He could in theory, but he does wear plate shoulders and, I dunno, his fight style seems to me like it'd involve rage, and that puts him more in the Warrior camp

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Classes don't exist in the lore. There, I said it.

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They do, but they are not as rigid as the game would have us believe.

I think Fury Warrior would fit more, since it fits the raging berserker theme. (Seeing Worgen dual wield 2handers would be pretty damn cool, as well.)

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He's a member of the NPC-only "fuck you, I'm a werewolf" class.

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Actually, if anything, they'd be as rigid as they are in the game. In lore, "classes" and their specializations function as one or more of the following: jobs, militaristic roles, hobbies, uses of study or knowledge, and crafts.

In the lore, today's classes would only describe people by grouping. You might have a GOBLIN ALCHEMIST in the lore that sure isn't a class itself in-game, but might is categorized by profession. A mage, through his or her studies, could master the arts of heavy armor and melee weapons, allowing his or herself to utilize two forms of combat together, becoming a BATTLE MAGE. Even so, a mage is only a term to describe a magic user, and could be used to describe a warlock, mage, or priest.

Specializations are truely what they are. You won't see many lore characters go from prot to holy to ret because it doesn't work like that. It takes years of study to become viable in these fields. Thrall may have shed some armor and left his melee ways behind, but he still fulfills his role as a shaman. This change wasn't instant as he had to master his new shamanistic powers.

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Sure the change wouldn't be instantaneous, but at the end of the day if someone put enough effort into it changing "classes" is possible and he'll still have his expertise in his former "class". I'm studying informatics a.t.m. if I decide to work as something else I'd have to put in the effort to learn a new career, but I'd still be able to work computer scientist. This is also true for most "classes" you fin on Azeroth. Sure there are exceptions because some of those "classes" don't depend solely on the individual, like for example shamanism which also depends on the elements, but as a whole changing "classes" is manageable and "classes" also overlap.

If the person is active in combat, the only thing they'll ever do is inch their way to their "new" expertise and use both. Tyrande is a good example of a hybrid. She is a "Priestess of the Moon", yet wields a bow and acts more like a ranger class with magic abilities (her in Warcraft 3). A mage will NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER become a warrior. Period. However, a mage can use a warrior's fierce combat tactics and become some sort of hybrid. If given the opportunity to have powers, people will always choose to keep two asesome types of powers instead of one.

"Rogue" doesn't mean much more than the fact that a person can stealth around, with the class being someone wno can. You can have a ROGUE-WARLOCK, ROGUE-HUNTER, ROGUE-PALADIN, etc. Hunters are similar in that the word they ard based off of is an action. Does that mean anyone who hunts is a hunter? By definition, yes (if said person hunts more than once). That means you CAN have a MELEE HUNTER or a petless hunter, etc.

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So how is that more rigid than wow?