WoW: Culture of War – Race-Restricted Classes and Reality
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The jailer collapses with the sound of a drum kit falling down the stairs and everyone in the guild slaps each other on the back. Well done, great work, top notch as always. Without further ado, the poor guy gets a hammer and two pairs of pants cut out of his ribs – oddly enough, they’re always pants. You’re just wondering whether world-ending super villains always have a pair of spare pants with them in case they’re run over by the next hero D-Bahn, then it happens: Your RP orc warrior grabs his new two-handed sword from the sad pile on pieces of armor and strikes a pose. “I’m a Blademaster of the Burning Blade, haha!” You already know the whole performance and roll your eyes in amusing annoyance. In a moment he will again claim to be descended from Master Lantresor and to have “studied the blade since childhood”. Just roleplaying.
“I’m also a blademaster, taught by the ancient warriors of Thunder Ax Fortress in Desolace. Tremble at my martial arts!” A blood elf warrior stands next to the orc, hissing her two-handed saber through the air. Suddenly the room goes silent. The elf blinks uncertainly. “Huh? What? If he can be a blademaster, then surely I can, right?”
Your dwarven paladin steps forward and shakes his head. “Girl, don’t be mad at me, but that doesn’t suit you.” “OH YES?!” Veins swell in the elf’s neck as she stomps toward the dwarf. “Probably because I’m a woman, huh? You undersized, hairy Taure are only here because patch 9.2.5 has been deployed, so you better be quiet!” Your orc tank slowly shakes its head. “No, he’s right. From a role-playing point of view, we accept any woman who would like to take part. But blade masters are only allowed to be orcs. And you’re an elf.” “Only because of my people?! That’s speciesist! Blood elves would never think of excluding someone from a career because of their race!” 
The demon hunter would have much less flair as a class if humans or tauren were also allowed to participate. The situation is different with Orc and Draenei! Source: buffed
In the background, your blood elf demon hunter clears her throat loudly and silently points to her horns. The warrior is startled. “Well…er…we would ALMOST turn anyone down because of their race, I’m very open about that…” “Oh yeah,” snorts the dwarf paladin, “so you’d consider a Wildhammer dwarf too go into barbarian training?” A muscle twitches in the blood elf’s face as she shakes, suppressing her armor rattling. “Yuck, that’s just a job for smelly teenage aborigines.” And the whole room explodes in an indignant roar.
Back in your capital city, with a small sigh on your lips, you stroll over to the auction house to do some pre-evening shopping and relax. As always, roleplayers sit in the cathedral square of Stormwind, yelling at each other in public at the top of their lungs that spellbreaker is an inherently blood elf career choice that void elves are not allowed to pursue and gnomes shouldn’t be warriors because they’re too small. You then decide to log out to resurrect your rogue twink. With Patch 10.0 they accept everyone into their large, kleptomaniac community.
Buy tip for WoW fans: The folk tales of Azeroth in a great book! 
With the paladin, WoW opened up a class that originally belonged to the human race throughout Azeroth – and the result was unreservedly good! Source: buffed
You can not get in here
Dragonflight rears its scaly head above the horizon, bringing with it a race that is but one class is allowed to play – and vice versa. The Dracthyr are the only race who can choose the summoner, due to the difficulty of gnomes and blood elves in breathing fire and flapping their wings. So far, so understandable. A demon hunter can only be the one who studied under Illidan back then and they were just elves; no new demon hunters being trained today – still plausible. Blademasters are only allowed to become orcs because… other races just aren’t orcs? Oh, they’re villains? Everyone will soon be able to take part, that’s clear! You weigh 800 kilograms and have two huge horns? You can’t sneak with hooves? We think it’s a rumor, everyone can draw their daggers here!
In this article we examine the well-known concept of race-limited special classes from other games, dig into the history of WoW and see what cool combinations could be waiting for us in the future of World of Warcraft (buy now ). We also check the feature for unrestricted feasibility, because a hard race/class limit always brings with it demographic changes in Azeroth. And just about any alliance raid guild with a ten thousand mile look on their face can tell you what that means. So put on your well-established pith helmet and grab your opinion machete, because today we venture into the controversial jungle of restricted popular voting. Oh and watch out for tauren villains. And the creeping draenei! Because these “things” are suddenly everywhere.
