I'm legit confused how there isn't a proper playable bird race to begin with. Untapped feathery market to bring in some new degenerates not covered by the worgen and the vulpera, Blizzard.
Well it’s a Goblin-based class, so yeah it’ll be tied to Goblin stuff. Gnomes and Vulpera can easily use Goblin tech. You start dipping into magitech, you begin to erode the core concept of the class, which is once again Goblin-based.
It’s no different than Demon Hunters being Elven based, and thus restricted to Elves.
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If we get an avian race, they absolutely need a melee class that uses a bunch of flying charges. Also, pick up stuff and drop it on enemy heads from high elevation.
If you wish to stretch the meaning of what a “mech” is, sure. However, a class needs a certain level of consistency for balance purposes. Thus a Blood Elf inside an arcane golem or an Undead inside an abomination using Goblin/Gnome-based tech abilities doesn’t work and just looks silly.
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It could be underground with tinkers, Avaloren or whatever and make it related with Elune to add a Night Warrior class, a more elemental tied land and add blademasters...
It could be anything.
I have to disagree. Tinker clearly is a class that would be available to all races since day one.
Blizzard is going to make every class available to every race, probably even Evokers and DHs in due time.
Tinker for all would be an easy win and there is not a single reason that justifies it being limited to certain races. If any race can be Warlocks and eventually Druids, Shamans and Paladins, I fail to see why Blood Elves or Kul'tirans or whatever cannot learn to tinker with mechas and guns and lasers or whatever tech Tinkers have.
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TBF, it’s not my hyper specific take on the class. It’s how Blizzard has presented the concept, and comparing that concept to previous expansion classes.
Further, expanding a concept to all races doesn’t improve its chances of popularity. Look at Monks compared to Druids or Demon Hunters. By all accounts restricting the race options and upping the unique art assets among a limited pool of races seems to be the superior option for this class’ success.
Particularly if we rename the class concept to something else that doesn't imply a necessity for manually tinkering with the tech. Nothing stops, say, a kobold or a gnoll from using technology that was tinkered by someone else... Wait, I almost feel like I heard that concept before
Tinker could be ranged dps, tank, and support-dps
I want Tinker class sooo bad. Like come on Blizz, you had a Tinker in Island Expeditions gimme my Gnome Tinkerer.