Please allow more race/class combinations in Anniversary TBC.
For example Tauren Paladins and Dwarf Shamans along with other combos.
This would have some impact on PVP balance obviously which might upset some but I would say overall it would bring much needed variety to the game and perhaps offer some more reasons for people to come back and enjoy it.
And yes I did mention Taurens for a reason because I am a lifelong beef enjoyer.
Nether Dwarf shamans nor Tauren paladins belong in tbc, they have shaky lore at best even in future expansions and no lore at all existing in tbc.
If you are the Serfin that has a couple of every healing class we did a few raids togetherâŚ
I wouldnât mind playing another race for pala but only if we get tauren warlocks too
Iâve been known for having a lot of healers especially in wotlk classic, raided with 14 chars there 8 of them either mainspec or offspec healers.
And yes make Taurens great again, open all classes to them please blizzard.
Taurens canât be paladins. Itâs against lore. If anything, they should allow blood elf druids as this has real lore justifications.
Getting harder to tell if these posts are satire or not
Nah I think at least most are here with real intentions, I get the lore argument itâs just not something I care about myself Iâve played this game from 2005 so mixing it up a bit is not a bad thing in my books.
I just want more variety while others clearly have an issue with it affecting their immersion.
The fact Humans canât be hunters and Dwarfs canât be mages and warlocks is already a massive lore contradiction, so frankly, any arguments for a missing lore for a class combination are just as moot in my book.
So by all means, add away in any upcoming non-era release.
Taurens should be able to be priest and/or paladin. How else can you explain âholy cow!â
Itâs a form of mockery of God
Wildhammer Dwarves are a thing, also Dark Iron Dwarves have shamans. Itâs not a contradiction. Also, how do you explain that Dwarves canât be mages or warlocks and that humans canât be hunters or that trolls canât be druid?, lol.
Depends where this anniversary ride is going I think.
If itâs their path to a wrath era which should have happened when classic Cata came along then sorry but I think they should keep it as is, sucks but itâs ending as wrath era.
If however if thatâs not the case sure go for it.
You are nether a Wildhammer nor a Dark Iron Dwarf, before Cata the wildhammers were not considered to be shamans as far as I know, and the Dark Irons were not really shamans ether (see the total lack of totems) closer to some sort of warlocks actually all though I could see them being seen as shamans thanks to their summoning of Rag.
Magic resistant race, no time in the lore before cata there were dwarf mages (they planed to maybe add dwarf mages in vanilla though but they didnt) and the light was at least back in that lore not based on the same sort of energies that arcane or fel magic is based on but on faith.
That one is the only one that I cant give you lore reasons for, but I can give you the actual reason for it, no race was allowed more than 6 classes. Thats the reason humans cant be hunters.
They worship the loa, and while Cenarious is later on conflated with the loa somewhat it was through him the night elfs became druids. Tauren druids are already on shaky grounds when it comes to the lore but they do worship nature and might have also had contact whit a nature demi god somewhere in their past so its not as much of a stretch as troll druids are, but to simplify why trolls cant be druids Loa are not the same as pure nature demigods they are aspects of nature so while they could transform their worshipers into something resembeling their form they cant teach people to transform into animals, just look at the bosses in Zul Gurub they dont transform into a spider, a bat, a tiger, a snake or a panther but into humanoid versions of those things, a druid would turn into said animal instead. (and to counter the worgen thing that might crop up, Goldrinn was not cannon until Cata as the comics were never canon and without Goldrinn being canon the explanation for the Worgen is that they were created by the scythe of elune alone and Elune is not and have never been a nature god)
What about pvp ?
extra stun to a paladin ?? like you said this would just make everyone rr tauren . A break game.
I agree with your post mostly, except for this bit. Both Wildhammers and Dark Irons are shown to use arcane and fel extensively. It is true you donât have an ironforge dwarf explicitly casting I donât think, but you got a Wildhammer in Blasted lands performing a scrying ritual while residing in a mage tower, Gerrig Bonegrip talks about spellcasting in his quests, and the mad dwarf he sends you to regarding the hand/star/belt quest is quiet obvuously arcane spellcaster gone wrong.
Not to mention arcane, fire, shadow casting darkiron enemies are a complete staple in their ranks, thereâs even a boss in the BRD vault using frostbolts and nova. So yeah, I donât think it is far fetched at all to have ironforge mages and warlocks, possibly studying under Wildhammer or even Dark Iron master who is not in Ragnarosâ thrall.
My point was, Blizzard clearly restricted class choices for balance, not just lore reasons.
I dont want to see tauren paladins or rogues. I want to play wow classic and no retail nonsense.
Ah yes I did primarily talk about the Ironforge/Bronzebeards there,
I had kinda forgotten about those, but just because they are magic resistant doesnât mean that they cant do it just that they are not that likely to do it.
The possibility is there for sure but there wouldnât be enough of them to lore wise allow the theoretically massive amounts that would run around thanks to players.
And that is the actual thing here, just like why humans cant be hunters, almost all the reasons why race a cant be class x comes down to balance reasons, with a few outliers being lore based reasons (like for example why no horde race can be paladins, the Forsaken cant be because the light would lore wise kill them, and no other horde race even know how the light works until TBC where the blood elfs arent even paladins really but Blood Knights that drain their light magic from a being made of pure light anways)
Maybe lore inaccurate, but for me, gameplay always trumps lore.
Having a second race outside of blood elf that can be paladin, be it tauren or undead, would be good for the game. In TBC paladins can be tank, and tanks are always in demand. It wonât solve outright the tank shortage on its own, but if it provide a couple of percentage more tanks in the player pool, thatâs a plus.
Dwarf or even night elf shamans doesnât shock me either.
Personally i would go even further and tweak some classes around here and there, nothing big, just a few percentages here, add an ability there. In particular, i would do away with the infamous âhybrid taxâ.
Weâre heading on TBC in a few month and we already know which classes are going to dominate the parse, which tank is best for what, which healer is best for what.
It would be fun to shake up a bit the meta, re-learn what we think we know.
But i donât think this is going to happen anyway.
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