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    Quote Originally Posted by Velerios View Post
    Because there are around 20 classes that makes more sense and I (and probably others) would rather see implemented than tinker. Necromancer, Spellsword, Dark Ranger, Spellbreaker...; there are far more classes that are better than tinkerer: we have engineering for it, and i rather have an extension to it than a class around it. If they want, they could make Tinkerer an earnable spec from engineering, but it's own class? Nah.
    Most of those can be added as a fourth spec to something, Tinker on the other hand makes sense as a class

    And enough with that lazy nonsensical argument that Engineering is Tinker, it holds no water. There is nothing in Engineering that makes it a class...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Velerios View Post
    Because there are around 20 classes that makes more sense and I (and probably others) would rather see implemented than tinker. Necromancer, Spellsword, Dark Ranger, Spellbreaker...; there are far more classes that are better than tinkerer: we have engineering for it, and i rather have an extension to it than a class around it. If they want, they could make Tinkerer an earnable spec from engineering, but it's own class? Nah.
    UGH such a bad argument, Saying engineering fills the tinker fantasy is like saying a blacksmith fills the warrior fantasy, its really that retarded.

    Necromancer will have more flavour after shadowlands but it was pretty much already split between warlock and death knight and really? we need 3 dark magic classes?

    dark ranger is worth a spec at most, spellbreaker is just blood elf warrior and WAY too specific to blood elves, just like warden or priestess of the moon is to night elves or shadow hunter is to trolls.

    Honestly all of the classes you mentioned overlap significantly with existing classes, and if you think that engineering covers tinker than enchanter covers spellblade.

    We dont have any tech focused class, if it was added to the game blizz wouldnt need to take a single thing from any other class.

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    Quote Originally Posted by McNeil View Post
    They look at is as to goofy while the game has been that way since the very beginning. They'd rather want more edgy classes as apparently demon hunters didn't bring enough edgyness to the table.
    Well I do enjoy the edgy classes...Dark Ranger and Necromancer could just be 4th specs of another class. While they may fit the theme of the expansion there are already classes that kinda cover what they do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rhrrngt View Post
    I really don't understand a community that hates variety so much. A technical based class with steampunk vibes is usually a staple in many fantasy games and its a clear missing component in WoW despite the myriad of technologies the world offers. Yet anytime someone suggests a desire for the class or even comes up with creative ways to implement it half the community it seems nearly has a stroke with the amount of rage they bring.
    I mean in reality it doesn't have to be called tinkerer, but i do think the game would benefit from a class that embodies a mechanical steam punk type vibe.
    Think part of the reason they hate it is because the class would primarily be centered around Gnomes and Goblins...which are some of the less popular races.

    But they don't want to admit they don't like it so they use the lazy argument that Engineering = Tinker

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teriz View Post
    Reason #1: The Tinker shares the same pedigree as other expansion classes (Monks, DKs, and DHs).
    This "pedigree" is bogus because this claim that a concept needs a "Warcraft 3 hero" to be created is bogus. It's a claim you love to make, yet could never prove.

    Reason #2: Goblins, Gnomes, and Mechagnomes have no class that reflects their racial background. When you start one of those three races, you begin in an area surrounded by technology. This works against the immersion of the race, and causes people to only choose these races for irony purposes. This problem is amplified when you look at Mekkatorque, Gazlowe, and Gallywix, the leaders of these races. All three of these characters pilot mechs, and that alongside with the nature of these three races indicates that their use of technology is pretty common.
    FYI, though? Gallywix isn't a tinker. His mech was commissioned from others.

    Reason #3: A Tinker class won't take away from existing class concepts. Necromancers would take abilities from Death Knights.
    You're basically admitting you can't make the tinker concept stand on its own so you need to make up lies.

    Reason #4: It will actually HELP Enigneering.

