Weapon Master Hero Class Warrior Spec

Classes Warrior
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With the announcement of the hero class specs and with none of the three planned hero classes being Weapon Master I figured I should try my best to be heard and advocate for it while there is still a chance.

Weapons Master :face_holding_back_tears:

This spec would focus on advanced specialization of the main tool every warrior wields, a weapon. We used to have specializations in the old talent trees for swords, axes, maces and it was always part of the class fantasy to be the un-matched master of a particular weapon choice.

As cool as Colossus or Slayer may sound to some, to me itā€™s just not that specific to the actual class of warrior and not inherently part of the original lore like say a Dark Ranger is to hunters. I mean, Demon Hunters get Slayer as a class title already, giving it a bad taste in my mouth when thinking of my warrior now using it. What am I slaying? Demons? Undead? Dragons? And just what is a colossus? Sounds more like a race than a title and itā€™s too ambiguous.

I know its early still and we havenā€™t been able to look at them properly, but I will already know in my heart that the ONE hero class spec warrior should have that speaks to what the core of the class actually is, is the Weapons Master.

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all warriors are masters of weapons and physical combat, so it makes no sense to carve it away from one of the specs to assign it to the other two.

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Weapons Master is too wordy. Not enough ZUG ZUG.
Me think Blood God or Wood Chipper more gooder.
Blood God: Because enemies bleed and die. Me likey.
Wood Chipper: Because nothing survives the Wood Chipper ZUG ZUG!

NPC: Congratulations Wood Chipper Brawnsteel! You deforested the population of Stormwind!

Something like that.

4

ā€¦arms???
Hewwo???

5

ok,
arms/fury ā†’ two arms
fury/prot ā†’ one arm
prot/arms ā†’ arm and a half

thereā€™s the three new hero talents

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It isnā€™t carving it away from any of them, and it makes perfect sense. Bring on the Weapon Masters. Maybe orcs will decide they need more haft, and less blade. Maybe gnome warriors will decide they need more Ooomph and prefer the large 2hand mace. Whatever way you slice it, it only adds more to what is already there.

Sadly, there is nothing left in game that says Weapon Master now for our class, or blade master etc, and it is indeed a core of our class. What we need is to emphasize it through a mastery that just makes you even more of a storm of steel.

Itā€™s time.

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blood for the blood god
skulls for the skull throne