Battle mages are a thing in the wow universe.
Theyre mages that fight in melee with magic and magically enhanced weapons.
Not playable obviously lol
I donāt blame him. Iād love an actual battlemage. Maybe make Spellbreaker one of their specs! Thatād be neat.
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Hell yeah!
Iām just taking a jab at how squishy enh is, thatās all lol.
Would they wear plate armor?
Who knows? This is all hypothetical 
Would I want them to? Personally, yes. My love of the character type comes from playing a battlemage in Morrowind. Heavy armor was one of their major skills. Then in Oblivion, it wasnāt. But Morrowind is vastly, vastly superior, so it wins.
I would actually role an such a class in a heartbeat. Enhancement Shaman is the closest Blizzard lets us get to one thatās playable. But, Battle Mages are a thing in the lore. Rhonin even goes dual arcane swords in the War of the Ancients novels.
They could get some interesting specs - Spellbreaker for tanking, Spellblade as a DPS, andā¦ I donāt knowā¦ Barrier Master for Support or something? Since Augmentation Evoker is a thing, really opens the door to some new concepts of what a class can do.
If I was making it, Iād make them either Plate or Mail.
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True enough.
Honestly Iād be happy with just two specs for them. Like using Barrier magic in Spellbreaker for tanking. Summoning magical weaponry with Spellbladeā¦ Oooooh I need to stop Iām getting too excited for a class thatāll never be.
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Ooh, I love a good naming convention! That would work well, since those are pre-existing terms in WoW! Spellblade Aluriel used a shield, so maybe that can be like the base concept for the class. All specs use a shield!
I mean I kind of would prefer a two-handed specā¦ But then again, Dragonās Dogma had the Mystic Knight which used a Shield for spellcastingā¦
Yeah, void themed knights/paladins/warriors would be interesting.
Shadow priests would be the cloth variant, and a Void/Eldritch Knight could be the plate variant. Kind of like Warlocks and Demon Hunters.
Iām not exactly sure how theyād work, though. Maybe they could use some sort of altered combination of the madness and metamorphosis systems?
We, um. Werenāt talking about Void themed Knights/Paladins etc. Eldritch Knight is a class name for a Magic Fighter in DnD. We were talking about the concept of an Arcane based melee fighter.
Eldritch means squid gods, Lovecraftian stuff, which predate DnD by like half a century. If you wanted to talk about a spellsword, then talk about a spellsword.
The term āEdlritchā already exists in WoW, and it associates with void creatures and demons.
Either way, a spellsword isnāt a terrible idea, even if it is just mostly a warrior with different ability visuals.
So like a spell blade?
Iād be down for that too.
Tbf eldritch doesnt strictly mean lovecraftian.
The word means something thats creepy and otherworldly.
So in the wow universe it would still be void. Maybe death or disorder could count.
But not arcane.
Iām not sure why the dnd term uses the word for something that seems pretty normal haha
I can see it happening in the elves influenced expansion after The War Within. As some kind of Spellbreaker or Spellblade or something.
Look, I wasnāt going to call the class āEldritch Knightā in WoW, I just used the name so people have a reference to look at.
Thereās like 600 developers working on team 2 now. Imho, Iād give each spec a developer and each class a team lead to oversee them, with the goal is seeing some iteration on each and every spec throughout the lifetime of the game.
If any class or spec feels neglected, thatās really bad. People can recover from being mad at a change, especially if more are coming, they canāt get over feeling left behind, because thereās nothing to look forward to.
Seems like a problem that a class skin would solve. But evidently instead of something people want we get āHERO TALENTSā.
Perhaps, I just donāt know between Paladin or Death Knight which would best have that āSpellbladeā Warrior Iām looking for.
ā¦ Iām also kind of looking forward to Hero Talentsā¦