Warlock Tank, Demonology ish: but you sacrifice the summoned minions for sustain.
Warlock healer, blood magic: transfer and empower blood between party members.
Mage Tank, Battlemage: use a combination of fire and frost.
Mage Healer, Cronomancer: Double down on arcanes time element. Make save-states and restore allies.
Rogue Tank, Illusionist: Use Hallucinogenic toxins and shadow clones to confuse enemies.
Rogue Healer, Chemist: Use their knowledge of toxins and potions to administer restorative elixirs to allies.
Hunter Tank, beast master round two: Flip between hunter and pet.
Hunter Healer… Something similar to chemist but more nature focused.
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Some of these have the potential to be really fun.
I personally am attracted to the idea of using a hunter to pew pew arrows in your allies to heal them. I know that doesn’t make any sense, but neither did the bandage gun in Legion.
I really liked that bandage gun. Lol
No we do not. Not all classes have to be jack of all trades.
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Whatever new spec there is for hunters, please let it be lone wolf like MM. There are more than enough pet specs in the game.
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There is only one class that is jack of all trades and that is druid. They got tank, healer, ranged and melee.
Monk and Paladin is the only other classes that cover all three 3 distinct roles but lacks ranged specs.
I’m not asking for every class to get healer and tank, however the four mentioned classes are the only ones stuck with one major role (with hunter being able to go melee) and would therefore have been great if they were given a spec that let them do something else for those that prefer their class themes, but still want to tank or heal.
My personal favourite class is warlock, however i wanted to do something else and was thus forced to abandon my character because of it…
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I’d prefer just evasion tanking with high dodge. Historically they were also able to tank with slow poisons and kitting with fan of knives (Adds on Nefarian’s End is an example of this.)
This would get me to play a rogue for the first time since cata though.
I guess I’d prefer affliction here. A drain life rot spec.
Tank warlock?
no, get out of here with that dumb meme.
t. Warlock main for 8+ years.
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So you don’t remember Mists of Pandaria Demonology then? Or is that more than 8 years? God, I’m getting old.
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It’s kinda cute that you decided to advertise how long you have been playing warlock…
Oblivious to the fact that the warlock dev up until mop was working on giving them tanking before he was sabotaged by the other devs since the warlocks taunt was disabled for bosses.
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Adding additional roles to DPS classes seems like a positive change.
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Why?
It’s not going to make people play a role they didn’t want to in the first place.
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Oh so pures deserve an extra spec?
A fourth, no but I could see striping away one spec for a healer/tank role.
Just make survival a tank spec.
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Add Rangers/Dark rangers as a fourth Hunter spec with the tank role, with dual wielding as the weapon choice.
SV would be an amazing tank, BM just doesn’t have the tools of survival necessary to really be that aggro on a boss.
I am not sure if we need that many, but I do think we should have at least 1~2 more tank specs which are tied to a ranged class.
If you want to be able to tank and be a ranged dps, your only option is to be a druid.
Still forever miffed we lost the Demonology glyph that basically allowed for tanking, and got tossed to the DHs. Between that and when we had the Mass Life Drain, it was pretty freaking awesome to run around as a cloth tank for at least dungeons.
I’d rather see a Shaman tank already. They’ve been wanting one since Classic.
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I think all classes should get a 4th spec and I hope that’s something Blizzard considers in the future. Something like:
Death Knight - Necromancer. Plate ranged dps that can raise greater undead.
Warrior - Gladiator. Sword and board dps.
Paladin - Shockadin. Ranged dps.
Hunter - Bard. Ranged support class that can heal… maybe?
Shaman - Earth Guardian. Tank.
Druid - None.
Rogue - Dark Ranger. Physical range class with no pet.
Monk - Drawing a blank. Maybe some sort of ranged dps?
Demon Hunter - Polearm dps spec.
Priest - Shadow healing spec
Mage - Blood or Time dps spec.
Warlock - Caster tank. Like Druids and the upcoming dragons, they take on a demon form to tank.
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Glyph of Dark Apotheosis with Harvest Life was a great combo. Especially in raid forms if the tank(s) took a random dirt nap since metamorphosis was barely a 3% dps increase having a failsafe LockTank made certain encounters that much more entertaining.
As well being able to solo current heroics as well was a plus.
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