Handy in Raids and Dungeons when 30 slot bags start filling up from farming. Jeeves - who gives me access to my bank and handles vending and repairs. If they do, it will be with an x-pac that matches the theme- like the dk, monk and dh.You obviously don't play an ENG like I do on all 4 of my Gnomes. I don't think they will add tinkerers anytime soon. I said to remove the engineering prof because it is struggling as a prof already- if tinkerers are added, it will just be redundant. Just because Blizzard hasn't outright named the classes of these NPCs (which is common) doesn't mean they are something completely different. They're literally under your nose, left waiting to be given a formal welcome as what we already know they are. Once the Tinker is announced and some backstory is given to both sides, we'll simply look back at characters like Thermaplugg and Blackfuse and say 'Oh right, they were there all along!'. Honestly, what do you even think Sicco Thermaplugg's class is? I'll give you a hint - the area you fight him in is called the Tinker's Court. The only thing that is missing is their formal introduction to the game otherwise they are absolutely canon to the universe as Firelords or Pandaren. They exist in the world and have existed since Warcraft 3. Honestly, they're in the same boat as any Demon Hunter or Death Knight before they were introduced as a class.

The only difference is the archetype is not yet a playable class.

It doesn't stop it from becoming canon later.They are literally represented by any Goblin/Gnome engineer NPC we have. I'm just saying it's not canon right now. I'm not saying that just because the tinker didn't appear in the official campaigns of WoW and so is not canon, it doesn't mean he can never be made canon by Blizzard later.

Goblin firelords