Because talents were just a small effect, We’re talking about player perception when they heard something like “Dark Ranger”, there’s players that imagine a whole new set of changes beyond a couple of talents.
Continuing the discussion from What Should Cosmetic Glyphs Look Like? + Class Skins! :
Class Skins appearance but with the same function as your original class, to not make a balancing nightmare.
Personally, I am a little unsure of class skins, as I do see a couple of hurdles to overcome. A lot of class features such as class quests, class sets, order halls and so on, while not necessarily a barrier , appeal to the core fantasy of the classes. A necromancer skin for a warlock might make sense because they would theoretically share the same toolkit (summoning, shadow abilities, dots), but it might be a slightly bigger stretch to see necromancers running around in the warlock order hall. (Disclaimer: I know this is actually a bad example from a lore point of view, because the Legion and warlocks have tons of ties to necromancers already!)
That being said, these obstacles aren’t necessarily that difficult to overcome, and there are other pros. I also think that class skins would be able to quench some of the demand for new classes. A lot of people want to play as necromancers, the cloth-wearing kind and not the death knight kind, and a class skin would be a better way to implement that than to add a whole new class to have to balance. Assuming the class skins make sense, of course.
In the end, there might just be better ways of doing this that I haven’t even thought up.
Council thread about * What Should Cosmetic Glyphs Look Like? + Class Skins! back in 2022.
You’re thinking about only the talents…you need to read the room for a lot of players that like fantasy, that’s why there’s a lot of confusion and some players that don’t trust Blizzard balance, then they’re pushed to play a set of talents that´s the best but it’s not their fantasy.
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