Dragonsworn Class Concept 2019 (long)

[Teriz]

The Dragonsworn Class



I. Overview

Dragonsworn is a hybrid, 5 spec Hero class that revolves around magic and the ability to briefly transform into a dragon. This class is capable of performing DPS, Tanking, and Healing, and is playable by every race except for Worgen and Forsaken. Allied Races should be included for potential races. Each spec is based on 4 different dragon flights, and corresponds with their general lore. The Black Dragonflight is the flight that protects the Earth, and thus is the tanking specialization. The Red and Green Dragonflights are the flight of creation and life, thus they are the healing specs. The Blue and Bronze dragon flights are DPS specs utilizing a variety of magical attacks and granting utility for their allies. However, while Bronze is pure ranged, the Blue spec is a hybrid physical/magical ranged spec similar to a Spell Hunter.

In the Dragonsworn class, the player's race is actually Dragon. When the player chooses a race in the selection screen, they're actually selecting their human form. The player is a new type of Chromatic Dragon, capable of changing flights at will and assuming their powers and abilities. This allows the player's character to switch between Dragonflights as easily as other classes switch between specs. The lore behind this, and the treatment of this new dragon flight is open to interpretation and development. I'm merely using it as a method in which to allow the player to swap between Dragonflights and allowing it to make sense.

II. Class Specifics

Humanoid Form and Dragon Form




During the majority of your gameplay, you will be in human form, blending in with the other mortals of Azeroth as much as possible. However, there should be some different aspects to the Dragon Humanoid form than standard races. Anything from different hair types, eye colors, horns, tattoos, skin color, emotes or other features should be available.



Every Dragonsworn spec has the ability to enter Dragon form during battle. Entering Dragon form occurs when your resource reaches a certain point. Once activated, you will remain in Dragon form until your resource runs out, or you cancel the form. In addition, some abilities such as Wing Flap and Dragonfire temporarily transforms you into a dragon. Dragonfire has a slight chance to keep you in dragon form for 12 seconds.



Specifics

Roles: Tank, MDPS, RDPS, Healing
Resource: Dragon Soul, Mana
Armor: Mail
Weapons: Polearms, Shields, Mace, swords, 2H swords, Staves, Bows, Xbows, Guns
Primary Stats: Agility and INT
Races: All except for Forsaken and Worgen

Dragon Fire



Each spec has the ability of Dragon Fire in all forms. However, Dragon Fire takes on different properties depending on your current Dragon Flight. Activating Dragon Fire has a low chance to cause your character to turn into a dragon.

Black Dragonflight:
Cataclysm: Breaths Shadowflame, dealing initial damage, and damage over time for 6 seconds. Black Dragonflights Dragon fire generates threat, and has a slightly higher chance of triggering Dragon Form.

Blue Dragonflight:
Azure Blaze: Deals Arcane/Frost damage, chilling targets in its patch and increasing your arcane damage done to the target by X% for X seconds. Arcane damage restores mana for duration. Blue Dragonflight's Dragon Fire is arcane and has additional range.

Red Dragonflight:
Restorative Flames: Your Dragon Fire also heals allies. Red Dragonflight's Dragon Fire has a wider cone.

Bronze Dragonflight:
Timless Blaze: Breathes temporal sand instead of fire. Damage done to targets slows them by X% for 8 seconds. Your damage to target increases haste by X for 6 seconds. Stacks up to 3 times. Bronze Dragonflight's Dragon Fire has a shorter cooldown.

Green Dragonflight:
Emerald Blaze: Breathes a stream of Emerald Fire that poisons targets within its cone. In the Dream state, this increases your healing power by X%. In the Nightmare state, this increases your damage by X%, and the damage over time effects heal party members within 45 yards. When activated in the Nightmare state, you take on the appearance of a Nightmare drake.

Flight Form



After a certain level, Dragonsworn learn the ability to transform into a unique dragon form (Chromatic Dragon, or from their spec/dragon flight) that allows them to fly while outside of combat. This form is instant cast, and your party members can ride on your back!



III. General Abilities

Flame Buffet: Launches a ball of fire at a target, damaging them and burning them for 3 seconds. If a burning target is hit, Flame Buffet deals additional damage.

