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Coleslaw

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Yeah, we get a new class every other expansion, and it's always busted as fuck. Gotta move them units.

Unfortunately for Blizzard, they fucked up with MOP and their busted new class was weird and confusing and started at level 1, so nobody played it.

True. I didn't play a monk until Legion. I played a Brewmaster specializing in Way of the MGD. I miss exploding keg :(
 

xzi

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Where is this Tinker discussion coming from?

It's been a popular theory for this entire expansion, I personally don't think it'll happen but who knows with blizzard.

The reason it's so widely accepted as a theory is because the huge influx of mecha shit (particularily mechagon), but more importantly: the goblin and gnome teams or whatever they're called on the Island expeditions (they're the same ai) share abilities, some significant ones such as throwing out medicbots, tanking in basically a dva mech, and dpsing with turrets and bombs. They're the only team on the island expeditions that aren't real classes, everything else is clearly like a shaman, a paladin, etc etc etc.

So peoples reasoning for believing a tinkerer would be a thing isn't that far fetched since blizzard built entire new classes specifically for their new AI tech, and we've yet to see those classes while every other class is very clearly represented in islands. (except demon hunter I think? I can't remember)
 

a_skeleton_05

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So that Bolvar Lich King image has pretty much been confirmed at this point. I fully expected them to hold off on the WOTLK Redux for after the next expansion. Who knows, maybe Bolvar will be a good guy and we have to help him stave off Sylvannas, who will be the end boss and something will happen which will bring the void shit out in full force.
 

Kaige

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Tinker sounds like a half-baked idea considering they can barely give Engineering any of the love it needs.
 
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xzi

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that too. There's an insane amount of robots in the game (and warcraft 3) that have several abilities that we still haven't seen yet.

Also I love engineering but all the best parts about it are from like 5 expansions ago
 
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a_skeleton_05

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Not just robots. There are a ton of mechs, cyborgs, and there are many "tinkers" including the gnome leader. Theres a better foundation for the class than the nonsense retcon that validated demon hunters as one.
 

Qhue

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I could see a Tinker class being fun, especially if they limited it to Gnomes, Goblins and maybe Vulpera. It seems at odds with a death-themed expansion however.
 

Chris

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Since the Helm of Domination has turned blue again, I'm assuming that Ner'zhul has regained control which has turned the Scourge hostile once more.

Bolvar's daughter is a big part of the Kul'Tiras campaign for Alliance, so I'm guessing that she's going to play some part in turning him good again.

There's no more continents left or islands to turn into continents, so it's pretty much going to have to be revamps from this point onwards. Northrend is currently the oldest peice of content to not have a revamp.
 

Daidraco

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Theyve been hinting at the "other side of the world" for expansions now. Much less do they really care about following any kind of lore. If they want a new land mass, they'll make it out of nothing and spend 30 seconds on a reason for it.
 

xzi

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I can't confirm my sources but have a screenshot taken directly from the 9.0 client

everquest-next.jpg
 
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Daidraco

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The game that the EQ:Next team told us about? Thats the game I'd like to play right now. Fully implemented Voxels, EverQuest background, Storybricks in full motion. etc.
 
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xzi

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The game that the EQ:Next team told us about? Thats the game I'd like to play right now. Fully implemented Voxels, EverQuest background, Storybricks in full motion. etc.

SAME.

I even uploaded their entire first look presentation to my youtube channel, I was so excited for it. I even gave them 100$ just to get ripped off because I missed the 1 week they were doing refunds that they were very quiet about.

EQ:N taught me a valuable lesson in never supporting any product unless that product is already out.
 
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kaid

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The game that the EQ:Next team told us about? Thats the game I'd like to play right now. Fully implemented Voxels, EverQuest background, Storybricks in full motion. etc.

I actually enjoyed landmark when they put the cave stuff in. Even though it was not really well fleshed out it was really neat just burrowing through the guts of the earth and navigating these crazy cave systems looking for stuff. I think we are a generation or two away from computers that could actually manage that in a full blown MMO at good graphic levels. You see them do it in the trion game but the graphic and voxel definition is really low.