Stand-alone specs based on tinker?

[Brewa-hyjal]

That’s the ongoing and worsening problem with the game’s class design, it’s always centered around marketing instead of around better gameplay.

We’re seeing it again in TWW. What they SHOULD be doing with talents is finishing up the spec trees that are complete crap and have been since Dragonflight launched.

But “we fixed our massive list of mistakes” doesn’t sell well, so instead we get Hero Talents instead, which will:

1. Introduce brand new problems.
2. Leave the unfinished talent trees unfinished forever.
3. Show the usual Blizzard bias towards their favorite classes.

For #3, I called it back in December, and was right. It’s been the usual “Blizzard’s Favorites On Parade” development cycle that we always get.

Are hero talent trees covenants all over again?

I’m less concerned with balance between a spec’s 2 different hero talent trees. Much more concerned with Blizzard’s usual bias toward the usual suspects for having cool trees in the first place. I’m quite sure that Warrior, Paladin, Priest will have amazing hero talents. Monk, Rogue, Shaman… not so much.

[Jerauld-uther (Jerauld)]

M61 vulcan machine gun. Aircraft weapon, perfect for Flight form or Boomkin in Flap mode. Werebear could also use it too perhaps.

[Brewa-hyjal]

Oh, THAT vulcan.

[Adorability-moon-guard]

I already dislike that specs other than Holy and Arcane show up for their respective cloth classes.

[Breakcog-proudmoore (Breakcog)]

…I had much crazier ideas like Tinkers can combine their mechs with other Tinkers into something more dangerous.

Could still be possible if Mimiron were to invent the class.

[Greymarc-amanthul]

I’d say:
-Tank: Mech-suit enhancements focusing Primarily on electrical empowered melee and AoE attacks.

-Ranged DPS: Mech-suit that enhances Ranged Weapons plus bombs, mines and rockets!

-Healer: Mech-suit that disperses anti-toxins, anti-sleep, and HoT mists as they fly by and have a long range Bandage Gun.

The Mech-suits would be their armour.

[Fobnop-turalyon (Fobnop)]

So like FFXIV. Your class is dictated by your weapon. Swap weapons and you swap classes.

[Silverleigh-drakthul]

I think your idea is interesting but would add way too much complication as is.

Maybe as an either/or situation as in can be a tinker tank using a mechasuit with a forcefield-type shield and a single cannon that shoots out fire, frost, arcane, fel and shadow to various effects (ie frost-stun, arcane for fear, fire-instant direct damage, fel for delayed dot, shadow for aoe, ect) or their class with actual weapons.

But, honestly, I want a real tinker for my future Vulpera.

[Lute-laughing-skull]

Yeah that’s what I was thinking. If you swap to a tinker spec , you lose all of your class stuff and now you are just the tinker.

Totally agree would be way too complex otherwise.