They are DRAGONS, not DKs, monks, paladins, priests, warlocks, DHs, hunters…THEY ARE DRAGONS.
“Teh HobBiT SuKeD caUSe Smaug waSnT a PAlAdiN”
I swear to the rpg/fantasy/sci fi gods, people now and days are literal window lickers for not understanding basic fantasy writing/lore.
This is the fantasy they want them to have. Class focused around being a dragon. Besides the customizable dragon mount they will likely be the only other thing in the game capable of dragonflight. Well at release most likely. I expect more will get it.
Interesting, thanks for the clarification.
Yeah, I legitimately did not understand the reference to Star Wars in the context of what you had said.
On the rest of it, I agree that they ought to give lore justifications for why things exist. This is why my preference would be for them to have a tank spec within the class so that the race has access to all three roles in group content. My agreeing with the notion of them just adding other classes to the race is simply to fulfill that hole in potential gameplay that the lack of the race’s ability to do so provides, though I understand where others are coming from too.
At the end of the day, I’m just disappointed. I love dragons. I love tanks. I have to choose between one or the other at the moment. haha
Assuming the system is a success I bet druid flight form and what-not would get it too. That could be pretty cool!
If people want a game that a “dragon” (Dragonborn)can play as different classes then there’s DnD 5th edition
I can understand where your coming from here. It is a bummer for melee/tanks. At the same time I see the other side of the coin as Blizzard trying to create something really unique to the story of the expansion.
The Dracthyr are a race that only use the magic of Dragons. They’re a ranged class, for the ranged players, that have never had anything new for them. Blizzard could make them work with all of the melee/tank classes. But this time, this expansion, they’re going to make a really cool Hero Class with it’s own race for the range players.
I do think a tank spec would be cool.
Nah, it’ll make the furry races become even more prevalent which nobody wants.
Dragon no tank？is joker！
Well chest armor doesn’t work on them… you pick the chest armor in the barbershop, See below:
“You can even slightly change your torso to be like slightly more slender or slightly bulkier; and the armor that you wear is a type of armor that you will be able to customize at the Barbershop, too. So Dracthyr, I think they’ll also be able to wear shoulders, tabards, belts across their visage and Dracthyr form. While the visage form is able to wear all-armor.”
So far it’s what they are. These were made by death wing as the image of his “perfect soldier”… kinda hard to believe he would make a dragon with hard scales and those claws/teeth without any use for them.
I love that they have the range and healing specs, but I was hoping that this could be the perfect opportunity to have another 4 spec class.
Additional classes dracthyr should be;
Shaman (Black)
Mage (Blue) (Bronze)
Paladin (not really needed, but it goes along with the normal “Noble” dragon fantasy)
Warrior (Baised on Drakonids)
Monk (Green) (Red)
Druid (Green) (Red)
Edit: forgot to add death knights fir the frost wrym fantasy.
Source on this?
Edit: Found it myself. NEVERMIND.
They need to:
Make Dracthyr playable in their “human” form
Allow them to be other classes
Allow other races to be Evokers
And they could do this with animation changes.
For example:
When they use wing buffet, just have the animation spawn some magical dragon wings if they’re not in their Dragon form.
The novelty of “ooh a dragon class for dragons” will wear off real quick.
I think it’s fine. Hero class. Dragon Fantasy and can use Dragon flight. I’ve seen so many ideas of what people would rather it be. They all lack the vision and fantasy of what Blizzard is doing. I want to see that version first.
That is the same attitude that lead us to the Heart of Azeroth and Covenants.
When it comes to global, player performance concerns, freedom is everything.
Nope. We have plenty of tank classes, and haven’t had a new ranged class in the entire history of the game.
But beyond that, they are making something new that, because it only does one class, can be as creative as possible without having to figure out how it will work with this and that class
It’s a risk, sure, but it’s a concept worth taking a risk over.
The customer isn’t always right. Most of the time they are wrong. The problem is they keep doing the same thing that clearly isn’t good… This isn’t one of those.
The decisions and justification for both the new class and race are all just pure laziness. Blizzard needs to put in WORK! Not cut corners and try to use bull lore to justify their lazy decisions.
1 - The new race needs more class options
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Maybe. But when it comes to WoW so far we’re on a streak of identifying player power concerns and being correct.
In Legion the masses complained about mutli-spec for Artifacts. The AP grind on launch sucked.
RNG Legendary recipes were also a concern. They didn’t fix it until the last patch.
In BFA everyone was dying to see the Azerite traits, they had to be really good to redeem the state the classes were in, Azerite traits missed the mark completely.
In SL we all saw Covenants as an issue. What happens? Takes them almost 2 years to finally (essentially) remove restrictions of covenant swapping.
The Evoker situation will be a recurring complaint for many years to come.
It’s a risk for no reason. Are people more happy about the joint race-class than if it was just a new race and new class? You’re either happy regardless, or disappointed.
I like the idea of Dracthyr learning new classes in the 11.0 prepatch after they’ve spent time with their new allies, as well as some of those allies learning Evoker abilities.