i mean it might as well be deleted at this point. Professions in general are in a sorry state and engineering is a shell of what it used to be.
If it actually provided the RPG fantasy I want, I’d definitely give it a fair shake.
A Tank that uses Intellect sounds pretty unique to me.
A Mail Tank would also be unique
A Class that Heals with guns could be unique.
And I agree that Bear form and a Mech suit would be mechanically similar, but that’s still comparing apples to oranges.
Yeah, Engineering wouldn’t get deleted, that’s silly.
I disagree, they could do a lot of unique things.
A lot of games have engineer classes able to produce “cover” for incoming attacks by building walls, having stationary turrets, and producing grounded consumables for the party.
Engineering would become useless. And on the topic of tanks, we honestly don’t need more, we have too many tanks as is and half of them suck in either raid or M+ or pvp. And healing with a gun…uhh yeah don’t know if you know but guns kill, not heal. In fantasy wands/staff via magic heal.
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Yeah man, those 5 minute cooldown bombs are so cutting edge.
My friend got kicked from a group once for using them.
I think we do need more Tanks.
Checkmate.
In Fact, I think we need a class that can Tank, Heal, and Ranged DPS all at once.
Sorry you’re unimaginative. Ana in Overwatch does it. and she’s cool.
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this is something i never understand, why bombs (and potions) are 5 minute cooldowns, that means in most BGs, Raid wings, or dungeons, you can use them roughly 3 times. It’s something i keep meaning to make a well thought thread and not just a complaint as i just did lol
As if other classes are unique when you just think of them in the broadest of terms like that.
The Tank form would most likely be closer to a passive buff rather than a form. But it could also easily have forms, like a Stationary form for higher tankiness, but you cant move, a standard form. It could also have some sort of “overheat” mechanism that does AoE damage (including the tank)
this is honestly the best comparison, because it really is just shooting healing darts, and thats fairly doable in WoW. And another way for a Tinker healer to do stuff, is well with NANO BOTS that repair the targets tissues. Granted what im thinking of ends up being similar to MW monks
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What about a Healing cooldown that buffs allies in an Area, Increasing their leech stat by a tremendous amount? 
Summting say that one who has made a Tinker, had better mop the floor.
Wrong game, OW is something else entirely. In that game they have futursitic stealth cowboys and time-warping chick, uhh…a giant robot dude? Aything goes in OW because its not based on MMO grounds.
And you seem to be blind to the comment I made about tanks. You can only bring 2 tanks to raid, or 1 tank to dungeons vs 3 DPS in dungeons and ton of dps in raid, so what happens is meta tanks get picked for each patch and the other tanks get ignored and left out, and we only have a handful of tank classes to pick.
Leech is not a dependable healing stat, even for me, I cannot make it heal me like crazy. Leech is solely a small damage to HP to help out dps minorly, it could never be made OP or the game balance breaks.
In the game I came from ages ago - EQOA - Gnomes has a master class option of Tinker. We could get our own little robot assistant (who could kick some butt).
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Something unique? A work shop. Like an instanced class hall or the Engineering Works from the garrisons. A place to wrench on my Mech and develop new gadgets.
One thing that I think is a MUST for the Tinker’s Mech, is that it’s independent of the Tinker. It’s not just a mount that you auto mount or a form that you turn into. The Tinker needs to be able to leave the Mech and work on it. If you walk far enough away, it flies away and you will have to summon it again. Also being able to customize it via cosmetics.
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That would be super cool, it could be done in a way that its more a support healer, where it helps buff up the team with less burst heal power, but good powerups overall
Yes this would also be great, with the “ranged dps” form, make it so they could “customize” their creations (turrets, bomblings, or whatever) so that the player can decide what kind of focus they wanted their Tinker character to be, so it would just be the same as other tinkers, but it could be AoE focused, or Boss focused, or even debuff focused!
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WoW Has giant flying Heli-carriers, Mech suit with force fields, Titan empowered laser weapons, and explosives galore.
Tinkers in Mech suits existed all the way in WarCraft 3. Don’t try and pretend they don’t fit.
This would be like saying Demon Hunters don’t fit. 
If I play a Goblin, and want to Tank a Raid. I have to choose Warrior or Death Knight.
If I play a Gnome, and want to Tank a Raid, I have to choose between Warrior, Death Knight, or Monk.
Neither of those make sense, considering Goblin and Gnomes are ENTIRELY built around Technology.
Hell yes. This sounds awesome.
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The flying ships in WoW are made by gnomes/goblins by giant fans and rockets. We’ve only had 2 mech suits and they both got defeated rather easily in BFA. Also that would be infringing on druid’s bear form and DH’s demon form as a '2nd form", its been done too much. Anything titan-related or azerite related belongs solely to Azeroth(titan) and its keepers, it is not our power to wield unless the world is in danger. It is also not technology we can use for ourselves because we did and look what happened…azerite powered cannons used for war and blood shed. We only use such things for murder and blood shed, so a tinker class based on titan-related things is sure to bring triple death what bfa did.
Because try hard min-maxers complained that they were FORCED to level engineering to be bis.
Mechano lord Capacitus, Mekkginer Steamrigger, Thermaplug, Blackfuse and all the countless Goblin Shredders from WC3 Onwards all say hi.
Do your research before you say something objectively wrong.
Yeah because Demon Hunter and Druid are so similar to Tinker. 
Blackfuse used Titan Technology to improve his own, He was an awesome Villain.
This is a bad thing why?
We have Death Knights who use Scourge powers, which lead to the death of millions.
Warlocks that use Fel, which was so evil it almost destroyed azeroth several times.
But Tinkers? Thats where you draw the line?
Sinelius sir, you are grasping at straws.
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I love that they call out Azerite as bad, but you know Fel and Scourge powers are perfectly fine, because they are just innately evil (probably).
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If a tinker class is ever done and you don’t get a mech suit then blizzard is wrong.
I’d like a mech suit dps spec, sapper/bomber/grenader dps spec, and a science healing spec.
Especially the grenader/bomber spec. Like really lean in on yeeting bombs everywhere. It’d be fantastic.
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