Originally Posted by
Bas Prime
Range Specs 11
Melee Specs 13
Tanks 6
Healers 6
I just see the melees up front with two specs, hardly "over-saturated" number wise. If players tend to play more of the melee classes, why add a range if the community seems to not like them.
I absolutely agree on the two specs for one new class. It helps a lot not to have to come up with three, makes it a lot easier.
If you fill a raid with classes, and raid is the only place you have to consider (besides rated bg) you can go the route of looking for just the specs (or classes) that you want. The higher the difficulty the stronger the demonad for certain specs is (the ones doing apeshit dmg, heal or tank the best atm) In lower difficulties, where most of the community resides (i think) guilds form a raid and look what they got. Maybe they start to recruit when something important is missing (healer, tank, bloodlust class) but will there be every class represented? maybe, but probably not. You may have two Retribution Pals, maybe two Rogues, maybe two Demon Hunters. Chances are there are classes twice and some are not represented. So in my opinion it comes down to the person. You have no Retribution Paladin in your guild, meaning in your raid? So? no problem. Three WArriors? Not a problem.
In my opinion, it is unessential how many melees are in the game. The raids will pick their fair share of them. You can throw 5 more melee specs into the game, and there would not be a problem. Essential is, that there is no class that has a uber ability, and that is just the classes that have Bloodlust like abilities. And even those are not needed in a normal group.
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I disagree, you could take a look at Gazlowe in Heroes of the Storm. Sure, you have to adjust this template for WoW, but there are some good ideas to start with. Also, I can not take the point about Engeneer is a Tinkerer serious. Sorry, the profession wont be destroyed by a Tinker. I dont think so, I am sure, Blizz would have a loot of stuff that is steam punky enough without taking it away from engeneering.