Lich or necromancer. Or should a new class be made with those two specs? Only really thought of the relation to mage due to daddy Kel
I would have loved a Necromancer class, but Blizzard effectively took that and made the death knight a melee version. If they made one, they’d end up gutting dks like they did warlocks for dhs and mages for evokers and people would end up pissed. As for liches, it should be a customization option for Forsaken.
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What did they gut from mage for evoker?
Water spec and it would be a healer.
The thing they should do is to make a new shadow mage/necromancer/witch doctor class while scraping shadow priest and making a new ranged light magic dps spec for priest
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You already have a necromancer class. Now if you mean a wizard-like Necromancer, you don’t. But Gul’dan was able to ressurect people into Undeath so Warlock is the closest thing you will have. If we were to get a wizard necromancer class we would have in Shadowlands.
I’d personally kill for a proper Blood Mage spec. Proper blood-slinging. There was so much potential surrounding the dark anima of Pandaria. Squandered, in expected fashion.
Water mage bubble healer similar to how disc priest plays
Mage should never get Necromancer. It makes zero sense in the lore. Dalaran expressly forbids necromancy as a practice and it’s the entire reason for Kel’Thuzad’s path falling into darkness, and why his story has weight.
Neither do Tauren rogues and Draenei warlocks.
The mage in World of Warcraft has always centered on a master of arcane magic, wielding it in its pure state or channeling it to command elemental spells such as fire and frost. When a mage abandons the arcane to draw on other sources, they cease to be a mage and become something else entirely — whether a necromancer, a warlock, or another servant of a different cosmic force.
Mages have an enormous historical foundation, because arcane magic possesses a unique and fascinating quality: it is the power that governs all physical reality through time and space.
Therefore, do not ask that the mage be twisted to serve another cosmic force beyond Order and its expression in the universe as arcane magic. Instead, ask that its specializations — Arcane, Fire, and Frost — become even more striking and unique.
A mage can certainly gain more abilities tied to the elements, as they fall naturally within their domain. The elements are the universe’s basic building blocks, and arcane magic is the force that arranges those blocks — hence the ease with which an arcane practitioner can control them.
Furthermore, the mage could receive an entirely new specialization: the Battle Mage, inspired by the boss Aluriel in the Nighthold. It would be similar to Enhancement Shaman — a melee fighter who enchants weapons with elemental magic and wades into the fray, blades imbued with fire, frost, or raw arcane energy. It would explore a fresh mage fantasy while staying true to the class’s essence: mastery of Order and the elements through knowledge and control.
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Tauren Rogue works because size doesn’t automatically discount someone for being stealthy. And Draenei Warlocks literally got a full quest chain in the game to explain their becoming Warlocks. Even the Warlock pet quest chains included a Lightforged Draenei of all things as a main character. I don’t really agree with it, but it is explained.
As for necromancy in Mages, it’s been expressly forbidden in the game through lore books and countless quests and stories since forever.
Any one race can pick up any class role they wish to. But a whole class as an entity isn’t going to sacrifice its values because a couple people outside the game threw the idea at a dart board. It would ruin the lore of Mage and be worse for the game.
Necromancer should always have been its own class, a 4th spec for Warlocks maybe, or a spec skin for Demonology to appear like a necromancer.
You still seem to be missing my point: Blizzard can (and do) alter, rewrite and disregard lore any time they want. I don’t want a 4th mage spec, I think necromancer should be its own class if they do it. But just because someone, somewhere in game said they shouldn’t do “x” or “y” doesn’t mean it will never happen.
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It’s a dumb argument or point to even talk around. You know well and good that Mages are a bad pick for a Necromancer spec. You’re just choosing to be difficult about it.
Necromancer deserves its own class first of all. And if not, the closest such a darkly aligned magic user would come to a 4th spec for a class that exists already is Warlock. Easily. Idk why people on this site have to be difficult all the time to sound intellectual or something.
What part of
did you find unclear or difficult?
I’m not trying to be anything. Just making a point, which you seem unwilling or unable to grasp, that Blizzard can do whatever they wish, lore or not.
You’re obviously being devil’s advocate and it’s annoying lol. Just own it pup. Not everything has to be a thought experiment or a think piece on the internet. Insufferable.