It’s nice and all that they remove race/class combo restrictions eventually.
But they’re doing it too slow and some classess are almost never touched. Such as Shaman, Paladin, Demon Hunter and Druid.
I mean, why alliance has so few options for Paladins, Shamans and Druids?
Alliance has 6 Paladins, 3 Druids and 6 Shamans. While Horde has 4 Paladins, 4 Druids and 10 Shamans. Meanwhile most of the classes (except Evoker) have race/class combo restrictions removed.
As for DH’s if you refuse to open it to all races then at least give it to Void Elves for Alliance and Nightborne for Horde. Both are elves.
It’s really beyond me why we are still limited to same old and boring race choices for all four mentioned classess. I understand that druids would require more work to unlock it for every single race. But Paladins? The only necessary change is their class mount.
Unsure about shamans, perhaps they need change of how their totems look.
So please blizzard, remove race/class combo restrictions for untouched classess.
Stop using lore as excuse, otherwise you’d never have unlocked Mage to Nelves or Warlock for Draenei and so on. Also there are npcs with race/class combos in the game that are unavailable to players. You know it well.
And just to be clear, it’s a suggestion to get rid of class/combo restrictions, not a command.
To be fair, it’s a command when you dismiss any argumentation.
Well it IS an excuse and in my most humble opinion, these races should’ve never been given these classes. Unless there was a huge cultural shift in their society. What we are talking about here in some cases are millenia of exclusion from society. I would say the Night Elves given mages was a horrible implementation because it was just done on a whim after outlawing arcane arts for thousands of years.
Yes and these aren’t the norm. These are an exception. You start as an Orc in Durotar. You are in employment of the Horde, Orcish society to be clear. If Orcish society has no interest in Druidism and the laws of nature it comes alongside with, than they are not going to train new recruits.
“Nothing to promise yet, but they want to work towards a place where race isn’t a limiting factor. But the timeline is something they’ll have to be flexible on. A lot of the classes have a lot of content and lore requirements like for Paladin and Warlock.”
“Beyond that, the last few classes we haven’t really gone broad with, there are some thematic and narrative challenges with. There are some races, for example, it’s very hard to imagine being druids. I don’t know what a goblin druid or mechagnome druid would look like in Azeroth culturally, in terms of their traditional background and what the Druids of the Grove and Cenarion circle typically value and welcome in.”
I want also more class combinations be available like Undead Paladin because already one is existing in WoW, but also I don’t want weird class combination like Ion said with goblins or mecha druids… The Tauren Rogue was too much, and it just looks stupid, and people didn’t like it.
Thrall also said in Warcraft 3, that orcish society should never again deal with demonic forces and that they should move on from that dark legacy.
Yet fast forward 4 Years to WoW Vanilla and would you look at that! Orc Warlocks!
What was the explanation? They are useful! (It had probably more to do with the fact that Blizzard thought Warlock was a cool class, but who knows?!)
And about that comment about Orcs not being interested in the laws of nature…
They are…quite heavely interested I would say. Hence the existense of shamans and the whole “getting the blessing of the spirits of the land”-buisness in their ascension-ritual for young orcs.
I am fine with all classes for all races, however there should be at least a brief lore-explanation for each combo that doesn’t feel like it was rushed because they just wanted this race to have this class.
I agree. I cannot for the life of me understand why dracthyr can’t be shaman. Totems some people say but it’s not that hard. Just use some in game assets
The orcish society might not have had interest in druidism in the past. They also didn’t work together with elves, forsaken etc in the past.
Trolls and (blood) elves weren’t exactly friendly. But then they became allies in tbc.
As societies deal with external threats, they cooperate, learn from eachother.
You are the same type of person who would say “we as a society didn’t need these motor vehicles before, why would we be interested in them? Our horses worked perfectly for hundreds of years!” In the early 20th century.
I used to think this but not too sure anymore. If that was their intention they wouldn’t have just unlocked only a few classes for Dracthyr in this patch, they would have unlocked all.
I really hope they do though, starting with goblins in The Undermine(d), which is the PERFECT time. Please Blizzard!
Sometimes I feel alone being the only one remaining who still want lore element and fantasy be part of the game, and not letting it become a modern generic mmo.
And like Thrall said to Malfurion once:
“Demand from nature like druids do? We ask the elements and accept no as answer. We do not force nature to our will.”