Not really besides DK, but they wear plate. Necromancers would wear cloth. but guess people could argue that Warlocks are like Necromancers, but not really.
Besides I think Blizzard are already testing the waters with necromancer, just from playing Exiles Reach. Necromancer will get that greenish/blue color that Necromancers were using on the island. itll be cool because itll be the first caster hero class.
Itâs just people who wanna be the Leader of the Edge Parade.
Tinkers follow the existing patterns of class design. Therefore they are likely to be added in the future.
No Iâm saying the opposite, they do.
Which is why I think Necroâs have a chance, not as much as Tinker. But still a chance.
Exiles Reach also has Tinkers though.
Everyone on that Island is a representative of an existing class. Except the tinkers there. They donât represent an existing class. But theyâre fully voice acted and going on about how superior technology is.
Then weâre in Agreement. Tinkers are likely because theyâre so easy.
Just copy a Hero from Warcraft 3. Just like the last 3 classes they added.
Bonus points. Tinkers donât step all over an existing class.
Thematically they are similar to warlocks. Summon pets. Lock is demon, Necro would be undead. They are both antihero types. UH DK already summons undead minions. I doubt they will make 2 classes that summon undead armies. So that would mean a change to Unholy.
Also this expansion is our undead expansion. If they were going to introduce a class related to dead/afterlife powers, Shadowlands would have been the place to do it. It wouldnt make a whole lot of sense for the next expac, to have a Necromancer. âHey look what we found in Shadowlands. Necromancers! We are bringing them along to fight (Insert New Expansion Badguys)â
FF14 and FF11 would disagree with you about bard. FF14, bard is dps with support buffing abilities. Of course most dps in that game support the groups with some type of buff. Thereâs only 2 pure âselffishâ dps classes in the whole game that have higher self dps but no support for the group.
Not keen on the idea of having bard as a class in WoW. Theyâd screw it up some how. Remember bards are good at many things, but great at nothing.
Final Fantasy XIV has Bards.
Itâs basically a DPS class with some support spells on the side for flavor. However, Bards are Archers in FFXIV so this type of Bard wouldnât work in WoW unless itâs added as a spec to Hunters, or replaced a spec for hunters. And I donât think anyone wants that, especially since Blizzard already did that to Survival by making it a Melee spec. /me throws more salt over this.
IMO, if they canât implement a WoW friendly version of Bards, Outlaw Rogues can just RP as Bards if people really want to.
And Rangari and Elven Archers/Rangers are basically the opposing version of Dark Rangers just using light and nature magic respectively.
Which could thus make for an interesting Ranger class with specializations in Dark Magic, Light Magic, and Nature Magic enhanced guns/bows/xbows.
You know this game is called âWorld of Warcraftâ Right?
I donât see any Bards in Warcraft. So I donât want any bards in âWorld of Warcraftâ
I think the bigger problem is FF14âs class design/encounter design in general. FF14 still uses support abilities while WoW has left that behind. Their encounter design is all about META and everything is a dps race. Even tank dps matters which I find annoying.
But in WoW we have no support type roles. A bard would have to hold its own in a DPS spec.
If it is the only support role, it would have to buff the other 2 dps in a group to compensate. Also how would that pan out in a raid? Do they buff only group members? Or raidwide? If raidwide, then you only need 1 or 2 of them per raid. If its group wide, then you need 1 per group in a raid. If their buff to the group is just a bit too good, then every 5man would be Tank, Healer, Bard, 2 DPS.
Just seems like it being a support role wouldnt work, unless WoW redesigns several specs as support, and creates a new role.
We already have that.
Itâs called hunter.
You should take a look at classic. Shaman and Paladin and warlock even are very much support classes. Vanilla shaman is probably the closest this game has ever come to a bardâŚ
Just because you havenât it yet doesnât mean itâs not there. Nothing new would get added if they used that logic.
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Every class in this game has abilities from Warcraft 3.
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All the new classes they have added are from Warcraft 3.
Therefore it stands to reason that the Next class will also be from Warcraft 3.
Thatâs why the game is called âworld of warcraftâ not âWorld of whatever we want to happen craft.â
Yea, I mentioned this in a later comment. WoW has moved away from support roles. Which is kinda sad because support can be so fun and clutch.
if you want to try and make bards dps they could easily be worked into short-range, aoe, casters.
My Favorite Classes in Everquest were Bard, Shaman, Mage, Shadowknight. With Bard being my favorite.
And yet weâre going to a place in the next expac that wasnât even really thought of much in WC3.