Warriors, Rogues, and Hunters are generic soldiers or thieves. There aren’t any arguments about who would be what with these. Every race has an army and needs Warrior, every race uses ranged bowsmen, and thieves are present everywhere. Taurens and Draenei can’t be rogues because they’re big and their society is less accepting of the sneaky intelligence types.
Warlocks are basically Mages or Shamans who lust after forbidden magic in order to achieve more power for less work, get revenge, or have a major thirst for magic. Alliance Warlocks are mostly Mages who turned to the demonic side after the destruction of the Kirin Tor (who had forbidden the practice of demonic magic). I imagine they don’t uphold that anymore due to risk of Malygos and the Lich King.
Horde Warlocks are Shamans who found it easier to use demonic power. Basically, Shamanism requires you to summon the elements while demonic power has you paying a price for the same result. So, you may summon lightening and set something on fire with it or you can trade in a bit of yourself to summon hell’s fire and burn your enemies. The Horde Warlocks are “tolerated” by Thrall because the Horde needed Warlocks and there is no real lore excuse for them. Thrall brought back Shamanism after the near destruction of the Orcs and demonic magic goes nowhere good. Most Warlocks on the Horde side are affiliated with the Burning Blade or the Shadow Council (the Burning Blade is a sub section of the Shadow Council), so they are mostly evil.
Next, let’s talk about the Holy Light and Priests. Priests are followers of the Holy Light who utilize that power to heal. The Holy Light is accessible to every race that follows the Holy Light, but it’s kind of a confusing lore mechanic. Blood Elves lost access to the Holy Light somehow after the destruction of the Sunwell (thus the need to siphon power off of the Naaru for Blood Knights). Trolls ignore the Holy Light, the Holy Light abandoned the Undead, and Night Elves only worship Elune. So you have to kind of bang your head on the table to figure it all out.
Well, Humans and Dwarves are natural followers of the Holy Light and therefore can call on the power whenever they want to. Night Elves somehow touch the Holy Light through Elune or more accurately use the power of Elune for the spells. Trolls use the power of their Loa Gods. The Forsaken use the power of the Shadow and somehow touch the Holy Light through the Shadow through some kind of mystical balance. Blood Elves follow the Holy Light, as far as I can tell, but who knows with that. They may siphon off some of their power from the Sunwell now that the captured Naaru is dead or maybe their faith is restored. Draenei follow the Naaru who naturally follow the Holy Light.
Paladins play the same game as above, except it’s a bit stranger. Paladins are basically Warrior Priests, like Vindicators (who are more Warrior than Priest) and were started by the Order of the Silver Hand. So they were originally only Humans. Well Dwarves worship the Holy Light, so it’s no problem for them to become Paladins. Blood Elves also naturally worship the Holy Light but their power became “weaker” after they became Blood Elves (who knows why) and have strengethed their holy power by draining the Naaru. Like I said above, that Naaru is now dead. So I’m guessing it’s back to their “faith.”
Taurens will be able to become Priests and Paladins. I only imagine that it’ll work like Night Elves with the Earthmother granting them their power or something like that. Goblins? I’m sure some excuse will be made. Maybe they’ll buy the Holy Light!
Mages. This is a tough one. The only requirement is that the race is capable of touching the arcane. That explains Draenei, because they are magical space demon goat men.
Druids use special magic from Cenarius to be tree hugging hippies. I honestly am clueless about a lot of that lore, because some parts of it contradict one another and it’s pretty confusing. Basically, one version plays out that Cenarius taught Malfurion how to be a Druid and then he taught the Taurens and Night Elves. Some quests and stuff make it really fuzzy if they knew how to be Druids before the Night Elves, the Night Elves taught them, or what. Just smile and nod.
Death Knights, yeah, not going there. That’s too long of a discussion. The quick and dirty is that Death Knights are given power by the Lich King and are the Scourge’s elite Warriors. Nothing there about Paladins who have lost their way or anything. Nope. Draenei Death Knights are available because somehow between the quick war over at the Sunwell Arthas was capable of ganking a few of them and laughing as he started building demonic goat men scourge armies.
That’s pretty much it on the interesting class lore. Join us next week as we cover how Murlocs can become every class in the game.
WoW Gold Video Lists
Quick and Easy Wow Gold Methods Buying Items from Vendors; Warcraft Gold is More Science Than Art.
Starting with good tips proper techniques during early stages of game can go a long way. World of Warcraft Gold Guide.
More WoW Gold Tips
