I recently read from the forums that tauren paladin class and race combo is “spitting the lore in the face” and is one of the worst possible combinations. But no explanation was given. I’d like to hear some reasoning behind this.
In my personal opinion tauren paladins fit good into the lore with them having their own sunwalker order.
This is HumanDin lore problem.
You see over there in the alliance the vast majority is forum dwelling, whining and complaining about everything without playing the game and at the end they got a faction of RP’ers that realized they are so behind in PVE raiding progress and they decided to even whine about that.
Id pick a tauren over a human 100%
Tauren paladins are great! And every tauren paladin I’ve met was a really nice guy, under that pile of fur. So adventure on and don’t listen to the nay’sayers! Ahoy!
Not sure why tbh. Beneath their tough and bestial exterior is some of the kindest and warm-hearted races out there. To think some of them follow the Light isn’t that ludicrous at all.
So I say go for it, and who cares what others say.
People have forgotten about Tauren ever since we had Zandalari, they are the new “doesn’t fit as paladin”.
What people forget is that all of these races have a paladin tradition in their history zandalari existed as paladins long before the human traditions was even established as for the tauren they worship the right eye of the Earth mother aka the sun hence the name Sum Walker the problem is that people like to forget about these facts and like to push the few that unless you are a human paladin or a dwarf paladin specifically from the silver hand then you’re not a real paladin. When realistically what’s happening is Blizzard is taking each of these backgrounds and religious traditions and just generalising them as paladin rather than making 10 different separate classes that are light weilding warriors. It’s case of generalisation to fit gameplay but all of them are technically paladins and people who say otherwise they are either willfully ignorant or just picking and choosing the parts of the lore that they like and ignoring others
Imagine coming to the forums to make fun of people about their PVE progress and you only completed normal mode yourself.
Pathetic, get out.
Because we are not moldy potatoes or ooga booga people, we belong to the alliance
Before you even spew out your nonsense learn how to check armories properly:
Armory/Achievements/Dungeons and Raids/Battle Raid/ 11/12 mythic
Its an alt, if i log in the forums with a lvl 10 alt you will request me to level it up to chat humandin?
You cant imagine how much, yes 
I doesn’t make sense because you can’t walk on the sun. Sun is a giant ball of gas. It’s not solid, it’s made of hydrogen and helium. Altough it’s relatively cold on the surface (1/3000th of core temprature) it’s still not cold enough for a walk. You didn’t walk on the sun, no tauren ever been close to the sun. You just made the whole thing up.
Killed carapace today and did my first few pulls on mythic nzoth. Wow is he a pain. How are you finding him?
Well, it depends on the class and on the raid ofc.
Just to get a slight idea of my PoV, try it without using any of your immunities and without using freedom. That is like playing a Hpriest 
My Hpala co-healer had 0 problems with it because the class has the tools.
I dont understand what that means to be honest
“How are you finding it?” is an English colloquialism and means “tell us about your experience of this thing”. He’s asking what it’s been like for you fighting carapace.
Anyway, on subject.
Some don’t like Tauren Paladins because they don’t fit the stereotypical D&D mould for the classic Paladin. They don’t fit the Warcraft human paladin tradition, either, and some feel they were shoehorned into the game to balance the factions a bit which yeah, is valid. But it’s also Blizzard’s game and if they want to expand on or change the lore, they can, regardless of what others may think.
It’s also worth pointing out that, for story purposes, they are technically not “Paladins”, they are Sunwalkers - martial warriors who worship the sun and use its powers to fight evil and restore health, rather than worshipping the moon and nature like their more Druidic brethren. The powers work very similarly to that of Paladins, though, and obstensibly are the same, although from a source other than the “light”, hence why they were allowed to join the Paladin class hall in Legion.
Sunwalkers came about because after the fall of the Lich King, Aponi Brightmane, who was a warrior, was talking with Tahu Sagewind, a druid, and came to the revelation the tauren druids worshipped the moon because that’s what the night elves did, but above all else tauren worship the earth mother and the earth mother has two eyes: the sun and the moon.
They realised that the tauren had neglected to worship the sun in the same way they had the moon and to truly balance nature, as druids strive to do, they had to balance their worship.
By balancing their worship, they were granted access to special powers which made them Sunwalkers and Seers.
For gameplay purposes, the Sunwalkers, led by Aponi, are Paladins and the Seers, led by Tahu, are priests with the exact same spell names and animations because Blizzard are lazy and don’t do race/class specific versions of things very often.
They do have one Sunwalker themed spell, though: Light of Dawn. What happens at dawn? The sun comes out. 
A very well written reply.
Thanks! It would have been better if I’d posted it on my tauren paladin rather than my human one! 
Sunwalker for life.
Paladin - rip off of the crusaders of history, armoured in plate etc
Tauren - Rip off of american indians, apache , primative technology and animatism etc, got nothing in common with paladins at all.
1 it’s a game 2 it’s already explained in the story.
If your just going to ignore the story then you are basically trolling
Here, have a hug my hairy Sunwalker bro: /hug 
What did you just say little pink pixie? Zandalari have their own order! We’re religious priest caste that has their own order and own practices.
If by “fitting” you mean beingcopy cats of Humans’ Ligh Church then ye, only belves fit if you want to parrot humans.
If you want to be your own thing that still fits the “Holy warrior” trope without mimicing Alliance, then Zandalari are the best fit.
Tauren are imo nice concept, but it was badly implemented and they don’t have that much plate options to fit them, tauren also don’t have temples and strict military code as far as I know to fully get Paladin vibe.
Actually that was not my opinion but how many people feel like.
On that topic though, blood elves might be more different than humans than Zandalari are. Blood knights don’t beseech the light or any deity. Faith is completely optional for a bloodknight. They use the light for the good of Quel’thalas the same way mages use arcane. Its simply a tool, nothing more, nothing less.
The only similarity between a human and blood elf paladin is appearance.