Totally not true. This is totally wrong.
Now I need to save the name Samiam for my new Samurai
I will enjoy this class in the rain, on a train and with champagne
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Acrually this game needs this exact topic. To be doing those different moves.
Video games that misrepresent cultures still anger the cultures that get misrepresented. Just take a look at ‘This Land of Mine’ which has pissed off Native Americans, and ‘Six Days in Fallujah’ which is pissing off folks from the Middle East.
No it really isn’t.
Pandaria is based on Chinese culture, not Japanese. The Samurai is unique to Japan. Now if Blizzard wants to create a region that has heavy Japanese cultural ties to it, then I’m all for the Samurai being added to the game then. But as it currently stands, it doesn’t really fit. The closest thing WoW has to a Samurai right now are the Blademasters, but they’re not Samurai.
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I don’t think so honestly (I’m referring to the Americans+Canada=offense comment)
Man I wouldn’t mind having a 2h rogue spec.
They should also learn what make believe is.
They’re already robbing Peter to pay Paul when it comes to tank mechanics. No more tank classes, please.
If they do add a new class it desperately needs to be a ranged DPS class, but blizzard can’t even come up with enough ideas to make the current ranged DPS interesting.
So no new classes, please.
I don’t think China would like this idea at all. Since they are major investors and make up a huge part of the WoW market, I doubt this will ever happen.
China doesn’t control what Blizzard releases, otherwise we’d have a very different version of WoW, with tombstones instead of skeletons, no skeleton enemies and bread instead of bits of meat.
If Blizzard wants to add a Samurai class, they can, and while they may need to make changes to the Chinese version of WoW (or omitt the class entirely) that wouldn’t affect WoW outside of China.
They need to fix this game first or there won’t be a wow at the rate people are dropping like flies.
If they made those type of changes for them back in the days, you better believe they have more sway now. Mark my words, the Samurai will never happen even if they liked the idea.
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So what you’re saying is… An Arms warrior.
I too, wish to become Yasuo.
I’d still like a bard class.
They literally have no more sway now than they had then. There’s no evidence to suggest otherwise.
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Well then you are blind
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The idea itself isn’t terrible, but I think the Samurai class is too niche. It’s quite specific and unrelated to the entirety of WoW (Pandaria didn’t have Samurai, and Blademasters aren’t relevant currently and haven’t for much of WoW)
Something more likely would be something related to the expansion (like for SL, they could have had a “domination magic”-using class. Like a Shadow Warrior/Shadow Hunter/Dark Ranger type of thing). Or if they jump into the Dragon Isles, it could be a DragonBorn class
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I’m really not, please, by all means share the evidence that you have that China has more sway over Blizzard now, than they did before.
I’ll wait.
Historically, Samurai didn’t use swords as a primary weapon. They either used bows or spears as a primary, and the sword was just their “sidearm.” This goes for knights too!
Grom Hellscream and the other Blademasters are basically this, so there’s space for this idea in the game’s lore.