New class :Flex your creative muscles

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Class Name: Ranger
Type: Archery/Melee

Minium range distance for archery if target is to close, auto swap to melee.

2 specs

Archer

Focusing on long ranged heavy attacks
Only using melee as an means of escape.

Trapper:

Focusing on a balance between archery and melee providing more snares and incapacitates and maybe even a stealth utility.

Agility based

Races: Night elf, Blood Elf, Human, Forsaken

possible talents / skills

hold the line - passive improved ranged attack power while standing still.

Nimble - passive improved melee attack speed and or evasiveness

Possible CC

Bola’s - dazing target lowering thier movement speed by 50% for 4 seconds.

Net - throw a net at your target making them unable to move for x amount of seconds.

Weapons -

Short bow
Long Bow
Cross Bow

Daggers
Swords
(dual wield)

Extra neat features and ideas could be poisons for all weapons types as means of applying dots and or debuffs.

examples

Puncturing arrow - reduces target’s armor by 10%

Poison Arrow - Paralyzing your target for 3 seconds. reducing their movement speed by 40%

And so on.

It’s a lore accurate class and I would love to see it happen.

I favored this idea over the hunter ever since vanilla.

And spare me the Marksman excuse, it’s trash and should be removed entirely.

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The best idea so far was a ranged tank.

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How about you just fix the current ones?

Also this reply while lovely to see a Blue talking to us as its rare as fudge on EU, how about you reply to some actual content/player concerns that litter the forums daily?

You realise the kind of frustrations it breeds when you post about a fun thing none game impacting that is ‘safe’ to post about yet there is again (although promised by Ion) ZERO discussion with the player base about daily concerns and problems.

I can guess your not allowed too, but doesn’t that make you part of the problem at Blizzard rather than the solution?

In no way is this a pop at Sorakleon I want to highlight the problem I see and how Blue post’s are frustrating me as a player. (Now ex customer till something changes but you had thousands of ££££ and 14 years out of me but hey whats my opinion matter right?).

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Because they can’t. Blue Posters like Sorakleon aren’t allowed to post anything worthwhile unless given specific permission from either the community manager or Ion himself. They are allowed to read our concerns and pass them onto the management, then wait and post any sanctioned responses from the company. That is all.

As for a new class, honestly I don’t think the game needs it. I see a lot of ideas floating around about new classes but there are 2 important things you need to make a new class: Class Fantasy and Mechanical Playstyle. Class Fantasies are rather easy to come up with, but finding a single unique Mechanical Playstyle is very hard. More often than not when I see someone proposing a new class they have just taken mechanics or playstyles from other classes. If the playstyle isn’t unique then there is no point in putting it in.

There are only 2 things I have seen that could be unique playstyles. First is a Bard-esque class that focuses on buffs and debuffs rather than raw damage or healing. This is incredibly hard to balance as they will either be strong, making them mandatory to take in every team, or they will be weak and never used.

The other idea I have is a caster that can cast 2 spells at the same time, all the time. Each different combination of spells would have a unique effect, allowing the player to adapt to different situations on the fly. This again would be incredibly hard to balance which is why it would never be implemented into the game.

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They used to have limitations on classes by faction.

Alliance had Paladins, Horde had Shaman, Horde could not be Paladin and Alliance could not be Shaman.

They gave in though which is why both sides now have both.

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I am not a nay-sayer but currently there is no need for another class, as devs cannot balance out existing ones. If they could there would not be talents reset and classes slaughtered-and-stitched-anew each patch.

If you still insist on having a new class then how would it differ from existing ones with all the suggestions in the thread? A new victim to the same boring leveling grindfest I say.

Instead if I must I suggest a class that could play a new way.

Peacemaker. Neutral with both factions. No armor, no weapon, the one that could level WITHOUT killing. He/she could force someone to kill his/her target instead if needed. By mind controlling, convincing, indoctrinating whatever. Could be fun tho. (grinning devil smile here)

Make a new experience, there must be a way to beat the game without killing anyone/anything.

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Fully convinced we are being set up for a ranger class.

Just hope the game holds out till then xD

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TINKER! or Engineer. Something. Please.

The only thing that would be better than Tinker personally however? Is if they devoted the time developing a new class, into fixing the current ones.

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Not very creative, but the Witch.