    Reason #5: A profession isn't a replacement for a class.
    It makes no lore sense for both to exist separately. A tinker that doesn't know engineering is like an accountant that doesn't know math. Or an astrophysicist that doesn't know astronomy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tumble View Post
    Not that i hate them, I've just never seen a version that makes sense. All the versions I've seen have basically been a gadget themed hunter for ranged, a cross between rogues and shamans for melee, I've never seen a healer spec that made sense, and the tank specs have all been some version of a mechsuit.

    None of them have been interesting (yes i know that's subjective) from what I've seen. They've just been the edgy steampunk version of stuff already in the game.
    The sky is the limit with tinkers, any gadget that wouldnt work with another class would be right at home with them.
    Stealth suits, rocket boosters, flamethrowers, tesla coils, turrets, bombs (cluster bombs, bouncy bombs, fire bombs), wind up gadgets.

    DPS is ranged zone control unit with guns, bombs and can change to different specialist weapons like flamethrowers for aoe or tesla coil for... some other niche (maybe make it a talent). Drop mines and turrets.

    Healer is apothecary spec using potions like deckard cain from hots, have healing turrets and drones

    For tank you could do full time mech or keep it as a mechanic. I think having it as a cooldown or resource would be better since there is a ton you could do so much else without it.

    Its the only class really that could fill every role in the game with ease.

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    People arguing that Tinkers aren’t in the game already crack me up. How the hell do you think we got to Mechagon? Who’s the current leader of the gnomes?? Oh right, the ‘High Tinker’... Need we also mention the island expedition teams?

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    I have one... It would be limited to a races not many people want to play. Most versions want it locked to Gnomes and Goblins. Two of the least played races. Most would not play it only cuase they do not want to play a gnome/Goblin. Unlike Demon Hunters, with the popular Elfs Gnomes and Goblins are not like from verious reasons. So No Tinker is not a good idea for a class unless they make it like monk and DK and be open to every race

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ielenia View Post
    This "pedigree" is bogus because this claim that a concept needs a "Warcraft 3 hero" to be created is bogus. It's a claim you love to make, yet could never prove.
    Not what I’m talking about. I’m saying that the Tinker has the same qualities that the Death Knight, Brewmaster, and the Demon Hunter has before they became classes.


    FYI, though? Gallywix isn't a tinker. His mech was commissioned from others.
    Again not what I’m talking about. In that quote I was merely pointing out the Goblin/Gnome affinity towards technology, and how the available classes don’t match up to that lore.


    You're basically admitting you can't make the tinker concept stand on its own so you need to make up lies.
    Considering that Blizzard had an ample opportunity to bring a Necromancer into the game with Shadowlands and instead proclaimed that the Death Knight is WoW’s “death class”, i would say that it isn’t a lie.


    It makes no lore sense for both to exist separately. A tinker that doesn't know engineering is like an accountant that doesn't know math. Or an astrophysicist that doesn't know astronomy.
    And who’s to say that Blizzard wouldn’t give the Tinker a bonus to engineering? Either having them start at a high level, or simply giving them a bonus.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LadyLisanna View Post
    I have one... It would be limited to a races not many people want to play. Most versions want it locked to Gnomes and Goblins. Two of the least played races. Most would not play it only cuase they do not want to play a gnome/Goblin. Unlike Demon Hunters, with the popular Elfs Gnomes and Goblins are not like from verious reasons. So No Tinker is not a good idea for a class unless they make it like monk and DK and be open to every race
    You can’t base future class populations on the current race populations.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teriz View Post
    The difference being that there isn't a group of Blacksmiths running around with unique abilities and attributes. So clearly the Tinkers aren't the same thing as the engineering profession.
    Wrong: They haven't unique abilities and attributes, they have unique items that have unique abilities and attributes. That's part of engineering. And that's not enough for a class. If blizzard brings in the future unlockable side-specs out, and make there something like an engineering-spec (it can be called tinker if necessary), maybe ok, but for a whole class this is by far not enough. As said before: there are many other classes that have far more lore in World of Warcraft as tinkerer.

    All in all: i would rather like to see blizzard bringing their ass up, and making professions and especially engineering viable and maybe allow us an unique playstyle with it. And engineering-items should scale with spellpower or attackpower so that they doesn't get totally useless later in the game.

    But a whole spec: nah

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teriz View Post
    Not what I’m talking about. I’m saying that the Tinker has the same qualities that the Death Knight, Brewmaster, and the Demon Hunter has before they became classes.
    Brewmaster never became a class, it became a spec, a big difference. And it does by far not have enough qualities as Demon Hunters: demon Hunters have around one crapload of lore behind it, as do Death Knights. Tinker... by far not so much.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teriz View Post
    Not what I’m talking about. I’m saying that the Tinker has the same qualities that the Death Knight, Brewmaster, and the Demon Hunter has before they became classes.
    I'll repeat what I said: this "pedigree" you speak of is bogus because none of it has been proven to be any sort of requirement for WoW class deesign.

    Considering that Blizzard had an ample opportunity to bring a Necromancer into the game with Shadowlands and instead proclaimed that the Death Knight is WoW’s “death class”, i would say that it isn’t a lie.
    Yes, it is. Because you're making assumptions as to what Blizzard is thinking and passing those assumptions as facts.

    And who’s to say that Blizzard wouldn’t give the Tinker a bonus to engineering?
    That's not what I'm talking about. What I'm saying is that it makes no lore sense whatsoever to have a tech class without engineering. As per my examples: a tech class without engineering is like an accountant that does not know math, or an astrophysicist that doesn't know astronomy.
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    Why is there ANY love for the idea I think is a more valid question.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Velerios View Post
    Wrong: They haven't unique abilities and attributes, they have unique items that have unique abilities and attributes. That's part of engineering. And that's not enough for a class. If blizzard brings in the future unlockable side-specs out, and make there something like an engineering-spec (it can be called tinker if necessary), maybe ok, but for a whole class this is by far not enough. As said before: there are many other classes that have far more lore in World of Warcraft as tinkerer.
    Except an item in World of Warcraft is something that is carried in your bags or equipped on your character. A Tinker dropping a Turret, just like a Shaman dropping a Totem is not an item, it's an ability.

    Also the abilities shown with the Island Expedition teams like Deth Lazor aren't housed within a device.

    All in all: i would rather like to see blizzard bringing their ass up, and making professions and especially engineering viable and maybe allow us an unique playstyle with it. And engineering-items should scale with spellpower or attackpower so that they doesn't get totally useless later in the game.
    Except that would never happen because it would imbalance the professions.


    Brewmaster never became a class, it became a spec, a big difference.
    And the Brewmaster's concept and influence was evident throughout the entire Monk class. Which is why the Brewmaster hero Chen Stormstout became the lore figure for the Monk class.

    And it does by far not have enough qualities as Demon Hunters: demon Hunters have around one crapload of lore behind it, as do Death Knights. Tinker... by far not so much.
    And that's entirely your opinion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ielenia View Post
    I'll repeat what I said: this "pedigree" you speak of is bogus because none of it has been proven to be any sort of requirement for WoW class deesign.
    Again, not the argument. The argument is that the Tinker has the exact same background attributes as the previous three expansion classes.


    Yes, it is. Because you're making assumptions as to what Blizzard is thinking and passing those assumptions as facts.
    It's not what Blizzard is thinking, it's what Blizzard has said.

    I gotta say, it's honestly hilarious that you believed Blizzard would create a Necromancer class without undead minions. What did you say would replace them? Golems?


    That's not what I'm talking about. What I'm saying is that it makes no lore sense whatsoever to have a tech class without engineering. As per my examples: a tech class without engineering is like an accountant that does not know math, or an astrophysicist that doesn't know astronomy.
    Again, give the tech class 300 Engineering from the start. They did the same thing for Death Knights, so its not like its unheard of.

    And just like that your manufactured "dilemma" is solved.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Slowpoke is a Gamer View Post
    I feel like most people are merely ambivalent to the idea of Tinkers, and would rather something they like more. Frankly if certain fans of Tinkers weren't so obnoxious about hijacking threads, it probably wouldn't be as hated.
    That's certainly a part of it.

    It's well to remember that a dedicated group of 3 or 4 people can create threads on some topic and generate a feeling like there's maybe some mass movement for it. I have no idea if there is any kind of popular movement or not for a Tinker class but you can't say that a few people making threads about them for several years on this forum (or any other including Blizz's) is an indication that the idea is popular. And too, the threads created degenerate pretty quickly into the same dozen people arguing back and forth. That's a longer way of saying that ideas that are popular on a forum are not necessarily ideas that are popular with everyone. It doesn't take very many people to make a lot of noise.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rhrrngt View Post
    I really don't understand a community that hates variety so much. A technical based class with steampunk vibes is usually a staple in many fantasy games and its a clear missing component in WoW despite the myriad of technologies the world offers. Yet anytime someone suggests a desire for the class or even comes up with creative ways to implement it half the community it seems nearly has a stroke with the amount of rage they bring.
    I mean in reality it doesn't have to be called tinkerer, but i do think the game would benefit from a class that embodies a mechanical steam punk type vibe.
    Because they can't even get it right as a profession, so why would anyone expect them to get it right as a class.

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    Quote Originally Posted by melodramocracy View Post
    Because they can't even get it right as a profession, so why would anyone expect them to get it right as a class.
    There isn't a Tinker profession in WoW so you must be confused.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Velerios View Post
    i can't also play as a Blacksmith-Class just because as a dwarf i'm good at smithing.
    You can though. It's called Warrior. Warriors make use of plate armor and weapons made by smiths the same way as Tinkers make use of gadgets made by engineers.

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    With the class/race combos in game, I just don't see them opening up the Tinker class to anyone else other than goblin and gnome. I don't think I've seen any other race use anything other than a bomb and gun as far as tech goes. They did it with DH, but it was a LEGION expansion, and blood elves/night elves are by far more popular races. Same reason we will probably never see shadow hunters, dark rangers, etc etc outside of a few NPCs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teriz View Post
    Again, not the argument. The argument is that the Tinker has the exact same background attributes as the previous three expansion classes.
    And my point is that you so far has failed to prove that these "background attributes" are in any way, shape or form a requirement for class design.

    It's not what Blizzard is thinking, it's what Blizzard has said.
    And TBC was the "perfect opportunity" to bring in the demon hunter class.

    I gotta say, it's honestly hilarious that you believed Blizzard would create a Necromancer class without undead minions. What did you say would replace them? Golems?
    For someone who says "not the argument" a lot, one would expect you to stick to the argument and not bring up meaningless (and wrong) information.

    Again, give the tech class 300 Engineering from the start(1). They did the same thing for Death Knights, so its not like its unheard of(2).
    1) So... a tinker class is profession locked? A tinker cannot pick the herbalism AND alchemy professions, for example?
    2) The Death Knights never had such a thing. Death Knights are not, and were never "profession locked".
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    There isn't a valid reason as to why a profession should be turned into a class. As mentioned many times by many many folks here, Mechagon was the perfect time to announce that if they had anything in mind, but they don't. You have mechagnomes, which are basically tinkers already.

    Also, no other class in the game relies on a "machine" to do their dmg and or healing. The player/hero/person itself is basically worthless outside of the mech unit. With that in mind, ANY current class/player could just jump in a mech, and boom they're a tinker. It doesn't make sense. It will never be a class, but these bozo's on this forum are crying to make it one.

    It will never be class because it doesn't fit into the game/lore/common sense. Get over it.

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