New class, Bard

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Description

They will have a unique pool, like mana, insanity etc. While they also have energy. Thiers are called Rhytm to use certain songs, but slowly depletes if you arent playing songs. With a maximum of 200 rhytm.

Thier playstyle is about tempo, and require the player to play nonstop to not lose rhytm.

Pros
Control, and Support

Cons
Burst damage, single target damage

Spells:

Rock: Play rock for 5 seconds knocking away all enemies within 5 yards of you and stun for 1 second every second. Cost 20 rhytm per second (2) . 50 sec cooldown.

Or Slam your instrument and knock down all enemies within 5 yards of you for 0.5 seconds and deal x damage, cost 40 rhytm, instant. 20 sec recharge. Can be used while playing Hard acoustic

Grand finale: Consume all your rhytm over 5 seconds and deal heavy nature damage (electric) Can only be used if you have 150 or more rhytm. CanĀ“t be used whilst moving.

Hard acoustic: Shoot waves of notes at the enemy continuously over 4 seconds dealing x damage, and reduce enemy movement speed by 10%. Can be channeled whilst moving. But reducing your own movement speed by 20%. Regernate 8 rhytm per sec. 6 seconds recharge (2).

Sedduce/Serenade: Play a love chant and the enemy will attack nearby enemies, if there are no nearby enemies they will be disoriented and run around. (A heart will appear above them.) (the heart rips in half when the effect ends)

Or Lullaby Play your flute and progressivly make the enemy slower until they fall asleep, affects all enemies within 15 yards. Can be used whilst moving with 20% reduced movement speed.

Acoustic Shield: Play a song and sorround yourself and allies with a protective barrier: Channeling, Cost 8 Rhytm per sec. Can be used while moving. (note the shield can get destroyed but regernate as the song plays)

Passive

Tone Deaf: Whilst you are above 80 rhytm you take 20% less spell damage.

Talents

Movementspeed

Musical ear: Every second you play Hard Acoustic, spells that cost rhytm have gets 1 second faster cooldown.

Pvp Talents

Ballade: Play a song and force all enemies to dance within 30 yards of you. Damage will interupt this effect. Cost 12 rhytm per sec. Cant be used while moving. 3 Min Cooldown

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Players canā€™t even cope with the idea of Priests having a single support ability with PIā€¦ Your really think theyā€™re gonna be able to wrap thier heads around a whole support class?

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Requires Guitar Hero plug in Guitar to play.

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A support class just wouldnt work, the closest you are going to get to support is healing and TBH Bard is not even interesting sounding, Iā€™m sorry.

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I donā€™t want to see any new classes, Iā€™d rather see new specs for existing ones.

Iā€™d love Necromancer caster for DK for example

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That is highly subjective, players has asked for a bard class for agesā€¦

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And just as many people have asked for Tinker aswell, That is a class that has more likelihood of making into a game over a purely supportive class.

Support classes are a very niche thing and it would be wasted development to design a class that wouldnā€™t prove to be popular.

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Not new a idea :slight_smile:
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Bard_(April_Fools)

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I know its not, i was just brining it up with new abilities and such.

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IF i can have 80ā€™ songs spec and play the 80ā€™ hits to beat bosses why not :smiley:

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Oh god, no. Just no. What a terrible idea.

Is the slam called a Townsend or a Cobain? And rock should have a far better name and arenā€™t they the same?

How about this, itā€™s called the Whitney. The bard makes an awful warbling sound that forces real musicians to run away in terror for an hour.

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Great idea. Would love a bard class. Also would love to see something breaking the trinity in a sensible wayā€¦ like elemental shaman used to be.

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Tank warlock or Tank shaman!

We need cloth and mail tanks

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No

/characters

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Come up with something original please, this was just a 2008 April fools joke.

Also the Bard Class already exists in the game. He is part of the Necrolord covenant and wanders around Maldraxxus.

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I really canā€™t see Bards fitting in with the WoW lore/feel of the game. I donā€™t know why everyone is so obsessed over this classā€¦it just sounds ludicrous!

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Iā€™ve always loved the idea of support classes but in the current game it just wouldnā€™t work anymore. Not sure how well Bard would work in Azeroth either, feels a bit odd.

Did like the music scene in the last Dr Strange movie with the notes being used as weapons.

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I mean blizzard add stuff that doesint exist in the lore all the time, Void elves, vulpera, highmountain, Lightforged and the list goes on.

Technically bards do exist, if you have played heroes of the storm, there is a tauren called E.T.C. Hes a bard.

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what is ā€œhard acousticā€ ?

problem with support classes, is that they work best in group games. since you only group for very limited amount of content in wow (instances), most of the time this class would be useless.

as fun as this class can be, it wont work in a solo game like wow.

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I dunno, i made something up. I dont play instruments myself, but playing as a bard whould be hella fun. Plus using the new pool rhytm i made up seems interesting.

I hear what youĀ“re saying and that may be true, but bards perhaps doesint necessarily have to be supports merely one of thier specs?

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