Tinker Class - Yes or No?

[Nyel]

ok tell me why we would need dks to defeat anything?
why we would need demon hunters to defeat anything?
why we would need monks to defeat anything?

Oh my goodness, are you serious? There's a ton of reasons and a massive amount of lore in game why we needed Death Knights to defeat the Scourge / Lich King and why we need Demon Hunters to fight the Legion (the entire Illidan storyline says hello).

[FelPlague]

Oh my goodness, are you serious? There's a ton of reasons and a massive amount of lore in game why we needed Death Knights to defeat the Scourge / Lich King and why we need Demon Hunters to fight the Legion (the entire Illidan storyline says hello).

and we could use tinkerers as the tech has helped us lots in the past, the titans used the tech to maintain the old gods, we could use that tech to help us fight a war
the titans left machines, constructs, and armies to hold the old gods in prison, we could do the same using titan tech, and tinkerers who use mechs to decimate the enemy


this is cherry picking to a huge extreme.

[Nyel]

and we could use tinkerers as the tech has helped us lots in the past, the titans used the tech to maintain the old gods, we could use that tech to help us fight a war
the titans left machines, constructs, and armies to hold the old gods in prison, we could do the same using titan tech, and tinkerers who use mechs to decimate the enemy


this is cherry picking to a huge extreme.

If we'd play Transformers I would agree.

[Thimagryn]

No because there's no reason why we would need Tinkers to defeat anything whereas it made sense for DK / DH. Can Blizzard come up with a super bizarre and laughable reason why we would need them? Yes! Should they? No.

What did we need Monks for again? To fight Sha-infested Garrosh, which they weren't needed for anyways?

[FelPlague]

Only other class I'd be interested in would be Wardens

go play a rogue... they are literally rogues

[Deleted]

as a longtime gnome I'mma go with..

HELLS YEAH


could really use some gnome lore to go along with it! pew pew pew!


The only alternative is a spellbreaker class.. throwable glaive/ heavy focus on buff debuffs / enchant weapon sort of thing..

[Frumpy Frumpy Frak]

How can you tell? All races can pilot those helicopter machines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xudw2l6S_N4&t=12m40s

Your welcome is welcome.

[Deleted]

There is an older thread with a huge poll and its been about 50/50.

Wich is alright. Not everyone has to enjoy every class. But its clear there is interest.

I myself would probably main it if it can do ranged dps with the turrets. I love playing Gazlowe in heroes.

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Granted, but why would we need Tinkers again?

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Machines without AI can't be corrupted, i would assume. That would make them very valuable against the void.

If you mean in the game.. why did we need monks, DK's and DH's? Same answer.

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How do Demon Hunters overlap with the engineering profession?

Oh this nonsense again?

Go read the dictionary. But... you won't so i will help you:

Tinkering:

verb (used with object)
10.
to mend as a tinker.
11.
to repair in an unskillful, clumsy, or makeshift way.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/tinkering

Engineering:


verb (used with object)
7.
to plan, construct, or manage as an engineer:
He's engineered several big industrial projects.
8.
to design or create using the techniques or methods of engineering:
The motor has been engineered to run noiselessly.
9.
to arrange, manage, or carry through by skillful or artful contrivance:
He certainly engineered the election campaign beautifully.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/engineering

One is to repair/manage things, the other one is to plan an build them.

NOT the same thing.

[Teri]

Maybe in 9.0 or 10.0 , 8.0 should focus on races/subraces and at the very minimum new faces/hairstyles/colors.

Just phase out appearance change while we're at it (add everything to barber shop, raise the gold price if you have to),

Also would like rebalance racials etc or add some flavor ones if they go sub-race route.

And give every existing character a free race change to compensate.

Still would rather see a 4th spec then a new class right now as well.

[Teriz]

As a mount, yes.

You think someone who enjoys riding and flying around in a mech wouldn't want to be able to blow shit up in it as well?

That's not how logic works.

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I'd say the community really likes the idea of using mechs as mounts. I've only seen two 'tech class'-related comments.

I think you need to look again. I see at least a dozen comments wishing for a mecha-based Tinker class.

[Ielenia]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xudw2l6S_N4&t=12m40s

It's so tiny, and you literally cannot see the gnome at all, the only know it's a gnome piloting that thing is because the developers said so, so I'm not sure if it can count.

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I think you need to look again. I see at least a dozen comments wishing for a mecha-based Tinker class.

A dozen... out of more than a hundred posts. I rest my case.

[Icoblablubb]

Tinker thread 932423987 how original

[Darktbs]

Not my number 1 on Wish list but shure, it would be cool.

But i still want my Naga.

[Teriz]

A dozen... out of more than a hundred posts. I rest my case.

Considering that the subject matter of the video is a mount and not a class, that is to be expected.

[Dispraise]

One is to repair/manage things, the other one is to plan an build them.

NOT the same thing.

Yes, they are the same thing.
The Warcraft lore doesn't use the dictionary.com definition. In Warcraft lore they are one and the same.

A class based around unskilled and clumsy repair would also be a fucking stupid idea, and obviously not what people are talking about with Tinkers.

[Jetstream]

Honestly, I'd kinda like it. It might be fun and... honestly? Gnomes need more love. Goblins too I guess.

So sure. Let's have a Tinker/Mekgineer/Whatever. And make Gnomes matter.

[Mojo03]

4th specs will never happen. Ever.

Ever.

They will take potential new specs classes could have and take 2-3 of the specs and use them to create a new classes until they can't anymore.

Why? Because it's smarter business and better for marketing a new expansion.

[Deleted]

I don't want another class period. Blizzard already has too much trouble balancing the 36 different classes we currently have.

[Selah]

4th specs will never happen. Ever.

Ever.

They will take potential new specs classes could have and take 2-3 of the specs and use them to create a new classes until they can't anymore.

Why? Because it's smarter business and better for marketing a new expansion.

I don't believe that at all. What's going to bring in more people, a class that is either going to be hit or miss for people individually or a revision to whatever class they personally enjoyed? Fourth spec would be far more marketable. Especially when you start boasting things like tanking and healing specs for classes that didn't previously have them.

[Nyel]

You think someone who enjoys riding and flying around in a mech wouldn't want to be able to blow shit up in it as well?

That's not how logic works.

Excuse me, there's no logic going from "they want Mechs as a mount" to "if so they want Mechs as a class as well"! Just because I want a mount with a special model doesn't make me want a class that evolves out of that mount model.

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There is an older thread with a huge poll and its been about 50/50.

Well and this is a newer thread with a ratio of 1:2 (Yes:No) for Tinker and I'm pretty sure the results won't alter that much in the future.