So... is there anything left that didn't originate as a robot, dragons & gods included?
So here is an idea.
What if we got a class that is also a race? Wrathion helps a batch of Chromatic whelps hatch, a leftover experiment by Nefarian. You can play a whelp, shift between multiple forms (your chosen humanoid form, an HD whelp or small drake form and a hybrid combat form like the one Hearthstone Mercenaries created for Wrathion). You can also tap into your Chromatic heritage to shift between colors and tap into different powers. Your race is also your class, you have a combination of powers tied to the dragonflights with physical dragon powers though most powers depend on your active color (think stance dancing). SO you could have some powers that are very specific to your active flight while others are always active and some just are modified (so you can only use time abilities when Bronze, wing buffet with every spec, while breath is available to all but has a different damage type and secondary effect).
Multiple specs (could have as many as four tbh to cover all roles).
Trust me it got the same reaction in FF. And a lot of people are still salty it isn't a regular class. But many others enjoy the sheer riddiculousness of it all and hope that many other "limited jobs" will be released. Not everything is for everyone, but everything is for someone.
Frankly I think there's enough races/classes as it is. Adding a new class is such a huge time sink, I'd prefer for them to focus on the plot quality, mechanics, and revamping the orld world.
In WoW? Definitely. In the WoW community? I have my doubts. Every time something remotely innovative is suggested they end up wailing "nooooo my basic ass gameplay from almost twenty years agooooo"
Yeah, what he said.
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Good point. The challenge is to translate it into WoW gameplay someway.
Blizzard needs to tread carefully when innovating, but I think they need to return to the basics right now more than anything. MoP or Legion is obviously a good model, I'm not sure what's been happening or why they feel the need to tinker (pun intended) with the models that work so well.
Touching a bit on the possible late release in the summer of 2023, I think people need to understand that WoW will be on rock bottom by the end of 2022, so there's no need to rush, what Blizzard truly needs is an expansion that's good enough to bring in both former and new players.
Having confirmation of a more grounded theme is good, but we also need good gameplay and lore. I dearly hope Blizzard tries a "Legion comeback", otherwise, I think not even Microsoft's money will be able to resurrect this franchise without releasing a brand new game.
8.0 (and Jaina's storyline in particular) were the highlights of BFA for me, even if I detest the HvA stuff. Then it went off the rails. If they'd just ... stuck to that theme and foreshadowed the old gods and gave them their own damn expansion....I think it would have gone better, at least for me. But Azshara got the short end of the stick. An expack focused on her could have been a good breather expansion while also raising stakes.
They just sabotage themselves deliberately.
Artifact weapons could have been a thing that we keep forever as a horizontal progression system. It would have been easy to do that. Yet they chose to trash the entire system. Same can be said about Azerite. Covenants not so much, but the idea is the same. With their half-hearted approach of borrowed power they just make their own life as dev miserable, without any need to. But they're so stuck in their approach, I doubt they're going to change it.
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I think it's inevitable, which maybe makes me partially put some faith in the microclass leak, because adding several new classes in one expansion seems like something they would do to try to bring back many players. All I really want is a brand new class with Legion/Mop gameplay and the dragon isles as the continent and I will be satisfied.
I mean, the last two expansions could've been even worse if they had to invest their resources into a new class.
It was a good effort for sure. They knew that just a logo alone isn't enough to fool people these days so they tried to do something bigger. I can respect that.
It could be. I've boosted up the saturation here only very slightly and as you can see, there is a fair amount of green on the logo (especially on the right side).
However, if you boost it up even higher (brace your eyes for this one), you do start to see a bit of green in the gray border around the artwork as well.
So I guess it's inconclusive for now? But personally I think it's going to be green.
End of 2022? I think we will already reach this point in 2-3 months when 9.2 feels old (9.2.5 won't change anything in that regard). A release one year from now on feels SUPER LATE already. It's not really about rushing anyway, what the heck were they doing the last year(s) if they are so late although they cut Shadowlands content by a considerable margin?
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