World of Warcraft Player Realizes Why Dracthyr Evokers Don't Have a Tanking Spec
World of Warcraft players may have just discovered why Dragonflight’s new Dracthyr Evoker race class combo doesn’t have a tanking specialization. This new revelation came due to some journal entries discovered in the World of Warcraft Public Test Realm for Dragonflight Patch 10.0.7.
Dracthyr Evokers introduced in Dragonflightare elite soldiers created by Neltharion to wield the powers of all five dragonflights in tandem. However, players couldn’t help but notice the absence of black dragonflight abilities in their specializations–the Devastation DPS spec focused on the red and blue dragon magic, while the Restoration healing spec uses green and bronze dragon magic. It seemed odd the Dracthyr did not have a black dragon-themed tanking specialization considering who made them.
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It now seems there is a lore reason for this absence. Several journal entries found in a recent build of World of Warcraft’s Patch 10.0.7 PTR reveal some interesting lore, including a potential name for Dragonflight’s Patch 10.1 zone. These books, written by a new black dragon scientist named Adamanthia, contain correspondence with Neltharion. In the entries, it is revealed Adamanthia had removed the black dragonflight essence from the Dracthyr, despite her concerns that doing so “may permanently cripple their abilities.”
This is likely the reasoning behind the dearth of earth-themed magic for the new Dragonflight class. Only four Dracthyr Evoker abilities have the black dragonflight tag, all of which involve crowd control or damage reduction. Additionally, only one of these techniques is natively given to the Dracthyr–the rest must be acquired in the Evoker Talent Trees in
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