I wish there was a glyph to make your light spells appear silver like moonlight rather than yellow as to better suite RPing as a priestess of Elune. And same with the Tauren to make it look a bit more orange to look more like Sunlight when RPing a sunwalker.
Most undead priest can't hear the light anymore, but they can still use the magic behind it. Some get hurt, some of them don't. Its because of their old strong relationship with it, that's why you can find undead priests and not undead paladins. Paladins are a lot more like police officers of the light than teachers of the light. This being said undead can also heal using shadows, shadow mend for exemple can heal.
I really miss classic WoW priest... Before the light was a convoluted entity and just confusing. Having mysterious forces and Gods in the world made it special and interesting.
i'm imagining a forsaken priest and his group have someone get shot with an arrow "don't worry drakthar i was a priest in my past life i can fix you right up!" *casts spell* "than-" AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGHHHHGGGGGG THE PAAAAIN WHHHYY GOD WHYYYY JESSUS EVERYTHING HURTS DEAR GOD WHYYYYY
You forgot the pandarian and there priests. As a side note I do think pandarian's are a little similar to the night elf's in that instead of the moon they get there power from the red crane of hope and becases pandarian's are like all about balance that some in there society are not exactly evil but there shadow priests instead use the power of the sha instead of the shadow to balance things out.
DeathClawScout Yeah I did forge to mention that. I would honestly say it is a mix between the night elves and the trolls and they didn't even know what the Light is.
Ashourii P Those are actually the ones I was thinking about but instead I went for the priest in order to finish it up with the paladins. One of those 2 will most likely be the next one. :)
Chriskon Machinima Thanks, these videos are esentially lore lessons with an rp spin, but it is a pretty important thing in order to understand your class better.
True that, i personally love my characters a lot more, after getting to know a bit about both the races background, and class, so i really appreciate your videos.
Doronsmovies I'm looking forward to this as my forsaken elf is a tailor and I might catch a thing or two I didn't know about what little lore they have on tailors in warcraft.
Something like you saw lots of Violence and you got torcherd so you didn't want it happening to anyone else So you use the power of light to save people (the and if you are a shadow priest)you saw your parents torcherd so you got Mad and want to get your revenge (if this is bad I'm sorry I'm new to role playing)
The Shadow thing is still kinda vague. What do other people in the in-game world think and say about Shadow magic? Is there a stigma surrounding it? Is there an inherent danger in its use? Is there a heavy price to be paid, does its use somehow break the morals of the followers of the Light?
I see it as a different philosophy and understanding the light, you still need faith to utilise it, but you just utilise it in a different way. Either that or the void works the same way as the light, and they're not users of the light.
Doronsmovies Makes as much sense to behonest if gnomes learned the light from the dwarves they can learn shaman craft from the dwarves to. I personally would tolerate gnome pure interest in the elementals then the goblins opertunity any day.
Worgen can't be pally because they put up the wall and blocked themselves off before the brotherhood of the horse was put together. Thus they still had priests and the light
+Arraya I suppose, that Elune once was a night elf but at some point somehow got blessed by titanic watchers or Titans themselves (as once got blessed some of proto-drakes, becoming Aspects). This blessing was so powerful that Elune became some kind of titanic watcher herself. You ask me why I think she was a night elf? Well, Cenarius is a child of White Stag Malorne and Elune. He looks like a "centauric" half-stag-half night elf as his children, keepers of the grove and dryads do too. If Elune wasn't a night elf it would be very unlikely for them to have such appearance. Furthermore, I think that night elvish priests ingame actually do not represented as any priest spec at all, but as balance druids. We also know that troll and tauren druids may also worship Elune in some way (trolls maybe as a loa and taurens as Mu'sha), that's why balance druid = priest of Elune. Anyway, due to game mechanics, races who practice lunar, solar and astral power called druids, because their priesthood is very unique, while worshipping Light and Shadow is more common. And the third idea: If Elune is really once was a lesser being and had been known as tauren's Mu'sha, then it could be that tauren's An'she also was some kind of mortal being got blessed by Creators too (and if it's true, most likely by Eonar herself). And if she did, she was one of the very first of her kind, maybe not only Well of Eternity but Titans as well helped dart trolls to evolve in night elves. Sorry for the long post, got inspirated c:
I would be interested on how you might play one of the rarer combinations of Race/Glass/Gender. There are some that you just do not see. Female undead warrior, or a troll monk or a Draenei Death knight. Combinations that are either so rare that they simple are not present enough in play to have guidelines set up or combinations that seem inherently conflicted.
