Dagran's still got an ongoing story with both the Earthen and Titan technology, thanks to all of his questlines with Brinthe. And that makes him the perfect 'main character' to market for that kind of Tinker class in TLT, at which point we'll be long overdue for a new one.
I still hope at least *some* of Tinker's visuals and story is gnome/goblin based (especially after all of Brann's 11.2 abilities, and their ties to Mimiron). But I'll still be more than content to finally see Tinkers playable in a relevant way through Dagran and the Titanforged.
I kind of hope they separate the flavors of tinker into the different specs. Goblins would pretty easily slot into DPS, Gnomish could be healing and Titan stuff could probably make for a pretty good tanking aesthetic.
But honestly, I'd be pretty fine with with a mixture as long as the BIG stuff like any possible tanking mech suit spec had plentiful skin options for that RP flavor choice. That's the big one for me. I really don't want to be FORCED into any specific style, like what Hunters got. Elf or Rexxar. 🤷
I’d want it to be like Druids/Shamans where there’s multiple aesthetics for all specs! Maybe race locked by default but can be unlocked through some class quests as well.
That would be ideal. They did implement the Druid and Warlock customization stuff into the barber shop, so letting Tinkers use that to choose appearances for big stuff is the MINIMUM. Of course I'm much more for the Goblin/Gnome tech stuff, but we'll see what they do when they eventually get to it.