Yeahhhh aiight I’m glad dey let me drive the bus
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Alternatively, WoW is like 15 years old and is it’s own game. They can make whatever they want and put it in the game and it can be considered “warcraft” that whole idea is cool, but when a good portion of the player base weren’t even alive when WoW was released, creating original content for WoW is not a crime.
That’s a really strange and arbitrary “rule” to put on a game that has stood on it’s own for well over a decade.
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I really hate that they took the story with the Light this way.
There’s a lot of Lore in World of Warcraft to Draw on, but for 15 years every single class has taken from the same source materiel.
That source materiel isn’t depleted yet.
So actual “Warcraft” classes should still be added, Like Tinker. Which is loyal to the universe
Before we start coming up with entirely new stuff, Like Bards. Which I very much dislike, because it is disloyal to the universe.
Or in other words. You should be faithful to your source materiel until the well runs dry. Only then should you step into the unknown
I might be a minority but I don’t want them to add any more classes or specs until they can take what they have now and fix the gameplay. They keep dumbing everything down further and further because it is impossible to to balance. When I say balance I do not just mean numbers, but also utility.
I think if they feel the need to add more classes to keep people interested than they need to look at the root of the issue. Classes are bland (I mean look at protection druid, it is awful and mind numbing boring)
Well that is my 2 cents 
I think the most obvious choice is Witch Doctor.
I don’t see this as a reason to deny new ideas. Because it’s not.
Not to mention, if everything HAD to come from Warcraft, most everything that IS in the game had to be MASSIVELY built upon to incorporate it into WoW.
W3 Storytelling was also pretty hardcore trash. There ideas were there, but they were absolutely base level, a whole lot of which has been COMPLETELY retconned.
Sure, using ideas from W3 is cool, but at no point should they say, “No we aren’t going to do something new because W3 hasn’t been completely exhausted.”
Bards, and other Ideas that don’t already have roots in the Warcraft universe are problematic, because it convinces long time fans that blizzard is abandoning the Warcraft universe, when there are still things within that universe to draw on.
Yes, Bards and whatnot fit within traditional fantasy, but this game isn’t traditional fantasy. This is the World of Warcraft. So until the entirety of “Warcraft” is represented, I don’t want to see blizzard pull a new class out of nowhere.
If you convince yourself of that, that’s your problem.
You’re creating issues that don’t exist.
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I mean. We’ve made it this far, and we’re still taking from the Warcraft games.
We’ve yet to break from that pattern, and there’s no reason to do it now considering it’s still working, and there’s still more to take.
Even BFA, as crappy as it was, was completely loyal to the Warcraft games. We go to places like Kul’tiras, We have major characters like Rokhan and Jaina.
A fan could have skipped everything up to this year and would still see the Warcraft inspirations in everything
If you want an MMO that isn’t based on Warcraft, then I suggest you don’t subscribe to a game called “World of Warcraft”
At some point you’ll just get copies of a pre-existing class which fit in that WoW universe that also do combat.
Considering that we have;
Druid, Hunter, Rogue, DK, Warlock, Warrior, Paladin, DH, Priest. What else is there that literally just isn’t a sub-derivative from an existing class.
Blizzard is bad at balancing 36 different specs. As much as I’d love to see a new spec or class, they really need to make classes fun to play. Right now we are in a weird spot.
I’d advocate a new spec…
Give new specs… a Holy Archer of the light for Paladins.
plus many more.
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This, is also horse 
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There are bards in the game. Jay the Tavern Bard is his own NPC in Boralis, which comes directly from the game’s community as he is a real person the winner of the talent competition a couple years ago at blizz.
Sure, that’s not necessarily a reason to create an entire class, however - your claim that it’s “not loyal to the universe” is just absolutely pulled out of thin air with absolutely no basis, and even if it DID say somewhere “bards absolutely don’t exist in the warcraft universe” in W3 - that would no longer be true based on the fact that now they clearly do.
You can not like bards, but don’t make up nonsense to defend your opinion. Also, that doesn’t mean you should try to convince everyone who might like them that they shouldn’t happen like some weird gatekeeper either.
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If you’re going to sit here and say WoW has only ever taken from Warcraft games, you are lying to yourself.
The gd end of the expansion with the death on N’zoth cinematic was ripped DIRECTLY from LotR.
Sorry, but the idea that WoW doesn’t take inspiration from things other than warcraft (which itself took inspiration from many different places as well) is objectively false.
Allow me to correct my previous statements then. In light of new information.
Bards as combat-capable fighters do not exist in the Universe.
Music in WoW is not inherently magical.
Magic in the WoW universe is generally explained as Left over titan energy connected via various ley lines around the World, and wellsprings of power where those Ley Lines connect.
The Titans were super advanced, and the residual arcane energy is the technology that they used before the life of Azeroth showed up.
Music has… nothing to do with this at all. In fact, Music isn’t magical or powerful in the WoW universe. It’s just music.
Lets compare this to Tinkers. Who already exist in the WoW universe and the Warcraft games. Already have NPC’s who appear in many different combat scenarios, already have abilities.
And require no mental gymnastics whatsoever.
Uh. I’m talking about classes here. Every class we have has Direct inspiration from Wc3.
I personally don’t think that they should add anymore classes.
They really need to focus on making what we already have being fun and with their own uniqueness.
How can we expect things to be better if they add more while not doing a good job with what they have now?
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This is some hyperbolic horse too. I might as well say, “If you want to play Warcraft, play Warcraft.” The Warcraft universe itself is ENTIRELY unoriginal. It’s core themes come from real world mythology and Lovecraft. Your entire argument of “purity” comes from a false assumption that Warcraft is it’s own thing to start with.
Everything you’re claiming there that “Comes from warcraft” comes DIRECTLY FROM OTHER SOURCES.
Your argument, still baseless.
And they do not need to be.
you really need to cool your jets.
Uh… Literally ever class we have is inspired by Warcraft 3.
Every class still has abilities DIRECTLY from their Warcraft 3 counterparts
Sorry that someone disagrees with you on the internet lol.
“The way it has always been” has never been a valid reason not to change.
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