Idea: Tinker class/profession that can give anyone a tank spec

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So heres the idea, you have a profession tree in the engineering profession called “Super suit” which can give any engineering profession player a tank spec.

How super suit works is when you activate it you change into a tank spec called tinker and your character puts on an iron man like suit.

Every super suit user has the same abilities and tinker spec talent choices to make balance easier and int is converted to str with current stats etc.

The only thing that carries over is one defensive based on your original class, one aoe spell based on your original class, one mobility based on your class.

Example: Im a mage and I respec tinker I would get The regular tinker defensive abilities + a bigger more tanky ice barrier; As a mage tinker I would get the regular tinker AoE abilities + blizzard; And a tinker mage I would get blink as a mobility.

Edit: engineering could just be like a secondary like fishing or cooking after change.

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The idea is fundamentally flawed, a profession is not a class and they should remain separate. Beyond that, Blizzard and Ice Barrier are not baseline mage abilities, those are frost abilities. And would be disasterous to balance an extra 13 (or 39 if you mean it to be per spec) pseudotanks.

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That would make the profession mandatory for a lot of players. Blizzard has said in the past they don’t want to have a profession that players feel force to take, hence why the engineering profession doesn’t have recipes like the rocket boots added.

Tinker should be and will be it’s own Class

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Love the idea OP. Creative and i haven’t seen it before.

So make it a secondary

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I just want the Engineer Class in General and just be opened to all races instead of limited locked to just one or two races. Same reason why Demon Hunters and Evokers are not played alot for a reason.

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A single primary crafting profession out of eight is not going to be reworked to give access to an entirely new spec shared between every class. That’s not how specs work. That’s not how professions work. That’s not how anything works. These attempts to make tinkers happen in some shape or form are becoming increasingly convoluted.