Oh boy.... So you're saying that when an Enchanter disenchants a magical item, the weapon is turning itself into a reagent and the Enchanter has nothing to do with it?
And a Mage is everything (arcane) magic.But a Tinker is everything engineering.
You mean the Hand Mounted Pyro Rocket? The rocket that does crappy damage every 45 seconds? Yeah, use only that and the belt grenade launcher that also does pitiful damage. Your DPS meter will be so low they'll toss you out the raid, and probably the guild altogether.You mean you can't use the 'tinkering' to your belt to launch grenades, or attaching a rocket launcher to your gloves cannot be used for DPS? The guns created by engineers cannot be used by hunters to do DPS? Oh, my.
Where did I say that class matters above all else? I said that Classes and Professions are two different things that occupy two different design spaces and two different niches within the game.In a more serious note, you're holding onto the notion that 'class niche' matters above all else. Which it doesn't. If we didn't have the engineering profession I'd agree with you. But we do, and therefore the whole of the tech theme has already been taken.
And BTW, its not the same theme. The Engineering theme is a crafter who creates tech items. A Tinker is a hero that uses technology to protect allies and defeat enemies.
It matters completely, because it means that they're not the same thing.It matters none if the engineering profession can or cannot tank/dps/heal/dance macarena/fart/etc.
We're talking about game design and theme. It also disproves your notion that an Engineer can use everything they create.That is a fail example since the only reason a paladin cannot wield a gun in-game is purely game design choice. Nothing stops a paladin from grabbing a gun and shooting it aside from that single game mechanic.
What Blackfuse was doing before SoO is irrelevant. What is relevant is what Blackfuse can do with technology and what our Engineering Paladin can't do with technology. Blackfuse shows that there is a level of technology in WoW that Engineering can't reach. That forms a hole if we are to believe that Engineering is the end-all, be-all of player-based technology in WoW. That hole is a niche that Engineering can't fill, but a class would be more than able to fill.In a nutshell? Yes. In more detail? Yes, because the Paladin has been adventuring his whole life. Blackfuse, your example, did not. He spent his whole life in a laboratory doing nothing but engineering.
In short, Blackfuse (and other Tinker NPCs) disprove your argument, because they demonstrate that Azerothian tech goes above and beyond the Engineering profession. Your argument is like saying that Enchanting fills the niche of magic, despite the fact that we're constantly fighting Mages throwing ridiculously powerful spells at us.
Nice contradiction.A profession can't do what a class can because it's a profession, not a class. But the whole tech niche has already been taken, by the engineering.
Yes, it's as stupid as your comparison between Engineering and a Tinker class.And oh. My. God. I won't even bother answering your hunter comparison. Too stupid.