Senseless QQ

So i was reading the forums and there's a massive thread full of complaints about new class/race combos in the upcoming WoW expansion, Cataclysm. A big beef is with Blizzard breaking Lore, which in itself in impossible. To be Honest the closest you come is a retcon and this isn't even close to that. What does happen is lore evolves just like history, and with new discoveries things change. So lets get started with my personal lore breakdown for new classes, based on current lore and personal opinion.

Orc Mage - Not a big jump. To be fair the orcs when from shaman to warlock in a sense they skipped the stage where they learned arcane magic in the first place, Mage. Warlocks are described as be extreme. Taking that final step over to the darkside. As orcs are in a period of healing and growing as a race, why is it surprising that some warlocks would shrink back from the darker arts essential becoming mages? Furthermore there are ample teachers around to guide them, Trolls, Undead, Blood Elves, Kirin Tor, even Jaina Proudmore so what's stopping them? Nothing.

Undead Hunter - OK for anyone who forgot, the Banshee Queen of the Forsaken Sylvanas Windrunner is the former Ranger-General of Silvermoon, i.e. a hunter. Add to that the dark rangers added during WotLK, plus Nathanos Blightcaller undead hunters are even more likely than human ones.

Human Hunters - This one doesn't quite make sense to have not existed in the first place. My guess is that it occurred for the same reason Blood Elves didn't have warriors, Humans already had 6 classes. Hunter was at the bottom of the Human lore latter so it got the ax. Lore reasoning was the last human ranger lord Nathanos Marris disappeared (becoming Forsaken along with his mentor Sylvanas) so how do you reintroduce them? Well there's plenty of ways. You could have some really old human ranger resurface to revive the art, or a hidden student of Nathanos could emerge, or you could have someone teach them. Alleria Windrunner, Shandris Feathermoon, Hemet Nesingwary any of them could reintoduce humans to Hunterdom.

I will take a moment here to address some QQ that is common. Why can't so-and-so be so-and-so? The short answer because Blizzard says so. Of course theres more to it than that. The big one are Undead Paladins and the ignorance of Draenei in the expansion. Undead Paladins can't occur plain and simple. Paladins are immune to the plague, and if you want to call Arthas you lose because he was never infected. He besame undead through the power of Frostmourne and Ner'zhul. For the Draenei not recieving a new class the remaining classes Warlock, Rogue, and Druid don't really fit. Warlock especially because it would make them no better than there demonic cousins. Rogues I could see for Broken as could i see Druids, druids would be the most likely by far, however blizzard tries to maintain a balance with hybrids keeping them realatively equal though shamans historically have had one more option than paladins, which continues into wrath. So for draenei to get druids either worgen druids get the ax or horde get a new druid. (Blood Elves have druids in game already, but they already have 8 classes so i'd go for orcs, which would make a good opposite for Draenei lorewise) As for Worgen Druids, i don't see them going anywhere. Blizzard has hinted than Worgen may originate on azeroth, not some far off world, but in the distant past and are connected to Druids this way, furthermore the trailer says and old ally resurfaces to bring worgen into the alliance and shows a Night Elves, not Humans, approaching. If i had any guess I'd say the one leading them is the long missing Velinde Starsong, Former wielder of the Scythe of Elune which had the power to summon worgen. She is may or may not predate Arugal in summon Worgen. Now back to the original topic.

Tauren Priest and Paladins - OK, before I begin I must make one point clear. Being a priest or paladin does NOT mean you follow the holy light, only that you use it's power. This applies to Humans, Dwarves, Blood Elves, to a lesser extent Forsaken who follow a more twisted version in the Forgotten Shadow, and possibly Gnomes. Night Elves Priests are members of the Sisters of Elune (Yes even the guys) and elune using Elunes power. While Trolls, heal with power from Loa Gods (Zabra Hexx represents an exception which will and should always exist). This means that the religion of the holy light itself is not what gives power to priest or paladins. An'she is the right eye of the Earthmother and sister of Mu'sha, or the sun to the us non-tauren. So then who is this Mu'sha, why the moon or as the Night Elves call her Elune. For anyone who cares about lore the quest and Injured Colleague would have been awesome, Here a druid discusses the lack of balance in night elf styled druidism. If tauren had been druids since the beginning of time why would they, a diurnal race, place so much in the moon and not the sun? Which leads into the introduction of the Sunwalkers tauren priestly order. Now as a side know An'she and the holy light may very well be one and the same, just as Mu'sha and Elune represent the same being, however it is the power of light that tauren are wielding and not the power of the Holy Light, that's for the "pretty" races.

Troll Druids - This one came out of left field, but for me a Troll fan is a dream come true. As you can see by the name of the blog i'm a fan of leather classes and high agility races so of course i like druids and i like trolls, but tauren druids aren't my cup of tea. I always felt Tauren were perfect for Bears, while Night Elves were more for cats. With the introduction of Troll and Worgen Druids, Worgen could have higher strength good for bears, and trolls already have high agility perfect for cats. Lorewise i don't really see where their getting it. True shapeshifting has been a part of troll lore for forever with pretty much every troll raid boss turning into something, but this comes from channeling Loa spirits. On the other hand i can't wait to see how Blizzard introduces them and with Malfurion's possible return I wouldn't be shocked to see Draenei and other druids show up later in WoW history.

And will stop here for today. As you can see i'm a complete lore nerd who spends his days reading WoWwiki and reading sourcebooks. Since the post is pretty long i'll save the rest for tomorrow, which will cover Blood Elf Warriors, Dwarf Shamans and Mages, Night Elf Mages, and Gnome priest as well as a look at why Worgen and Goblins get the classes they do.