Yo all of you who are all ‘oh bard is nothing but a support class’. open your minds.
Read the KALEVALA; particularly the ‘Battle of Song’.
Then listen to some METAL, especially DEATH METAL; if you cant feel the vibes destroying your brain cells then turn the sound up, gramps.
We need this.
Skäl
I don’t think it would work there suppose to switch roles during combat! one min a healer another min a dps just going by how they work in most MMorpgs.Switching back and forth while playing music.
Unlike every other class introduced, Bards have no stance on lore, therefore they aren’t a good fit. No such thing as bards in warcraft.
Bards can be melee, ranged dps or a healer. Thats part of their versatility. A swashbuckler who sings sea songs(
). A viking readying for battle. Or an arcane minstrel who studies the flow of the universe and what it says. Or a fae healer who listens to forests. Theres soooo many things you can do. 
I wish wow would have 4 types of classes
Instead of the holy trinity…
They already tried this. It failed. Shaman in WotLK era and earlier were buffbots.
There only being 1 support class in the game would mean you absolutely are required to take 1, but never a second (because they wouldn’t make the buffs stack).
1 class should never be basically required to the point it becomes a meme of “token bard”. Just like shaman were “token shaman”. Their personal damage was nerfed hard because they brought raid wide buffs.
So don’t make the buffs raidwide. Make the buffs single target or have a target cap of 5.
In 5 man content you would want 1 bard at most, but in raids you could bring as many as you wanted.
see bards would be nice to have. Some people remember this class from Bards Tale - the old game.
Shaman in Classic were hardly ‘token’, when raids regularly brought 5-8 of us.
Shaman in BC, you wanted an enhancement shaman for each melee group ideally; resto shaman and ele shaman were also still useful in numbers.
Wrath was the first time our buffs were raid-wide, and the first time that “bring exactly one shaman to the raid” would ever even have been considered.
I hardly think one particular expansion where they failed to balance the buffs represents an insurmountable wall that cannot be designed around.
Eww. Bards.
That doesn’t sound epic or like Warcraft.
are Vulperas classic Warcraft? you need to add new things.
Allods Online did the Bard class much justice. You had Dissonance chords to attack and Harmony to heal. It was very cool the way they are set up.
Actually Allods is a very well put together game.
Shaman in Classic were horrible. They weren’t brought because the buffs were optimal. They were brought because at that point in WoW the raids were so simple and easy you could bring anything.
Ok.
You’re very badly wrong, but if that’s the level of knowledge you have about the history of the shaman class, that’s the end of any productive conversation.
Have a nice day.
I hope you have a great day and one day take off your rose colored glasses so you will be less wrong in the future.
It helps coming to the conversation knowing what you are talking about.
Its all but universally known that shaman were lacking in their personal dps and their buffs did not make up for it. I mean, even look at the current iteration on Classic servers where even on the high end guilds shaman didn’t even have a raid slot.
People took non max level mages, over max level shaman.
Have a great evening as well!
Its not in the lore of anything Blizzard. Go play Baldurs Gate if you are looking for something like that.
I actually think they may be setting up bards as a future class. They are going to introduce a new concept into warcraft during shadowlands that will make an opening for the class next expansion. I’m saving the possible details for a later post that i’ve been trying to find more solid proof for.
Class called “bard”, not race.
I got it again cheap, on the Xbox One, haven’t messed with it much yet. I wanted to play it in color, since originally I played it on an IBM XT in CGA four color and switching 5 inch floppy discs. I think that was around 1987.
Your post is kind of ironic, for wanting a Bard in Wow. The reason is that if you read current suggestions for “The Bard’s Tale”, the main suggestion is that you DON’T have a Bard; characters like Monks and such are suggested. As in 1987, I make sure to have one Bard in the party for the RP feel of the game. I also remember one real irritating limitation, where the Bard has to drink booze or something in order to be able to sing again.
Like in that game, Bard feels too much like a “support” class which you don’t even really need. So I don’t see how it would fit in Wow. I remember how in Everquest raids were “tuned” (ha ha, get it?) for basically needing one Bard. I remember doing the plane of hate and fear, with the one guy in the raid who could stand to play a Bard.
So in Wow, the raids would have to be tuned to need a Bard just so people would feel like a Bard had a place in Wow; Or they could just NOT do that, then not have a Bard in Wow. So a Bard class feels more like something Wow would have needed from the very start, or not at all.
There are other classes that could just be “added” to Wow, such as a plate Battle Mage (like the Tol-Barad Battle Mages.) This is because it would just be adding an alternate “plate” tank, which would not be a huge addition/balance problem.
there has to be a way to add it. They added Monks.