Next will be a range, mail wearing class.

[shise]

From all the ideas, wishes and speculations, we can dig something for sure, we still only have 2 mail wearing classes in the game, where plate, leather and cloth are highly represented.

It is a rather obvious thing that mail will either disappear or move on, it is a rare armor at this point as either leather or plate seem to make more sense.

So my bet is that it will be a mail wearing class.

Also,
DK = melee,
Monk = melee and healer,
DH = melee,
chances are that Blizzard will complement the game on that area and give us a ranger/caster who uses mail.

What are your thoughts?

[Lochton]

From all the ideas, wishes and speculations, we can dig something for sure, we still only have 2 mail wearing classes in the game, where plate, leather and cloth are highly represented.

It is a rather obvious thing that mail will either disappear or move on, it is a rare armor at this point as either leather or plate seem to make more sense.

So my bet is that it will be a mail wearing class. Also, DK = melee, Monk = melee and healer, DH = melee, chances are that Blizzard will compliment the game on that area and give us a ranger/caster who uses mail.

What are your thoughts?

Honestly, more importantly, we need a mail wearing NON-magical class by now *cough* Tinker *cough*

[Thunderleg]

No need for another mail class.

1. Shaman 'Earth Warden' Tank
2. Hunter 'survival' healer

3. (leather, I know) ranged 'something something' monk dps would be great)
Going to a two talent row tree with tank-melee choices in one and healer-ranged in the other. Similar to when BearCat druid was as thing.

[Blackmist]

In all the expansions to date Blizzard have added no new ranged specs and removed one.

If anything I can see them rolling shaman and hunter into the leather category, and making all mail items leather.

[zoefschildpad]

That's what people thought last time, and then demon hunters happened. I very much doubt that Blizzard will base their decision of which class to add on which type of armor is underutilized.

[Boricha]

I was saying that in Legion, we need another mail+bow class, but we got another leather anyway.

[Temp name]

People said after DK that the next class would be ranged/healer, since we just had a melee/tank.. And then we got monk. Then people said we'd get a ranged mail, since we just had 2 melees, and getting a mail class would balance out the amount of classes using each armor type, and then we got DH.

If anything, we'll probably get another melee that can tank, maybe with a healing spec, probably wearing leather

[Jonnusthegreat]

If anything I can see them rolling shaman and hunter into the leather category, and making all mail items leather.

That's the dumbest fucking idea I've ever heard but holy shit they might because it would reduce development costs.

[Cosmic Janitor]

Mail is an utterly pointless armor type, and given blizzard previous history they give little to no shit what armor type their newest class has, otherwise we wouldn't have all those leather classes. That is especially true NOW with personal loot.

[matrix123mko]

Tinker is coming.

[Tehterokkar]

Really need more ranged specs in the game, Tinkerer is highly hinted at for Goblins/Gnomes for next expansion.

Maybe a new bow/gun wielding class that uses temporary summons(turrets) to do damage.

[oplawlz]

It's highly likely we get some sort of dark ranger class. Lots of things in the story/character representation suggest it, and as the OP mentions it would be a great way to balance the gear.
Anyone who didn't know that we were going to get demon hunters as our next class before legion was frankly delusional. I see a few posts here saying that people were making this argument before, but honestly the only ones I ever saw make it were the nuts that just couldn't accept that demon hunters were coming and felt the need to throw random reasons out to prove it.

[Druitz]

We have forced personal loot now so armor type is not that important.

I rly hope they will not that stupid tinker.

[Ihavewaffles]

Shadowhunters fer sure, with serpent totems n ranged weaponz



Healing stream spell, voodoo shadow spells

[Low Hanging Fruit]

Sadly they seem to only add in classes with roles they want to force more people into. Even though that practice really hasn't panned out. So it will certainly be another tank class and tank classes seem to have melee off specs. Not to say the idea of a ranged tank doesn't seem cool, but that is where I start to have my doubts.. cool and fun seem to be avoided unless they can get an extra $19.99 out of you in the process. As for the type of armor talk, to tell you the truth, it doesn't matter anymore. I mean everything is personal loot so the old idea of mail dropping and the hunters and shamans have 6 pieces of each for different enchants and such is kind of dead. Loot drops per individual and not for a team.

[Enan1981]

Sounds like my Tinker is about to make its appearance LOL!

[Ihavewaffles]

Tinker would be plate...

[XDurionX]

There won't be any more new classes.

[Lothaeryn]

Spellbreakers or Wardens

Spellbreakers for Magical based tanking and ranged dps, and possibly a magic absorbtion based healing spec.

Wardens would be another melee dps/tank hybrid, with some flair of stealth mechanic added in. While some would argue they wear plate, their model did use a recolor of Hunter dungeon gear for the longest time, and some mail armor sets have plate elements in them.

[Destinas]

Considering we now have 3 plate classes, 4 leather classes, and they've never added a new cloth or mail class at all, I doubt Blizzard would prioritize trying to even out the number of classes and armor types. They've had the opportunity to add in different classes, or adjust the way armor types work entirely, and they haven't so far.

Maybe if they decide to add in class sets again, they'll think about trying to make the numbers more even, or give players more choices of gear looks/stats in each armor type. As it is now, it doesn't really matter.

There won't be any more new classes.

To be fair, people said that after DKs (since they were hard to balance in WotLK), and Monks in MoP. People also said the same about races after Pandaria, and now we have an explosion of Allied Races.