Welcome everyone to the official Tidal Guardian Class thread. Something that this game is lacking big time is a number of good aquatic races. I’ve been working on an interesting class concept that could be a potentially wonderful way to introduce a bunch of new races while also fleshing out the fantasy of each to a wonderful degree. Enter Tidal Guardians!
Discord:
If you wish you support this being a hero class in the future or just love aquatic stuff in general!
Proposed playable races:
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Human
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Night elf.
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Draenei
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Goblin
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Nightborne
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Troll/Zandalari Troll
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Dwarf
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Kultiran
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Void elves
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Murloc if ever playable
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Jinyu/Ankoan if ever playable
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Naga most notably if ever playable.
I like to keep an open mind also. Open to suggestions for others not on this list.
Class Description:
A class that utilizes the power of tidestones to take on the traits of a number of different deep sea guardians with unique traits. The transformations of this class are listed below starting with goblin since that is the first one mostly complete(See video for great in depth detail on abilities):
Class unique weapons:
Musical Artifacts and Magical Polearms. Magical pole-arms would be transmoggable with regular polearms.
Specializations:
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Praetorian(DPS)
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Guardian(Tank)
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Preserver(Healer)
Energy stat: Tidestone energy. Functions similar to demon hunter energy stats.
Mermaid(Swimming, world mobility)
Swim transformation; Cannot attack. Has 3 defensive CDS
Sea Dragon(Healer)
Highly mobile. Capable of gliding, camouflage and spitting acid at foes. Has bard like based abilities.
Leviathan(Healer)
Early prototype: Slow moving, tank like healer.
Deepfish Angler(DPS)(Early Prototype)
Ambush attacker. Specializes in stealth and trickery. Lures foes in to deal heavy close range damage.
Queenfish(DPS)
Crab Colossus(Tank)
Highly mobile tank build(prototype. Work in progress)
Octogigas(Tank)
Enhanced intelligence giving it access to a wide array of tinker based abilities.(Alpha Prototype)
How such a class could theoretically be playable.
- Azshara becomes good and helps us against a greater evil.
- Hobart grapple hammer develops getting edge gene splicing technology and his technology is put to use against a massive evil we face. In this scenario this class becomes a bioengineering class with these being the mutations. Admittedly a bit far fetched, but it is just a thought.
- Some other new aquatic figure we haven’t encountered yet or is kind of obscure now. The most commonly known practicioners of this class would be naga, ankoan, some water elementals and Gilgoblins as I understand.
- Maybe Neptulon could play a role somehow?
I am planning to do these skins for some of the other races as well. I may do this for night elves next. Open to ideas and suggestions. Let me know what you think of this idea. Before getting too critical though, see the video.
