We only have 1 class that uses guns/bows and 2 specs at that.
Thinking they should be a mix of D3 DH, WoW DH and Varus from LoL.
Using Fel Rush as an escape rather than a gap closer would be sick.
Have them have a corrupted bow similar to Varus and maybe their meta form would empower their arrows with fel magic.
Just make it the second support class that uses debuffs to direct a portion of mob damage to the DH, while also using dot debuffs to direct a portion of the damage they’re dealt as healing.
Defiler spec.
here’s my concept for a new dh spec okay. in human form you try to build demonic rage by casting fel corruption, hand of illidan, and shadow bite. fel corruption is a dot. hand of illidan is an AoE dot. it has 2 charges. it stacks. you’re supposed to save up the charges so you can refresh it twice before it falls off, to max your demonic rage generation. when you turn into a demon, fel corruption is replaced with condemnation (a different dot that has a very long tick timer and deals high damage), shadow bite is replaced with touch of chaos, and hand of illidan is replaced with chaos wave. your demonic rage bar is really big so you can always pool rage and line up your burst with your UVLS proc or whatever.
This would be neat too, although I’d like to see how Augvoker plays out first.
It’s Blizzard’s first support class.
Personally, I think a varus type DH spec would be amazing.
Sounds like Gnar iirc lol but neat.
Dying for another physical ranged personally. Hoping it comes in the form of something like an artificer…not a DH.
Somebody on MMOChamp had neat ideas for Artificer, an artillerist type of art (5e) would be neat.
Bow using DH similar to Varus and D3 DH would be awesome too.
Dracthyr’s support class will last at most out the expansion before it’s changed to just another dps.
You have a source for this or is it just more “I don’t like change” opinion?
Just a casual observation of what inevitably happens with the more support oriented features that have come and go through the game.
I feel like a great dh heal spec would be melee based like pally, and still involve soul fragments, but instead of absorbing them, we send them to allies that need health instead. With some direct heals too ofc
DH is not getting a third spec. Its time has passed. There’s no plot-related reason for it like evokers have with Augmentation. And it wouldn’t be ranged because they were never intended to be ranged, so it would be bolting a completely new archetype onto them, much like when people demand a melee evoker spec.
If Leech and Souls don’t save me, this is correct as melee too.
It’d be cool if they could give out some kind of Fel based health potion or stone or something like that. It’d fit the DH theme well.
We’ve never had a support spec, but sure. You do you.
Classic had, then they were streamlined over TBC.
In also recall that warlocks had a support ability in cataclysm… That stacked so you could tos a bunch of them on one player to make them OP… Removed.
Only support that have survived is Heroism/Bloodlust and combat resses.
They should make it a blue mage esque healing spec with fel magic and stealing magic from holy/nature/shadow beings and mixing in fel.
I’ve been wanting a new physical ranged DPS for a while.
I would rather see a spec more focused around throwing Javelins and glaives and such though rather than empowered bow magic.
Not quite true.
Classic was full of them. And if you look at certain metas especially in PVP, many specs often play a supportive position.
It’s just never been officially labelled a Support spec.
I don’t see Augmentation staying support-centric in 11.0
Problem with adding a ranged spec to a melee class is you just end up becoming Feral / Survival where you’re basically banned from PVE content unless they’re gamebreakingly overpowered.
Shaman has a good balance. It doesn’t necessarily have to play out like SV Hunter.
Plus DH only has 1 DPS spec anyways. The other spec is a Tank, which is usually a taken position if you’re doing organized raiding.
If you’re not willing to re-roll or even re-spec you get shunned regardless.
It’s good for DH, just not necessarily good for Havoc.