production

step by step

introduction

This personal project is an exercice where I need to create a Content for a Game before or after DLC and Addons.

For this exercice I choose to create a new class in World of Warcraft before the release of the first extension. So during World of Warcraft "Vanilla".

Please, say welcome to... the "Mekamancer"

STEP 1 :

Find Statistics

In a MMORPG, when you create a Content a big part of the job is on the balance of all the stats. And this fact give to me a big exercice of research on data of World of Warcraft "Vanilla".

After few moments, I finally find a website who reference all the stats of Races and Classes of World of Warcraft Vanilla.

At this point I see each races has no same stats for classes, and some races can't use some classes.

But all races has a minimum in each stats and same for each classes.

Now I have to find a good combination between the class I want to create and a race.

Here some stats I find during my research. You can click on the picture to see all

STEP 2 :

What i want to create ?

What I want ? What the game needs ? What can be new and unwaited for the players ?

Some questions I need to ask to myself for find what I can create.

Finally, my love for Gnomes answer to my questions.

I want to play with robots, with technologie like the Chief Gelbin Mekanivelle. So I want to create a class who plays with technology and can invoc some robots for help himself.

This class can be range class but why not use technology for create magical attack ?

The weapon of this class can be a rocket/laser cannon similar to rocket launcher of real life.

Now, I know I want to create the Mekamancer

STEP 3 :

create the mekamancer

Now that I have the concept, I need to create the class. So for now I just want to create the stats of the class at level 1 and three basics spells.

I know I want to reserve this class to the Gnome and with the research I do I know the minimum and the maximum of gnomes and I see the stats of all classes and races combinations. So I have to do a work on the balance.

And after few moments... this is the result :

The last step of this work, the creation of the three basics spells. So with this class I want to create a medium ranged class with heavy armor who can do physical and magical damage and use technologie. And the bonus, I want to create a new kind of invocations in World of Warcraft.

With this reflexion the three spells I create are these ones :

Rocket Blast : Shoot a rocket who deal 8 damages (15m)
Electric Blast : Create an electric explosions around the character and stun all enemies in explosion for 2s (5m)
Protection Robot : Create a Robot who stay for 30s and take 10% of damages taken by the character (2s for cast)

That's all for this project ! I hope you enjoy it and you want to see this class one day in World of
Warcraft !

Here a quick document I create during the work on the class for a quick presentation.

GAME DESIGNER / SYSTEM DESIGNER