Tauren Paladins

crazyharry wrote:A lot of people seem opposed to the idea of Tauren paladins due to Tauren having to use the light.

My current tauren main can shoot lightning from his fingers, ressurect himself and others, summon elementals to do his bidding and walk on water... using the light seems a bit of a step down from that

Anyway, all it is is a change from worshipping rocks to worshipping the sky, thats natural proggression if you look at human history.

(above post is intended tongue in cheek)

Then by X-pac 5, they will keep worshiping the sun but pray to Joe Pesci instead? gotcha

Big fat dopey cows are a disgrace to and mockery of the Light. I am wholly opposed to this fail concept. It's like my avatar in its current dilated-eyes-state being a paladin and people taking it seriously.

Invisusira wrote:Big fat dopey cows are a disgrace to and mockery of the Light. I am wholly opposed to this fail concept. It's like my avatar in its current dilated-eyes-state being a paladin and people taking it seriously.

Gnome Warlocks.

My point being, it's not the dumbest class/race combo out there ("aren't your a cute little master of the dark demonic arts then.. coochy coochy coo.. oh i bet i can stop you casting fear if i tickle your belly!"). At least taurens come across as spiritual. Those cows gotta be thinking about something deep while they're sitting there chewing.

Gnome warlock fits. They always have their nose deep into things that are risky business and probably explode in their face.

Lakhesis wrote:Seems to me that too many people're regarding the lore as a fixed, what-was-shall-be-evermore style thing... whereas from the whole cataclysm premise it's kinda obvious bliz doesn't agree with that.

Given that taurens have an established history as a pretty spiritual bunch, I don't find it surprising that some of them would move from pure nature religions to the light philosophies of paladins/priests... only bit that jars for me is the idea of a tauren shadowpriest. It's just religious evolution, it's not like they became warlocks (which i'd regard as prettymuch the antithesis of everything the tauren are about).

Oh, and i'm currently think of Layonsteak, but i'm not really happy with it & so i'm still brainstorming =)

It's only religious evolution if you forsake one religion for the sake of another, and if that were the case, why would they be welcome amongst the rest of the Tauren instead of regarded as risky heretics that could befall greater cataclysms? It's a giant lorelol, just like Troll Druids. It's ill explained, but probably the best Blizz could come up with because they want to milk this faction transfer and Orcs/Trolls/Undead make even less sense (although the Undead Paladin precedent has been broken with Wrath and all these days). To be honest, if they want to go with the balance of sun and moon, the Priest makes more sense, with the Light of An'she's day and the Shadow of Mu'she's night.

If you ask me, Tauren Paladins make a whole lot more sense than Blood Elf Paladins. But Blizz managed to pull that one off.

And who is to say that the powers of the light can only come from one source? Take Night Elf Priests for example. While all the other priest/paladins out there are taking their powers from the Naru (not sure about the Trolls), the Night Elves are channeling it from Elune. Why is it so far fetched that Tauren who worship An'she as their primary god can channel that particular brand of light into something similar that the Naru based Paladins are doing?

Though I'm of the opinion that they should change the name of all the Paladin abilities and spells to something different for Taurens. Something more Sun Godish. Divine Storm becomes Solar Flare or some such.

Dark Trepie wrote:If you ask me, Tauren Paladins make a whole lot more sense than Blood Elf Paladins.

It really doesn't, though. My main......................


BEEF?


is that Tauren are one of the LEAST likely races to become a paladin. Think about it. Theirs is a shamanistic society.

Tauren paladins are about as likely as native America Christians. (Pre-Columbus.)

I want a Tauren Paladin now. Beefbufae.

Invisusira wrote:

Dark Trepie wrote:If you ask me, Tauren Paladins make a whole lot more sense than Blood Elf Paladins.

It really doesn't, though. My main......................


BEEF?


is that Tauren are one of the LEAST likely races to become a paladin. Think about it. Theirs is a shamanistic society.

Tauren paladins are about as likely as native America Christians. (Pre-Columbus.)

Theirs is a druidic society, based around the balance of all things. They see a world watched over by the Earthmother, and her two eyes, An'she and Mu'sha. An'she is a deity represented by the sun, and Mu'sha is represented by the moon. The druids and Night Elves chiefly worship the deity the Tauren know as Mu'sha, or Elune.

The flip-side to that that hasn't been explored as of recent is that of An'she, the sun. It is believed that An'she may be the embodiment of what the Humans refer to as the Holy Light. If you think of it this way, it makes sense that to put things in balance, the tauren would be able to become at least priests along the same lines as Troll or Forsaken priests. It is then possible that with the clusterfuck that is the Silver Hand at the moment, and Tirion not being a xenophopic prick like the last Silver Hand, and with the Blood Elves, lead by Lady Liadrin, that the Tauren would be open and able to train as Paladins.

Before the Third War, the Tauren were a scattered people, nomads following the creatures they hunted to survive. When they joined the Horde and moved to a permanent location in Mulgore, that opened a lot of information about that world that wasn't open to them previously. Tauren have the virtue and the nobility of spirit to be Paladins. Probably far moreso than any other horde race.

Edit: Formatting. Didn't realize I typed up a wall of text.

Vanifae wrote:I want a Tauren Paladin now. Beefbufae.

do you want fries with that?

truly a work of art.

Klaudandus wrote:Then by X-pac 5, they will keep worshiping the sun but pray to Joe Pesci instead? gotcha

So good to see George Carlin references on here. Thank you, mister.

Race change anounced!

the tauren in video isn't wearing T6, its wearing vengeful.

that just came in the Shadowmoon US trade:

Tauren Ret Pally:

RetBull - <Give You Wings>