Every “mage” type class in WoW is a finger waving, spell chanting weakling kinda vibe. We have pally, sure, but they’re not really a “mage” vibe, nor is DK.
Why don’t we have a melee mage?
Like imagine a bender from Avatar, or Runeblade from Maplestory, or Elementalist (with melee weapons) from GW2, or Red Mage from FFXIV. Very different vibe to a traditional mage.
Are monks nothing to you?
Monks aren’t a mage / wizard / anything magical. They’re just monks.
If they had all sorts of elemental / arcane magic going around, sure, they’d be something like an eldritch fighter, but they don’t. They’re very Chinese / Taoist focused.
battlemage when?
Yes please!
Survival is the closest I’ve felt to a Red Mage in WoW. Funny since they DON’T have a healer or caster spec in their base class.
Warriors “cast” physical damage to our targets.
Right… because the Mage “vibe” is a finger waving spell chanting weakling, as you put it.
Its like complaining that a bike store only sells tricycles and bicycles, when youre wanting a bicycle but with 3 wheels because a 3 wheeled bike is cool but a tricycle is for kids. Yeah… thats a tricycle. Lol.
They definitely have “supernatural” abilities. Some kind of Chi magic.
Also, what about enhancement shamans?
Shamans aren’t really a mage vibe. They’re more like a druid, very nature themed.
And yet battlemages, spellblades, eldritch knights, blade warlocks, artificers and etc. are a thing!
You can have a non-nature magic theme without being a finger waggler.
WW monks are actually melee casters:
IMO this amount of channel abilities is unhealthy for the spec. Blizzard should bring the WW monk back to have more direct instant attacks, there should be not more than 2 channel spells in the melee toolkit.
Although I am interested to see what a tinker class would look like, I would totally play a battlemage if that was available. Both please?
path of exile ethereal blades trickster…
I’m imaging a melee fighter who wields the elements and it looks very similar to an enhancement shaman.
Wrong thematic.
A shaman is a spiritualist, channels power from nature, and is not manipulating things with magic.
A mage, even if melee, is actively manipulating reality and CREATING the things they do, rather than just channeling nature or some divine something or other.
WW already exists, but I would find it hilarious if warriors ran around screaming “LORE OF METAL” while splitting people in half.
My man, one of our hero talents is literally turn into a disco ball and radiate space/nature vibes at stuff around us. And through the power of wild magic (bad coding), it’ll cancel itself mid channel too.
I like the idea. Not sure if there’s enough creative space between the existing melee to build a flesh’d out one.
Playable moleherd that casts Throw Rocks when???
“I meditate and radiate the energy of nature spirits”
Not the same as,
“I cast a spell to rip apart space time and make it look like I teleported”