Originally Posted by
Poochy
Priests don't melee, they're casters and healers. I can deal with people saying some holy/discipline dps like shadow dps but I can't take priest melee dps. That's just not what the class is about.
Same with hunters. I can deal with people saying melee hunters, rangers, or dark rangers, but hunters don't heal. I can see maybe some pet having a heal ability or 2, but not as a spec for hunters. They don't cast magic spells like mages or priests, it's not a real healer I think you could make a whole spec on. Maybe an ability with like what you said but not a whole spec.
Healer mages.... I'm not going to go there. It's just...
Same as mages with warlock tanks. I can see their demons able to taunt, take hits, and such, that's what the voidwalker is, but I don't think a share the damage type spec with a warlock tank really works. If it's a demon tank form type thing, I'd argue more against it cause demo locks would be less unique, sharing the same sort of ability and all. If a warlock tanks, it's combining their pets, spells, and such to tank for a short while, but not permanently.
Isn't a ranged warrior basically a hunter? ... Warriors are about melee, ranged doesn't fit them. I could see a shield dps based spec (GC has talked about shields and wanting to do more with them), but not ranged.
Shaman tank I see as possible. GC has mentioned that too, so there's the possibility while, not soon, we might see one some other time.
I love rogues, but I hate the idea of rogues with pistols? Where's the stealth in that? No silence with pistols. Besides, I'd want GC to work on fixing our current problem of similar specs first. At least he's mentioned the idea of merging sub with the other specs and the doing the same with SV, maybe then we might get some sniper type spec as an extra and/or ranger (petless hunter) type spec for hunters. Unless BM becomes the only spec with pets, MM becomes petless, then we could give them a dark ranger type spec (also petless). That'd be cool I think. Ya, I really want blizz to focus on the current specs and fix those probs.
Monk and paladin seem ok, I remember the shockadins so that would be interesting, unless blizz implemented a holy/discipline type spec, then I'd say no, unless done really well. Or just using the excuse of fire mages and destro locks, maybe they'd do something similar. A ranged monk seems right, I mean we are missing one celestial so I wouldn't see much problems, just I would have to wonder how they would do it as they'd have to start from scratch.
I'm not going to think about necromancer DKs.
4th specs, could work but would have to be done carefully. I'd really like to see blizz focus on the current specs and the probs with specs like sub and sv before adding in 4th specs. 4th specs could cause a lot of balance probs between the other 3 specs and other classes.
I'd rather see a new class, new stuff is always more interesting than updating old stuff - like with Cata.