You are passing a falsehood for fact. The classes were ruined with Legion. They had no new class in BfA and did almost nothing to fix them.
New class and supporting existing classes is not dependant from each other. They broke the classes in Legion cause they wanted to. No one asked them to do it. Heck if i'm gonna pass on my new class to make up for their self inflicted maladies.
Besides, there is no garantee that even if they did what you propose that the classes would indeed be fixed. So, stop spreading fallacies. New class has nothing to do with existing ones and is one of the most exciting features xpacs can bring.
Classes weren't all broken. Change of style isn't breaking it, and some were still decent. Others were turned into builder spenders and BfA made it worse across the board.
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@det the 90% was refering to the wow classic, not retail one, else good luck trying to main a prot pally or even a ret pally there.
I can only see them introducing new races to the game as allied races system. Which free up the art, etc from not doing a full blown starting area. Something has to sell Expansion boxes or units. Vulpera and Mechgnomes would be not something that would sell that many units, probably why they are in 8.3 and you dont have to buy the next expansion to access them. Unlike Void Elves and Lightforge at 7.3 and BfA purchased. Even though BfA moved a lot of units, it is still lack luster overall. Not introducing a new class or a 4th spec(Which i hate that idea) this next expansion will cause things to be stale. New thing to grind out isnt going to sell units, the story is not going to sell units.
Personally I hope a new class is announce and not be melee.
Roll class/spec design back to Legion and it's perfect. Had fun on all classes, had 2 max level of 3 of them, never had that amount of characters at max level before, it was awesome. Miss Marksman from Legion a lot, what they did to it in this expansion was horrible. First expansion I don't play MM since vanilla? BfA.
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The last few classes have been melee, so a Ranged class would be better. Yes, I consider healing monk a melee class...
OP how can you even say a new class shouldn't be a priority?Then who will give me a dark ranger and a necromancer?
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They should overhaul classes to have more emphasis on the CLASS once again, and less on the SPEC. For multiple expansions now, they've removed and locked so many spells behind certain specs, away from the class itself, that it truly sucks. Where was the balance fine the last time? That's difficult one, and off the top of my head I can give an exact expansion, but I had no issues with it before Wod. So, I suppose between Wotlk and end of MoP is where the golden road of balance was.
tanks were the best dps because of a mechanic (vengeance), not because of class design.
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its also much less likely. adding 12 specs to the game is not going to happen.