Wing Flap: Flap your dragon wings, pushing an enemy away from you. (30 second CD) In Dragon Form this ability has no cooldown, and also causes damage.

Dragon Form: Temporarily transform into a Dragon, increasing your HP and armor, and enhancing your abilities. Dragonfire has a low chance to make you enter this form for 12 seconds. This chance is slightly increased in the Earthwarden spec.

Dragon Fire: Transform into a dragon and blast an area with fire, dealing damage in a cone in front of the caster, instantly returning to humanoid form afterwards. (1 minute CD) Dragon Fire has a low chance to trigger Dragon Form for 12 seconds. In Dragon Form, this ability has 2 charges, and its cooldown is reduced to 3 seconds.

Dragon Roar: Unleash a powerful roar that inspires your allies and strikes fear into your enemies around you. Increases the movement speed of your allies by 10% and decreases the movement speed of your enemies by 10% for 12 seconds. (2 minute CD) Only useable in Dragon Form.

Draconic Scales: Reduces the damage you take for 8 seconds. Grants an additional effect based on your current Dragonflight. (1.5 minute CD) While Dragon Form is active, the duration of Draconic Scales is increased by 50%.

Skyfire: (Channel) Transform into a dragon and fly into the air, bombarding a targeted area with flames for X seconds. (5 minute CD) Has different effects based on Dragonflight:

+Black: All targets are inflicted with Shadowflame DoT effect for 6 seconds.
+Blue: All targets suffer Arcane/Frost damage.
+Red: Allies can be healed by the bombardment (Can be used as a healing spell).
+Bronze: Targeted area becomes Slowing Sands with a shorter duration.
+Green: Deals nature damage to all targets in the area, and empowers whichever state you are currently in.


IV. Specializations

Earthwarden Black Dragonflight, Tank


Guardians of the world, Earthwardens combine raw destructive power , with the stability and solidity of earth beneath them. The Earthwardenuses the power of the planet itself to wreck fiery havoc on his enemies, and to protect his wary allies.

*Dragon Form has increased armor, higher than Dragon Form in other specs. Skyfire will leave a molten pool in the targeted area for a few seconds after duration.

Cataclysmic Weapon: Imbues your weapon with Black Dragon Fire, giving your melee attacks a chance to cause splash damage.

Molten Strike: (2 charges) Strikes the enemy with a molten blade, dealing fire damage. If this hits a target currently burning, it will extend the duration of Burn by 2 seconds.

Molten Talons: swipes targets in front of you with your claws, dealing damage to all enemies within range, and setting them ablaze. If already under the effect of Burn or Shadowflame, they will suffer critical damage. Has a low chance of triggering dragon form.

Cataclysmic Armor: Burst into flames, dealing damage to enemies in a 6 yard radius, but rapidly drain your mana. Damage done to your enemies through cataclysmic armor or through your attacks heals you for a percent of the damage. Damage done to burning enemies deals more damage.

Stonecracker: Stomps the ground, causing damage to all targets in 8 yards around the caster, and slowing them for a few seconds.

Infernus: (Talent) Replaces Dragon Fire. Increases the size and damage of your Dragon's breath ability. In addition, Infernus increases the chance to trigger Dragon Form.

Beneath the Surface: (passive) Your melee attacks have a chance for your enemy to see your true form, horrifying them for a few seconds. Horrified enemies take increased damage.

Firestorm: (passive) Your Wing Flap ability causes any target that is currently afflicted with Shadow Fire or Burn to spread it to nearby enemies. When this occurs, Shadowfire and Burn restart their duration.

Worldbreaker: Enter into a rage, reducing damage taken by 6%, and increasing your attack speed by 20% for 8 seconds. While enraged, critical strikes heal you for a % of the damage done. If done while in dragon form, your draconic abilities are enhanced. (3 minute cooldown)

Molten Scales: (passive) While Draconic Scales is active, molten lava seeps from your armor, causing it to splash onto enemy melee attackers and damaging them while increasing your armor by 5%. Armor increase stacks up to 5 times.

