where did you take this from?
They were created to be the perfect soldier.
Therefore utilizing what makes one stronger would fit perfectly.
also as they were asleep the whole time the Island was hidden, they have al lot of gaps in their knowledge.
being a “dragon” they likely have a healthy curiosity, therefore a lot of classes makes sense.
And a lot can be flavored around certain dragonflight powers.
A lot of it depends on how much fun Evoker is to play, if it’s not very fun, I will realllly hope they can be warrior, hunter or maybe even rogue. Too early to tell to be honest, I need to see more of them, get a vibe of how they are in game etc.
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I am not trying to normalize anything, I am starting a discussion thread on what classes would/could dracthyr open up to and mainly looking at it from a lore perspective.
You must be fun at parties.
You also quite literally took part in the discussion with your own opinion of dragon and magic for mages and priests, you contradict the first part of your post with the last part. Proof reading is good, also this is a discussion thread, coming in criticizing the ‘possible’ reason for a discussion is impertinent, you also have the freedom to not post.
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I qualified my statement with a caveat given the assumption Blizzard will indeed cave to the whiners. I 100% fully support no new classes for dracthyr but “if” they do, because crybabies gonna cry, then I’d want to only see it done to the only 2 that have at least any kind of sense…mages and priests (I would also add warlocks if there can be some kind of actual justifiable lore reason why demons and dragons mix).
And part of having a discussion is dealing with people who have differing opinions to yours.
Zero, let them be special.
Besides which, if you give them other classes they will have to diminish their dragon abilities to be comparable with any other warrior, mage priest or whatever. At which point you’re not a dragon anymore but a DINO - Dragon in Name Only.
why exactly does that make sense?
These are my thoughts, copied from my initial thread:
*Mages - Norgannon blessed Malygos with arcane powers. The blue dragonflight can use frost and arcane magic. Fire mage spec can easily be handwaved as the Dracthyr using fire magic from the red or black dragonflights.
*Warriors - Pretty obvious here. Smashing things with swords/maces/shields requires no special teaching.
*Hunters - Dracthyr that developed close relationships with other creatures on the Dragon Isles and fight alongside them.
*Rogues - Again, no innate talents required to gain the skills of stealth and subterfuge. Wrathion already has significant rogue undertones, too (and trains rogues).
*Druid - The green dragonflight was charged with protection of the Emerald Dream, so the step to druids is an obvious one here.
*Shaman - Being a master of and communer with the elements makes sense for a dragonkin.
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you really should read what you write.
but also, it was hinted that they may open up to other classes in the future, but you choose to see and label things as ‘crybabies’ or ‘cool like me’
no really you must be a blast at parties.
Because the Dracthyr are magically-focused what with both specs being caster-orientated so it makes sense, as much as anything does, that their focus to be on classes (or renditions of them) that lacks any kind of martial element to it. Aside from warlock, every other class has a martial element to it and Blizzard almost certainly will never lock a spec from a class based on your race, so it makes sense to just keep them on the caster only classes “if” they ever gained new ones.
But I get what people really want is a dragon race fighting with tooth, tail, and claw…aka yet more and more gobs and gobs of melee and tanks running around.
None of the current classes fit a dragon. Cant be a warrior because magic. mage , they already are a caster. I could see them making a new tank spec, something close to a demon hunter. A chop and burn type thing.
this is where they could play heavily on racial skills no? every dracthyr gets some kind of dragonbreath? after all z trolls have customizable racials (loa-based passive bonus)
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Unless they are relying on magic and their innate fighting abilities, hunter would be a good choice. It’s not like everyone can run down to the store to pick up groceries. You need to be able to hunt and grow food. Warriors are another good choice, unless we are dealing with a race that has nothing but intellectuals. I’ve seen how well those utopias usually end up turning out. lol
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Warrior, Mage, Priest… Maybe Shaman
I say keep it simple Give all the type. Tank, dps, healing.
none.
i think Bliz making this race/class a unique experience is cool.
I feel like Evoker, Warrior, Shaman, and Hunter.
A lot of people think mages, but I’m not so sure. Mages channel magic in a very different way to the Evoker, which is essentially the Dracthyr version of a Mage class, using similar types of magic that Mages can, but in the way that a dragon would.
Shamans just make sense with their ancestral ties to elemental energy, though it might make sense for their magic casts to be more draconic in flavour, shooting lava bursts from their mouth and whatnot. And warriors and hunters are basically just folks who have learned to use certain weapons, so I don’t see why not.
Druids I could see an argument for Guardian, Resto, and maybe Feral, which would fulfill the melee/talon dragon fantasy, but having them shapeshift into animals just seems silly, and Balance doesn’t quite fit.
One thing that I’m curious about is what racial abilities the Dracthyr will have. They have wings, so do they get to fly around the battlefield while casting for a short time? Or are they stuck jumping/double jumping. Maybe a dash ability similar to Highmountain Tauren’s Bull Rush ability, but with wings?
They need to either make the new race available to more classes from the get go or give us an ETA on when they’ll be available for other classes.
It doesn’t matter what they say the arbitrary reasons are, they made the story they can alter the story. Limiting them to ONE class doesn’t make them more exciting to most people, it makes them a huge disappointment.
They should be allowed to have Mage, Warrior, Hunter and Rogue at the very least.
more “natrualistic” classes are kinda fitting. druid, shaman, hunter. then the “core” ones like mages, rogues and warriors. that’s all i can think of off the top of my head. hopefully they can be these classes later on
Cant see them being hunters… how and why would a dragon use a gun?
Druid would be interesting, but I suspect creating their unique forms would be too much effort for Blizzard.
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The same way a cow and dog use a gun?