Tobold's Blog Wednesday, February 14, 2007 Adding new classes to
World of Warcraft  One of the major points of criticism against
the Burning Crusade expansion for World of Warcraft was that it
didn't add any new classes to the game. I'm not sure that adding
new classes to World of Warcraft would be a good idea, because
I'm not sure what these new classes are supposed to do. People
asking for new classes never get much further than proposing the
name of the class, "monk", "bard", or "necromancer", without any
consideration what the function of such a class in the game
would be.  Of course it would be easy to design a monk or
necromancer class. A monk would be a melee fighter, low armor,
high damage, using a variety of asian-looking martial arts
special moves. He would use no weapons, or fist weapons, or
maybe a staff, and he would be wearing cloth armor. But if you
look at his *function* in a group, he would work very much like
a rogue. Adding a monk to the game would dilute the function of
the rogue class, an