Spellweaver Blue Dragonflight, DPS


Spellweavers combine their mastery of the arcane with swift arrow attacks to create a beautiful, yet deadly blend of magic and archery.

*Flame Buffet turns into Azure Buffet, dealing Arcane/Frost damage instead of Fire damage. "Azure" damage is Arcane/Frost damage.


Azure Shot: (2 charges) Fires an Arcane/frozen arrow at a target, dealing Azure damage, and slowing movement speed for 2 seconds.

Prismatic Arrow: Fires an arrow that becomes pure arcane energy, dealing damage to all targets in a line, and leaving a Leyline in its path that lasts for 15 seconds.

Wailing Arrow: Fires an arrow that then explodes on the first target hit, dealing arcane damage to all targets within 6 yards of the explosion, and silencing the initial target for 3 seconds. Player can detonate Wailing Arrow at any point.

Fang of Malygos Fires a magical arrow at a target, knocking it back 5 yards and causing arcane damage. If the arrow critically hits, a second arrow instantly fires causing frost damage and freezing the target. If the target dies after the initial arrow, Dragon's Arrow will refund the mana cost and reset its cooldown.

Runemaster: (passive) Standing on a Leyline increases your mana regeneration and spell damage by 15%.

Azure Blade: Throws a dagger laced with arcane/frost magic at a target, dealing Azure damage, and bouncing to a neighboring target twice, dealing reduced damage after each bounce. Targets hit by the dagger are slowed for 2 seconds. (30 second CD)

Radiant Breath: If standing on a leyline when casting Dragon Breath, Dragon Breath's duration will be extended and hit all targets on the leyline.

Wild Magic Copies a random magical spell from any neighboring humanoid, dragon, or demon mob nearby. Copied spell lasts 1 hour.

Dragonflight: Summons an Azure Drake which flies forward breathing Azure flames, dealing Azure damage to all targets in its path. At the end of its flight, the Dragon will leave a Ley Line behind. (30 second CD) Activating Dragonflight again within 5 seconds after its duration will teleport you forward along the Ley line left behind by the dragon.

Ebullience: (passive) When at 75% mana or more, you move 15% faster. (Does not stack with mount speed)

Brilliant Azure Scales: (passive) While Draconic Scales is active, melee attacks against you increase your Arcane and Frost damage by 2%, stacking up to 5 times.

Lifebinder Red Dragonflight, Healing


Empowered by the Titans to be the guardians of life, Lifebinders do whatever it takes to protect life even at the possible cost of their own.

*Critical Flame Buffet strikes will heal the Lifebinder for a % of the damage.

Gift of Life: Sacrifice an amount of your health to instantly heal an ally for 150% of the amount of life you sacrificed. Gift of Life costs no mana.

Preservation: Plant a seed of healing that blooms after 3 seconds, healing nearby allied Heroes for a % of their maximum Health.

Nourishing Fumes: (passive) Allies near the Lifebinder during Dragon Fire are healed over 6 seconds.

Life Binder: Sacrifice your mana, dividing the total amount of expended mana between you and an allied target and converting it into life. While your mana is below 35%, the healing power of your Gift of Life spell is increased.

Exuberance: (passive) At 75% health or more, you move 15% faster. (Does not stack with mount speed)

Unbinding: Sacrifice a significant portion of your health and your mana to heal your ally for 300% of the health sacrificed, and deal damage to enemies within 8 yards around your ally for 300% of the mana sacrificed. (3 minute CD)

Blossom of Life: (Talent) Critical heals will spawn a Blossom of Life near your location. You or your allies can collect up to 3 blossoms. Consuming the Blossom will heal you for a % of your maximum health. 1 minute cooldown. In addition, if you cast Gift of Life while holding a blossom, Gift of Life will consume the blossom instead. This effect does not work while Life Binder is active.

Restorative Scales: (passive) While Draconic Scales is active, damage done to you heals you instead.

Timewalker Bronze Dragonflight, DPS


Manipulators of the sands of time. Timewalkers use their great power to control and eventually destroy their enemies.

*Critical Flame Buffet strikes reduce the Cooldown of Dragon Fire. Dragon Fire has a 45 second base CD.

