Races, classes & lore.

[TwinkO]

Someone maybe did this already, but I wanted to know community opinion. Try to tell only one race that fits to alliance and horde, mostly in my case it was first that came to mind.

Class	Alliance	Horde
Druid	Night elf	Tauren
Hunter	Night elf	Troll
Mage	Human	Blood elf
Paladin	Human	Bood elf
Priest	Human	Forsaken
Rogue	Human	Forsaken
Shaman	Dwarf	Orc
Warlock	Human	Orc
Warrior	Dwarf	Orc

Gnomes fit warlock and mage role, but lore-wise I think humans are better. The same goes for dwarven/draenei priests/paladins. Don't feel like worgen/goblins fit to any role more then others, well maybe only worgen as warrior. Sad that draenei can't become warlocks, this would be perfect race choice for me.

P.S.
Death Knights - Human/Forsaken. Monk - Pandaren. PERIOD!!! Don't wanna hear argument on that. =P

 

[babouchka]

Sad that draenei can't become warlocks, this would be perfect race choice for me.

?? i don't know for me draenais are futuristic squids speaking & their intelligence tends them to avoid wars, etc. quite the opposite of warlocks, which are cultists & spread death.

Wasn't draenai flying away from their planet because of the corruption & the war happening?

For me the worst class for warlock is orc (which i think visually fits better melee classes like warrior) but first warlocks were orcs if i'm not wrong (lorewise, guldan, etc, corrupted shamans).

orcs have lots of muscles, i don't see why warlocks would be bodybuilders oO their dark art consume them, so i guess practicing sport isn't one of their priority

maybe they should add a special appearance for orcs warlock, slim small orcs looking really weak physically but terryfying by their dark art.

 

[TwinkO]

quite the opposite of warlocks

Well its just after seen Kil'jaeden and Archimonde in warcraft 3 I always wanted to play some sort of eredar mage or warlock.
About orcs as warlock - you need to be not only mentally strong, but also physically to control deamons. And I see nothing wrong for a caster to have muscular body.

 

[Yde]

What I have trouble with is how female blood elves have almost no muscles at all, especially in the upper arm. They're as wasted around the joints as forsaken, only with intact skin.

 

[Jdoring]

Night Elves were also typically mages with the highborne and such, but with the well of eternity and all it was like forbidden... Then with the cataclysm the night elves unbanished the highborne because of the fact that they ultimately needed all the help they could get for the coming events.. Amirite??? Haha

 

[Footman]

Class	Alliance	Horde
Druid	Night elf	Tauren
Hunter	Night elf	Troll
Mage	Human	Blood elf
Paladin	Human	Tauren
Priest	Human	Blood Elf
Rogue	Night Elf	Forsaken
Shaman	Dwarf	Orc
Warlock	Human	Forsaken
Warrior	Dwarf	Orc

Really though... IMO, Paladins should be an Alliance only class, and Warlocks should be a Horde only class. Tauren only kinda fit Paladins because paladins have epic stuns that suit a Tauren, and are tough. Other races easily suit classes too, such as Tauren warrior, Orc warlock, Troll shaman.

Playable gnomes are stupid jokes that really don't suit my idea of what Warcraft should be. Alliance already have Dwarves as the short race to complement Goblins, they don't need horrible whiny runty gnomes. Horrible.

 

[Imirak]

eally though... IMO, Paladins should be an Alliance only class, and Warlocks should be a Horde only class.

Close, imo. Humans should be the only option for Paladins and Forsaken should be the only option for Death Knights.

 

[youakim]

Forsaken Priest is all that needed to be said, no need for a list of any kind.

 

[Mrcer]

Boomkins should go troll, not tauren.
Hunters should go BE or Tauren.

 

[allahkazam]

Boomkins should go troll, not tauren.
Hunters should go BE or Tauren.

Talking about lore, not BiS for the game =P

 

[Lithogen]

The lore of this game has been butchered and rewritten for the sake of profit so many times that it's no longer traceable if you go all the way back to Warcraft 1.

But as far as rogues go; Orc. Garona Halforcen was an orc rogue that killed the king of Stormwind prior to Varian Wrynn. Not to mention there were tons of orc rouges and assassin type charcters in service of the Shadow Council in the war against the Burning Legion.

 

[TuskyTim]

Hunters should be trolls.
Nah just kidding, there is a story for nearly every class/race combo, so saying one fits best is to difficult for me. Although spacegoats in touch with nature are still kind of odd to me when it comes to lore. (Draenei Shaman)