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Come August 9th World of Warcraft players will be treated to the first new Hero Class in years. We had the chance to go through a making of retrospective for the class with the Blizzard team. The guys dug deep to talk about the feel of the class and how it operates among the rest that everyone has played for over a decade now.
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As someone who plays a healer almost exclusively - I wish that they would have provided more for everyone else who you know, might not enjoy being melee.
Where the healer / ranged dps / caster classes at Blizzard?!
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I guess i should have been more specific - all of the Hero classes we have received have been tank/melee dps. With this addition, it really tips the melee DPS percentile into the " heavy " category.
I was hoping that they would have made a Tank/Healer Hero, something without a DPS spec .. to give the people who main Healer/Tank something completely new and polished to try.
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When I found out they only had 2 specs, I was ok with it, but I wondered why. 12 gagillionh isn't enough to support 3 specs with a new class?
It just seems underdeveloped for no reason. Even if both specs are great, why not 1 more great spec to remain in line with tradition?
That would really be interesting. I think one way that this could be achieved is through disc priest - lower healing output, but bigger DPS than any other healer. Some kind of hybrid support class, basically. So you'd have that healing spec, that support spec and that tanking spec.
My final verdict is I will NOT be coming back and this was the final nail in the coffin I needed to never look at another WoW thing again. I will say that Blizzard has perfected the delivery of storyline content more than any other game in my opinion. The first half hour of August 30th your heart will be racing at 100 mph. Something is still missing though. I cannot really explain it except to say that the game has worn itself out completely. The gameplay even with the changes is just not there. Tab targeting and a hotbar are just outdated remnants of the past. The stylized graphics are still in my opinion an excuse and really should be done away with.
I think at the end of the day its just that this was too little too late. This is the first time for me where I will not be purchasing an expansion and from here on out I am finally able to really put this game to rest in the ground.
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If the rationale is absorbing and using fel energy, then Warlocks and Blood Elves both should have already been affected in such a manner, which leaves it a little odd.
Little confused too on the subject of Illidan being in servitude to Kil'Jaeden last I knew. Guess Kil'Jaeden ditched him when he messed up at the throne?
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Yes, only Night Elves and Blood Elves can be Demon Hunters at this point.
Illidan is a special case, receiving his power directly from Sargeras during the War of the Ancients. The rest of the Illidari, trained by him, didn't have such an opportunity and got their powers by directly consuming demons - in more ways than one. From lore point of view, they're all tainted with fel. Game mechanics-wise, however, you can make your DH horn-less and tattoo-less if you so desire. If you wish to learn more about Illidan, his dances around KJ, Illidari and so on I advise on reading "Illidan" by Willian King
That doesn't really explain the point though that the demon hunters are far from the only ones consuming or channeling fel-energy, as from a lore standpoint the warlocks and Blood Elves in general can be noted for utilizing it as well. It's similarly the reason or the physique changes of the orcs from their original less-beefy and alternate skin tone forms.
On the aside, Illidan hadn't physically changed to be so demonic up until the events of WC3 when he took the skull of Gul'dan. What he inherited from Sargeras was not specifically a fel power or magic, but the vision to see all types of magic energy and the arcane tattoos that let him channel said energy. Unless you're talking about a big retcon, I'm not sure what special case you are quite referring to.
Though that does bring up the subsequent question of how other trained demon hunters would obtain such vision or tattoos.
"The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners." - Thomas B. Macaulay
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel J. Boorstin
"The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners." - Thomas B. Macaulay
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel J. Boorstin
So, I'm not sure where you are getting this "heavy" imbalance from.
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