Maybe if it does well, we could get some of Enhancement’s mojo back. Maybe work some support into Ret. And explore giving other specs purpose, like Survival, Demonology and Discipline.
My conscious mind is telling me not to put any credence in the conclusions being made here. It simply falls outside of Blizzard’s pattern and scope in too many ways to detail. But I can’t convince my subconscious to stop hoping regardless.
I highly doubt a new evoker spec is coming in 10.1. It’s probably the 10.1.5 or 10.1.7 patch, or maybe even during S2
That doesn’t mean anything, could be fancy NPC RP talk.
Source of this? As people keep stating facts blizz never said, not saying this is the case but I dont recall this one.
Sorry, not sure exactly where in the video it is. It’s summarized at the bottom of the notes.
Not really an if when quests in the 10.1 PTR specifically say so, the newest wowhead datamining above simply cements it further, examples:
Of the quest in 10.1 PTR data right now:
“Morgan Day: I mean we’ve never really added a spec so, I can’t really speak to that. You know when we’re talking about Evokers, we really wanted to add a ranged DPS spec, like that was the goal and they’ve got the big old wings so there’s lots of discussions about what that would look like in melee range and stuff like that so… Tanks were discussed in the early days when Evokers were a glimmer in our eyes.”
Doesnt say no or yes to any of it making it very unclear imo.
I mean it could all be to build up an NPC story, we have had many examples of this in the past. I.E you can’t play a plate priest but that is in the game too.
How is a player popup toast on a quest that is Dracthyr only, saying ‘new specialization remembered’ anything other than what it says?
From the wowhead quest on PTR right now linked in my last spoiler tag.
Because its building up the story line of the black dragonflight?
Obviously? From regaining the black dragonflight essence, in the chain which outright has a popup saying new spec remembered for only Evoker players.
I’m still skeptical. It’s either a red herring for the dataminers or old code from a super early alpha build that wasn’t scrubbed before being deployed to the PTR.
Sounds more like they had a few ideas but never settled on anything they liked enough to make it live.
How is that when 10.1 PTR quests, that are still on the PTR right now, that popup with new spec remembered for them, have had just now, datamined bits that further what was in the earlier bits that are still in the PTR?
That is further new things being added to confirm what was already there, not abandoning it.
The kicker is that there are multiple sources in different parts of the game pointing in the same direction in varying stages of completion. This isn’t one guy pranking dataminers, nor is it alpha stuff. It’s actively new content. Once is an outlier. Twice is a coincidence. Thrice is a trend.
At this point, a third spec is the most believable and obvious conclusion. Which is absolutely wild, given what we know about Blizzard. But it actually requires you to stretch more to believe the alternatives.
I get where the doubt is coming from. And the timing of this info coming out around April Fool’s has me on high alert lol. But the statement that Blizzard wouldn’t do this because of testing or they’ve never done it is a poor argument. A common complaint on these forums, and it wouldn’t surprise me if it is a common reason given for quitting the game, is that the game has gotten stale. The last time they did something truly game changing IMO was the introduction of M+ in legion and that expansion is beloved around here. Adding a new role type would certainly change the game. This could have been planned from the beginning. Evokers toolkit is very light on black dragonflight spells. Some might argue that something big like this would be a selling point of the expansion so that is why it is obviously not true. I would argue a new expansion for WOW basically sells itself to a lot of players. The problem is the middle of the expansion cycle. So is it beyond belief that Blizzard might try something unthinkable like this to see if it improves player retention in the middle of the expansion?
I still think this is some april fool’s shenanigans…
Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. I’m just not one to jump on every little thing that gets datamined. Until it’s actually revealed in the game, it’s just speculation. I’ll believe it when we have a full list of spells and talents. All I’ve seen is a few lines of dialogue that imply there were plans for a third spec and a console line that could just as easily have been some old code. It’s not enough to convince me.
I’m not saying it’s impossible or that it would never happen. I’m saying I’m not convinced with a few bits of datamining.
To me the biggest red flag is that if we are to believe a 3rd spec is coming we then have to believe blizzard somehow kept all of this tight lipped through alpha, beta and S1, then somehow just made a huge blunder not encrypting this questline in the 10.1 ptr files?
I’m just talking about the interview. All the things they mentioned there sounded like ideas that didn’t work out.
But the whole point of making big spicy changes to draw in returning players… is lost if they keep it a secret!
Yeah none of it makes sense. This is April Fool’s shenanigans if you ask me.