Yes, it does.
This is a race locked into 1 class choice. It needs to be able to have all playstyles.
Ranged damage: Use the Blue and Red dragonflight’s magic to rain down fire and magic on enemies from afar. Not 25 yards, 40 yards.
Healing: Use the Green and Bronze dragonflight’s magic to mend wounds and protect allies from afar. NOT 25 yards. 40 yards!
Melee Tank: Use the Black and Bronze dragonflight’s magic to bolster your own durability, strike with earth magic since shaman’s aren’t getting it and use bronze time-magic to shield yourself and slow down enemies.
Melee dps: Wow’s true battlemage, using the Red and Black dragonflight’s magic to crush enemies up close. Weaving magic into strikes that do various things while using claws, tails and breath weapons up close.
Too samy? We already have melee’s enough?
These melee specs use a 1h weapon in main hand and an off-hand weapon in the other, wielding magic in one hand through some sort of focus, staff or other and melee in the other hand, striking foes with the might a dragonkin should have. Super badass and on point for the fantasy of the race and class.
I can smell the time contraints that robbed us of this and it makes no sense. Anyone who wants to tank or do melee, can’t just play this class but can’t be this race! What?
I will unsub now, since I have no interest in the race as is.
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Wouldn’t melee DPS use Green cause of poisons?
Btw, isn’t Enhancement Shaman a battle mage?
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Oh possibly. But green dragonflight would only provide poison. Red have fire and black has earth and more fire
Enhancement shaman is sort of that but not in terms of class fantasy. It’s supposed to be more about the elements, totemic knowledge and spirits.
Evokers are more like mages, arcane and fire magic mainly. And while shaman is the brutal melee magic class, evokers could be the sophisticated, learned arcane warriors.
They should be able to become warriors. There is nothing more fitting to a dragon than a ragebar. Warriors fit dracthyr more than evokers.
i feel like, with Nightborne avaliable, if dracthyr get the Melee Mage class, it’d be Kinda off.
i have the opposite view.
a Dragon, Which Doesnt Use Fire breathe and stuff and chooses to use a Mortal Sword instead of its Inbuilt strength is Kinda Not rly that fantasy fitting at all.
Dragons by Default Hurl Fireballs Lay down Walls of Fire and Fly above outside of Melee Combat realistically.
the reason a Dragon can Fly, is its Natural Defense mechanism to prevent people getting close to it.
Dragons have both. They use fire and flight from afar to keep you at bay. And if they do close the distance, they’ve just decided it’s easier to make mince meat of you instead.
That’s why evokers should be able to do both.
Well sure… they Eaten people in close combat.
however i wouldnt call that a Fighting Style… it just trying to Stamp on people and Eat People isnt “Combat”.
Dragons dont have Exactly a Complex Melee Set of moves thats natural to the race.
it has 3 Things.
- Stick talon on it.
- bite them.
- Stamp on them.
that isnt a Fighting Style, if i as a 6ft6 male, Fall on a 3foot person and kill them beneath my weight… that wasnt me Fighting a Dwarf.
You’re deviating from the point. Drakthyr are literally called warriors. They would absolutely be able to use weapons, but like I said, infused and woven together with magical attacks to convey the battlemage theme.
There’s even NPC’s with big swords! And evokers can equip all kinds of melee weapons… why. If not because more was planned but Activision ran out of time and decided to ship it as is.
And as always, people here settle for crumbs. 
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my Apologises.
for the fact that people havwe waited 18 years and 4 class Launchs of melee Devotion to be Happy to see a Solid Ranged class.
I whould rather foucus the time and money to give 2 new specs to another class.
tbh…
if any classes get new Speccs. DH and Evoker should be first… as we litterally have the lowest.
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Yes because less choice is always better. You can have both you know. You can have a cool new ranged class to play AND give people playing that race more choices. The amount of people I see arguing here for less choice is just depressing.
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But… Evokers… is just that. They arent very liked by the community.
no.
if a class has both melee and Ranged… and the Melee ends up the meta choice, it takes away the Ranged Option for players who want to play the best specc avaliable.
the same reason why hunters Dont like Survivals turn to Melee, Because when its Meta, its ruining to those who chose it as a Pure Ranged option
based on what?
evokers Discord popularity hs risen 5,000 since EUS launch.
Let’s hamstring a unique race by giving it only one class, let’s hamstring it further by making sure that class only has 1 dps spec. I can’t even. The meta is your argument against it? Well then let’s just delete half the specs out there, mate.
aint saying only give it 1 dps Specc.
im saying, it should be Ranged if we get a second.
im saying. it robs one side of gameplay…
mages having 3 Speccs is fine in meta, as its Permanantly ranged regardless, i dont think it should switch based on meta.
ur ignoring one point entirely.
If Draks get a Melee specc, it doesnt expand the players Choice, or Options. because if u made drak to be ranged. its Nothing to you.
a 2nd ranged Option however WOULD open options and choice.
you cant tell someone “well a Melee off specc gives u more options” IT doesnt.
If you introduce a class
With 1 ranged and 1 melee option you are opening the class to 2 audiences, however not expanding options for those audiences.
If u choose drak to be a ranged caster u still only have one choice.
If you choose drak to be melee u still only have one choice.
The fact on the matter is. We have waited 3 classes of PURE melee options with no ranged introduction AT ALL.
So yes. When one finally launchs id like it to remain a ranged option in all types of content. Knowing we will wait another 3 melee class launchs to see another.
Also again:
A spellblade fits the nightborne fantasy, and if launched on a race entirely dedicated to a SINGULAR race itd be a absolutely spit on the face for those whove wanted a melee mage.
You cant just stuff evoker with single options for multiple audiences, without the lid absolutely blowing off when one is superior to the other.
Expanding options and audiences are seperate factors.
If any class should get a spell based melee dps, Mage is stood right there, give it a fourth specc on a class which already has a ton of ranged options instead of swallowing a 1 dps classes second option for it.
Your arguments make no sense whatsoever. Your whole argument sounds like ‘I don’t want a class that has a ranged spec to have a possibly better melee option because then it won’t be a ranged class anymore.’
That is skewered entirely from your singular viewpoint as being a ranged player who likes to be competitive.
You are ignoring players who
- Dislike ranged play but want to play Drakthyr
- Like tanking and want to play Drakthyr
- Like switching around between melee and ranged specs and would like to play evoker (that’s me, I play druid normally)
- Don’t care about what is meta and want to play melee drakthyr.
You’re also ignoring that druids, hunters and shaman already offer diverse choices and are very well liked classes because of it. Not to mention they often fare better at range and they’re not locked behind one specific race.
Let go of your fear of being some kind of obsolete ranged spec for a second and realise that evoker is half-baked.
aswell as the demand for a Melee Option, is Solely for someone who wants Melee.
the argument is no different.
where were these arguments during Monk, DH and DK launchs. no where, the only people who were on here unhappy with the Melee Bias was ranged players.
give us Our Pure Ranged Option. Just like they gave Melee their Pure Melee options.
full ranged Full baked.
also ur argument doesnt actually take into account
you Want a Completely unique Concept introduced to a Single Race class, which tbh is rather selfish in itself the only reason its fine for Evoker currently is because its a Any day Caster specc.
it cant be too unique to work in this format.
u also ignore, the absolute uproar when one side is better then the others.
Ferals been Screeching for Years about feeling inferior to its Ranged counterpart.
Same as Enhancement in regards to Elemental. and Elemental went into Uproar around DF beta about the fact enhancement was better then Elemental.