New Class Specs

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So, if blizzard ever wanted to add a new spec to every class to add more flavor to the game, what would like to see? I put together some ideas with a little “rhyme and reasoning” according to existing lore. I did come up with a couple of new ideas where I couldn’t come up with anything consistent to existing lore.

Would you like to see any of these specs? Would you want to see Blizzard add something you thought of? What would you call it? What’s the foundation on existing lore (if any)? What is the basic theme of the spec?
|Class New Spec|Foundation|Style|
|—|—|—|—|
|Death Knight Jailer|Bolvar Fordragon themed powers|Melee combat with Alecstraza style Fire, Frozen Throne Ice abilities, and Sylvanas Chains|
|Demon Hunter Felstorm|War of the Ancients Trilogy: Illidan studied as a druid and then a mage before being turned into a Demon (Hunter); Evokers|Ranged Fel and Arcane spells and abilities|
|Druid N/A|Already has 4 specs Add new shapeshifting cosmetics (yes, again) Male/Female Cenarius forms for healers and other various cosmetics||
|Evoker Stormborne|Vyranoth, Razageth|Storm based abilities: Wind, Lightening, Ice abilities|
|Hunter Spirit Caller|Emerald dream, spirit beasts, Ardenweald|Dual-wield: no pet, but can summon spiritual animal attacks based on Tattoos|
|Mage Ethereal|Ethereals|Shadow/Dark Arcane magic spells; shapeshift into an Ethereal like a shadow priest takes ‘Shadow form’|
|Monk Samurai|In-Game concept artwork|Agile like a rogue, weapon master like a warrior, weapon enhancement like a Death Knight but with Chi energies|
|Paladin Blackguard|Priests can wield light or shadow without contradiction why shouldn’t Paladins?|Melee Combat with Shadow based abilities|
|Priest Valkyrie|Valkyries; Evokers|Combined melee and spell combat with polearm and intermittent gliding attacks|
|Rogue Outrider|Finally make Outlaw into Swashbuckler add Outrider spec (advance field scout, falconry, sniper, etc)|Field Scout abilities accompanied by small Bird of Prey (selected from known combat pets) that applies debuffs on selected target (limited /no direct damage from Companion)|
|Shaman Protector|They have to know how to use a shield defensively and for melee by now…|Tank melee combat enhanced with close range elemental spells for personal buffs and target debuffs|
|Warlock Shadow claw|Satyr Shadowdancer/Trickster|Melee combat with short range spells (metamorphosis into a Saytr for the duration of combat only)|
|Warrior Articifer|Articifer Ramuul and King Mechatorque|Melee combat with gadgets (small explosives, caltrops, etc); expanded use of armor enchantments and gems (basically socket abilities like Remix|

I had some issues with getting the chart lined up, hopefully it’s not too annoying with the way it ended up looking.

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I know this isn’t going to be popular, but I want to see rogue duel wield pistols.

A bard would also be neat.

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Ranged or support class rogue. I honestly really would like to see more support specs like Augmentation

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Personal opinion for the evoker one - a tank spec whose name I can’t think of, but Stormborne would be perfect as the hero spec for Vyranoth’s flight (green would probably be extra nature damage and more pure heals, Blue lean more on frost and arcane)

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I’ve been dying for a holy-themed dps caster. I really want like a Cleric or Zealot or something as a holy dps option for Priests.

Rogues should have a ranged spec. It’s really odd to me we only have one physical ranged dps and I think there’s more than ample resources in fantasy literature to support a ranged Rogue.

Earth-based tank Shaman has been something people have asked for on again and off again for a decade now. I think it would be really cool.

Probably will get heat for this, but I honestly wish we could get more new specs for existing classes than new classes. There’s so much theme and flavor to pull from to develop these specs, and they’d be a lot easier to bring into reality since they wouldn’t have to be entirely built from the ground up / could share a class-level tree with their spec counterparts.

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geez, I’m getting older. Would bifocals be covered under the spec coverage?

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More support specs. Aug works, just need more specs that work.

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I hear ya on the ranged Rogue issue, some fights are just suicide. But an Outrider spec is basically an advanced scout which is a solo task. Sometimes they engage at range or up close. They’re survivalists, but hunters already have that covered. That’s the best I could think of that can do a mix of melee and ranged but with a slightly different tone (less Tarzan, more Lady Hawk)

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a race idea, not a class.

i want the foresaken to be druids. they should have the power of the drust. it is death magic, after all.

for shaman class, hands down a tank spec. earth warden or whatever you want to call it. shocks, protective totems, lightening powered shield, the enhancement tree had this in vanilla nd tbc.

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they could flesh out the original versions of shaman and paladin. especially shaman. bring back the full totem kit.

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I want combat rogue back. And Gladiator spec for warriors. (or whatever that tank dps spec was).

Shamans should have a tank spec.

Shado-pan monk should’ve been a 4th spec not a hero talent.

Frostfire mage sounds like it would be a cool spec to imo.