Class Spec-ulation

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With that class survey several months ago, I had thought of specs I would love to see and find interesting in game. Of course, I doubt any of these would see the light of day, but hey. A man can dream, right?

Evoker: Tank: Earth Warder. Fighting Style: fencing based. Favored weapon(s): One handed weapon+Off hand Relic or Dagger. Generates barriers much like a warriors Ignore Pain with the powers of the Black and Blue Aspects. Intellect Based tank.

Mage: Tank: Spellbreaker. Fighting Style: Gladiator (With staff and shield anyway). Sword and Shield Intellect based tank that switches ‘stances’ based on the three specs. Fire for single target damage over time, Frost for armor and defensives, and Arcane for Area of Effect damage and denial.

Warrior (Or Rogue): Support: War Chanter. Uses twin swords in combat and boosts allies with chants or songs. Fighting style inspiration is the blade dancers that use scimitars.

Hunter: Support: Tinker. Uses engineering gizmos to boost allies in combat, extra perks with Mechanical pets active. Maybe a medical dart to heal if needed, or a Stim Dart as a Combat revive.

Warlock: Healer: Enlightened Fel. (Name Work in Progress.) Offer light based demons and uses Holy Fel to heal allies. Or could be a support Spec.

Tell me what y’all think. Good, Bad. I just wanted to get these thoughts out.

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I think that survey was a hoax but I enjoy a good armchair ideas thread.

I’ve always thought a warlock tank that puppets demons to do the ranking would be really cool, probably too complex for Blizz to pull off even though it’d basically just be like any other pet class.

Also forever waiting for rogue swashbuckler dodge/stagger tank. I think you could do a system similar to a monk where damage is deferred into luck and you have to offload it with combo points.

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I would like a rogue or hunter healer, rogue focused on potions/bandages and hunter another sort of nature healer with pet interractions

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None of those before a Shaman Tank with an Earthshield Totem, and other similar damage mitigation spells and totems.

Also, I’d love to see a Mage DPS similar to Enhancement Shaman, that both hit you and cast spells - a combat mage, as it were. Maybe it’s better as a tank, though.

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I won’t accept any earth based tank unless it’s shaman

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I hope they take the entire support concept and jettison it into the sun.

I would like that too, but I think it’s really unlikely the pure DPS specs will remain pure DPS and there’s not really any other class to add that to other than mage.

I expect mage is going to get some stupid Time healer spec and it’s going to suck and be annoying.

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They already have. It was an experiment and Ion said in the interview that it failed and they won’t be adding any new support specs to the game. What boggles my mind is that augmentation is still a support spec. Why didn’t they change it to a proper dps spec that uses black/red to be an alternative to the red/blue that dev uses?

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From the survey, I think the most viable are:

  • Warlock Tank (in metamorphosis/demon form). Would fit into the “cloth” tank.
  • Hunter Tank (Thinker): more viable than “support” and would fit into the mail tank.
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The DK lich spec stood out to me. That would be awesome.

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I really hope so. I can’t think of anything more disappointing than seeing “X class gets a new spec!” and finding out it’s stupid support garbage.

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Why? More support specs would help balance Aug better instead of everyone wanting only an Aug for their Raid/M+

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waggles finger

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Can you link the interview?

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DK kind of already is a lich. Unholy is darn near mid range and frost has a lot of range in and out as well.

A DK lich spec is still much more likely though that the people that think we’ll ever get a cloth necromancer while we already have DK.

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Yeah, the way they described it in the survery sounded like a blend of the two.

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No it wouldn’t. It’d turn support into a de facto 4th role that would make forming groups more complicated and make getting groups as DPS more difficult.

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It just depends on your group make up, if you have 2 guaranteed pumpers a support is helpful, but if you are skeptical about how your 2 DPS will perform, then its better to bring 3 DPS. The case for more support makes more sense to me as M+ dam is exponential higher as you climb.

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I think many would be disappointed if Tinker was a Hunter Spec rather than it’s own Class.
Much the same if Bard was released as a Rogue Spec and not a Class.

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ATM the game needs more tanks and more healers. Adding in a class that could do both would really help.

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If Warrior or Rogue get a new spec, it needs to use ranged weapons.

Hunters have had a monopoly for too long.

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