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New Class - The Indie Developer

Info: The Indie Developer is exciting new class based on leading staff of Blizzard, the indie company. Beside exciting lore, it comes with amazing new abilities. it´s main abilities are focused on controlling everything and ignoring everyone.

Specializations: Well since its Heroic of the Heroic class, it has one big tree(no, you not going to burn it down)

Iconic skills and talents:

Blue post? Never: This amazing skill grants you ability to ignore every forum post. Also grants you aura of ignore, affecting all players on server, shards, instances, so they can not ask questions and use even ingame chat. Can not be dispelled.

Want play? Just wait: This new amazing skill affect also everyone on same realm, shard, instance. It grants you ability to delay other players skills, quests, raids. Infact everything they doing. Do they want to use Flight Master? With you, they have to wait 24 hours to use one!

Balance? Heck why: With this ultimate talent you are able to play with other classes talents and skills without reason. Do you think this specific class has more buttons than others? Delete them while you play! Take their CC, spenders or basic abilities with just one amazing skill. Its simple, stupid but heck, we dont even care about classes.

Resctriction: Hell yes. In fact all you need to do is just pretend, that everything is Okay and work as intended. Stick yourh head to sand and make changes nobody have asked for and it MUST take several months more so player base have to pay it while waiting for gated content which generaly fix nothing.

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Shadow Priest /renew/ it’s time Blizzard to recreate 3rd time our spec and let’s hope to be successful this time. :slight_smile: Before new, fix older and only to be on topic, next new class should be ranged for sure.

Faewind it’s correct. I know this class exist at moment, but we are not allowed to know. :slight_smile:

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I call discrimination against negative discussions.

How dare you exclude me!

OT: None. There are enough classes. Fix THEM before you add more to the garbage pile.

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Pretty sure the game already has a Ranger class…

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There was a class on Age of Conan called Bear Shaman. It was an offensive melee healer and in order for your heals to actually be efficient, you had to do some damage, you had to stack up some buffs by hitting enemies. Great support with lots of CCs and hard to take down.

Whether they implement a new class or a new melee healing spec similar to this for current shaman, I would love to play it. I hate standing back and casting stuff, it’s just horrible. But when you present it in a similar way to how damaging abilities are currently used, man, it takes a whole new dimension. I would love that.

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To me sounds like you’ve described holy paladin :sweat_smile:

Tho this does sound interesting !

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Hmmm I do have a pally alt I played during WoD but only as a tank, haven’t tried healing with him. But from what I saw it still has the “standing behind front line and healing at a safe distance” feeling.

Here I’m really thinking of something standing within melee range, like right next to the tanks or melee DDs.

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I am pretty sure the Necromancer from D3 would fit into WoW with relative ease. Being able to have both a ranged and melee attack and self healing, would make them handy in a raid.

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I have got a class in my mind that is best for the company and the investors.
It’s called " Cash Class"

All of its skills are unlocked based on real money spend like initially you don’t have any skills to slot your hotbar but as you level up, you will see a list of skill that you can use, provided you spend real money in the cash shop for £40 to unlock them.

Also, there is a limit to unlock all skills like you can only have 6 active abilities unlocked for your hot bar. So, if you want to change your active abilities then you have to spend again £40 in cash shop to unlock them.
The passive abilities are not troubled by this but you have to pay to unlock them as well…

The abilities include:
Money hunger
Cash cow
Con leader
Shaman bais-" I played a shaman other day" - makes all mobs into totems that will make you and other players weak for a while.
Etc…
“you don’t have phones” - passive ability
“you thing you do but you don’t” - passive ability.

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Instead of a new class, wouldn’t it be better to create a character, start the game, press n for talent, and see platespec/mailspec/leatherspec/clothspec.
and in those spec you then get to choose the class u can perform, and voila you have four quickspecs, one for each armor and if you are lucky one for each role wow needs from you tank/healer/dps/pvp.
then you level the class you choose, if you after a while don’t like one or more you visit a trainer and whipe them starting over, or create an alt.

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ESO works in a similar way to this. You select a class at the start that gives your character access to 3 skill trees that you can choose from at your will. You have skill trees tied in to your weapons, and different types of armour give you different bonuses. You also have have world skill trees and guild skill trees. It’s a really fun system to experiment with, but it wouldn’t fit wow at all. It’s just too different from what we already have, the game would have to be completely rewritten for that.