Blizzard has confirmed that it is open to adding more support classes to World of Warcraft if the Augmentation Evoker gets a warm welcome from players when it launches later this July.
The Evoker class’ third specialisation is set to become available once patch 10.1.5 releases. It allows players to specialise as damage dealers, but also gives the role a twist focused on buffing allies rather than purely blasting opponents with potent, colorful magic.
When asked by Wowhead whether more support-style classes or specialisations could be added to World of Warcraft further down the line, Game Director Ion Hazzikostas answered with the following:
“Possibly. Who knows what the future holds in terms of entirely new classes or anything like that.”
Although the developer is willing to tap more into this different playstyle flavor, should it prove appealing to fans, Hazzikostas noted that it is “unlikely that we would change existing specs to have this functionality.
“Even if historically, Enhancement Shaman may have signed up 15 years ago for this type of gameplay, if you’re playing that spec today or in recent years, you’re playing it because you like Shaman, you like playing melee DPS, you like doing big numbers as melee DPS.
“We wouldn’t want to change that out from under people, but we’re excited to explore new types of interactions and cooperation between players and as we think to new editions of the game going forward, if this is successful and players are telling us, they wish there were more flavors of it, like they wish they could be a melee version of this instead of just ranged, that’s something that we would look to find a home for.”
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight has seen the MMORPG getting back on track after a string of divisive expansions.
The introduction of Dragonriding as a new means of traversal, the return of talent trees, and now the Augmentation Evoker specialisation all complement the now-expected additions of new zones, dungeons, and raids.
This is all backed up by a consistent content cadence, which noticeably contrasts Shadowlands’ disappointing post-launch support.
As much as it could take years before we get to play as a new WoW support class, both the prospect of a consistently revitalised MMORPG and Blizzard listening to fan feedback paint a somewhat more hopeful picture for the game’s future.
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