Arcane Warrior/Battle Mage

[archandel90]

i completely agree with arcane warrior, just tried some fun pve questing like it on my nightborne arcane mage with sword and book in hands, melee autoattacking castin arcane explosion to stack arcane charges and than blast target with arcane barage at full charges, when clearcast proc i fire arcane missiles for survivability i use prismatic barrier and nightborne racial ... in instance i play usual way as a mage tho but it is funny trying play as arcane warrior .. at least there could be talent revamp to have a choice if youll be a caster or arcane warrior.. i mean add some close range spells and weapon enhancements similar to shamies but not elemental only from pure magic energy

[D3athsting]

Considering that only 1% of hunters play surv (despite being somewhat competitive) i wouldn't consider adding a melee spec to mage a great choice

[Trumpcat]

A battlemage melee/tank spec is my dream, there are so many sources of inspiration how Arcane can be that, but we don't need to look far - Suramar is practically full of them. Including the dual blade weapons to add a unique element similar to how glaives became the DH signature.

I love the idea of magic being used to withstand damage instead of wearing heavy armor and also be incorporated into an elegant fighting style Jedi/Sith like. Again petty much like the NPC in Suramar and Spellblade Auriel in Nighthold.

[Amsden]

Every post vanilla class they've added to the game have had melee DPS specs, they don't need to be changing ranged specs into more melee specs. If anything we need new rdps since it's the most played role.

[bloodwulf]

I hope Blizzard never changes a range into melee again. Survival was ruined for my wife and a lot of our guildies. The game does not need more melee in any real form at all. Blizzard whiffed hard on the Survival rework and that is obviously with the genuine lack of players of the spec and the mechanical issues of it. Don't gut another.

[archandel90]

new survival is great if you know how to use it i like it more than that useless ranged survival

[Binaris]

You have 9 classes capable of melee dps.
You have 6 classes capable of ranged dps.

If anything. We could welcome a ranged rogue spec around chucking knives or a ranged unholy dk focusing on all pets and managing an army of minions. But more melee dps is not needed. If they went this route it would need to be bad enough that it couldn't raid and only pvp as the balance is way off as is.

[Haidaes]

Every post vanilla class they've added to the game have had melee DPS specs, they don't need to be changing ranged specs into more melee specs. If anything we need new [b]rdps since it's the most played role[b].

Is it really? From my experience it's the most sought after role, but usually you get drowned in melee applications. At least in raiding.

That aside, still not a fan of chaning Arcane for that as Arcane is also fine right now, other than tuning and a bit of lacking mobility (compared to fire). The gameplay is certainly not much worse than fire.

[D3athsting]

Is it really? From my experience it's the most sought after role, but usually you get drowned in melee applications. At least in raiding.

That aside, still not a fan of chaning Arcane for that as Arcane is also fine right now, other than tuning and a bit of lacking mobility (compared to fire). The gameplay is certainly not much worse than fire.

Arcane missiles and evocation castable while moving baseline would greatly help arcane to be competitive

[mrgreenthump]

Arcane missiles and evocation castable while moving baseline would greatly help arcane to be competitive

I'd go with Arcane missiles being castable while moving when clearcasting and then change the talent for them to be always castable while moving.

[Haidaes]

I'd go with Arcane missiles being castable while moving when clearcasting and then change the talent for them to be always castable while moving.

Hmm, at first I thought then it would still be barely picked. But it might actually be a good filler during movement. Nowhere near as good as scorch execute but probably still okay.