Yes, let’s add another class. Because Blizzard has done such a good job balancing the 35 specs we already have. No, WoW has enough classes. We need to just fix the ones we have, and Blizzard pretty much knows this. They aren’t going to add another class.
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We stopped needing new classes when DKs were introduced.
Monk as a class is a stretch, because could as well be an spec of priest, as the NPC monks are, or making a tanking spec out of survival hunter. We did not needed to add a class because of Pandas.
DH, well, taking the forum posts as they are, DH was a bad thing to add, and was mostly added for Illidan hype. It has all the signs of a “hype grab”: Fewer abilities and mostly taken from other classes, and fewer specs which are very similar in use, only varying in damage done and taken.
But adding classes is a nice gesture to “trick people” in thinking they are adding content.
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Agree, especially with DH feeling very gimmicky. They were creating classes to sell expansions, but I think we’ve reached our saturation point. Adding more classes at this point would be madness.
Thing is, if they add another class they’d have to go back and add legion class halls and mounts and all sorts of other class content for it, or come up with a dang good reason why it doesnt have any of that stuff.
I’m 99% sure, at this point, that a new class is never going to happen again in WoW.
However, I’m hopeful that we’ll start seeing new specs for existing classes, particularly tanking or healing specs for classes that only have dps specs currently. I know a lot of people seem to think that more tanking/healing specs wont help the shortage any, but I disagree; sometimes the thing holding people back from trying a role isnt the role itself, but the flavor they can play it in.
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The level squish should have come with a 4th spec for all classes, a revised talent system and better / re-tuned resources for a lot of specs.
As it stands now, Shadowlands has no “new” content outside of 4 zones and 4 quest hubs. This expansion is going to feel a lot like BfA if they don’t announce any new changes here soon.
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I’ll be very surprised if we never see another class again. I think at some point Blizz is just going to take the leap and release yet another new class, regardless, for better or worse.
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That would give us 47 specs. That’s like adding 4 new classes at once…
I understand the difficulties of this, and know it’s a bit absurd. However, WoW (and Blizzard) need to do this to refresh this game. It’s been a rough few expansions here and WoW needs something drastic.
Reintroducing class abilities and updated talents (or the reverting to a classic style) would be an enormous task, but could have this game feeling like a “fresh” version of what we had before – an amazing game.
As it stands now, at the very least, Shadowlands NEEDS to revamp the talent system.
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Yes, Blizzard should fix current classes. Dramatically. There is a lot of potential in every single one of them to reinvent them and makes them feel new and engaging while coming closer to actual balancing or at least (rock, paper, scissors)
With all that being said… you people have NO idea of the drive behind profits in a business.
As long as there is ONE person willing to pay, there is no end to how much it can be added to anything.
The reason is simple. It didn’t exist back then. This has been done before. There are no gear sets added to prior expansions for each new class added.
Adding more specs is equivalent to adding more classes.
Without addressing the fundamental problems, this will only convolute the system more. What needs to happen is a REALITY CHECK for the game. The game has evolved beyond certain classes and specs and the only reason the classes haven’t kept up with the game is because of players being too sentimental about it.
Truth is, pure classes need to die. Hybrids are more and more outpacing the versatility of most pure classes. Some specs need to be merged into others. And then, ONLY then, can we talk about making new specs.
Rogues are the perfect example. Contrary to what players will cry about, we no longer need 3 specs of rogues. They have become redundant and rarely sustainable for YEARS. I can’t even remember the last time all 3 specs were decent to use. One has always rotated as total garbage. That is a clear sign that it needs to go.
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They said they are going back to specs feeling similar instead than intending each to be its own class so that’s not much of an issue. Pretty sure that whether we need it or not, Blizz will add another class in time to spice up the game.
Hopefully they’ll keep fixing their past mistakes and delete monk while they’re at it. Then we can recycle it into the bard class everyone has wanted since 2007.
Only nerds want bard.
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pushes up big nerd glasses
Excuse me
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See, I disagree. I think the talent tree system needs to go back to a similar way it was in classic/TBC/WotLK and remove this illusion of having a “choice” in these talents.
Yes, each row of talents has 3 choices to choose from, but with “metas” existing, there really is only one “right” choice. Usually that is determined in HPS or DPS. Most specs have spent the entire expansion not switching a single talent.
That’s fine, but if that’s going to be the case, then just simplify the expansion trees, bring a back a simple “progression” feel of updating abilities and focus on fixing the resources of each spec.
Classes should be fun baseline, talents should improve a spec, not “complete” it.
Adding a 4th spec would not be easy, but might as well get it all done at once. 
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This. And it better come with guitar hero buttons.
Agreed.
That was the best april fools joke I ever experienced
What you said makes no sense. Adding a 4th spec doesn’t solve anything.
The main issue with Blizzard is exactly what you asked. “revert to another time because nostalgia tells me it was better”. Not trying to be rude or anything, just trying to explain, that the game as a whole, has evolved dramatically from what it was. Reverting to old systems isn’t the answer.
Evolving the classes forward is. If you had a meaningful or fun talent system it doesn’t change the fact that 3 rogues specs that would basically do the same thing more or less because they have to live within the confines of what the class is, will become redundant. Not to mention, like you said, at the end of the day no flavor will change players mind when one spec outperforms another.
Rogues can be a single spec class with a plethora of choices that can allow you to use styles for different content without having to consider new stats, new gear, etc.
Moving forward is the way to go. DH’s Double jump is a perfect example. It should be base line for every class. The game has needed double jump for a while now, and EVERY SINGLE player that’s played a DH for more than a minute can tell you that in the top 5 reasons they are fun right now, is the double jump. They can keep the winged glide, but that is a mechanic sorely needed to bring classes into the fast-paced mobility that wow has become. Looks at the complaints, many of them are centered around mobility.
Squish classes like levels & ilvls. Reset is needed. 
