Why Can’t Humans Be Shamans Yet?

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I want to bring up a question that has been bothering many players for a long time: why can’t humans be shamans yet?

If we look at recent class expansions in the game, we can see that logic is sometimes thrown out the window. For example, tauren can be rogues now, despite obvious physical limitations. Dracthyr, a race that literally just emerged in this world, have already mastered the arts of rogues, priests, and even hunters (including taming beasts), despite having no previous connection to these traditions.

Yet somehow, humans—who have lived alongside dwarves, draenei, and orcs (all of whom have shamans)—haven’t been able to learn shamanism in 20 years? Seriously?

Shamanism isn’t just a “racial” trait of specific peoples. It’s an art of interacting with spirits, natural forces, and the elements. In the real world, shamanism has existed across many cultures, including Slavic, Siberian, Native American, African, and Asian traditions.

I personally visited the Altai Mountains about 15 years ago, in a mystical place where local shamans performed rituals to summon weather changes. And guess what? Those shamans were human.

So why, in the lore of World of Warcraft, do humans—who have a deep history, spirituality, and contact with multiple shamanic races—remain incapable of walking this path?

I ask the developers to reconsider allowing humans to become shamans, based on logic, historical context, and the overall evolution of class diversity in the game. Thank you for your time.

P.S. I’m new to the forum, if there is a special section for suggestions where there is a possibility that Blizzard will see it - tell me where to write

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what looks like human shaman totem?

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I feel that is a trick question :firecracker:

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to be honest human shaman is a must.
in most media or other video games.
stories.
even in real life we have human shamans.

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Ye but the human shaman totem, thats a trick question. Cmon bro :joy:

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how about a shaped rock.
like those big big statues infront of stormwind.
like putting one of those small statues on the ground.
or or one of those yoga things.
it will be good

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Tauren have coolest totems but I only like orc shaman :dracthyr_a1:

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real life totem looks cool

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Honestly i think we already have enough race/class combination’s. We do not need more in my opinion.

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Fascinating. Did they also have flying mounts?

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Step 1: Roll a Kul Tiran.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit.

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The one and only reason why some older races still can’t be all classes is assets. Not lore, not story, not quests that they feel the need to develop. The evidence is here: the only race-restricted classes still left in the game are precisely those which have race-specific effects in their spellbooks.

Two new races are an exception that will be overcome in the nearest future. Probably, sooner than humans will be allowed to become shamans…

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We just have to wait. :man_shrugging:

Of course we got all the lazy/easy classes first because they don’t have to do something for rogues,priests or warlocks.
But for druids, shamans and paladins they have to do druid forms, totems and mounts.

In the future there will be human druids, shamans, worgen shamans, gnome druids, paladin and shamans. Probably undead paladin and druids too.

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Long ago I wanted Worgen be shaman. Since it’s fits wolf spirit power

But humans could too. Like we had in real life native-americans used shamans

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Miniature Stormwind Bastions with different bonfires on top

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I suggest learning to be sarcastic or witty first.

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Did it work? I mean if it didn’t that could be a reason why we don’t have human shaman ingame yet :no_mouth:

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This is advanced level but don’t worry, I’ll dumb it down for you next time :dracthyr_hehe:

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Because humans in WoW, the playable one, are based on medieval Europeans, who revered Christianity (the light). It’s just not their culture.

Orcs are loosely based on a various mix of cultures that include those tribalistic cultures you summed up. They vary from germanic barbarians to vikings, to the celts, the gauls and the huns/mongols.

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You can’t make real world parallels in this case, for the same reason the 2017 film, Bright, didn’t do as well. You can’t make comparison between real life where we’re all one species, and fantastic worlds where there are literal different species without sounding like you’re a fan of certain Austrian man from the early 20th century.

So consider your arguments carefully.

I will give you that Tauren and Draenei rogues sound really silly for sure, but you misunderstood the Dracthyr class choices. They literally added bits of lore, explaining rather eloquently (for once) how this happened. They’re not new Evokers that changed class, they’re Dracthyr that always had these abilities as they were created with different roles in mind.

This whole forum is an echo chamber for the players, Blizzard won’t be reading any of this! :upside_down_face: