No reason why 4th specs should wait anymore

[RemasteredClassic]

Seriously, looking at the difference between some specs in SL, you see a difference of two abilities and the rest is pretty much the same.

I hope SL starts to gradually add them. Warrior gladiator spec is basically a copy of prot, change a couple abilities animations and icon and you’re good to go! This would have to be the only selling point to get me back in WoW.

[tangers58]

How would that be a selling point at all? If a 4th spec was just a couple animation changes then it would be the exact same thing, which would be completely pointless

[RemasteredClassic]

How would that be a selling point at all? If a 4th spec was just a couple animation changes then it would be the exact same thing, which would be completely pointless

Isn’t that the case with every class? Look at warriors for example...maybe just change the weapon type to make the spec stand out...

[psyquest]

Seriously, looking at the difference between some specs in SL, you see a difference of two abilities and the rest is pretty much the same.

I hope SL starts to gradually add them. Warrior gladiator spec is basically a copy of prot, change a couple abilities animations and icon and you’re good to go! This would have to be the only selling point to get me back in WoW.

Blizzard can't balance current specs and you want a fourth spec...

[RemasteredClassic]

Blizzard can't balance current specs and you want a fourth spec...

Not that they can’t balance them. They have been changing them for the sake of creating hype so players would come back to wow and try new ways of playing classes. If balance is an issue, like I said, simply copy an already existing spec and make cosmetic changes to it.

[KOUNTERPARTS]

“No reason” but you don’t acknowledge that there aren’t unique and different theme/class kits to use to make 4th specs? This reads as “I don’t care how you do it, just do it” and that ends up ruining more than fixing less.

[EntertainmentNihilist]

Though i'm not against the idea of adding more specs to the game, why does every class need to have the same number of specs? We don't need rigid order. Different classes can have different numbers of specs, that's okay.

[Relapses]

Players, to Blizzard: Why the fuck can't you balance 36 classes/specs?!

Also players, to Blizzard: Why the fuck don't you add more than 36 classes/specs?!

[Mysterymask]

You know sometimes less is more when it comes to balance...

Marvel vs Capcom 2 has over 60 characters....4 are actualy viable

Skullgirls has 12...all are viable in some capacity

[Kralljin]

Players, to Blizzard: Why the fuck can't you balance 36 classes/specs?!

Also players, to Blizzard: Why the fuck don't you add more than 36 classes/specs?!

Simply because people are playing the same game, doesn't mean they want the same thing.

[Relapses]

Simply because people are playing the same game, doesn't mean they want the same thing.

Regardless, it begs the question: If they can't balance what they have, why on God's green earth does anybody think that they'd be able to balance even more? One of the single most common criticisms I see of modern WoW is that things are "too homogenized," yet somehow the cure for this is adding more things to the game which will surely drive the game in a direction of... you guessed it... homogenization. It doesn't make sense.

[Stormspellz]

Reason: they can't balance 3 specs per class as it is. Making more specs won't fix that.

[ravenmoon]

It will never come... they are streamlining the classes, homogenising the specs further, dumbing them down even more.

ti's less work all around for them and people sill keep playing. They are not going add a 4th spec for each class and increase their work load 1000 fold. no matter how much you relish it.

You are young, or just naive, I was once like that, could only see the world in terms of my desires and my hopes - but I learnt wisdom, and found that just because I hoped for a thing didn't mean wit would happen. I have to make my own dreams come true,

if you want a 4th spec, you have to make it come true, get yourself employed at blizzard rise to Lead game director /developer and make your case for a 4th spec.

do most of the work likely by yourself and make the presentation with a system everyone would applaud you for.. then you can get your 4th spec

[Monkiy]

The majority of classes don't even have a fourth theme worth presenting as an additional spec. There are some ideas for a few classes, like Gladiator Stance as a spec for Warriors, but what would a fourth Priest spec even be? Rogue? Hunter? There's ample lack of reason to not add fourth specs to every class.

[DeltrusDisc]

Now introducing!
10 versions for each spec!

For example...
PRIEST:
Shadow:
Shadow from Vanilla
Shadow from The Burning Crusade
Shadow from The Wrath of the Lich King
Shadow from Cataclysm
Shadow from Mists of Pandaria
Shadow from Warlords of Draenor
Shadow from Legion
Shadow from Battle for Azeroth (Corruptions coming soon!)

In a future patch we will offer even MORE versions by offering the different patch options too!

[AlmightyGerkin]

Seriously, looking at the difference between some specs in SL, you see a difference of two abilities and the rest is pretty much the same.

I hope SL starts to gradually add them. Warrior gladiator spec is basically a copy of prot, change a couple abilities animations and icon and you’re good to go! This would have to be the only selling point to get me back in WoW.

4th specs? Look how hard they try to balance the only class with 4 specs aka druid. IIRC a lot throughout bfa saw Guardian, healer, and range. They have a hard time balancing specs but a good time killing some like sub after mythic zul.

[Palapop]

I see no reason why we should have 4th spec at all.

[SkagenRora]

How would that be a selling point at all? If a 4th spec was just a couple animation changes then it would be the exact same thing, which would be completely pointless

Make the 4th spec just generally do more dmg than the current other speccs.

Then in the next expansion you nerf them all to fall in line with the rest of the speccs again

[Big Thanks]

Players, to Blizzard: Why the fuck can't you balance 36 classes/specs?!

Also players, to Blizzard: Why the fuck don't you add more than 36 classes/specs?!

I remember when wow had 30 specs and they changed completely every expansion.
Do you remember?

I prefer something "new" to playing the exact same class for 6 years.
But thats just me.

[Drusin]

How would that be a selling point at all? If a 4th spec was just a couple animation changes then it would be the exact same thing, which would be completely pointless

Well, a gladiator warrior is a dps which is different than a tank (obviously) so the difference in responsibility while still being sword and board could be appealing to some people.

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Though i'm not against the idea of adding more specs to the game, why does every class need to have the same number of specs? We don't need rigid order. Different classes can have different numbers of specs, that's okay.

agree broski