WoW-like Character ideas!

[Vorandril]

Roleplaying a class that follows the themes of the WoW classes is easy enough. But what about the mechanics and spell lists?

I've looked through the WoW D20 books and found them to be not particularly thrilling. Some of them do come off as being well thought out but now I want to expand on them further!

Instead of limiting it to just the vaguest classes, what about the specializations as well? I'm curious to see what you all in the playgrounds have to come up with and suggest for how to remake these using D&D 3.5/3e

Druid (http://www.wowwiki.com/Druid)- Restoration, Feral, Balance

Paladin (http://www.wowwiki.com/Paladin)- Protection, Retribution, Holy

Warlock (http://www.wowwiki.com/Warlock)- Destruction, Affliction, Demonology

Shaman (http://www.wowwiki.com/Shaman)- Elemental, Enhancement, Restoration

A few of these seem pretty easy to categorize. Feral Druid would be a Master of Many Forms. Restoration would the a druid with the ACF for fast healing. Protection Paladin would be a Crusader. Holy Paladin would be a Cleric with healing and protection domains probably.

Elemental Shaman would probably be a blast-happy druid.

What do you all think?

[AMFV]

Well it's certainly possible to model those type of things. The issue is that many of those things can be modeled more than one way. With the exception of tanking which doesn't exist in the same way in D&D, although Crusader can sort of tank.

[Vorandril]

A fair point. I don't think it would be mechanically possible or fair to try and recreate the mechanics of the classes as far as reconstructing dungeon group mechanics. To make a tank character you don't have to have a taunt, just perhaps have a large number of skills that make the character incredibly durable and let the player have to determine how to draw fire from their allies.

Maybe a better way to phrase it would be that we want the theme, not exact function?

[Klarth]

A resto druid is one with Innervate prepped in every spell slot (is there even an innervate spell in dnd?).

[Hurnn]

well there were WoW 3.5 rpg books you could check that out.

[Spore]

A resto druid is one with Innervate prepped in every spell slot (is there even an innervate spell in dnd?).

WoW has evolved from that point. Restoration would be heals over time for every level (stronger than Cure x but slower). They would use spells like Invigorate and protection spells like Barkskin, Tree Shape, Repel Wood and more.

Personally I think while using WoW CLASSES is fine, specialised class SPECS is a terrible idea. Your character is a shaman using totems, a druid using restoration, wildshaping and ranged spells or a Paladin using Lay on Hands, Bubbles and damaging touch spells. Specs do not make a lick of sense in an P&P environment where characters are not in raids ranging from 10 to 25 or 40 people but you're in a group of 1-5 people.

[Vorandril]

As I said, I'm trying to stay more to the theme than the actual application.

Kind of in the same way that prestige classes are a specialized class that expands on a core class.

As for the WoW books, I looked through those and they work, but I was just trying to set this up as a little brain exercise. Eh, forget it for now. I'll come up with a better description of the idea later and come back to it I suppose.

Because I'm not trying to recreate the wow classes/specs. Just get an idea of what follows the same concepts.

Either way, I'll worry about it later.

[Spore]

If you find a way to really make a shadow priest work in PF I would be quite happy (cloth using ranged negative energy user).

[Silva Stormrage]

Shaman: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?187533-3-5-Base-Class-The-Shaman-PEAR!
Death Knight: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?186986-3-5-Base-Class-The-Death-Knight-PEAR!
Paladin: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?187214-3-5-Base-Class-The-Warcraft-Paladin-PEAR!
Rogue: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?187931-3-5-Base-Class-The-Warcraft-Rogue-PEAR!

They are all fairly low floor classes and can be really devastating in a low op group but otherwise I like these homebrew a lot.

[laucianx7x]

i had made this for shamasn. you cant send me some feedback about wath you think

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?372545-Elemental-shaman-class