you cant say know to playing death metal music and making the enemies ears bleed
BARDS SHOULD HAVE BEEN A CLASS A LOONG TIME AGO!
they could also have a support role, like buffing allies
healing too, with soothing melodies to improve allies morale!
Bards would have made sense as a release class when the ability to have a primary support role existed. The role was a why I picked Shaman, but consequently, it no longer exists.
Modern WoW can’t support the Bard, mechanically.
Haven’t read through every single post, so my apologies if these points were already made, but there are a few hero classes that make sense considering these three scenarios:
Tinker - Time is passing by much faster outside of the Shadowlands. Things back on Azeroth might not be anywhere close to the same as we left them, almost of surely won’t be. This goes for technology as well, meaning we could see a more evolved version of Engineering than we see now, with other races having joined in expanding their knowledge, just like when Humans adapted to using magic from High Elves. Gnomes and goblins aren’t the only race who use Engineering, there are several other races that dabble in it, just aren’t as proficient.
Necromancer - With us having spent so much time in the Shadowlands and working along side these covenants, they pass down the knowledge of “manipulating” the dead, powers of the afterlife, or something similar. You know, fantasy stuff. This could work into 3 possible specs: Ranged DPS - something of a true necromancer that summons an undead army (similar to the Mastermind class from City of Villains), Ranged DPS - Using Bone, blood, spirit magic of sorts to attack foes, Healing - Using Kyrian or Night Fae like magic to heal allies.
Dragonsworn - They do seem like they could make it into the game, with Wrathion and the rest of the Aspects doing who knows what right now back on Azeroth, this class could come into play with 3 specs: DPS, Healing, Tank and part of it’s class fantasy is aligning yourself with an Aspect and becoming their Dragonsworn.
These are all far shots by any means, but they do seem the most plausible if you look at the actual hero classes from Warcraft back in the day and the current events taking place, which easy ins for all of the mentioned classes to be looped into the story.
As for Bards, I can’t see these ever making it to the game. This isn’t Monster Hunter. We have enough buffs between the classes that exist as is and since they were an April Fools joke, I doubt they would revisit this.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Honestly… anything new would be great right now. I can’t say that I wold call anything my “main” these days. I haven’t really felt comfortable with a class since classic Shaman, but when we lost the support role… I haven’t been able to settle elsewhere.
If you’re gonna give me Dragonsworn I well expect you to give me a Glorious Dragon Form to go along with it for my Tank spec. Fire Emblem Radiance dragon forms resemble Dragonkin that are full formed dragons that stay upright. Long arms, legs and torso, mid sized wings.
You seem to enjoy bumping all of your old threads.
Good way to ensure they stay active. 
Two is hardly all. And nothing wrong with getting more discussion going on topics that I enjoy, personally. Unless you’d prefer another “I Quit” thread about the reward structure and/or content delivery?
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Only way to do a Dragon class is make us like Wrathion, Kalecgos, Chromie, Alexstraza, Kairoz, etc. Dragons who can disguise themselves as mortals and enter dragon form via abilities just like Alexstraza and Chromie in HotS.
Having Orcs spit dragon breath from their mouth or grow a dragon paw to slash people would be cheesy af.
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Theme each spec after a flight and you have a deal.
Tank - black
Heals - red (stand in the fire!)
rDPS - blue
I love posts like this😀
What in the world is a Dragonsworn?
Is what everyone would say…
How about a class that people can identify, that has any foundation in the fantasy genre? or any relation to the World of Warcraft IP?
What are you talking about? Both paladin and shaman have been recently iterated to give supporting buffs to their groups.
oh… another plate class with DH transformation complex with Druid? no thanks.
don’t tell me that the Tinker does not work if it is the closest to a caster with a tank spec either for mails or cloths.
Where a new combat design would be seen between the very fast caster as it was with the DH and Monk mechanics, where it would be very different from what we saw in Warcraft 3 and the rest of all WoW.
Where we would need a new expansion and a new race linked to the titans or the first one that was already known in Shadowlands, where high technology in Azeroth was well seen in like all epic fantasy RPGs and it is not humiliation that we saw 2 times in gnomes destroy nature.
In other words, a new race with an anime appearance between nano androids, robots very much like Neill Blomkamp movies like Elysium and much more that would take us to the world of JRPG that many fans long for so much that FFXIV would die of envy.
One more time to say that: WoW did it first.
That is why this class would not suit me after the disaster of DK, apart from that I would see it as a system in combining one class with another, such as for a Warrior or Paladin, with a DH or Druid.
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What in the world is a Dragonsworn?
Is what everyone would say…
How about a class that people can identify, that has any foundation in the fantasy genre? or any relation to the World of Warcraft IP?
You base it on Wrathion, Chromie, Kalecgos, and other dragon characters. This type of character is playable in HotS (Alexstrasza, Deathwing, and Chromie) and that’s what you base the class mechanics on.
People know who those characters are.
With that said, I think the Tinker class is next.
Inspired by a very common prestige class found in the tabletop world:
https://www.d20srd.org/srd/prestigeClasses/dragonDisciple.htm
As well as Draconic bloodline Sorcerers and the like.
And there is a huge difference between having a few support abilities (which all classes have in WoW) and having a dedicated, primary support role.
Eesh. Consider me infinitely less sold.
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Check Fire emblem radiance Dragon forms and then come tell me you’d not dig that 
Dragonsworn Class would be paired great with the Dragonmaw Clan, seems like the next step for them…
They actually can, I’d use Diablo 3 as a bit of a template for Necromancers.
I’d make them a 3 spec class, use mail, and have 3 specs: Tank, Heal, Ranged DPS.
For tank I would have it focus on ripping out bones from the enemy to build up a suit of bone armor (like in D3) for defenses and the bone armor provides small absorb shields. They can also summon a few pets to support them which can be consumed for more bone armor.
For Healer I’d have it focus on regen and shielding, after all a Necromancer is a healer with bad timing… Also they can animate a dead players corpse for a pet NPC to do some damage to the boss if they happen to die for a short period of time. The dead are still useful after all.
Finally for a ranged DPS I’d have it focus on spells that use blood and bone magic and a permanent skeleton pet with a sword and shield (which can taunt) and uses blood bolts and bone shards to deal damage at a range. Pretty much use the D3 ranged kit.
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that isn’t what a dragonsworn is.
If anything the dragonsworn is the opposite of the dragonmaw who hunt them.
A dragonsworn is a mortal who has sworn allegiance to one of the flights and is granted powers based on that.
How to handle them in game IMO would be an expansion based around the dragon isles and to solve the plight of the dragons wrathion creates a new chromatic flight that is a combination of all flights allowing the specs to use a combination of each of them.
mortal followers of wrathion would be become some of these new dragons. This means the class is usable by all races.
Weren’t the Dragonmaw clan empowered by Deathwing though? To fight the red dragonflight?.. could be empowered so much they become black dragonflight themself!!