Is a Shaman a Mage because he uses Magic? To call anyone who uses Necromancy a Necromancer is an oversimplification, when the latter has a pretty specific, if not banal, role to play in the hierarchy of those who reanimate the dead.
A shaman is a mage if his main source of power is arcane magic, yes.
According to the first line of the wiki page on warcraft necromancy:
“Necromancers are practitioners of necromancy (also called the dark arts or the black arts) the study and use of magic to raise and control the dead.”
You can feel the lore is banal if you like, but it’s no different from practitioners of arcane magic being mages, shamanism being shamans and druidism being druids.
The only hero class that should be in the game, is the one that I thought would be in the game around the time of Cata (since there are NPCS that are it:)
Tol Barad Battle Mage (in plate. )
Of course, it would now not be called “Tol Barad.”
I find it interesting how much more stuff has been pointing to Necromancy.
Bwonsamdi and all the stuff in the Battle for Dazar’alor.
More spell visuals.
Necromancer enemies for the island expeditions.
Quest item from the Island Expeditions that talks about Mogu Necrolords and their crypts being unearthed.
Bards should be a new Rogue spec and Necromancers a new Warlock spec.
Engineers could easily be their own class.
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Engineering is profession, tinkering is something that could be a class possibly.
Doesn’t have to be. They’ve gotten rid of Professions before for worse reasons than it being promoted to a Class.
One. Because it was pointless in the post-TBC works. You’re overstating your case, here.
Introduce a class centered around flames and destruction and themed after entities that are greatly associated with the rule of cool.
“Wow that’s edgy”
Surprised pikachu face.
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I wanted this for Disc Priests, to be a cloth based melee / healer.
Best example I can think of is from the old Warhammer MMO, with Disciple of Khaine class, they could melee and their hits would actually heal the focus target or for a small portion of that damage. Nothing to crazy. Really well geared and you could be a live lord but it was nice seeing a tank and switching to help heal.
So a big Dragonsworn Class thread just dropped on MMOC.
I’d totally support something like that.
Not a bad thread over there! I’m just not sold on tying specializations to dragonflights, inherently, unless they plan for one for each, which is inadvisable. Their concept leaves the green dragonflight out entirely.
You only say that because the actual Dragonsworn class representatives are inferred.
Honestly if you don’t tie it to specialization, I don’t see how you do it given WoW’s class structure.
The unique identity it would provide each specialization is undeniable. I just don’t like the idea of leaving out or merging dragonflights thematically.
“But with dragons!”
That doesn’t make your idea unique.
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Yeah I think that might be a good idea. I want to play a Warden and I think it would be a good spec for Hunters rather than a standalone class. Same goes for Necromancers, Chronomancers, San’layn, and others, I’m sure. They serve better as a 4th spec rather than trying to come up with 2 or 3 different versions of the same thing.
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I don’t think edginess cancels a hero class. In fact, looking at our examples… I think edginess is a prerequisite.
I never said it would, I just found it silly that he would be surprised that people would call it edgy.
I still find someone liking dragons “edgy” to be hilarious. Back in my day, it was painfully uncool. That today it can be perceived of as being popular, let alone at the bleeding edge of pop culture, is hilarious.