Yesterday I began a post about the QQ going on over the new Class/Race combos coming up in WoW next expansion. With complaints about breaking Lore or screwing Draenei. So i began giving lore-based reasoning behind the new classes, covering Orc Mages, Human and Undead Hunters, Tauren Priest and Pallies, and Troll Druids. Today I will cover the remaining Classes.
Blood Elf Warrior - The only reason they don't exist is because originally things only allow for each race to have six classes, which also could explain the lack of human hunters. We all know they exist. Everyone has seen the Silvermoon Guardians and most people know of Spell Breakers from Warcraft III. A protection warrior using spell reflect and shattering throw, plus arcane torrent sounds like mage-bane to me.
Dwarf Mage - First of from what I've read Dwarf Mages existed during the intial beta period of WoW, now mind you that I was not playing during the beta or much of vanilla WoW at all I will say that it's not surprising. Dwarf Mages exist in game already most being affiliated with the Kirin Tor or Dark Iron dwarves. Furthermore they have a close relationship with Gnomes who are well established mages and humans. If you take into account Rune Magic, which is titan created so obviously made for dwarves then Dwarf mages are a given.
Dwarf Shaman - They exist, and have existed since so one created the Lore for dwarves, specifically the War of the Three Hammers. This essential bit of lore explains the origins of the three dwarf clans: Bronzebeard/Ironforge, Wildhammer, and Dark Iron. The Wildhammer are a particularly interesting case. Settling on Aerie Peak you could call them Hill Dwarves. They strayed away from the industrial style of other dwarves becoming closer to nature. They are the reason the Alliance Have Griffons and they are the original Dwarf Shamans. What's to stop them from teaching their Ironforge Brethren. Add to that the very nature of dwarves, being creatures carved from the earth, and the plethora of iron dwarf shaman blanketing Northrend anyone who says dwarf shamans don't make sense is an idiot, and its surprising the number of people who don't know about Wildhammer Dwarves, and if your alliance, they want their griffons back.
Night Elf Mages - Another class that lorewise already exists, or existed. The big reasoning behind night elves not having mages is they blame arcane magic for the sundering, and the first invasion of the burning legion. In truth though it was not the magic itself but its users that posed the problem, not taking into account the possible old god living in the well of eternity angle from War of the Ancients, which brings use to the reason for them being reintroduced. Highborne were night elf nobles and gifted in the arcane arts. Majority of the highborne either fallowed Queen Azshara and became Naga or followed Dath'Remar Sunstrider and became High Elves (later Blood Elves) but it would seem that some just went into hiding. With the new, alliance version of an injured colleague revealing a Highborne Mage seeking an audience with Tyrande Whisperwind. With their entry into the alliance they have been met by responsible spellcasters such as the Kirin Tor and thus may be more open to the return of mages of their own, besides druids already use arcane spell, i.ei moonfire.
Gnome Priest - This one is sort of like troll druids with there being not a lot of lore behind it. Gnomes are described as practical and things like religion were a bit to abstract for them. though they did have healers they were more like doctors than priests. However there have been lots of developements with gnome lore in WotLK, and with them living in ironforge it wouldn't be much of a stretch for them to follow the holy light or develope a religion of there own to tap into its power, though that doesn't mean we'll be getting gnome paladins, just be happy with your warriors and death knights.
and will stop there. Finishing up tomorrow with a look at worgen and goblin classes from a lore perspective.
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