I doubt it.
Mortals with the powers of Dragons isn’t something we see often. But WE have seen Dragons with the powers of Mortals, which is why I think a Dragon Race makes more sense.
Regardless, Verastiera. Have hope.
If I know ANYTHING about Blizzard, I know that they will reuse pre existing assets from WC3 before they create anything original.
I’m going to be disappointed if we get nothing. No new races, no new class…
It’s somewhat excusable after BFA, where we were spoiled with allied races, but I hope the next expansion gives us something meaty that will outlast it.
Blizzard is clearly building to something bigger than the usual expansion.
They keep talking about the end of an era, and recently one of the developers that retired said he can’t wait to see our reactions to April 19th.
So you might want to consider renaming your requested class to something else.
I’m studying engineering irl and if someone called me a tinkerer, it would insult me for some reason and I wasn’t sure why.
Usually when I’m low key unexplained uncomfortable with something I do some research on definitions and implications and origins of words to make sure I understand the definitions properly.
So I did some research into the definition and origins of the word tinkerer to figure out why I feel that being called it as an engineer irl is so insulting (and correct myself if the term isn’t actually as I perceived it) and boy howdy.
Tinkerer originates from the word tinker.
The Webster’s dictionary defines it as
Noun
a: a usually itinerant mender of household utensils
b: an unskillful mender : BUNGLER
Verb
to work in the manner of a tinker
especially : to repair, adjust, or work with something in an unskilled or experimental manner : FIDDLE
Elsewhere I’ve seen it defined the same as amateur. Elsewhere it points to British slang as a term for a mischievous child.
If you look more into the history of it several of these definitions are actually a little problematic.
Basically tinker originates from (I think it was) Gaelic word for tinsmith and was used starting in like the thirteenth century to refer to Irish (and maybe Scottish) indigenous nomadic people who lived traveling from town to town and fix utensils and cookware.
The term is now considered insulting in the region it originated from though some people who are indigenous Irish travellers have started trying to reclaim it.
It’s kinda sus that the term traditionally used to describe a nomadic indigenous people has negative implications such being a mischievous child and being unskilled. Definitely not cool at all.
With this in mind, I’d suggest the term “mechanic.” It doesn’t have the negative connotations.
“But Warcraft 3.”
Gestures to the Blizzard lawsuits. Blizzard is not the best at sensitivity, especially not back then. It’s very possible that they didn’t know the origins either.
im sure we will get them and they will replace hunters mages,boomies and locks arnt going anywhere but hunters are replaceable.
Yeah it was a bummer when Shadowlands told us we are getting neither and everyone was like meh.
I would rather class skins and use that to expand the race/class combos and make them make a bit more sense.
The term Tinkerer also is used in Marvel and has even appeared in the MCU… thinking they would get a lawsuit because people are offended… with that logic we wouldnt have playable Warlocks since Witchcraft is very offensive to multiple cultures.
on top of the fact Tinker is not only used by Marvel, it is also used in DBD, Terraria, Dota 2, World of Warcraft.
I cant even find out where you found out it was an insult because it isnt used like that in most sitatuions and not in any of these examples as well.
Tinkers are stupid and would ruin the feel of the game seeing a much of mecha suits in stormwind.
remember that game Aion? all the classes they added ruin the feel of the game (oh look a painter, oh look a discount gundumb suit)
we need playable NAGA and a ranger racial class!
sea witch for naga aka water/thunder ranger shared with Kul tirans
Priestess of the moon for NE female only
Void rnager for VE
Holy Ranger for Human/dwarf/draenei
Fire Ranger for BE/Orc
Arcane Ranger for Nightborne
Dark ranger for Undead/trollsthink witch doctor flavor
ALSO FOR YOU TINKERS WE CAN A LAZER/BOMB RANGER gun theme for gnomes/goblins
ALL ABILTIIES DO THE SAME THING BUT DO A DIFFERENT DAMAGE TYPE/VISUAL!
this adds a much needed class using bows/crossbows
Idc Tinkers are dumb just play the hunter spec that throws bombs… Goblin, Gnome, Mech Gnomes are there for play, even mechanical pets on hunter. Then use a gun. Engineering profession.
There yah go, Tinker.
~ Regards
It’s already like this in retail, have you seen some of the toys? What are you going on about ?
You can already use Mecha suits mounts.
Hunter, marksman.
Honestly im all for playable Naga on the Alliance and Ogres on the Horde.
I think Naga will get an interesting faction dynamic with Malfurion X Tyrande X Azshara banter… and even funnier if you are playing a Naga then going back to do Eternal Palace and fight your queen.
Lol look at you…”we do not need a another race”….yea let’s just copy paste past classes and races…
Tinker sounds lame, just a gnome w/profession.
if someone refuses to tank unless it’s a shaman tank, they don’t really wanna tank. if they did, they’d already be tanking. i very heavily doubt shaman tanks will impact the tank pool, and will be just another thing for the already useless class/spec balancers to try to balance.
i don’t want ANYTHING new added, class/spec wise, until they can get what they have under control.
edit; this applies to tinkers. we don’t need another dang class on the devs’ already overflowing plate.
This argument makes no sense when most classes at max perform 5% different from each other.
For world first Castle Nathria people objectively agreed worst tank was prot warrior but the first kill was done with a prot warrior main tanks.
This cry that balance is terrible has no merit
Imagine thinking that a profession = class… at no point in WoW have you been able to contribute meaningful dps or hps with a profession alone.
If I play a warrior with enchanting does that make me a battle mage? Absolutely not.
Let’s Make a Hypothetical, If you wanted to play a Tinker, what class would you pick to fufill that fantasy?
So, then you’d be a Hunter, with abilities like "Aspect of the Wild, or “Aspect of the Turtle”
You’d have animal themed abilities, with Nature, and poison themed stuff.
That’s not even close to a Tinker.
There are literally NPCs in game already, in mech suits.
and all those npc’
s are near lumbar yards filled with goblins…or bosses
last thing i want is stormwind or darnassus littered with gnomes in gundumb suits
Luckily you wont see them, because no one likes your boring cities and darnassus is a basic campfire.
90% of the Alliance is Human Paladins and Elf Rangers, I doubt you’d notice if Blizzard did add a new class.
Will the next profession be Nuclear Engineering?
What exactly do tinkers do? Are they machinists? What kind of gear and weapons would they use?
I have no clue, I’ve never seen a tinker in any game I’ve played.