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Poll: Should every class be available on each faction?

I think everyone will agree with you on a philosophical level but not on a practical one.

reply to Carpie
I still enjoy having the racial divide. It's nice to now have Pandas existing as a split loyalty race. During early WoW I said for years that I'd thought the same could be done for goblins.

One thing that I would prefer is that within your faction, all races could become all classes. Now that we're close to that point anyway, many of the gaps seem pointless. Even Pandaren DK's could be explained with some loose rationale along the lines of the Lich King's reach extending further than people had ever known or that current DK's are able to train those pandas who happen to have a darker-than-normal heart and mind.

Perhaps this is just because I've always wanted to be a gnomish druid with proportionally scaled animal forms. *shrug*
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reply to Carpie
I agree with Paladins/shamans, but Im a long time player and remember how it was before and I think it worked. Alliance warlocks always seemed odd to me but there are plenty of people that do evil to accomplish good so I can understand that.

I disagree with Horde not having priests though, Horde in and of themselves are not evil they have a different set of morals and a code of honor. I dont look at orcs in WoW the same as orcs in LotR.

/2 cents

reply to Carpie
I just remember way back in the day too many cases where having either a paladin or a shaman was far more beneficial than the other. If you left them faction specific by tried mitigate this by aiming to make both classes equal in performance and provided buffs/cooldowns, they'd nearly be the same class (voiding the purpose for having separate classes per faction to begin with).

If you take it from the perspective that the Light exists and any entity can chose to follow it, anyone could be a paladin. Even undead could choose dedicate their 'life' to the Light in hopes of being restored one day (as we must remember horde undead are not necessarily evil undead either).

Just my thoughts/perspective though!
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Eumaeus, Guardian/Balance Druid
GM - Lux ex Tenebris - Sargeras | Alliance
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reply to Carpie
Hell ya.
I also think there should be a "tradesman" or a crafter toon.
Meaning he could a few more professions then any other faction. Also, because he is a trader, he can get discounts on vendors. He can also trade with horde or alliance sides [meaning neutral].
Maybe do special missions that require him to slip special potions into water/food supplies, or mayhaps a potion in the foundries that causes weapons to be brittle and weak.

A spy, with the disguise of a trader/crafter.
Why lug a big heavy sword, wear hot smelly armor, or wear fancy, prancy robes?
Just grab a pack horse, you favorite traveling hat, and hit the road.
Of course if your a dwarf or panda, food and drink are a must.
And of course, you'd get to do the world tour of inns and bar maid bottom pinching.
Hmm..
bummer this would never happen, it might actually be "fun".
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reply to Skittles

reply to Eumaeus

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Even Pandaren DK's could be explained with some loose rationale along the lines of the Lich King's reach extending further than people had ever known or that current DK's are able to train those pandas who happen to have a darker-than-normal heart and mind.

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per WOW lore, pandas were not limited to Pandaria, just there were only a few outside of the mists after the sundering.

Thus before the sundering pandas could have died and been available to LK to rez.

reply to Snakeoil
Different Lich King now though. However, maybe the DK powers could something he bestows to champions of both factions he deems worthy or necessary. Kind of like warlocks, using dark powers to help your cause that you believe to be righteous.

reply to Carpie

Per some less popular wow lore I read somewhere, warlocks are failed mages, or mages that gave up on some of their power in exchange for demon power.

reply to DarkLogix
Why go the hard route of a life dedicated to disciplined training when you can just make a deal with a demon and wield as much power or more with ease?*

* Note: may require the consumption of your soul.
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reply to DarkLogix
Probably have to consult Ada on that one, but I started my lock back in TBC when you had to do quests to get each demon and buy books to train them. I seem to remember that they weren't failed mages, but it felt more like they drifted from the teachings set forth by the mages in Dalaran when it was in Eastern Kingdoms and were seduced by the much quicker access to great power that tapping demonic energies provided. Kind of like being seduced by the dark side of the force I guess, once you start down that path, forever will it dominate your destiny.

reply to Snakeoil
Snake - I'm far from well educated on lore, but if I think that the Sha were not released and impacting the pandas during the era of Arthas as lich king and that the current lich king is self-restrained enough to not be a source of new DKs.

reply to Krisnatharok

reply to Carpie
pallys should only be alliance only and shamans horde only. the only thing is that the devs should give shamans a tank spec.

but as said before its not practical from a gameplay standpoint. From a lore/rpg perspective, it would be cool to see faction specific classes.
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reply to Eumaeus
Wrong

The Sha are the remains of an old god that "died" long ago.

Its believed that Pandas developed to avoid "negative" emotion so they wouldn't empower the sha, but they were there.

However our coming to pandaria brought a ton of such negative emotion which awakened the Sha once again.

I'll have to look back at some stuff but
1. pandas had communications with the high elfs before the sundering.
2. fairly sure the old god that "died" did so long before the sundering
3. the one and only panda emperor moved pandaria away during the sundering.

so Panda learned to avoid negative emotion long long ago.

reply to Josof