light approval to become paladins. They already use the light of Elune and shadow powers simultaneously and perform the same roles of a paladin, in terms of martial aspects. Paladins don’t need to be human carbon copies, because clearly Zandalari and Tauren paladins aren’t.
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Not to mention she was using a sword in the WotA books, while wielding Light powers. The moon glaive itself is a triple-bladed sword/scimitar.
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With how fast and loose Blizzard has been with the lore these last couple expansions, they might as well just remove race/class restrictions. Anyone can be anythin’.
The only exception I see would be Druids, but that’s mainly just due to them needin’ to make Druid forms for everyone and they seem pretty selective on which race they want to spend that development time on.
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Yrel was running around as a Paladin novice when you rescued her from that cave.
Yes.
ten chars
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My point was more can we get some wood elves
No, she was a priest acolyte at the temple of Karabor. She became a paladin when Samaara was taken. She is even wearing cloth when you find her initially.
I see your point. But even I have to admit that the idea is growing in me.
I really hope not. That would be a mess.
Night elves are like the lovechild of dark elves and wood elves, though. Blood/high elves have a subsection of their society which are very attuned to nature in the Farstriders/Rangers as well.
I’m not sure if you understand the difference between shamanism and druidism. Shaman in WoW are more like benders in Avatar: The Last Airbender. They’re attuned with the nonliving elemental forces of nature: the waves that crash against an ocean cliff, the lightning that strikes and sets a forest ablaze, the wind that carries that fire.
Druids, meanwhile, are associated with the living forces of nature: predators and prey, plants and fungi, the balance of the natural order (which may include culling invasive species, guarding threatened ecosystems, that kind of thing).
I’m not saying you can’t wish for night elf or blood elf shamans, I just don’t know if you’re looking for the right thing.
If what you want is wood elves who are ruthlessly protective of their native lands Warhammer-style, then you’ve got the WCIII-era (or bargain bin BfA-era) night elves.
If you want pretty princess neat-and-orderly humans with pointy ears who wear fancy outfits, shoot fancy bows, do stuff in nature sometimes and lounge around in inexplicable magic opulence, acting like they’re better than everyone while still craving that human cake like LotR elves, then you’ve got blood elves.
Ohhhh that just reminds me of how badly I wish orc druids were a thing. Look, I know we killed Cenarius and all, but he got better! If Blizzard announces they’re allowing orcs to be druids, but actually it’s only Mag’har who get to be druids because Mag’har are just sOOoooOOoOooOOOoOoo much more “pure” and “uncorrupted” (even though the only reason they got that way is because instead of their daddies chugging demon juice, their daddies chugged a big hearty helping of *willingly and knowingly committing genocide because some chungy little orange man who came out of nowhere told him and his buddies it’d be a good idea, but it’s okay now because the people who were victims of said genocide decided to turn evil, which of course they would because Blizzard loooooves making people’s moral compasses do a 180 after trauma (psst! especially if they’re women)) then I AM GOING TO LOSE IT.
breathes
Anyway, Cenarius ended up okay and he forgave the orcs! They would just need to learn a little from their tauren and troll bros, humans can become druids too since harvest witches are a thing! ;-;
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