Why can't Blood Elves be warriors?

lcpltom wrote:
> On Oct 15, 11:49 am, "john...@gmail.com" <john... RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Oct 15, 7:38 am, lcpltom <lcpl... RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Oct 12, 5:51 pm, John Salerno <johnj... RemoveThis @NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Just curious. Since this seems to be the universal class for all races,
>>>> and there are certainly BE "warrior" NPCs in the game anyway. Did they
>>>> just want to confine BEs to 6 classes and decided to take away that one?
>>> Lore Reason:
>>> All blood elves have some sort of magical ability, even the warrior
>>> type NPC's in Silvermoon aren't actually warriors, they're
>>> spellbreakers from WCIII TFT. So, a plater wearer with magical
>>> abilties, sounds like a paladin right?
>> That sounds about right, however in Mechanar, there are Blood Elf
>> warrior NPCs that use whirlwind, etc, so it's not out of the question.
>
> In Botanica there is also a blood elf druid, and in Eversong there are
> runestones that according to lore were created by the high elf druids
> to protect them from trolls and prevent the legion from sensing their
> use of magic.

well, those druids seem to have died out some time ago. I can't remember
meeting any BE druids now anyway except the one in Bota.

> So, there are lore reasons for BE being druids, and existing BE
> warriors, can anyone think of a reason a BE might want to be a shaman
> so we can have 1 race capable of all the currently available classes?

well, I can't see BEs being the "normal" kind of shamans, but if you
take an identical approach to their paladins (i.e. normal shamans should
commune with the elements to get their spells, BE shamans would just
*rip* the knowledge and power from the elements) I can't see why not.

then again, nearly the same could also be said for humans (can't see why
they shouldn't be hunters, druids or shamen). Actually even without
perverting some power.

While NEs do have some fear from "arcane magics", they could easily
adopt shamanism, maybe even paladins.

Gnomes I can't see on the "healing/nature/holy" side, they seem to be a
bit too technical minded.

Dwarfs, hmm. They seem to be rather down to earth types, so I can't see
how to give them mages or warlocks. But then again, they have priests
doing higher magic which should open up this. Being down to earth would
rather fit with druids & shaman, although their tendency to rip open the
earth might be a slight deterrent there.

Draenei can't certainly be warlocks, but the rest could be easily
explained. Except for rogues if you're averse to huge rogues.

Orcs can be shaman, so I'd guess druids would be right up their tree
also. Mages are a kind of warlock (or the other way round), fits. I'm
not sure how to give them priests/paladins.

Undead surely can be hunters; they could be paladins the same way BEs
are or even easier seeing they were humans (actually there are undead
deathkights around which could/should have been Palas until DKs were
announced recently). I'm not sure how to give them shaman/druids as most
of them seem to be rather "un-natural".

tauren are certainly also rather down to earth, I'm not sure how to
justify priests, palas or mages. Warlocks would probably rather abhor
them, just as the NEs. I still don't understand what people have against
huge rogues (have you ever seen how large tigers are? have you ever seen
them sneaking around?), but there you go.

Trolls might be a bit too cynical for druids/palas (i.e. cannibalism)
but then again they have priests so should at least be able to feel a
bit like palas or just do it the blood elf way. I certainly can see them
as warlocks.


So pretty much every race could be pretty much anything. At least when
you let the way how bloodelfs are paladins count.

Urs

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On Oct 16, 7:08 am, lcpltom <lcpl... RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote:
> In Botanica there is also a blood elf druid, and in Eversong there are
> runestones that according to lore were created by the high elf druids
> to protect them from trolls and prevent the legion from sensing their
> use of magic.

The Blood Elves in Botanica use science to become druids... and get
what's coming to them later (see: Arcatraz).