Was talking with a few guild mates and I was brain storming about some new specs to classes. I feel like those classes that don’t have a 4th spec should get something in that ball park and these are just some ideas i’ve been thinking up:
Paladin New Spec: Adjudicator - A ranged offensive spec focusing holy light into mystical spears, javelins and bows to target enemies at a distance.
Druid New Spec: Dryad - Replaces Feral - A Melee amalgamation of thorn covered vines, poisonous spores and trees to deal damage and self sustain
Demon Hunter Spec: Harvester - A Melee focused DH in the same style as evoker but instead of buffing allies focuses more in debuffing enemies, causing reduced damage, armor, movement speed and increased time between attacks
New Shaman Spec: Gaian - An earth focused tanking class for shaman using the power of the earth around it to endure an onslaught of attacks and keep allies defended
New Hunter Spec: Goblin/Gnome race exclusive: Tinkerer - A ranged class that excels in the creation of various bombs, gadgets and upgrades that allow the hunter to fight, relying instead on the engineering of both goblins and gnomes alike
I’m well aware of the plagues of the main specs already. This is just a fun take on things that COULD be implimented and honestly should be, diversity in classes is something that should be encouraged more.
Don’t go into a thread like this and start hating on people like me for having ideas because the developers of their game don’t know how to balance it. If balance is such a concern of yours shouldn’t you be making a new hot take forum thread complaining about it?
Oh yes, because the most commonly demanded new class being assimilated into hunters in the form of a spec that can only be played by 2 races out of 24 would totally go over well.
Defiler is a better name, imo. But that’s because I like Rift’s version where it debuffs the enemy to mitigate some damage to the player, while buffing others to do more damage, while some of that is given to the player as healing. DoT damage and melee damage.
Not keen on the name. Earthguard or something sounds better to me. But yes, I want a Shaman tank.
Se delete engineering for a spec. This is the issue with that style of play.
What? Hunter class is available to a lot more than two races. I think you misread what the OP is saying.
Beast Speaker: Hunter tanking spec that takes on more extreme aspects of their tamed beasts for defense and melee damage.
Chronomancer: Mage healing spec that reverses time to heal using arcane and fire spells.
Thaumaturge: Warlock tanking spec that merges with their demons for endurance and uses life drains to regain health.
Swashbuckler: Rogue tanking spec that concentrates on dodging and parrying attacks and fighting with two swords/axes/maces/fist weapons to create defensive gambits.
This would upset the feral community and all those who love being a cat druid, bad enough some of those folk are demanding Balance be killed off we don’t need Feral being killed off for a new spec
This… idk… a spec that grants paladins the use of a bow? How about we just call that spec Crusaders and have it be a spec that can wield a two hand weapon in one hand and a new form of shield called a great shield in the other and make it a hybrid spec
Would be a nightmare to balance so I’m not sure how they’d go about such a thing
This…this right here is a terrible idea as not only are you asking it be a hunter spec but forcing it to be a new spec only those two races can use would cause nothing but issues, people would probably riot for all I know.
This is maybe one of the only ideas you proposed that I’m okay with as we’ve had moves for shamans in the past that used earth and I could of sworn caused aggro so if anything it’d be like if shamans took a page from evokers, gained a bunch of earth defense spells and became the first mail armor tank.
Here’s an issue I got with this…survival hunters already use bombs and gadgets and yet you’d want to give the finger to everyone but gnomes and goblins for a much requested class to become a spec for hunters? My hunter is already an engineer and has been since vanilla as hey being able to build the guns and ammo was too good to pass up back then… didn’t need a tinkerer spec then and still don’t today. If they give us tinkerers let it be a class all it’s own not bound to the hunter and not limited to those two races who’ve been trying to one up each other for years.
Its a terrible idea, but only dracthyr can br dragons, only blood elves/night elves can be Demon hunters so your arguement is kinda mute and people are ok with it.
Yes, im concerned with upsetting all the people I can count on my right hand who play feral druid
Is it dumb or is your arguement following suit? Listen, theyve tried to make feral work in just about every scenario and the only 3 specs youve seen…god since beginning of shadowlands were resto, guardian and balance. At least with the new spec I offer it would do 2 things, get people interested in druids 4th spec again and give blizzard devs a way out since they dont exactly have the slightest clue on how to make feral
Yes. Feral has been integral to Druids since day one. It’s also a large part of Resto Druid. Whether you like it or not or you think people like it or not is irrelevant. No spec should ever be deleted again. It didn’t go over the first time, it should never happen again. Period.