World of Warcraft players have reported discovering potential new character classes inside a recent Battle.net launcher survey for World of Warcraft: Forever.
Multiple individuals playing the game shared accounts of receiving the survey prompt. It reportedly outlined several new class concepts ranging from familiar archetypes to entirely unprecedented roles like the Bard and Tinker.
Leaked Roster Details and Proposed Specializations
Because sharing screenshots of the survey was prohibited, players have relied on typed summaries and alleged extracted text descriptions to decode the proposed roster.
The leaked list includes both adaptations of retail classes and entirely new additions tailored for the classic-style ecosystem. Proposed specializations and armor types span a wide variety of combat styles:
- Demon Hunter San’layn: Plate armor, featuring vampire-themed mechanics.
- Warden: Tank and melee DPS, utilizing plate armor.
- Death Knight Necromancer: Cloth armor, focusing on shadow- and death-themed spells.
- Witch: Ranged caster DPS and support role utilizing cloth armor, complete with a health-cost blood golem and buffing cauldrons.
- Tinker: Tank, ranged DPS, and support class using mail armor, featuring mech construction, rocket attacks, and supply drops.
- Metalborn/Runesmith: Mail armor users who leverage runic power and temporary metal transformations.
- Bard: Support and healer role utilizing leather armor, relying on songs for party buffs and enemy debuffs.
- Illusionist: Ranged leather DPS utilizing mirror images and illusory summons.
- Monk: A familiar retail class integrated into the proposed survey lineup.
Trials for Dedicated Support Roles and Party Dynamics
A notable element of the reported survey is the inclusion of dedicated “support” roles. This classification is not really a role in WoW Classic or WoW: Forever.
While retail World of Warcraft experimented with support specializations through the Evoker, balancing group compositions around non-traditional support roles remains a complex challenge for developers.
Introducing multiple support specs through a project like World of Warcraft: Forever would provide a controlled environment to trial group dynamics and party composition changes.
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