So? This will be the first a new range/healer class was introduced since…forever.
Also gnomes did not have a healing class until Cata. Game got along fine.
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They don’t even need to add a spec. DH didn’t have healer. But blood elves/night elves have lots of spec available. Same thing for monk not being able to range dps, so what? Pandaren have access to range classes.
What breaks it is the WHOLE race not having it. And I do hope they change it.
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Gnomes weren’t alone at their creation. There were other races. Dracthyr is the only new race in DF and it won’t be able to tank.
Not to mention there were only 3 classes of healer in vanilla, one of which was limited to night elves.
There was more it’s just what people now consider “viable” healers or healers that do great healing output.
Honestly I do jot think evoker needs a tank spec, just the race needs to be able to play as more classes.
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No there was 3. Priest, paladin and druid. Only night elves could be druid.
Unless they are planning on letting the Drakthyr become other classes in later expansions, I agree they should add a tank spec for them. Personally, I don’t like them being locked to one class and I hope they open up more classes for them.
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Wow, your mog is outstanding!
Now I return you to your regularly scheduled program.
Shaman. Which that’s 4 not 2.
Anyway I feel that the class is fine. Based on how they were presented I think healer/caster makes more sense than tank/caster.
I also feel the game will be fine with current presented plan.
I do think it’d be neat if tank was added later.
I think what most people want is “Tank/Healer/Caster” as opposed to ditching a spec for tank
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It’s not like it’d be one or the other, they could easily just have given them a 3rd spec and still fit thematically
If they added more classes I would want Druid to be one of them with the option to use the normal Drakthyr dragon form in place of Bear and Cat form, that would allow people to tank or melee as a dragon with very little additional effort on Blizzard’s part.
Tank, healer, caster (that ISN’T a druid) would be ideal.
I really dislike druids and we have a huge overabundance of melee dps. I’d really love to be able to tank and do ranged dps on one character. I just sincerely dislike the gameplay of 3 out of 4 of the druid specs.
Like I’ve said in the other thread though, I’d be content with playing two characters if I could tank on what will, almost certainly, be my preferred race.
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or, at the very least, an extremely draconic looking bear
I don’t think implementation wise it’s easy to add a new class period.
I think we need to remeber this is real people implementing a class and that it probably takes forever to implement this. This is what they feel comfortable presenting to us at this time.
I think they haven’t added for other classes yet cause they need to animate the various class moves for that skeleton.
Healer/caster is easier to implement cause they are going to use casting moves to both cast healing and dps spells.
That is probably why we got healer/caster.
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I think what makes more sense is to allow the race to have a few more classes that it can be but limit the fighting to the visage form. So you can still be that race but be a class like warrior to tank. Since this race will be flavored at release, we will see and spike temporarily but still need tanks to operate groups.
I would suggest basic other classes, warrior, rogue, mage and leave it at that.
Caster tank?
They’d have to animate the tank moves.
Like they took the path of least resistance.
I am betting there’s a lot of similar casting animation between the 2 specs.
Which honestly makes sense.
Sure, but they’re professionals who do this for a living. They should be able to get animations down, especially since this frame looks pretty similar to the female draenei already.
The upside high enough to be worth it, because as it is a good size group of players have no reason to seriously play this class, which is a big chunk of the actual new content
Sorry, let me be more clear
CASTER tank, just use spellcasting animations