Why can't Blood Elves have Shamans?

#0 - Sept. 27, 2006, 12:01 a.m.
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Hello Blizzard, I really want a explanation on why you are giving the new Aillance race both Shaman and Paladin and not the Blood Elves. Can you please explain this and also tell my why you have decided this.
Thank You.
#16 - Sept. 27, 2006, 12:07 a.m.
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Blood Elves are not ones that attune themselves to the world in a harmonic sense.

There is not much leeway for a race to indulge in spiritual serenity when they are wracked with a severe addiction to the arcane. The Blood Elves do not soothe and coax power and magic from a natural setting, they tend to rip it forcefully from the environment, finding scientific methods to tap into magical currents.

Blood Elves have never been deeply invested in their environment as a mother. They treat the environment as a resource or a tool for further power.

That is why they aren't shaman.