People have speculated about tinkers since the beginning. There was a neutral goblin tinker hero in WC3 (and I guess the goblin alchemist hero counts too). And in the old Warcraft RPG one of the main classes was the tinker.
Goblins riding shredders into battle are nothing new. Tinkering-related enemies have existed in-game since vanilla.
Tinker has a lot of potential as a fun, innovative class. It also can boost numbers on less played races, like dwarves, gnomes, goblins and so on.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with tinker as a class, it was one of the two strongest remaining possibilities (the other is something void-based).
Adding a class has nothing to do with adding races. No helfer should feel like it’s a “kick in the teeth”.
You know what I need right now? I need to know about some High Elves joining the Alliance. That’s what I need. Hey, Blizzard, let’s have some announcements. K?
It’s going to be their next “Demon Hunter,” I just know it. By that I mean their ace up their sleeve when the complaining about the game reaches its next crest.
We gonna know more about what Blizz is thinking about High Elves in general, when we get some content that focus in Blood Elves, Void Elves or Quel’thalas.
If somehow none of them appears, even in those cases, well it’ll be a really bad sign. However, if we start seeing High Elf presence again, like in Nothrend, Outland and Pandaria, probably our future ahead will be awesome.
But, for now the story is focusing more in Humans/Kul’tirans vs Forsaken/Zandalari.
Why not both? Druids and Shamans can both make sense and cement that they’re a more nature-connected variant to Blood Elves, without outright usurping the Night Elven identity as the primary Druid race.
To all my Quel’dorei brothers and sisters, it’s 2 hours before Christmas here in Sydney, I just wanna wish everyone a Merry Christmas.
Hopefully next year finally brings us Quel’dorei and better things with WoW.
Also please have a safe and fun Christmas, theirs been a lot of car incidents here cutting Christmas short for some, please be responsible and safe so we can enjoy Quel’dorei being announced next year together.