World of Warcraft

Hero classes as Blizzard is presenting them is flawed. They should've just called it a class that doesn't have a level gap and left it at that.

But if they insist on calling these new classes heroic one simple rule would fix a lot of annoyances with the concept.

The new rule is that groups consist of five regular classes and 1 hero class. (maybe 2)

This rule means the following.
What traditionally was a 5 man dungeon is now a 6 man dungeon (where only one class is heroic)
What is 25 man raid is 30 man raid.
WSG, AB/EOTS and AV would have teams of 12, 18, and 48 respectively.

2 Man arena is replaced with 3 man with nothing but normal classes.
5 man arena remains.
New Arena with 4 man and 6 man arenas are created. (the fourth and sixth player being a heroic class)

What annoyances does it address:

The inability for hero classes to feel heroic. What made heros heroic in a warcraft sense was their rarity. The game doesn't have to retread this path but it is better than what Blizzard is offering already.

By restricting group sizes heros can be designed to be a lot more powerful. Sure this would affect world pvp but world pvp by the statements of the CMs was never meant to be fair. That's why they don't feel that raid/high warlord epics should be disallowed in world pvp.

The fear that there will be too many flavor of the month death knights. In the long run this wouldn't be a big deal so players should put up with the short term drama of death knights but with this idea you won't have to deal with those short term problems.

The one glaring problem with this idea.

The limit on heroic slots. Most people I would think would like the chance to use their heroic class in a group. This creates a very long waiting list to get you chance. But consider this, death knights are a tanking/dps class. In what alternate reality does Blizzard produce content that requires more than 2 main tanks? If you want to tank you still be waiting a long time. Secondly would dpsing as a deathknight seriously give you more satisfaction than dpsing as another of the many classes that can dps? That's questionable.

Anyone in favor of this idea?

Quote"What traditionally was a 5 man dungeon is now a 6 man dungeon (where only one class is heroic)
What is 25 man raid is 30 man raid.
WSG, AB/EOTS and AV would have teams of 12, 18, and 48 respectively.

2 Man arena is replaced with 3 man with nothing but normal classes.
5 man arena remains.
New Arena with 4 man and 6 man arenas are created. (the fourth and sixth player being a heroic class)"
It seems to be meaningful.

What's more, an good analysis of this field.