To seemingly take a break from the usual normal threads of recent days, I thought it would be fun to just sit back, relax and talk about some of our personal favorite race/class combos. This could be the RP possibilities or the lore behind a specific race class/combo.
Some of my personal favorites are: Blood Elf Hunter: Farstrider lore is great. I do have a Void Elf Hunter, but I did play a Blood elf hunter is Legion and the idea of a Farstrider of Silvermoon, once worked under Sylvanas - their is a lot of backstory for them and the RP potential of Blood Elf Hunters is brilliant. Night Elf Mage: I do love RPâing a Highborne Arcanist from the Empire and see how she changes her views on the ever-changing world. Her stance on Darnassus was interesting to play out.
I also love Highborne lore in general. It probably wonât happen, but Iâd love to see Dire Maul (EldreâThalas) restored to Elven glory. Blood Elf Warlock: Sunfury/Sunblade/Sun Hawk (Not Briganteâs guild, put your swords away) lore of TBC has always interested me and how Blood Elves controlled Fel Magic and wielded it. Nightborne Priest: I love RPâing a Nightborne Scholar and I feel that Nightborne Priest bring out the idea of a âScholarâ in the best way possible. The first Night Elves to study the Well of eternity were considered Priests, Seers and Scholars and I used this to build up Leiâliahâs character as she went from being a former Priestess of the Empire, to becoming a Scholar. She was a Scholar of the Nightwell, before Elisandeâs madness.
I do have others, but what are yourâs. You donât need to list them all
Pandaren Monk is a natural fit. Nightboi Mage is another. The most outlandish fit I like though is probably a Pandaren Warrior, due to having to master so many weapons and learning to wear armour. Itâs a stark contrast to the monkâs way of being the weapon
Troll priest: Because it is a good combo IC and gameplay wise.
Vulpera Shaman: The totems + plus how useful the ability to call on water would be in a desert. you could call upon the water deep underground and call it to the surface for your allies and mounts.
Tauren Hunter: My first character (a kodo master) was a tauren Hunter.
Caucasian Accountant: My favourite race/class combo in Workplaces & Bosses, I like the buff it gives to popularity loss so you rarely lose popularity if you say something stupid. I called mine Patrick.
Night Elf Mage, for the reason you stated above. I didnât really see the appeal of RPâing a Highborne until I actually gave it a shot! I love progressing on this character, about her views on the world, etc.
Night Elf Druid.
Tauren Warrior.
Nightborne Warlock.
Night Elf Druid has to be one of my favourites. One could say itâs basic and not-original, but the variety, history and depth of the class is really fun to play around with. Also the way they interact with different kinds of environment is really coolâŚ
Anyway, Iâve always liked the idea of Dark Iron Paladin despite not levelling my own past 59 due to the idea of having him revere the current Firelord instead of bowing to the Light, a dwarf too set in his ways after the fall of Ragnaros who has no interest in turning to the Light and becoming much like a âclassicâ or âstereotypicalâ paladin
Admittedly this probably isnât that unique of an idea, but I like it anyway
Tauren Shaman is probably my favorite class combo.
It fits their culture so well, and the aesthetics of some transmogs really do as well. Thereâs just something about a Tauren calling on the spirits to crisp someone up with bolts of lightning or crack the earth open beneath someone to drop them in some lava. Itâs a break from their usual calm ways we are shown.
Seems a wierd fit but hear me out. In his quest to master chi and its subsequent healing properties, Doctor Paxmillian Bingham has always just fallen short, because his mind works in a way that just doesnât allow chi to fit fully. Itâs an immeasurable concept, hard to define. It stems from within, but all he sees inside are flesh and bones and chemicals.
Such studies eventually take him to a place where he figures maybe he can utilise the âinner powerâ of the body by manipulating how the various chemicals and electrical activity within it manifest and are used. Thereâs only so much within his own however⌠UnlessâŚ
Unless he had a body which was somehow able to store and utilise rawer forms of power in higher amounts. Like a machine! Then he could use the power within! Itâd be just the same as mastering chi, right? In his mind at least!
A happy consequence is replacing limbs with mechanical ones that can throw punches far quicker than his own ever could, due to the wonders of science!
I agree.
For me as well, I loved seeing ZinâAzshari in the Warbringer, because as both a Highborne and Blood Elf fan, when I saw ZinâAzshari, many linked it to Suramar, which is fair - however I thought of Silvermoon and what the first Elves of QuelâThalas crafted.
The link between what the Highborne Mages built with ZinâAzshari and what their descendants built with Silvermoon and QuelâThalasâŚyou can see the links.
Goblin tinkerers always strike me as a really fun combination, albeit a little cliche. But then again, I love cliches. Goblin tinkerers stand out to me because they have that classic idea of âHm! Size matters not!â with all the wonderful toys that techgineers rock in their utility belts. The goblin in a shredder is just too wonderful to not love.
The other aspect that I love about the goblin tinkerer over the similar concept of the gnome engineer is how goblin tinkerers can be just as ingenious as gnomes, but the race in general has that one aspect that makes them very different. Goblin greed!
I love the way goblins try to pinch every penny, no matter what. Using salvaged scrap and spare parts of questionable origins, leading into wonderful malfunctions and complications. The goblin tinkerer, in my eyes, is much more like a seedy garage worker, rather than a professional engineer. That image of goblins trying to make terrible, broken crap work for them is just so wonderful.
That, paired with the questionable morals of many goblins that push them towards pollution heavy, explosion inducing, downright nasty ideas for their tactics in business, warfare and inventions is what makes me love them so much.
(edit: I guess I was supposed to pick an actual class in the game, but this was what popped in my mind. And hey, maybe that tinker class is actually coming in the near future. Who knows!)
