WoW may get extra assist courses, however provided that you ask


As a healer fundamental in World of Warcraft, I’ve been in search of a brand new support-style character for a while – it’s no secret Holy Priest isn’t the MMORPG‘s premier class proper now. With the brand new Augmentation Evoker dropping with WoW Dragonflight 10.1.5, it appears to be like like Blizzard is open to releasing extra assist specs – however provided that we’re .

Chatting to Wowhead about all issues 10.1.5, WoW recreation director Ion Hazzikostas reveals that there could also be extra assist courses added to the sport’s ever-expanding pool, but it surely’s dependent upon the reception to the Augmentation Evoker.

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“Who is aware of what the long run holds by way of completely new courses or something like that,” he states, occurring to make clear, “it’s unlikely that we might change present specs to have this performance.

“Even when traditionally, Enhancement Shaman could have signed up 15 years in the past for this kind of gameplay, for those who’re taking part in that spec at this time or lately, you’re taking part in it since you like Shaman, you want taking part in melee DPS, you want doing massive numbers as melee DPS.” As somebody who has dabbled on this planet of Enhancement Shaman, I can affirm massive DPS numbers are very, very good.

He goes on to spotlight that the workforce “wouldn’t need to change that out from underneath folks, however we’re excited to discover new forms of interactions and cooperation between gamers and as we predict to new editions of the sport going ahead. If that is profitable and gamers are telling us they need there have been extra flavors of it, like they need they may very well be a melee model of this as a substitute of simply ranged, that’s one thing that we might look to discover a house for.”

A Draenei man sitting on a carpet being healed by a chanting woman who is summoning light in her hands

The Augmentation Evoker is a mixture of straight harm and assist, offering buffs to its close by allies. In contrast to my good ol’ Holy Priest, it’s fairly an fascinating combine, and I’m intrigued to see the way it works in-game – I do have a Dracthyr, so possibly I’ll take it for a spin. Both method, extra assist characters is a win for me; Ion, I would like extra of them!

Till then, my eyes are on our WoW Dragonflight tier listing in order that I can decide the very best specs, in addition to our rundown of all the very best WoW addons, which is the proper refresher for those who’ve taken a break.