Let’s get straight to the point; I enjoy a new hero class or normal class as much as the next guy, so here is my idea.
Recently I’ve been super into the subtle type classes such as rogue. Needless to say they are awesome by all rights.
When Pandaria came out, I hadn’t touched monk, simply because I never enjoyed the concept of it. It’s a great class, but it’s not a personal favorite. Then it hit me, I main hunter for reason I don’t need to say. I’ve always had an affinity for pets and companions. After watching one of my shows, it came to me that it would be really interesting to see a new style of class similar to rogue and hunter even.
there are 3 possible ideas I thought of, specs or class name otherwise. Ninja, Bard, scout, medical, etc… The idea would be to incorporate some of the styles of ninja into the game similar to monk but more affiliated with the ways of a rogue/hunter.
For example: We could call the class name: Ninja. There could be many specs of this but only need minimum of 2 tbh.
Partially unoriginal, the specs could be - Medic, Duelist, Spiritualist
Each would be able to affiliate with a spirit animal and as an ability for each they could summon a companion to help them
for example a Medic could call upon butterflies/moths in an effort to help heal those around them. Or as a Duelist, you could swiftly move around the battle field, and summon a fighting beast to help aid you in battle such as dogs/serpents etc… with a wide array of combat ninja abilities. Or even more exciting, a spiritualist. someone who is in tune with the spirit world, and easily manipulates the energy flow of enemies turning it against them or benefiting yourself, and using your own inner power to cast spirit blasts.
What is the difference between other casters and melee classes you may ask?
Simple, for example, a mage controls the most basic of energy natures. where as a warlock controls the darker elements of chaos and demonic rituals. Priests take on light and dark, and a monk uses the base of a water nature where as a shaman will use the earth and lighting and fire natures. A spiritualist ninja can manipulate the nature of these base elements and form new abilities, like a knockback of sorts, or make a clone of yourself for a short time to be able to not take damage for a second and when the time is up the clone turns into a simple log or a rock, and when killed it disappears.
A duelist for example takes on the aspect of a quick and agile fighter liek a rogue, but converts their own energy into strength to enhance the power of their attacks making them hit like a truck. Duelists are straightforward and hold nothing back much like a warrior, they aren’t graceful like a monk is, but their attack speed is very similar and their agility as well.
A medic is less so like the other specs. this is a healing spec, but they msotly rely on their familiars to help them with their abilities. for example a moth would help with reducing poison damage taken, and enhance healing taken by a small amount whereas a butterfly could enhance the speed of your casts and HoT tics but helps more so with the physical aspect of healing. A medical ninja would be able to at a close range deal a huge a mount of burst healing with melee heals using a butterfly, whereas a moth could improved your ranged healing. I won’t mention bard as it’s a complicated class to grasp where if all it was based on was music and the like. i myself want it in game, but the way wow works, it just won’t work. More-over Medical ninja would use a bow/crossbow no Guns and the off hand would be equipped for melee purposed healing. We talk about introducing new weapons, but haven’t broke ground with many types yet. The offhand I think would be appropriate would be more along the lines of scrolls. nothing special, but for each class they could give a simple guideline to what talents shoudl be used as the offhand scroll would be the source of your summoned familiar.
Scrolls: Mecial - Scroll of the Butterfly, Scroll of the Moth(of course the names change with more intricate scrolls and helpful scroll effects
Duelist: Scroll of the serpent, Scroll of the crocodile
Spiritualist: Scroll of the Owl, Scroll of the Elephant/Ellek
Each scroll summons a small familiar to enhance your abilities and with each unique scroll a unique effect.
Some people will say this is too complicated, but again, this is only a fantasy idea, made for a ninja fantasy of their ideal class in the world of warcraft
If you have more class ideas, leave comments below, I’d love to see your ideas