"HMM, a post about a class, should be interesting..........so long as that Tirez guy doesnt try and make the whole thing about Tinker class....."
Page 2...........THERE IT IS! lol. just let people talk about other classes without desperately trying to make it all about your silly little Mechanic class.
- - - Updated - - -
Although this is something i would be interested in, and im not against the idea, it would require the entire game to be re balanced - and not minor changes.
Witches are warlocks.
- - - Updated - - -
And Dragoons are cooler.
I'm a bit disheartened to see a Witch class that has nothing to do with the already-established Sea Witch, which I think has much potential to be drawn from.
Basically a Naga culture themed Arcane-based Ranger/Spellcaster, rife with Enchanting/Charming type of abilities that are missing in WoW.
Spear user, mail wearing, melee-mid range with jumps from afar with the power of dragons.
We need to roll fire mages and destro locks to burn this witch! xD
Technically, witches are mix of druid (governs nature, usually without shapeshift, but sometimes also with, and it’s not only about flora, like trees and stuff, but also about fauna, like crows, wolves, cats, snakes, toads, worms, insects and more, so next part of it is), hunter (but animals are often bewitched and summoned, but not tamed, somehow demonic, which makes reference to), warlock (curses and demons, but used demons of a different nature, rather chthonic demons, which brings us to the next), shaman (also partly healing with nature, voodoo magic and controlling elements including revitalization of inanimate objects, only thing is that we're mostly talking about spirits of nature and golems here, but not about really dead creatures, which adds to the list also), mage (polymorph and other stuff, just manipulation magic is different) and necromancer (which, with diseases and raise non-living corpses, gives some reference to death knights, but of course we are talking about purely ritual actions and spells, which gives us opportunity to add following class to the list), priest (yes, basic magic will be certainly dark, there even was time in WoW when they used "ravens", but according to sources there are also white witches; also using mind tricks, levitation and other suitable abilities) - this last class, imo, is most of all referring to possible “pure” witches of Azeroth. In certain circumstances, even monks may be included in this listsykretts
What the.....
What follows from this?
Imo, concept that I mentioned (mix of dark ranger with witch/banshee), is the most stylistically possible of candidates to fit into lore of Azeroth without having to invade others... although they could pick up witches tools from all classes (mentioned above), but without taking away their abilities. As I already said before "warlocks didn't have to lose their demon form, this was purely devs decision".
Friend mentioned, that there're sorceresses (witches) in BDO that are mix of s.priest, warlock and monk, but such symbiosis doesn't look very adequate for Azeroth. Although druid (another forum character from the same company), periodically likes to laugh at first one (whose forum character is warlock) with refering to witch/Baba Yaga (largely referring here to "curses" term). Apparently terms have similar signs in slavic "mythology", I don't know anything about this in detail ... it's unlikely that "cat" is trying to compare "new models' problem" with “killing a puppy and stealing a car”, perhaps the only thing in common between these characters is nationality (but it became known much later than described events, therefore there is clearly no any connection, just funny coincidence; on the other hand, druid mentions "keep it gangsta" abbreviation during joke about origin of nickname, which speaks in favor of "not just coincidence")
- Addition -
It turned out that everything is even more interesting: this word (in russian version - from old) literally means “one that possesses (secret) knowledge”, “one that knows” - slavs didn't hunt witches, unlike the way it was in Europe, and often referred this to people, who simply had understanding/knowledge of something that others don't, but that didn't mean automatically bad (it turns out, that slavs didn't have institute of demonology, since they were originally pagans for a long time and believed that their world was full of spirits and that they needed to be able to live together in peace). Although all my guesses can also be counted in some way, since druid didn't have only one thing in mind, but all at once, even if as element of satire
Last edited by Alkizon; 2022-05-17 at 11:01 AM.
__---=== PM me WHERE if I'm unnecessarily "notifying" you ===---__
Seriously, it's my same problem with both the idea of a necromancer (as much as I personally want it) and this witch idea.
We have enough dark edgy classes. Two out of two hero classes we've gotten have been dark, brooding crap and then add onto that one existing normal class and a spec of another. I guess there's clearly a demand for it but I'm kinda sick of this theme by now.
Yes we get witches but they are only for multiboxers.
You always have to play three witches.
You always have to carry your book of shadows
and all your spellings are called Aaron.
Wtches are cool and all ... but since we need two new classes to come out for a new expansion, my vote for the second is: VAMPIRATES!
Had some ideas that would tie in with the Headless Horseman, since there's always a seasonal theme, but then...seasons seemed to be a theme, or better, several specs.
Whatever ideas, I don't think adding a new class would go over well now.
A witch's mount would be a broom. A "pet" would be a scarecrow....spells would be hexes...
*big shrug* Just playing here.
Make a Mage. Pick Female gender.
Congrats, you are now a witch.
Since BFA launched I like the idea of witches as a class skin of mages, Drust aesthetics are refreshing and I’d like see them in our hands, somehow.
Witch can mean a lot of different things there are a lot of different interpretation of a witch. Can you not post basic answer that can be shut down in less than 5 minutes.
- - - Updated - - -
Witch could be a corrupted druid spec that is playable.
- - - Updated - - -
Depends on the lore and interptation there a lot of different version of witches blizzard can extend the lore as they see fit.
Violence Jack Respects Women!