Sandblast: Fires a missile of temporal sand at a target. When casted, Sandblast leaves a temporal echo that can mimic the Timewalker's sandblast when casted again, dealing reduced damage. The echo lasts for 6 seconds.

Meridian: Instantly switch locations with your Echo while it is active.

Dragon's Breath: Launches a missile of sand into an air, landing on a targeted area dealing damage to all targets within it, and slowing the movement and attack speed of targets in the center.

Slowing Sands: Creates a sand vortex that slows enemies within it by 5% every 0.25 seconds, up to 75%.

Time Trap: Place a Time Trap that arms and Stealths after 2 seconds. The trap can activated to detonate the trap, placing all nearby enemies in Time Stop for 3 seconds. Maximum of 2 traps can active at a time. Enemies in time stop take increased damage from Sandblast.

Temporal Loop: The Timewalker places a spell on a target. After 3 seconds, the target is instantly teleported back to the location where the spell was originally placed. Basic Abilities recharge faster for 3 seconds after casting Temporal Loop.

Blessing of Nozari: Increases movement speed by 30% and your abilities recharge 30% faster for 10 seconds. (3 minute CD).

Temporal Scales: (passive) While Draconic Scales is active, enemy melee attacks increase your haste by 6%. Stacks up to 3 times.

Dreamweaver Green Dragonflight, Healing


Always mindful of the balance between dreams and nightmares, the Dreamweavers utilize the power of dreams and nature to sustain their allies and punish their enemies.

*Dreamweavers have a special bar that balances between the Dream and Nightmare. When tilted towards the Dream, healing power is increased. When titled towards the Nightmare, Damage is increased. Certain abilities such as Dragon Fire takes on new properties when the Dreamweaver enters the Nightmare or the Dream. Eternal Slumber empowers both aspects at the same time. Flame Buffet becomes Emerald Buffet, a direct healing spell that reinforces whatever state you're in, increasing healing if in the dream state, or increasing damage in the nightmare state. Abilities within each alignment will empower one state, and weaken the other unless they are dual alignment.

Slumber: (Dream) Places a spell on a friendly target, relaxing their body and calming their mind. Slumber heals the target over time and reduces the damage they take. Healing increases and damage reduction decays over time.

Dream Whelpling: (Dream) Summons a whelpling that fights by your side for 15 seconds, and increases your healing power and dream power for every enemy it damages. (1.5 minute cooldown). Dream Whelplings cannot be summoned if a Druid of the Nightmare is active. Dream Whelplings have a chance to cast Slumber on a friendly target.

Lucid Dream: (Dream) (channel) Connect with an ally, increasing their healing from all sources by X%. If a target dies while under the effect of Lucid Dream, they enter a state of sleep instead of dying and are healed for 25% of their maximum health. This effect cannot occur more than once every 15 minutes.

Wish: (Dream) Instantly heals the nearest ally with the lowest HP. If casting Lucid Dream, your target of Lucid Dream will also be healed for 30% of the total healing amount.

Locust Swarm: (Dream)(Nightmare) Deals damage over time to a target, empowering whichever alignment you're currently in.

Wisp: (Dream)(Nightmare) A wisp floats around the caster increasing healing or damage depending on alignment. The caster can detonate a wisp to restore 200% of the Wisp's mana cost over time. Lasts 1 minute. (30 second CD)

Nightmare: (Nightmare) Places a powerful spell on the target, dealing damage over time and slowing their movement speed. Targets under this spell have a chance to go to sleep. Damage done to the target heals the caster and all nearby allies. If the target falls asleep while the DoT is active, the healing is increased. If under the effects of Nightmare, damage does not awaken the target.

Druid of the Nightmare: (Nightmare) Summon a Druid of the Nightmare that transforms into a hideous creature. When it attacks enemy targets, you are healed for a % of the damage done. Druid of the Nightmare has a chance to cast Nightmare on the target.

Nightmare Brambles: (Nightmare) The Nightmare Brambles root targets in a radius, and inflicting Shadow damage and additional Shadow damage every 2 seconds for 6 seconds. Damage will release the target.

Eternal Slumber: (Dream)(Nightmare) Empowers both of your alignments, increasing both your healing and damage for the duration. Lasts 12 seconds (5 minute CD).

