What if all classes had a Tank/Heals/DPS role?

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I think it would be cool to implement something like this but I feel like it would be hell to balance.

Warrior - Arms(DPS), Fury(Heals), Prot(Tank).

Paladin - Already implemented.

Hunter - Surv(Tank or Heals?), BM(Tank or DPS), Marks(DPS).

Rogue - Assass(DPS), Sub(Heals), Outlaw(tank).

Priest - Holy(Heals), Disc(Tank), Shadow(DPS).

Shaman - Resto(Heals), Enhanc(Tank), Ele(DPS).

Mage - Frost(Tank), Fire(DPS), Arcane(Heals).

Warlock - Demo(Tank), Destro(DPS), Afflic(Heals).

Monk - Already Implemented.

Druid - Already Implemented.

Demon Hunter - Veng(Tank), Havoc(DPS), Soul Reviver(Heals)

Death Knight - Frost(Tank), Unholy(DPS), Blood(Heals)

I could have gone into much more detail with this and better options for different specs. Even adding more specs so that each class has a ranged and melee DPS choice, ultimately like Druid.

Is it my A.D.D medication talking or would this be kinda kewl.

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Survival would be a great name for a tank spec, NGL.

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No.

10chars

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I feel like it would be weird because classes like Warrior just don’t have a healer thematic to them,

Also as a fan of how Survival used to be, I would much rather anything like this be done through giving everybody a new spec rather than changing the existing ones around.

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A Rogue Medic that uses Combo Points for big heals would be pretty cool.

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Aw c’mon! He is so angry that he carries buckets of blood to splash on his friends and inspire them in battle!

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Make the heal spec Arms, because of all the hugging they can do. :wink:

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Lol. He holds you close and angers your wounds closed.

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Every class should have multiple roles available to them, but they don’t all need access to every role and Melee and Ranged DPS are separate roles.

Which means the only pure classes are Rogue, Mage, and Warlock.

Rogue gets a stealthy archer spec, Mage gets a Chromie style time healer spec, warlock gets a tank spec where the tank is the demon they summoned, not themselves.

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LOL. I mentioned this to someone earlier and they were like, “What are they gonna do, shout at you to restore hp?”

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It would be like R Lee Ermy shouting inspirational slogans at you.

Angry ones.

That make you afraid of him.
That make you love him.
That make you afraid of how much you love him.

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I would like if every class had a tank spec. Adding ones like an earth shaman spec would be nice.

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I feel like certain classes should have a tank spec, as well as heals. Definitely shaman should have some form of a tank spec. Same with hunters and a tank spec, but I also feel hunters should have a heal spec like bard as well.

I would love to see a caster with a tank spec like a battlemage of sorts, or a warlock.

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Rift has this.

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Last time I played rift was years ago, and their class customization was insane. So many different options. I didn’t play it much and only leveled up a little, so idk how balanced it was or if it even was.

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Survival should have been the mail armor tanking spec.

It’s all over the name!

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I’d rather have it so every class had two specs that, via stances/forms/whatever, swapped between roles. One spec would be tank/DPS, the other would be healer/DPS.

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It already exists. We call it Holy Paladin.

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I will beat the health back into you!

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I don’t think every class having ALL the roles would work, but some pure classes being made to have hybrid roles would be neat.

Survival being a tank hunter, or even beast mastery being a tank using their beast.

Sub being an evasion tank

Arcane being a time mage style healer or Frost being an ice-clad tank

Warlocks basically already had Demo tanks in the past, so that one writes itself.

Classes having three DPS specs are fine as is, but i can’t say i wouldnt enjoy Sub rogue or Frost mage tanking .

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