I personally don’t see any reason why any race should be disbarred from being a rogue. It’s a general sneaky class. This hoof stuff is silly
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It’s a good excuse when you are a natural walking lightbulb
No it is not and we’re not even talking about Lightforged Draenei 
But since you’re bringing them up they can camouflage.
my point is that the draenei especially, generally have a moral code thus why thy cannot be warlocks either.
This may get awkward if they are allowing lightforged death knights tho…
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Draenei not having Warlocks has nothing to do with morals.
Draenei Warlocks would be offensive to the lore considering their past with the Legion and that those that became Warlocks became part of the Legion and are known as Man’ari Eredar.
Rogue is totally different class. Unlike Draenei Warlocks that don’t exist (only Man’ari), Draenei Rogues do exist.
Goats sneaking, stab ppl to the death and use shadow magic as an attack, now I’ve heard it all
Only now? Should have payed attention to WoD then.
Don’t think of rogues as only burglars and thieves, they are often represented as talented assassins for good and bad motives. It’s not an honor issue since many times draenei kill their enemies discretely or by using sneaky tactics.
If that bothers you much, wait until you see vulperas and pandas DKs and come back to tell us about it.
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Theres a difference between being sneaky and being downright underhanded.
To be fair, although I joked about hooves, the Satyr have managed to have sneaky rogue types for years and they have hooves.
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Anyone can be a dk and spread diseases no matter what class. No one is immune to diseases themself and it spreads.
TBF with all this ridiculous lore because Blizzard can literally justify anything, I just dont care anymore.
There are a lot of nay-sayers but I am just here laughing of how far the lore has gone, might as well play “Blizzard will make -X- canon” Bingo with options pulled out of my ar$e.
Example: Pandaren Death Knights
So, sure, why not. Make Draenei Rogue happen. Its actually pretty plausible.
Well, as others have pointed out, Draenei -do- have Rogues, in the format of the Rangari. I mean you could roll Hunter, take Camouflage, but to be honest that only lasts a minute and has a cooldown. You don’t have to be an Assassin or a ‘bad person’ to have Stealth. I mean Mathias Shaw is a Rogue, and whilst he uses underhand tactics, he’s not exactly ‘Evil’, same goes for Kelsey Steelspark, Veleera Sanguinar, SI:7 and G.C.O.
Basically we know lorewise that Draenei can be Rogues, it seems an odd take to assume they can’t, I mean a Scout or Ranger could be a Rogue, No evil needed.
Tauren likewise, We -know- they can be Rogues, a la the Grimtotem, but if you also look at the cultures they are (not exactly loosely) based on, said cultures were renowned for using stealth. I can confirm that Tauren and Draenei both have stealth animations, you see them when using the Camouflage ability.
Hooves just don’t come into it, nor does size, many have cited the Satyr, which is a good example, as they’re about the same size as Tauren and Draenei.
Basically ain’t no lore or even practical reason why they couldn’t be…
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Because humans sometimes are unprincipled. Draenei are the exiles of eradar. Draenei follow the light as principle.
If we had eradar as a race that would be different.
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I don’t know, I would feel weird about Draenei to a less extent but especially Tauren rogues. While yes, rogues aren’t necessarily ‘evil’ they are definitely not one of the good guy classes either, they use many underhanded/dirty tactics and their fighting style doesn’t really fit their cultures. Class restrictions also doesn’t necessarily come from ability but more so from the culture. (For example Night Elves not being able to be mages until the Cataclysm, as mages were outlawed amongst them based on the Highborne’s actions.)
While I understand some of your opinions differs from Blizzard’s (and in this case my) opinion on these class-race combos they are the creators of this world, and as such they have agency over deciding how flexible the customs of these people are. We have so many races that can be rogues, why is it such an issue if we have these few restrictions? I wish people would stop fighting every single restriction and just accept that some of them make sense and would try to understand why they make sense instead of fighting them tooth and nail.
“How does a tauren hide in a cherry tree?”
What cinematic?
Because they can be Rogues but for 0 reasons Blizzard doesn’t let them be playable.
It is specially an issue when I wanted to make a Draenei Rogue as 1st character when I started and was super disappointed that they weren’t available when they do exist.
Saying Draenei shouldn’t be Rogues is like saying Zandalari shouldn’t be Warlocks. Yes they should.
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Oh you wanted to make one? That changes everything that I said then, they should immediately release them as playable.
I enjoy how you ignored everything I said about culture, about usually the class not being an issue of ability, but went on to say they can be. Sure they can. Not many around but they can. However NONE of the Draenei currently part of the alliance are rogues nor do they show any inclination towards it. Doesn’t fit their culture. Akama had to adapt to a broken world and other than him (who’s technically a Broken rather than Draenei) there’s no big rogue characters to speak of amongst the Draenei. Just accept that their culture does not cultivate rogues for the time being despite them having the ability to be one. (Debatable but most likely physically possible but spiritually not compatible with them.)
By disguising themselves as the trunk/tree branches.