Honestly, seeing how terrible mages are if they’re not fire, it would certainly be nice to give mages some kind of melee spec like the survival hunters have.
Something that doesn’t involve hard casting, and getting locked out of casting in PvP.
From what I’ve heard, Arcane is the top spec for mages in Sanctum right now. I was thinking more along the lines of a new plate class that either plays similarly to enhancement at its core - only more tanky than shamans. That, or literally just class skins - change some ability names, change their damage type and the overall theme, and boom. Easy Battlemage.
You can play a Battlemage in New World. I’m sure what’s left of WoW players will be there.
I think it would be amazing, for sure. Having said that, there needs to be a new ranged class next, absolutely no question there.
Yes please! Plate or Mail gear and purely Arcane Magic.
A hero class for each race.
The original wow battlemage was just a mage with a strong magic shields .That’s about it.no fancy,no thrill.
A battlemage would be kinda cool. I used to mind control the battlemages in Stratholme and do big damage with em. But…
No more melee dps for a bit, ok? We haven’t gotten a single new ranged dps since launch! We’ve in fact LOST a ranged dps with Survival Hunter! We need something new in ranged dagnabbit!
If blizzard were to create one it would surely be only for pvp but i don’t know what could be that mages talents.
Wouldn’t Enhancement Shamans be considered a type of “battlemage”?
While thats extremely unlikely to happen, have you considered playing an enhancement shaman? You can get some glamours that look like full plate and most of your abilities are some combination of melee and spellcasting.
Definately not arcane, but they pull from all the elemental schools and it’s fun to play from what I hear.
A spec for Dragonsworn might fit the bill pretty well.
Fix the specs we have and a great expansion first. Every spec is due for a totally new exciting build alot are getting quite boring and 1 or 2 extra powers then gone ain’t cutting it.
Every time this concept gets floated I tend to think of the Arcane Warrior or Knight Enchanter from Dragon Age (Origins and Inquisition respectively). In fact the Knight Enchanter in Inquisition could almost be a magic knight. You could craft caster armour with special mats that removed armour restrictions so you could wear plate or leather. And there was this baller ‘staff’ pattern that was actually like having a lightsaber greatsword. In addition to the arcane blade melee spell you got as the class.
And the best part was you kept all your standard range spells and crowd control stuff but you could get stuck in if you wanted to.
So obviously I’m in favour of anything like it in WoW
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I wouldn’t mind that idea, except I much prefer the theme of an enhancement shaman as I enjoy the primal aspects far more.
But would be a cool class and I’d play one. Especially if they made a “Spell Breaker” tank spec, kinda a throw back to the old RTS unit
Already mentioned Enh doesn’t fit the fantasy I want.
Again, already mentioned it at the start, already HAVE an enhancement shaman. Not the fantasy I want.
Well, the game has a limited supply of Gishes… pick the one you want.