So, if you look at some of the abilities they have - namely the swipe - it looks like they were going to have some form of melee mode. Maybe a leftover design?
Because running up and swinging on something as a Dracthyr is suicide otherwise. They’re casters.
I took Tail Swipe off of my bars when I realized that it only hit mobs within 8 yards of my character.
they’re meant to create distance when melee enemies are all up in your face
The knock-up isn’t meant for that (that’s a tank ability). The knock-back is a caster ability.
They will likely add other classes that do tank later but for now they want to focus specifically on evokers as being their thing. Who knows maybe they’ll create another spec down the road but ran out of time getting it to work. It’s blizzard so it could be anything or it could just be “whoops derp forgot about that line”.
They literally have a tank faction called the Obsidian Warders who, supposedly, specialized in Defense.
The knock up does nothing for melee, you push them up but so what? They’re in your face and can hit their buttons.
It’s literally meant to get up close and disrupt casters, but you’re also casting yourself.
Maybe if Living Flame was like a ranged crusader strike it would see more use but it’s really mediocre.
Exactly. So it was meant for interrupts. While we have some melee abilities.
Death Knight have ranged magic spells yet they have no ranged caster spec just stop it
Except they literally have talents on their main tree to buff their swipe… much like they have stuff on the right side of their tree to buff healing and DPS casting.
It looks like a cancelled portion.
Probably scrapped due to time restraints.
Love the reaching here. Got to chug all the copium.
from what theyve said there never was going to be a tank spec. The last few hero classes have tank specs and they finally wanted to add a new caster. Druids are the only exception to tanks not being casters.
What, because they have a point-blank AoE? Does that mean mages were going to tank because they have Arcane Explosion?
do we seriously need a 7th tank class when the raids only require two tanks per guild?
An AoE that can affect THREE targets if talented. Two otherwise.
They just… GET an AoE spell otherwise. That is superior in every way.
Play an Elemental Shaman and an Enhancement Shaman and you’ll understand how the Dracthyr Evoker works.
Evoker functions, though.
The knock up is dope for interrupting a cast that has a shield on it and your Wings are on cooldown and/or isn’t practical to use at the moment for whatever reason.
um druids can knock up in all dps specs