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Tauren shadow priests... hmm..
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taurenmoo812
The debate about tauren becoming holy paladins has been the main thought on the class changes in the next expan, on almost every thread about it this seems the main thing.
But, to me tauren paladins, well odd, can still fit in lore wise in the sense of them having learned from the argent crusade, and the holy light adapted to there belief in 'the eternal sun' thing.
And so, as something to make it more apparent taurens have found the use of holy magics in there culture, blizzard has made tauren priests. This might make sense, although being a priest is meant to be a spirital leader, and tauren already have this with shamans, so where it fits in isn't very clear...
But with priests comes a double sided coin. Paladins are pure holy followers in what they do, but priests are something else, being able to use shadow magics, and even become full shadow priests, like in terms of lore, forsaken and trolls have done.
The tauren once prided themselves on being the most 'clean' race of them all, followers of nature and non corrupted teachings like the hunter or warrior. But now, tauren having to learn shadow magics with this doesn't make since. I mean you could try and dismiss it saying 'their following holy magics and only shadow magics as a precausion', but you know very well your be seeing shadow spec taurens running around cities and causing fear to enemies.
Edit: And before someone mentions tauren DKs, those are meant to be tauren forced into becoming one, not like priests or paladins who choose to become one.
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Adamsm
Well, there are shadow priests of the Night Elves, and there just as "holy" as the Tauren are. And don't forget, there are the Grimtotem clan, which is equal to Dark Iron for the Dwarves.
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GenXCub
I think you're confusing the 'how' with traditional racial lore. Maybe Tauren have avoided certain things historically, but now that the cultures have intermingled for the purposes of performing the heroics that we've seen since wow-release, what is to stop Joe Cow from maybe wanting to be a priest, and learning from those who can teach it?
It would seem to me that the one class that had seemed to be available due to how you were born was a Druid (and that seemed to be Nelf-specific, lore-wise), and that every other class was trained.
Yes, that follows the slippery slope of "then why not just allow all classes to all races?" but at least the combinations that have been added seem to be the more reasonable ones.
It still comes down to fiction is fiction. They can write it any way they choose. People have certainly gotten over the explanation of how Blood Knights (Belf paladins) came into being. It eventually just gets absorbed into the 'accepted' realm and people go on. As long as the departures aren't too drastic, (like 'Jedi eat babies!') it's just easier to go with the changes, than to dwell on the how and why.
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Adamsm
So I shouldn't mention that in the current run of Star War's books, the Jedi are going insane after Jacen's fall and murdering everything that moves eh GenXCub?
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cloudp
Hum. The approach of seeing Shadow as Evil and Holy as Good is somewhat common but i wouldn't see things in that way.
Holy, and Shadow, are energy sources. Elements. The Tauren may have, throughout their history, despised what their beliefs demanded as "Corrupt", but nevertheless, times change. Tauren may have left their ancestral "disgust" for what Shadow Magic is, realising times change, and what matters is the WIELDER's intents, not the force he uses. Shadow magics can be used for good.
The same is said about Holy. Tauren didn't like Holy for the same reason - it is aswell an energy source they see as corrupt. Tauren classes use all-nature spells, or fire, or frost. Not only they neglect Shadow, but Holy. If their the "goodish" type, why neglect Holy too? For the same reason of Shadow.
This is the explanation for most new odd class combos. Although i still think its kinda stupid to see Night Elf mages... *cough*.
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