Future 4th specs

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Aug introducing a support has essentially pseudo confirmed that we’ll be having more specs in the future to add more support roles.

So what if this is to be a big future feature, what will be the 4th specs for every class, even DH.

Here’s my list. And I’m usually right in anything I say. Sooooo

Warlock: blood, offensive heals. Would be nice to have a dark healer.

Mage: chronomancy heals

Priest: Twilight, dps support with Twilight magic school.

Rogue: return of combat as tank.

Druid: lol

Monk: chi ji themed melee support dps

DH: (1) Two handed dps like Allari the soul eater, (2) either tank version of the former or ranged weapon dps like that HS card with a ranged weapon DH

Shaman: earth tank

Hunter: tank

Evoker: dot dps with blue and green flights.

Dk: return of Blood dps as support.

Paladin: sword and board support dps.

Warrior: return of gladiator as a dps spec using two hander and shield.

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I think it depends on how hero talents work going forward.

Adding new specs means adding a new hero talent tree too, so that’s double the work.

I disagree with a lot of your ideas though, just arbitrarily adding tank or healer to classes without them at the moment is kinda lame imo.

For example; I think a support spec specializing in debuffs would be much better for warlocks. All the curses and hexes that boost everyones damage kinda thing. Maybe a proper witch doctor? This seems way more fitting than forcing healer role onto them.

That being said I’ll trade just about anything for gladiator stance warriors to come back, even my own pride.

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I feel like that’s a stretch

But I like lists. Breaking down between buff(on party) and debuff(on enemy) based support roles.

Warlock: necromancer (debuff)
Mage: illusionist (debuff)
Priest: cultist (buff)
Rogue: bard (both)
Druid: you already got 4 specs
Monk: brewtender (both?)
DH: soul eater (debuff)
Shaman: primalist (buff)
Hunter: scout (both)
Evoker: twilightscale (debuff)
Dk: idk
Paladin: Beaconator (buff)
Warrior: Bannerlord (both)

Best I can do in 5 minutes.

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Not all new specs have to be support. Though you could make “bannerlord” more interesting by bringing some of the gladiator stance stuff in there for their damage and then throw down banners kinda like the necrolord covenant ability.

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Just to understand this better, how is this the case?

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Pure dps class either need a tank or healer if they’re getting a fourth. That’s non negotiable.

As for hero specs, I agree they might need finessing with 4th specs. My first guess would be to give everyone a third hero spec option while each class has 4

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Oh lord, i forgot about that. Please scrap Hero Talents and add new branch systems to existing trees.

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Because there’s no way Aug is gonna monopolize support.

And blizz have hinted at making more support specs.

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I disagree, see if specs get added I want it to fit the theme and fantasy of the class.

Yup and it would be double the work to implement it, which makes it unlikely but still fun to speculate.

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I used to believe this but then Blizzard decided to not add in any new specializations for The War Within so maybe not.

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Blood heals lock and chronomancy mage heals fit them perfectly.

Combat rogue always had a parry theme so that covers tank fantasy.

Tank hunter would just be survival tanking.

Shaman earth tank is a given

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Not yet. I agree that Aug being the only support spec for ever is unlikely.

They are on a slippery slope though. Do they gut a current spec to force one in? Like disc becoming support or affliction? Do they make a new one? How will it be unique? What about hero talents?

Personally I’d really like to see the warlock debuffer as a new support spec. Don’t touch affliction though, keep that dot damage.

But like make new curses like “Curse of decay; for the next 15 seconds all damage dealt to the target deals 5% additional necrotic damage”. Just a spitball idea there but stuff along those lines.

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Man I was just playing my fistweaver tonight and thinking about how dominated by green it is. I’d love fistweaver be separated as their 4th spec and themed around Chi Ji. Poor bird feels relegated to the sidelines among the Celestials.

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Blizz confirmed non of the existing specs would ever go support, they used enh shaman as an example.

Which suggests future new specs.

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Evoker needs a tank spec more than another dps spec

SV tank with a new spec filling back the spot of Mists-era RSV would probably still not make the hunter forum whiners shut up

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Na, evokers are a caster class. And there’s no such thing as a ranged tank.

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Hard disagree. Not ones in wows multiverse has a warlock cares about healing others. It doesn’t make any sense.

Time based healing is covered by evokers, Season of Boring be damned. But push comes to shove I could live with it.

Hunter tanks, well survival is already melee. It feels forced to make them into tanks just so they have a tank spec.

And I’ll say it. Shaman tanks suck, 2h big earth bonk stick shaman dps are cooler.

Blizzard also confirmed that classic servers would never be a thing. Times change and so do dev team philosophies.

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Well blood heals would be offensive in nature with dark magic.

Just basically build.off of health funnel.

It can work just fine.

Just because evokers use bronze magic to heal doesn’t mean mages can’t use pure arcane time manipulation.

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Add polearms, make a spears & draconic magic tank, voila (I would sincerely rather Evoker get specs covering the two missing roles before they try to crowbar more classes to work with dracthyr).

Also tanks have very different degrees of stuck in melee - that prot paladin shield throw hurts and goes really far compared to DK having 0 mobility and nearly 0 range

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Possibly, but it’s just as likely that Augmentation is reworked into a traditional damage specialization.