They are the Necromancer class of WoW, their whole design is about raise death, spreading disease and decay, the single difference is that they are Heavy unite with Runic Weapon instead of hiding behind their minions .
Or just the Class Skins idea could happen (which could be done very easily, it is a multi million dollar company) and everyone is satisfied. Unholy Dk’s wear Plate and no, cannot be played as ranged. This is the real answer
It’s always confused me how WoW doesnt seem to have more of the DnD style classes as I genuinely think some of them would be fitting and be fun to play like bard or an engineer or summoner or a witch doctor the list goes on. I think as much as WoW has got some solid classes myself personally who level classes alot it gets extremely boring playing the same old classes over and over and over.
This, and necromancer is still a lot more than summoning a few skeletons, that’s just the usual false argument of the community. It could be a lot different than unholy dk.