I’d just like to start off by saying that came off a bit disrespectful. I doubt that’s the intention and as the head enforcer you probably know all too well that emotions and their portrayal get muddled through text. In any case, food for thought!
I couldn’t find anywhere that mentioned revolvers now that I’ve gone back through the RPG books, so I must have just made the assumption that the modern linear progression of firearms carried over into WoW... That being matchlocks, long guns (blunderbuss, arquebus, muskets, etc), flintlock pistols, pepperbox, revolver, semiautomatic, automatic (gatling), automatic (machine) in the general sense. Don’t want to get too into it. That must not be the case however, it seems it’s gone matchlock, long guns, flintlock, pepperbox, semiautomatic, automatic (gatling), skipping over revolvers completely. I find it rather strange myself, but oh well! I suppose all I can do to give my point is quote the semiautomatic and fully automatic weaponry/tech mods from the RPG.
Magic and Mayhem, Page 177, Queueing Quiver (Revolver/Revolving technology)
More Magic and Mayhem, Page 169, Autofeed Tech Mod.
More Magic and Mayhem, page 169, Multi-Barreled (Pepperbox)
More Magic and Mayhem, Page 195, Dwarven Reciprocator
I know in one of the other books there’s a mention to another magazine system, as well as a redundancy with the Dwarven Reciprocators in MM and MM&M, as well as some other items that are probably hidden somewhere in the other RPG books, but I just got back from work and it’s kind of a pain to go through all the books... In any case, I was indeed wrong about revolvers, but there does seem to be higher quality guns as well as lower quality. Not too much of a stretch to assume someone out there’s invented the ‘missing link’ to steal an evolutionary term since we’re talking about the evolution of firearms. It is a stretch however, so I’ll replace any mention or use of revolvers on my characters with pepperboxes or magazine fed guns.
I do still stand by my point however, that anyone could use a firearm. They may have been harder to fire with older technology and I’ll agree with that, but not so hard as to completely discard them from use. Here are some examples to prove my point, with average joes shooting a black powder weapon without much trouble. Mostly chose women since they’re generally speaking not quite as strong as men. Not trying to allude to anything sexist, just trying to prove my point because I couldn’t find any priests or mages on youtube that were shooting flintlocks. :P
Black Powder Rifle
Another Rifle
Black Powder Pistol
One Handed
Did I say I couldn't find a priest shooting a flintlock..?