Duskbreaker: At the peak of slumber, you abruptly leave the dream, unleashing a wave of energy in all directions that heals all allies within 100 yards and removes any status effects. Your alignment immediately resets to zero. Requires you to be in either full Dream or full Nightmare status. Cannot build towards the Dream or Nightmare for 15 seconds. (8 minute CD).

Blessing of Meritha/Curse of Nythendra : (passive)(Dream)(Nightmare) Heals a nearby ally for 2% of their total health every 5 seconds/Deals damage to a nearby enemy for 2% of their total health every 5 seconds.

Nocturnal Scales: While Draconic Scales is active, enemy melee attacks either increase your healing or your damage depending on your current alignment. If under the effects of Eternal Slumber, both attributes are increased.

V. Notes and Thanks

1. The Lifebinder and Timewalker specs are heavily based on HotS heroes Chromie and Alexstrasza. If you have alternate ideas. please share them.
2. I will be editing this post over time. I won't be doing talents or anything like that.
3. I don't own nor create any art in this post.
4. Thanks for reading. Hope you enjoyed it.
5. Shout out to @wanax for inspiring me to write this post.
6. Please note that these are just SAMPLE abilities. I would definitely have talents and abilities that mention Wrathion and other cool stuff.

[wanax]

One of the black dragon abilities needs to involve Shadow Flame. I’d include horns to the physical description.

[BB8]

I would NOT pass! Amazing!

[Teriz]

One of the black dragon abilities needs to involve Shadow Flame. I’d include horns to the physical description.

Shadowflame? From what I read, the Black Dragonflights have breath of molten lava. I didn't read anything about Shadowflame.

Perhaps corrupted Black Dragonflight? As a Chromatic Dragon, your character is simply mimicking the flight.

EDIT: I mentioned you in the OP. Thanks for the earlier thread that inspired me to do this one.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Shadowflame? From what I read, the Black Dragonflights have breath of molten lava. I didn't read anything about Shadowflame.

Perhaps corrupted Black Dragonflight? As a Chromatic Dragon, your character is simply mimicking the flight.

EDIT: I mentioned you in the OP. Thanks for the earlier thread that inspired me to do this one.

if its just mimicking the flights shouldn't the tanking spec be earth warden not world breaker?

[Teriz]

if its just mimicking the flights shouldn't the tanking spec be earth warden not world breaker?

Good point. I changed it.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Good point. I changed it.

+1 would dragon.

[seleri]

I appreciate the amount of work you put into these concepts but it's a hard pass for me. Like I said in the other thread, I'd rather playable dragon<thing> be a race instead of a class. Mostly because, like with this concept, at least one of the flights is bound to be left out. Unless Blizzard wants to go crazy and make a 5 spec class, which is probably never going to happen considering they made DHs only 2 specs and there was more than enough material to give them a 3rd ranged spec.

Some of the general abilities would make cool racials though.

if its just mimicking the flights shouldn't the tanking spec be earth warden not world breaker?

Also yeah, I'd also suggest changing world breaker to earth warden. I doubt "world breaker" is a thing the new(?) black dragonflight wants to be associated with. Edit: whoops, afked too long while replying and see you've changed it. Nevermind!

Another thing may be toning down the amount of rng in these tank abilities. Four out of the seven abilities have "has a chance" in there and people generally want some form of consistency in their abilities. It's why roll the bones was (and still is? idk I don't play my outlaw rogue seriously, just for fun) such a frustrating, controversial ability. Random chance for a tank spec would be even worse.

[Evaddon]

One thing, Worgen and Forsaken shouldn't be able to be a Dragonsworn :P

But I like this idea, any reason why you aren't going to make some talents to go along with your idea?

[Teriz]

I appreciate the amount of work you put into these concepts but it's a hard pass for me. Like I said in the other thread, I'd rather playable dragon<thing> be a race instead of a class. Mostly because, like with this concept, at least one of the flights is bound to be left out. Unless Blizzard wants to go crazy and make a 5 spec class, which is probably never going to happen considering they made DHs only 2 specs and there was more than enough material to give them a 3rd ranged spec.

