The least popular class, on the other hand, is the demon hunter which is chosen by around five percent of all players.
Emeni is a stong choice thanks to Lead by Example. This is a very strong damage trait and it also buffs your friends.
And in Shadowlands, where plenty of encounters in both raids and Mythic dungeons call for strong, centralized damage, Frost Mage is definitely a viable pick. Often, it can come down to lore reasons and what looks coolest together. Frost is one of the two best Mage specs for leveling. Frost is mana efficient with high survivability, with tools such as Improved Frost Nova and Ice Barrier to help control mobs. Those traits come at the cost of DPS, which is very good but not as high as other specs.
Note, however, that Frost is still the most recommended spec to level your mage, as the spec focuses on enhanced survivability from the slow effects in their spells and extra shields. Warlock is one of the strongest Solo PvP Classes in the game. But in the centuries that followed the ogres and demons took over most of the ruins, and the few Shen'dralar that remained were all but confined in a small corner of their once-great city. It was only after the Cataclysm that the Shen'dralar were integrated back into Night Elf society and players could roll Night Elf Mages again.
We hear about the Proudmoore family, the Menethils, the Windrunners — even the Barov clan of Caer Darrow have a place in the history books. Among Night Elves, it's the Shadowsong family that participates in the important events that have defined the race. Maiev might be the best known of them as the jailor of Illidan Stormrage, especially since she got some publicity during the Burning Crusade expansion. Her younger brother, Jarod, was a commander of the Kaldorei Resistance during the War of the Ancients, and his wife Shalasyr was one of Tyrande Whisperwind's close disciples.
Nobody said Cenarius was the brightest sprite in the forest, and he made a crucial mistake that would shape Azeroth as we now know it. The Night Elves weren't happy when the Orcs first walked into Ashenvale anyway, but to make matters worse, their leader Cenarion attacked the Orcs because he thought they were demons.
To be fair, he wasn't completely wrong, since the Orcs had made a deal with a powerful demon named Mannoroth and gained extra powers and abilities when they drank his blood. However, if a prominent leader among the Night Elves hadn't made this mistake when the conflict first began, history might have unfolded differently.
If you thought that banning Mages was an extreme step, then the level of segregation based on gender that was once common in Night Elf society will be a shock. If you played Warcraft 3 , you might have noticed most of the characters on the Night Elf side are female.
Players familiar with Night Elf lore will know that Malfurion Stormrage spends a lot of time asleep, roaming the Emerald Dream while his Druids accompany him. Most of those Druids are male. Humans are also the most populous out of all races who study the arcane arts. When the quel'dorei trained the first batch of one hundred humans in the most rudimentary of arcana, they were surprised to find the young race had great natural affinity.
The sheer, raw power they could summon up even surpassed what high elven casters were capable of mustering, but they lacked control.
This trait became what forever characterized the typical style and approach of human mages. Most human mages prefer using fire and arcane spells, as they allow for the caster to dish out salvos of raging energy, which become bigger, powerful and more varied streams as the mage gains experience.
However, humans still find it difficult to concentrate and focus their attacks for more precise and subtle effects. For example, while a human mage might find incinerating a cadre of gnolls child's play, lighting the tip of a candle or precisely bombarding a target without harming those around the target may be difficult. Just like in real-life medieval wizards and witches, magi are treated with wariness because of their terrifying power.
Day of the Dragon shows this through opinions that magi are "damned souls", "condemned to the same pit of darkness shared by the mythical demons of old", no matter how pure the magi's soul are. Kingdoms such as Stormwind have long employed their own conjurers and court magi. While Kul Tiran mages are relatively uncommon, there are a few prominent examples, [2] such as Lord Admiral Jaina Proudmoore.
In a community as eccentric as mages, for other mages to regard gnomish mages as outlandish is really a statement. Gnome mages are characterized by their bizarre and bold some would say 'whimsically suicidal' probing into just how many things they can get their spells to do. The insatiable curiosity of gnomes is legendary, and all gnomes, of all walks of life, love to tinker.
Gnomes as a race hold no general preference for any particular tree of magic or school of thought, but all are highly individualistic, and their idiosyncratic spells are evidence of this.
Gnomes have the most creative spell repertoire of all the practicing races by far, and home-made gnomish spells either end up as fabulous successes or extremely dangerous failures. Draenei have always been natural magic users. When aboard the Oshu'gun for long journeys the draenei had plenty of hours to study and practice magic. They are one of the oldest races in the universe and therefore have had a lot of time to research and improve their knowledge of the arcane arts.
Since they have had so much knowledge passed down and live such long lives to practice it, the draenei are among the most powerful mages in the known universe. The mages of Ironforge may have been influenced by their historical friendship with the humans and gnomes , as well as their new ties to the Dark Iron dwarves and their pyromancers. They may also have been influenced by the Dark Iron sorcerers of old, before the fragmentation of the dwarves.
Ironforge dwarves could be mages in World of Warcraft ' s alpha, [4] as well as in the roleplaying games, having a few named arcanists in the source books Ryona Blondbeard and Tomli Magellas for example. In World of Warcraft the dwarf Tymor describes himself as a student of arcane magic and other lost arts, [5] [6] and a dwarven mage Dorfus Alphamage appears in Dalaran in Wrath of the Lich King.
With Cataclysm dwarven mages are once again playable. All told, it is likely that the dwarves have always had mages, though there may well have been a boom in interest in the arcane by the time of the Shattering. One of the new race-class combinations in Cataclysm is the night elf magi. These are returning Highborne attempting to make amends, as foreshadowed by Mordent Evenshade.
They may also be night elves willing to learn the trade of the arcane once again under Highborne tutors, as witnessed at the Tower of Estulan. An individual night elven mage, Vestia Moonspear , tells her story about being more interested in the arcane and scholarly research. Arcane magic has been forbidden in Night Elf society since The Sundering , yet the Cataclysm brought about a greater need to adapt to an ever-changing world. Would they learn it from their quel'dorei or sindorei cousins?
Might some night elves be drafted into the Kirin Tor in Dalaran after some high ranking mage saw a glint of promise in some night elf's eyes? Would the night elf mages even be interested in joining a group such as the Kirin Tor?
Or would they likely become more exclusive, forming an arcane practicing society made up only of night elveS? Would night elf society at large even allow mages to roam free in the streets of Darnassus and Ashenvale?
Or would these mages have to live in secrecy, much like the warlocks of Stormwind do, away from the prying eyes of those who might find their existence unsettling? Post by Adamsm It sounds like these Highborne are the Shen'dralar which is kinda of amusing. These Highborne have been using a captured demon to feed off for the last 10 thousand years to keep themselves well powered and to stave off the Hunger after the destruction of the Well of Eternity.
What is going to power them now is unknown, but more then likely the Druid and Sentinal caste of the Night Elves will stay far away from them, not forgetting the sins of the past too easily. Post by Skreeran How do they come back?
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