What do you guys think? Since Warlock then can also be played and roleplayed on Lightforged Draenei, how do you think such a splitt orientation between class and race could affect our realms Roleplay landscape?
For regular Draenei it makes sense, but for LFD?
I think generally there won’t be many of them so it will have no major effect on the roleplay landscape; there’ll be a scant few, probably each with a different spin on the concept.
The Lightforged Warlock NPC on PTR wants to enslave demons in the name of the Light.
So rather on brand for a Lightforged, service to the Light and all that.
It’s fine as long as there’s lore to support it and RPers treat it sensibly as the niche aberration that it is rather than the new hot thing to be or validation for eredar rp…
It’ll certainly feel weird, at least in the beginning. They also stated to add some pet customization, and I hope they toss in some spell customization as well to make it more 'smooth. It’d just look odd for a Lightforged to conjure a fel blaze.
Then again, they also added tauren rogues and I haven’t seen any of those around.
If people could reconcile Light-infused Dreadlords, Light-using Shivarra, Lightforged Draenei congratulating adventurers for helping Void Elves desecrate and reanimate Zandalari beasts to terrorize and slaughter the trolls in Zuldazar and how Lightforged Draenei can be more than just anti-Demon space marines then they can reconcile the notion that with the Legion being defeated some LFD decided to not fit into the norms of their race and bend their hated enemies to their will and use them to further their goals.
It’s no different from Human, Dwarf, Nightborne, Orc and the new race/warlock combos coming. They all share the exact same stigma, LFD just that bit more for being Light enthusiasts.
Edit: To not make my post so one-sided I also don’t see most of these new warlock choices accepted or treated as regular citizens. I’d wager Draenei and Lightforged Draenei Warlocks (It even feels wrong typing that out) would be treated the same way as eg. Dark Ranger RPers in Stormwind, just with the former having some canon lore to justify their existence but NOT their presence in Stormwind City.
Go ahead, be a Lightforged warlock, but face the very legitimate consequences of your choice In-Character when any Draenei or avid follow of the Holy Light treats you like an abomination that should be culled or exiled.
BUT at least now Lightforged Draenei get to summon others into the Vindicaar for RP events and meetings.
Narratively, I think it´s a problem for Lightforged as they´re not as much an actual race, but rather existing race infused with specific magic through voluntary ritual (void elves are in the similar boat here except they have the excuse of said ritual not being voluntary one). Which is the main issue, every Lightforged draenei made a decision to become one, so the types of people who would become warlocks shouldn´t be included among their ranks in the first place.
For other races, I think it´s fine because warlocks have ceased to be something race/faction specific in Vanilla (´member Old Horde warlocks?). If a human or dwarf can be warlock, draenei or night elf can be too.
In terms of RP, I think we won´t see many (IC) Lightforged warlocks after first week, as is the case with many new customizations.
Personally i dont really care what class they make available for what race in regards to gameplay. You want to play the game as a LF warlock? Go ahead that is no issue.
But when it comes to RP i find it a bit silly, Just because you can do it from a gameplay point doesn’t mean you should do it in a RP point. I don’t think a Warlock LF draenei should even be allowed to exist for two reasons.
1: Its because of draenei society, considering the eredar are a thing and how Argus was destroyed by fel, Why would you even consider using the same power that took EVERYTHING from you? Not to mention to amount of believe in the light and the Naaru. This is especially true with LF because of zealous they are.
2: I don’t think it would or should work for LF because of their nature. Fel is a corruptive magic, It will seep into your very being and soul, destroying you from within the more you use it, Its immensely volatile and using it just spreads that. Lightforged as the name implies are infused with the light, Its a part of them, it runs through their veins within their blood. It’s part of them so in that sense its physically impossible to be a warlock AND a Lightforged cause one power would just replace the other.
Can’t belief Draenei can finally return to their own ship again…
Edit: on a side note: how do they ven LF now that they have no Naaru’s on Azeroth anymore? 
Forcing the Demonic races to serve the Light? Sounds plausible.
If I was to roleplay a Lightforged Draenei warlock, I would word it that they aren’t casting the magic themselves, but instead forcing their demon that they have forced to serve them to burn themselves out instead. Making them cast all the fel magic and abilities.
“You will serve the Light… by extinguishing yours”
They have enslaved demons and forcing them to atone for their crimes, burning them out of all their fel energy, and then summon a new one.
Because I don’t see how a Lightforged Draenei would use fel themselves directly.
NOW THAT IS GOOD!
Didn’t thought of that.
The process is not tied to Naaru anymore. That was retconned at some point with BfA.
I don’t think LF draenei warlocks make much sense. Maybe if they summoned lightforged demons like that dreadlord on their ship then maybe it could be cool? But idk about it as it is now.
on my point of view, this was a big mistake. they should have either expanded the lore more around Fel and the rest of the races who weren’t Warlocks and then made this, or they could’ve gone for the Race/Class skins.
(Talking though about the rest of the races like Night elves. Now we can make Night elf Illidari Casters 
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It’s a bizarre choice that shouldve come along with a class glyph a la green fire that makes them use Lightbound demons et al instead. Going through a mega devotion-or-death Light ritual to get ultra Light infused and then using the antithesis of the Light instead of the Light is a nonsensical choice that I find irreconcilable, and that’s not even starting on the conflicting aesthetic.
This is a preety good point. Man, if only blizzard listened to the Roleplaying side of the comunity…
Your lightforged intro cinematic sees them zapped with the crystals we retrieved during the Argus campaign, so yeah, they have a new lightforging tool.
If Blizzard did that you wouldn’t be playing a gnome or mechagnome at all.
Personally I am not to bothered by it, I support every class for every race because we already play the exceptional heroes, the commanders, the champions. (EDIT: And no, we’re not giving “badRPers” more tools to badRP because we already have Eredar Lords and Ladies using the Draenei race to roam the streets of Goldshire and Stormwind or wherever).
People’ll say it removes the uniqueness from races and classes, but we’re long past that point already, there’s only like 2 or 3 unique races in the game left and all the others just mindlessly follow their orc/Forsaken and human overlords in the end, and the class homegination is a fact already too.
What I hope for is class custimisations and expansion, yes we know thag every form of magic can do everything, but what are the cultural differences between how dwarves use the Light compared to humans! Why hasn’t Blizzard gone all in on glyphs or questlines to give the night elven priests silvery/white-coloured spells?
Heck, I would even support Blizzars going every magic able to do everything is a gameplay thing and in-Lore it’s actually Fel does this, Void does that and Light does such, it’d suck that they don’t show it ingame but it’d be cool nonetheless!
I can only access my classic characters atm for some reason…
As odd as it is I think it’s good they open up warlock to more races. One reason is that you might like the class gameplay wise and as we all know, you don’t have to be a warlock ic.
Though regarding Draenei warlock I really like the idea of an Eredar having a real change of heart somewhere around the fight on Argus, sure it’s a stretch but it could be some fun rp. Better see opportunities than trying to prevent changes.
If only we knew if that’s something that can be done to create more void elves too…