Simple…
By making the class a mech piloted class.
So engineering - enchanting, mage - mech pilot.
Essentially the fantasy of the class is properly using mech technology while engineering crafts it.
Think of fighter jet pilots, they’re aces in piloting but they’re not engineering them.
So here’s to a tinker esq class in TLT!
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Mech for the tank spec.
The backpack extra arms thing for the melee spec.
Artillery and guns for the ranged spec.
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As long as I get a Deathscythe to pilot.
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I feel like if there’s something the players have been asking for the devs just won’t do it. We have titan and Draenei tech and we don’t really use it?
Remove engineering like they did inscription.
But no tinkers, pls.
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Based on tinkers we do see ingame I guess they could be a pretty good profession.
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Class: Mechanic
Specs: Steamwarrior and Machinist (mech and backpack/gun)
Hero Talents: Tinker and Sapper
This would be my dream come true!
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This would be magnificent! They also removed First Aid too!
Yes, but I more meant how they “removed” inscription in that… it’s worthless.
RIP first aid though. The only removed title I’m interested in is Field Medic.
Can they?
Yes.
Should they?
I would argue… no.
The reality is that tinkers aren’t so much a Class as they are a desire to play a character that fights using technology.
And that could easily be achieved by creating an Engineering-only backpack with mechanical arms that hold your character’s weapons and fights for you.
I think WoW is already reaching the critical point of how many classes it can actually sustain, and we should start looking for other ways to fulfill currently unsupported fantasies other than “adding a new Class.”
Hmm… every time Tinkers get brought up I wonder how it would clash with Engineering although a Tinker class could benefit from taking engineering for their profession if like the profession makes guns and bombs and the class is one to wield guns and benefit from having some crafted grenades on hand but doesn’t make these things. It could also give Engineering more use as it could maybe introduce a new weapon type of like the robotic arms or whatever people were talking of, a pack weapon maybe as it could be arms or it could be like cannons…lot of ideas for it really. The tinker could maybe be the fourth mail armor class, it could focus around laying down mines instead of bear traps so it doesn’t clash with hunters. Maybe turrets like how shamans got totems, talents that augment the turrets with new functions or firepower. Perhaps a mech pet or battle armor ability as well. Lot of things they could do to make it viable without clashing with other classes or gutting the engineering profession.
If Paladins and Priests can coexist, then so can DK and Necromancer. So can Engineers and
Tinkers.
Not sure how I feel about trying to PvP against a Gundam lol.
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A tank crew has an Engineer
Well we’re really only missing two classic DND fantasy archetypes and that’s a mechanist and bard.
I think there’s room for both
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I’d give my left
for a tech class.
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