World of Warcraft Teases New Specializations For Most Classes

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Recently, Blizzard shared a survey for World of Warcraft that explored potential new character specializations, like a tanking Shaman, a healing Mage, and a support-focused Paladin. This doesn’t guarantee these changes will happen, but it shows Blizzard is thinking about adding new ways to play, inspired by the positive response to the Devourer Demon Hunter.

It’s nearly midnight in the world of Azeroth, and a new chapter in World of Warcraft is almost here! While the full expansion launches on March 2nd, players can get a head start on January 20th with the World of Warcraft: Midnight pre-expansion update. This update introduces key features, including the exciting new Devourer Demon Hunter – a ranged damage-dealing version of the beloved class.

WoW Survey Introduces Several New Specialization Ideas

Someone sent me this image from the class survey that is currently on the Battlenet launcher, it looks like Blizzard is now testing the waters for more new specializations to existing classes like Devourer. — Portergauge (@portergauge.bsky.social) 2026-01-15T21:06:17.174Z

It looks like Blizzard is considering adding even more specializations to World of Warcraft. A WoW player shared a screenshot of a Blizzard survey on Bluesky, showing potential new specs for many of the game’s classes. Other fans have confirmed receiving the same survey, which included these ten possible new specializations:

  • Healer Hunter: Utilizing a melee and ranged arsenal, team up with your pet to disperse bandages, medicines, and tinctures to those in need. Administer first aid to your team as you dart and weave along the battlefield, with your pet complimenting each heal with its own.
  • Support Priest: Bless allies with inner fire, increasing their effectiveness in battle. Smite enemies with bolts of light to build up divine power, eventually performing holy words which can burn enemies to ash.
  • Ranged DPS Monk: Overload your inner spirit, manifesting your Chi as crackling lightning bolts and sharp projectiles. Bend the flow of the target’s own spirit — disrupting and unraveling them from within while maintaining their own perfect spiritual balance.
  • Tank Shaman: Master the element of Earth. Raise boulders as physical shields or to shatter against your enemies, manipulate terrain to hinder and disable enemies, and harness the earth’s deep, latent energies to fortify and empower yourself.
  • Tank Rogue: Deft duelists who use their precision for protection, deflecting blows with parries and quick dodges. They utilize poisons to weaken their foes and tinctures mid-battle to restore their health.
  • Ranged DPS Priest (Holy): A radiant caster that scorches foes with searing smites and consecrating flames. Ascend into an angelic form, channeling pure, unbroken beams of celestial radiance that pierce through ranks of enemies.
  • Support Paladin: Perform holy rites and channel the Light to bestow potent blessings on allies, consecrate their armor for resilience and their weaponry to strike with precision and power, and bolster their spirits to amplify inner strengths.
  • Tank Warlock: Channeling Fel energies through maces and rune shields, these Warlocks ward themselves and their allies from damage. They command a host of demons, siphoning their essence for vitality, binding their souls to share incoming damage, or unleashing them in waves to overwhelm their enemies.
  • Ranged DPS Death Knight: Unleash the powers of a lich, wielding necrotic and frost magic to torment the souls of your enemies. Conjure corrupting phantasms, grasping hands, and chains of ice to assail your foes, while avoiding death yourself within your phylactery.
  • Healer Mage: Use your Arcane Magic to alter the reality of time to cure the wounds of your allies. Preemptively react to enemy combat by shielding and buffing allies with potent elemental magic.

In World of Warcraft Classic‘s Season of Discovery, a new system called Rune Engravings allowed classes like Shamans, Rogues, and Warlocks to fulfill tank roles, and Mages to heal – mirroring the possibilities explored in the survey.

With the release of Dragonflight, World of Warcraft introduced a new way to play the Evoker class called Augmentation, which focuses on supporting other players. While it had some issues, Augmentation Evoker was a welcome addition, especially since it launched alongside the new class. Now, the upcoming WoW: Midnight expansion will add the Devourer Demon Hunter, almost a decade after the Demon Hunter class was first introduced. This late-game addition is particularly significant, and considering the buzz it’s already generating, it’s not surprising that Blizzard is thinking about adding even more new options to World of Warcraft in the future.

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This could be a major update for World of Warcraft. Adding an entirely new class is a significant undertaking, much more complex than simply creating new specializations. The game is already set up to handle new specs – it’s done so twice before – and the class interface, thanks to the Druid, can comfortably support up to four specializations. This also opens the door for World of Warcraft to give popular classes fresh ways to play and even take on new roles, which would be particularly beneficial for classes currently limited to dealing damage, like the Hunter, Mage, Rogue, or Warlock.

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Okay, so while I’d love to see more specializations for every class in World of Warcraft, I get that it’s not super simple. Adding a fourth spec to each class might mean we don’t get any entirely new classes for a really long time. Plus, they’d also need to design a whole new set of Hero Talents for each class, since those currently cover two specs – that’s a lot of extra work! And honestly, it would probably mean Druids get left out in the cold for ages, since they already have four specs and all their Hero Talents are covered.

When Could World of Warcraft Add New Classes or Specializations?

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Just to be clear, this doesn’t mean new character specializations are definitely coming to World of Warcraft, or that any of these specific ideas will be implemented. The survey simply shows that Blizzard is exploring the possibility. Because it’s just a survey, nothing is likely to be in development yet, and even if it were, it probably wouldn’t appear in the game until after World of Warcraft: The Last Titan and the Worldsoul Saga, given how long development takes.

There’s a chance players could get a new class in the upcoming The Last Titan expansion. Past surveys suggested ideas like the Bard and Tinker, and while Blizzard hasn’t officially announced anything, a new class seems possible. If one is added, and then expanded with several specializations, it might be the last new class for quite a while.

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