Some of the general abilities would make cool racials though.



Also yeah, I'd also suggest changing world breaker to earth warden. I doubt "world breaker" is a thing the new(?) black dragonflight wants to be associated with. Edit: whoops, afked too long while replying and see you've changed it. Nevermind!

Another thing may be toning down the amount of rng in these tank abilities. Four out of the seven abilities have "has a chance" in there and people generally want some form of consistency in their abilities. It's why roll the bones was (and still is? idk I don't play my outlaw rogue seriously, just for fun) such a frustrating, controversial ability. Random chance for a tank spec would be even worse.

Thanks for your response. I've already changed the title of the spec and redid the abilities so there won't be so many "has a chance" abilities. Thanks for the input.

The reason I didn't include the Green Dragonflight is that they're VERY close to the Druid class, and kind of redundant with the Red Dragonflight. Also it kind of "helps" that Ysera is "dead".

I honestly would prefer a Dragonsworn class to a race. I think a class would do a better job of making you feel like a powerful dragon. As a race we'd have to be some reptile people or something.

[Frostyfire14]

I would pass.

I appreciate the OP's work, but same.

Pass.

[Teriz]

One thing, Worgen and Forsaken shouldn't be able to be a Dragonsworn :P

But I like this idea, any reason why you aren't going to make some talents to go along with your idea?

Time really. I have a lot of work in the next few weeks and I just can't dedicate it to devising talents. Maybe in the future, but not right now.

Thanks!

[Fred Skinner]

Undead dragon gnomes.

[wanax]

Shadowflame? From what I read, the Black Dragonflights have breath of molten lava. I didn't read anything about Shadowflame.

Perhaps corrupted Black Dragonflight? As a Chromatic Dragon, your character is simply mimicking the flight.

EDIT: I mentioned you in the OP. Thanks for the earlier thread that inspired me to do this one.

Thanks for the mention! I enjoy talking potentials for WoW.

Yeah, Shadow Flame was a signature ability of the Black Dragons in BWL that did a frontal cone of fire that did shadow damage and left a DoT that did big damage when it ran out. It would kill you if you didn’t have the Onyxia scale cloak(which protected you from the dot)

Obviously it couldn’t do that much as a player ability but it could still be “frontal cone dealing initial damage and infliciting a dot that ramped up as the timer went down.

[Teriz]

Thanks for the mention! I enjoy talking potentials for WoW.

Yeah, Shadow Flame was a signature ability of the Black Dragons in BWL that did a frontal cone of fire that did shadow damage and left a DoT that did big damage when it ran out. It would kill you if you didn’t have the Onyxia scale cloak(which protected you from the dot)

Obviously it couldn’t do that much as a player ability but it could still be “frontal cone dealing initial damage and infliciting a dot that ramped up as the timer went down.

Okay, I checked out the dragon flights, and yeah they breathe shadow flame. So I changed it. Also the Bronze Dragonflight breathes sand, so I changed that as well.

Thanks for the input! I'll keep the damage increase as the DoT winds down for a possible talent.

[wanax]

Okay, I checked out the dragon flights, and yeah they breathe shadow flame. So I changed it. Also the Bronze Dragonflight breathes sand, so I changed that as well.

Thanks for the input! I'll keep the damage increase as the DoT winds down for a possible talent.

You and I were on the same page there.

[AlmightyGerkin]

@Teriz job well done on this. Was neat to see the different abilities for each spec and how you took chromie's from HotS was funny. My only concern is if Blizzard did introduce this into WoW they would have a hard time. 4 specs for a class seems neat but blizzard has a hard time just trying to balance two specs.

[Voidwielder]

No, we don't need another ranged class. We don't need another class at all, ever again.

Balance the existing 36 specs properly, make them fun and exciting.

[Ielenia]

I think one idea that could be made is that the dragonsworn could use cloth armor, but all specs have a passive called "dragon scales/hide" or something like that that would grant them increased armor bonus according to their spec, like how the druid forms increase the druid's armor. The tank could have armor bonus equal to plate, melee to mail, ranged to leather (or mail as well), and healer spec with no bonus to armor.

[ohiostate124]

I like it a lot.