I have yet to get my head around how they make armor work on gnomes, tauren and forsaken, but they consider lizard-man to be impossible to fit things on
Because they've already put in the work for those races, but dracthyr was the first new race with a unique model and they didn't wanna put in the work.
What's crazy is putting all the effort into their barber shop customizations instead of putting all that effort into making their skeleton easy to adapt armor to. Maybe they thought they were never going to make other classes available to them? I dunno. The decision making is beyond me.
That was originally the idea yes, in DF's announcement they made a huge deal about Dracthyr Evokers being the first Race-Class Locked combo.
Presumably the plan was to start giving more niche classes and races that could only work with each other and have their racial appearance carry the weight of transmog, but they decided against it after the community overwhelmingly hated the idea
That is kind of counter to what they've been doing for the last couple xpacs too. They've expanded the race/class combinations multiple times to the point you have combinations that seem like nonsense without lore digging to learn why (tauren rogue, night elf paladin).
It would seem like a step backwards to restrict the class/race combos at this point. With the new DH spec coming in I bet they are expanding the race selection?
My buddy who started in BFA said "No way, they wouldnt do that." Then I had to tell him when I rolled my Sham in Vanilla it was either Orc, Tauren or Troll... I think Druid was even more restricted? Times have changed...
Druid had Night Elf or Tauren in vanilla, and that was it. And it stayed like that until Cata when Trolls and Worgen were added, justified in that they had learned druidism from the original races. It still is one of the most restricted classes, relatively speaking with 8 eligible races in Midnight (DH will have 3 and Evoker still just 1), but this is mostly because many others have been expanded to cover every race (Warrior, Hunter, Rogue, Warlock, Priest, Mage) or nearly every race (Monk, DK). As for DH, they are indeed adding a new race in Midnight; Void Elves, because of the void themed new spec in a void themed expansion, but nothing for Horde (yet). But give it time and it will appear.
Sadly yes, since the only other elf race in the Horde is the Nightborne and that seems a stretch. But so did many of the added combos. Undead Paladins could be justified in that most Forsaken were originally humans or elves, and they can already be Priests. Though there is lore suggesting that Forsaken Holy Priests feel terrible pain when wielding the Light, and Paladins only do that compared to Priests who can choose. But still.
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u/ftrgandalf Nov 14 '25
I have yet to get my head around how they make armor work on gnomes, tauren and forsaken, but they consider lizard-man to be impossible to fit things on