Yet Kul Tirans do practice it, and Worgens as well (and they’ve been trained relatively recently), so it’s definetely possible within a single human lifespan…
Well elves are all but one race now, they’re even more fractured than humans. AND, they know a few things more about power abuse than humans. Tyrande becoming a night warrior shows they aren’t over it yet by the way… and when he was alive, Varian has shown how to be a better leader than her many times. So yea, I would definetely try and trust a few selected ones, much like what already happened with worgens. Besides, even if the teacher wasn’t a night elf, it could still be a Worgen, or a Kul Tiran in the end
There’s no lore reason why they couldn’t be druids by now.
Humans have been hanging around with druid-able races for years and years.
But it’s a game design thing.
Making unique forms for different races costs a lot of time and resources.
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Not only you’d need to create new models, might need some new animations also. I think the zandalari moonkin form had a bunch of new animations to it.
Anyways I don’t want them to just slap druids on all races and be like “there done”. Have a major event happen that would make it make sense in story and lorewise.
I mean they are one of the oldest races in the alliance along with the draenei, so I do not see how joining an alliance could change that. Considering their life time and the time spent in the alliance.
Kul tirans practice drust druidism, which is distinct from NE druidism. Also it is not recent at all, since it has been a long tradition in their island.
As for worgen they have been afflicted with worgen curse which is a form of shapeshifting that removes their autonomy. What the NE did to them is train them in a way that they learn the basics of shapeshifting in order to “control” their worgen form. Think of it like druidism 101 for dummies, and the NE gave the crash course to gilneans that had the curse.
As far as I know the stormwind humans have no reason at all to start delving into druidism since it offers no tangible benefit for them in the short term. In the long term if their culture assimilate individuals that get close to the NE might show interest and try to learn to be druids (more often than not those are young people of newer generation).
PS. All of the above is from a cultural viewpoint why it makes sense to not have Stormwind human druids. I do not believe that we should NOT have them in game. In my opinion almost all races should be able to play as all classes.
I know, but what I’m saying is that if SW humans really wanted, they could also learn drust druidism from Kul tirans, and they should be able to train within a single human lifespan since Kul tirans are human too. They’d have to learn their culture, sure, but if they really wanted they could
Well, the obvious answer is, they not really wanted
I mean druidism is primitive, tribal, most of the time such things are looked down (the Gilnean “Harvest-witches” and the Kul Trian “Thornspeakers” are shady at best, was not really respected at all)
You have sophisticated and advanced Arcane after all, powerfull Magi with a whole magical kingdom, civilised magic
Cultural background is important here - and from the other humans point of view, druids not really saved anyone or helped, while “true magic”? Yep.
I mean all of the races Humans know and have druids? Ended up almost extinct.
Gilenans (honorary mention, they ended up cursed and lost their kingdom - if anyone knew about the Harvest-witches at all…)
Night Elves
Tauren
Probbably not even knew about the Kul Tiran druids, their main profile was the Tidesages, sea priests
Don’t underestimate the power of Human arrogance
And that’s absolutely fine, there aren’t the cultural premises for them to actually want to be Druids, or shamans, or whatever, but it’s not something they couldn’t do (like any race really, I’m taking humans just as an example).
Hence as Tah was saying, it’s really just an ingame reason, otherwise any race could learn anything given the interest, yet we don’t have them because no, that’s how wow was conceived as a game of horde vs alliance roles balance, if you want. In time though, it’s reasonable to think every class could open up to any race.
Yes, although they wouldn’t even need to learn their culture. Also they could even learn from NE. The problem is not that humans CANNOT, it is just that they do not NEED to.
Exactly as you describe.
When you create a new human character, the classes that are available to choose from, are taken from the professions around that area that would be logical for a new adventurer to get training for. It is strictly a cultural reason (in lore).
Technically you could be the son of Human migrants that grew up in ironforge and took a liking to shamanism from dark iron dwarves, so he spent his time learning from them (and they were willing). But that is an exception in lore, we as players are playing the norm.
Yeah only classes that could be abit weird would be ones that are explicitly opposed:
Void elf paladins, undead paladins/druids, lightforged warlocks/dh. Not that those would be impossible, just that blizz would be really pressed to find a way to make them make sense lore wise.
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Devs have said they plan to unlock all class/race combos. But classes that have class specific forms and mounts will take a bit longer cause they need to build assets for them.
So, yes, human druid should eventually happen. Worgen and Kultirans already are, so it will happen eventually.
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