Why are certain race/class restrictions even a thing?

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Originally Posted by Raisen223 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I get the reason for some of those, like the lore and whatnot, but the others just seem completely arbitrary or done just to force an artificial distribution of races throughout the game. For starters, why can't Halflings be bards? They've historically been bards in fantasy in general. Why can't they be rangers? Why can't elves be monks? None of this makes sense to be honest.

Halflings can be rangers and paladins in Luclin. A lot of the gripes people have with the game are fixed in later expansions and of course we won't have those fixes here because "That change happened in Luclin and Luclin BAD!"