Season of Discovery (SoD) Class Roles

Season of Discovery’s announcement at Blizzcon introduces a wide array of new playstyles available. These are enabled by a series of new abilities available to each class using a new system similar to enchants/glyphs (but applied to items) called rune engravings. You can see all available runes in our Season of Discovery Talent Calculator.

We’ve made a table below of available class and role combinations that players can choose.

Class	Tank	Healer	DPS (Melee)	DPS (Ranged)
Druid	✓	✓	✓	✓
Hunter			✓	✓
Mage		✓		✓
Paladin	✓	✓	✓
Priest		✓		✓
Rogue	✓		✓
Shaman	✓	✓	✓	✓
Warlock	✓			✓
Warrior	✓		✓

New Roles

New roles available for players in SoD.

• Mage – Addition of a Healer role thanks to Mage Rune Engravings
• Rogue – Addition of a Tank role thanks to Rogue Rune Engravings
• Shaman – Addition of a Tank role thanks to Shaman Rune Engravings
• Warlock – Addition of a Tank role thanks to Warlock Rune Engravings

Enhanced Roles

These are roles that technically existed however were minimally viable before the announced new class abilities from rune engravings.

• Druid – Improved Melee DPS role thanks to Druid Rune Engravings
• Hunter – Improved Melee DPS role thanks to Hunter Rune Engravings
• Paladin – Improved Tank role thanks to Paladin Rune Engravings
• Priest – Improved Ranged DPS role thanks to Priest Rune Engravings