So this one has been talked about a few times beforeā¦
But I think itās worth pushing, now that we are getting so many new race customizations, and new features added to the gameā¦ And because WoW now has had a GLARING issue, when it comes to even some of the older race/class combinationsā¦
New class visual overhauls!
Iām talking about adding an option at our class trainers in Stormwind and Orgrimmar, that lets us toggle between different visual styles and spell icons, for our class spells.
A big one that MANY players talk about CONSTANTLY, is āWe want a necromancer class!āā¦ But if we think about itā¦ The warlock class could EASILY get a visual overhaul to become a necromancer instead.
This would avoid us requiring a completely new class each time, and we could even get some āfantasiesā introduced to our game, that would probably never make it in as a ānew classā, since making a new class each time is complex.
For example:
Necromancer spell effects for warlocks, to allow them to summon undead instead of demons, and different color spells, to match a ānecromancer feelingā.
Tauren Paladins getting different spell effects, to match a Horde Sunwalker, rather than them looking like a traditional āHuman Paladinā. Or just a āHorde visual optionā in general, for any Horde Paladin race.
Kultiran Druids getting more āDrust lookingā spell effects, to match their dark fantasy.
A void and holy option for ALL Priest specs, so that Lightforged Draenei Shadow Priests, or Void Elf Holy Priests made sense fantasy wise.
Blood magic visual overhaul for Shamans too, to match our new Trading Post Blood Troll tmog rewardā¦
This would also make it a lot easier to convert all races, into being able to become all classes, without needing a āin-game lore reasonā for some racesā¦ (Looking at the Blizz devs).
For example Undead Druids/Paladins, since they could just get a darker visual overhaul, to let them use ānecromantic loreā to heal (or keep people from dying).
I personally think this is the next big visual feature WoW needs, to its growing focus on āplayer happinessā.
I wish they would FINALLY update some of the old paladin effects like Guiardian of Ancient Kings, jesus that skill makes you look like week old puke on a stick
To this day i think class skins would be an amazing addition to the game. Something like PoE did but for classes instead, even if they decided to just recolour a class like they did with the green fire warlocks it would be a huge hit. Me wants a void paladin.
Yeah Iāve been talking about the same thing for a while now, this is something I posted in another thread about new races some time ago.
I think that instead of new races, classes or specs what we could really use is complete overhaul class skins.
Imagine as a death knight you could become a chaos knight that instead of summoning ghouls would summon demons and instead of spreading disease would be spreading felfire.
Or as a warlock move over to the drust, turning your pets into drust constructs. Or as a shadow priest become a Burning Legion Inquisitor gaining fel aura and summoning demons instead of tentacles and blasting enemies with torrents of chaos. Or demon hunters becoming Incarnate hunters, transforming into elemental furies while unleashing firestorms on their enemies. And so on and so on.
I mean it would add endless amount of customization without actually affecting the balance.
So yes I think āspec skinsā could be the next big carrot on the stick for Blizzard to do.
And because WoW now has had a GLARING issue, when it comes to even some of the older race/class combinationsā¦
