Grenade, singular.
not “Grenades”
it’s one ability.
And like I said. that’s not a tinker ability from Warcraft 3.
You’re still a Hunter that uses Nature magic and animals.
now you’re splitting hairs.
joking aside, I don’t think we will actually ever get tinkers.
Alright then. Joking aside. Why?
I’m not trying to be mean, and I apologize if i’m coming off that way.
So again, Why?
Did I miss something? Is a “Tinker” Class in the works? When I hear the name “Tinker”, something like the Engineer class in Torchlight 2 comes to mind, which is actually a lot of fun to play. 
I wouldn’t say it’s “in the Works”
More like its easy to do, and blizzard has already given a little effort.
See every class in this game is inspired by the Heroes in Warcraft 3. Blizzard likes stealing abilities from those classes because its really easy and it pleases fans.
So Tinkers have a hero unit, and none of those abilities are in WoW yet.
But there’s also some Island expedition NPCs that have those abilities. They build turrets, shoot missiles. Tank in a mech suit, and can heal with healing grenades and bots.
I think it will be the next class honestly. just observing blizzards patterns that’s easy to see. Imho.
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Yea Id rather see a Necromancer or Dark Ranger.
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Necromancers raise and control undead minions, and buff those minions to do damage.
We have a class that does that.
In WC3 Dark rangers could Silence enemy casters and Mind control enemies. We have a class that does that too.
But we DON’T have a class that Tanks damage in a mech, fights with guns explosives and missiles, and builds turrets.
lots of stuff to move around, the fantasy of a tinker would encroach a bit on survival hunter, though they are slightly different. In the days before legion launch they were talking about giving survival hunters turrets and the like as well which kind of signals the intent behind its current design. They would likely want to redesign survival completely if they planned on bringing tinkers into the game.
Even if we ignore all of that, I think its pretty safe to say that the last thing blizz wants to do is more class design, they cant even get devs excited for all the specs we have now. Theres just no appetite for another class at the moment.
Oh, cool. Didnt know anything about it. Sounds like it could be pretty cool if they did it right.
Vulpera?? Ohhhh yeah… Right… this is just a body I’m wearing. Found it in the desert in pretty good condition.
try reading the rest of the post.
Lol What? A survival hunters fantasy is right there in the name.
Your a Hunter that specializes in Survival. you know about poisons, animals, nature, and the like.
You’re closer to a witcher honestly. using makeshift bombs, poisons, and feral instinct to kill your enemies. + you use tamed animals. that’s literally nothing like a Tinker from WC3
Yeah… that totally didn’t happen though.
Hunters aren’t tinkers. Like not even in the slightest.
Tinkers use mechs, technology, and turrets.
not animals, nature, and bows.
Gazlowe is a Tinker, Mekkatorque is a Tinker. Thaelin Darkanvil is a Tinker. Grand Artificer rommul is a tinker.
You couldn’t look at any of those characters and call them “hunters” without poeple laughing at you
This is subjective. We don’t actually know what blizz’s board of directors is up to.
Class request threads are pretty common now that shadowlands didn’t give us a class.
Besides. That doesn’t mean tinkers aren’t the next class. only that they aren’t coming right now.
I would personally like if the core fantasy leaned more into this. I personally think things like turrets and grenades are a bad fit for the spec. Im just saying that the current design philosophy behind the spec encroaches on the tinker fantasy.
A good comparison would be Demo warlock from MoP (and wod?)
Back then your gameplay was based around turning into a demon, and it was a ton of fun. But it was completely redesigned to make way for demon hunters. Something similar would need to happen with survival hunter, hopefully to lean more into the traditional survival archetype instead of doing wierd things like grenades.
If memory serves they did have turrets for a short time back in legion beta, but sure, it certainkly has never been part of live survival
true, this is all speculative, but when specs have glaring issues that people have been screaming to the rooftops about since alpha, and not a single issue has been addressed, your left with either incompetence or apathy. I personally think its apathy.
Even if we got posts saying why they wont change something, that would at least tell us they are listening.
And what pray tell would be the better choice of existing non playable classes eh? Necromancers? Dark rangers? Some other edgy grimdark super dark class of grimness? Honestly I’ll take tinker over the edge brigade any day. Fel I’ll take bard before some form of grimdark class, we have enough edgy classes.
Bard would be really cool, ive always loved the idea behind it.
I couldn’t dissagre more and I’m sorry.
I leveled a hunter just a few days ago and loved it. Surivial is exactly what I want.
I’ve got a pet, i’ve got my ruthless melee attacks, I’ve got my poison.
I don’t see how it intersects with Tinker at all.
Tinkers stack intelligence.
They use mech suits for armor and tanking
They build turrets, fire missiles form a range
None of this is speculation by the way. That’s just their character page in WC3.
If it didn’t wind up making it off the Alpha then it’s hardly relevant frankly.
i’m sorry. I don’t want to be rude. But one ability that hunter almost got one time on the alpha isn’t really damning evidence.
I don’t think a new class is coming soon. I just think tinkers are coming next. very different statements.
I don’t think we’re getting a new class at least until 10.0 but if we get any new class, my bet is on tinker.
Bard didn’t have a Hero in WC3 to steal from. unlike every class in the game. So I doubt itll ever happen. Blizzard will always take the past of least resistance.
I just want to be able to dual wield again… I hate blizzard senselessly taking away player agency for arbitrary reasons.
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i thought tinker was going to be the next class since all the way back in mists, i theorised that they introduced iron horde tech to give orcs access to the class.
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Totally Agree. I don’t see why it isn’t an option.
Still doesn’t make them anything like tinkers, which was my point.
But I agree nonetheless.