Dracthyr are not cool, and the main reason is that are not a classic race part of the lore
I know that Blizzard tradition is to add a new class that is related to the new expansion theme, but let’s think out of the box for a moment, do we need to keep that mindset always?
Once in a while breaking rules is something good and needed. Blizzard could have made a side story for the new class, afterall all expansions are filled with a lot of cool side stories. And in some way eventually matching the side story of the new class with the main theme and story of the expansion.
We had a lot of great options, like battle mage, trinker, necromancer and so on.
However, they just made up a new class instead, living to the fans of the lore with our hands empty, and trying to probably make some kind of fan service to fans of insert whatever Blizz was thinking about
You Blizzard always did this perfectly, respecting the lore and inserting it into a new class. You did great with Death Knights, Monks and Demon Hunter
And actually you had break a rule, the rule of introduce a new cool into a new expansion
Mechanically Drac’thyr are interesting, aesthetically and lore wise they are very boring. Big miss compared to prior hero classes, but I’m hoping they will be made to feel more interesting moving forward.
Bit of trivia–I’ve been roleplaying since OG Classic, and even back then I played a character who was a disguised dragon. The reason I play worgen so much is because they had some similarities to being a dragon–claws, teeth, non-human features, etc.
I’ve played worgen for 12 years now, but only because I haven’t been able to play a dragon.
battle mage: Already exists. We have mages, don’t we?
trinket: Don’t know what this is. Like, the gear piece?
necromancer: Basically a warlock, so how would that be interesting?
Odd I disagree. I like that the dracthyr are kind of a blank slate. Seeing them curious about something and wanting to learn in the beta is interesting.
Presumably they meant Tinker, which I kind of agree with. Tinker was my most-wanted Class before I realized that having a dragon-themed caster class was even an option. I never even dreamed of that.
But my most-wanted race has always been drakonid. Except Dracthyr are even better than that because drakonid don’t have wings.
When they did that test weekend a while back with the dracthyr NPCs scattered around Stormwind and Orgrimmar, I had so much fun tracking them down and listening to what they had to say. One of them was wearing a hat and talking about how interesting it was…a couple of them were talking about petting a dog (or a cat idk which anymore), two of them were eating ice cream and discussing it…
It was absolutely adorable and I cannot wait for more of that. Especially in the RP scene. Dracthyr are going to enable so much interesting stuff for our community.
A mage is a caster, ranged dps, the battlemage can fight melee. I wouldn’t disagree if they add a fourth specialisation to current mages for in order to become a battle mage, but make just a new hero class would be cooler
It is pretty much an engineer who pilot a robot, should be available only for gnomes and goblins
They work with different kind of magic, there are few exceptions in the lore to this rule but is pretty much like that. And I agree that from mechanics could be challenging make it different to warlocks