Elune is the WoW universes only true deity. It's been stated by Blizzard themselves. Meaning.. She's god.. Above everyone and everything. She's the single most powerful being in the Warcraft universe. Also.. She's not "both the light and dark" She's light. The Void Lords are the shadow. Worgen were NOT taught the way of the priest by the Night Elves. Worgen are humans. End of story. They learned the ways of the light from the church of the light like every other human in the game. Same with Undead. The Worgen Harvest Witches were taught Druidism by the Night Elves, but they were not taught about the light and void by them.
I have difficulties creating a history for my dwarf priest, i know that they aren't really races that believe and understand the light fully, so i don't want to say that ''priest dwarf's' mother had faith in the light and so she did to', that's kinda weird, could someone help me have an idea of what i could write as my history
Matthew Ng They do. They can be great priests. The thing with the dwarves is that in their culture the Light isn't as prominent as it is for the humans for example. But you can still be super dedicated and have a family tradition if you want.
I'm RPing a Human priest in WoW! I have already started, and cannot wait to work with a guild! Might even start a guild of priests and paladins.... the Order of the New Light.... hmmm....
Hi again, I have to say , I do rather like it when your video's run a bit long, You tend to do mini lore and rp video's which usually are not any longer than is required to get the general info across, but that being said, when the subject matter requires more specifics you do a better job. For example I had never thought of how different culturally priest would actually be primarily because in combat they all preform the same spells. Giving them cultural subjectivity in this case made what I consider to be the most boring class in wow infinitely more interesting.
Loved the video! I have a question regarding Shadow Priests with connection to the Old Gods. I'm not sure if you've answered this before but I have noticed similarities in powers that Shadow Priests have with Old Gods. For example the Mind Bender looks an awful lot like the Old God's minions, and the Shadow Tendrils as well resemble powers the Old Gods use. They also use a lot of psychological attacks the same way the old gods use their powers to manipulate their victims mentally. Are the Shadow priests somehow connected to the Old Gods or are they simply drawing their powers from the same source?
What do you think of the void that Anduin Wrynn leads all of Azeroths' forces against turning out to be A'dal in void lord form? Like what happened with the Naaru in Shadowmoon valley or M'uru/Entropius in The Sunwell. A'dal becoming a void lord is the only being besides Sargeras or an old god I can think of to be able to become this powerful.
Michael tremont I highly doubt that scenario since they did a similar thing with the Dark Star and the entire void dark cycle. I feel like the battle between the light and the dark will be between the combined forces of mortals of Azeroth versus the Burning Legion. It might be something different, but in my opinion it is the most likely scenario.
I'm just going to say. That blonde priest in the beginning in the white dress chatting with that dude on the bridge looks 100% like my priest and my friend. Oh my god, i swear to god. I'm sure it's my and my friend
Hey Doron. I was wondering,trolls can regenerat becouse they worship the loa and the loa giv then thos powers,then could it be possible for other races to regenerate if they start worshiping them too, like if a human priest worshiped the loa insead of the light? Thank you and keep up the good work.
ZeD It is possible in the most recent times with all the Alliance and the Hordes but generally races stuck to one another. The draenei were almost always together, the humans were also split a part although as I said the dwarves and the gnomes joined them. The forsaken were also a society of their own, so you get my point. Although since all of the races are now mixed into one society it is possible that they can be thought different ways of the Light.
I don't really understand role playing priests that can wield both holy and shadow magic (most races anyway). Doesn't the ability to wield the light rely on an unwavering conviction? And wouldn't wielding shadow magic prevent that from being possible?
Doronsmovies Yes but it's the same like saying where there is life there is death. And not everyone would work to advance the goals of one equal to an other.
The comment about balancing light and darkness really depends on how your server interprets what the Light is. On Moon Guard we roleplay that darkness is the absence of Light (goodness). To say that light and darkness should be balanced is heretical.
Qienna X I guess it could depend on your rp group, but it is more of a lore thing, I just wish blizzard was more clear on things like this instead of making it a place for a bunch of speculations.
grafspe807 I can see their reason for doing so, because let's be honest only a smaller portion of players care about the lore and about 95% of people skip quest text. I've seen people complain before of how there is too much rp or story when blizzard does something cinematical. So they got to adjust the majority, although I honestly wish they made some of the lore more clear instead of making confusing.
pandarens better looks as monks or shamans. Priest are not for pandaren. because they're neutrals. (not friendly, not bad) so very evil priest are bad for them and very good light power priests are bad for them too. pandaren priest sucks :(
I love playing priests, but I hate that Blizzard put Christianity into the game. It really has no place in a video game like this, and I think it's silly.
