WoW makes old joke true: Bring playable Tauren villains

Eight new class-race combos have been confirmed for World of Warcraft. And even the most silly of them is finally becoming reality.

The choice of race in World of Warcraft also determines which class a hero can choose. This will also be the case in Dragonflight, because the new Dracthyr people can only become callers. But Blizzard wants to loosen these restrictions among the old peoples and ultimately even completely abolish them. With the next addon “Dragonflight” you allow a very special combo:

Tauren Rogues.

Tauren rogues are a myth and a joke that’s been around for almost 2 decades. The oldest WoW veterans will surely remember this joke:

“What if there are tauren villains, but they’re just so good you never catch them?”

what was said In an interview with MrGM, Brian Holinka from the WoW team spoke about some changes coming with patch 10.0. Specifically, it was about whether there would be new race-class combinations. Holinka explained:

You know, we have this rough direction. I don’t want to make any big promises, but we feel like we want to move more towards a world where a character’s race isn’t a limit to what he or she can be in World of Warcraft.

While we are working towards this, not all classes have the same content requirements. More of this will come over time, but starting with 10.0 we will be making Rogues, Mages and Priests available to all races. So anyone can go and sneak around with their sneaky tauren villain on their hooves.

With that, Holinka made it clear: Tauren villains are coming, and those who want to fulfill their struggling stealth dream can do so very soon.

What is the goal? According to Brian Holinka, the declared goal is that at some point almost all restrictions should be lifted. Belonging to a race should not determine what a character can be in the World of Warcraft. We can therefore assume that sooner or later all barriers will fall. It is not yet clear whether some exceptions will remain, for example for demon hunters or callers – but it would at least make sense, since in these cases the animations are strongly adapted to the respective people and the people are also historically anchored in these classes.

What new class-race combinations are then possible? If it actually happens as Holinka promises, then the following new combinations are possible with Patch 10.0:

• Highmountain Tauren Mage
• Tauren Mage
• Highmountain Tauren Priest
• Orc Priest
• Draenei Rogue
• Lightforged draenei rogue
• Highmountain Tauren Rogue
• Tauren Rogue

What do you think of the restrictions being lifted? A good thing for more freedom? Or does that ruin the lore of the individual races?