Tinker would be based off the warcraft 3 hero units, Tinker and Goblin Alchemist (healing)
Giving the game its first mail class tank and 3rd mail class.
Giving ranged weapon farmers a 2nd class to show off their hard work.
It’s doesn’t step on the identity of other classes like necromancer does for death knights/ warlocks, spellblade does for enhancement shaman, or just outright silly and not warcraft like dragon borne or bard.
Tinker is also all throughout the warcraft mythos from being a boss a classic boss in Mara
To being represented all throughout BFA, shadowlands, in heroes of the storm and hearthstone. even the new startingisland
I like the idea of Necromancer myself. Unholy should have been like the 1st generation of Death Knights like Teron Gorefiend. They’d have been the first plate spellcaster. Their gimmick involving pets just doesn’t really fit the class fantasy. I know Blizzard can write it as they like… but The Lich King reviving ghouls and some shmuck knight raising ghouls is a huge difference.
Honestly if you’re fighting a legion of undead scourge that every ally killed joins their army, maybe a soulless mecha army is better counter than fighting zombie with zombie
It really isn’t, just look at multiple of the specs that are effectively dead like survival hunter. And then you look and see the DPS difference between top and bottom specs are insanely different, and that paladins can heal better than some healers while in their DPS spec.
Plus next expansion will probably be dragon themed given the name drop for the dragon isles, ysera coming back, and Bolvar being literally covered in red dragon fire and being the face of SL. Red dragons being the guardians of life and bolvar posterboying in an expansion about death, coincidence, I think not/