Frost mage + Random melee + Rdruid / Hpriest
Ele shaman + Random melee + Rdruid / Hpriest
what an interactive meta for other caster specs
and what a meme how little it matters which melee u are for the formula
Quick someone revive and necro all the posts from people here screaming for a melee / caster meta and how much better it is, quick!
Same post I always make, every meta sucks. Why? Because every meta is just a broken set of specs that don’t get the appropriate tuning. No meta is good, because behind every meta is blizzard’s AWFUL, PATHETIC, balancing and class design.
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I think when people asked for melee/caster meta, they weren’t referring to rogue/mage/feral having a toolkit 2 expansions ahead.
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Those people should get medication for short term memory loss since anyone who has played any recent xpac knows that is the only way a class or spec becomes meta.
It was better in last 2 seasons of legion for the right reasons
But right now it’s caster melee for all the wrong reasons
Honestly tho, rn is still better than most double melee/ double cater metas
Not a big fan of ele procing a billion lava bursts. Or even getting procs of ascendance.
Much prefer damage procs (rare too) over procing cds
Is it though? Hpriest/Rdru + mage is immortal and never dies while their pet melee warrior runs at 1 target all game doing nothing and winning.
Idk why we count ele as caster anyway, its closer in playstyle to bm hunter than a caster.
Alternatively having unkillable ret war meta, where they do infinite damage and randomly 1 shot you is probably still worse. Or classic mlx meta where nothing dies, you’re perma cc’d all game and you get 1 shotted.
Def not saying it’s perfect or even good, but I still think it’s better than some of those metas forsure.
Idk, I don’t think wow is perfect by any stretch of the imagination, and I do think that class design and balance are not always in tune with one another. However, I usually feel like the overall “meta” ends up being fine and the vast majority of classes/specs are entirely viable if not strong.
I didn’t play legion, but it does feel atm like there’s SO much cleave in the game from all classes as well as infinitely reapplying slows and roots that discourages double melee.
Casters are in a weird spot where they have their balance tuned to where they’re dependent on another class that has stuns/ms, but those arent consistent in their availability in presentation, so double caster is pretty awful, caster + rogue/feral is insane, and caster with any other melee is signifcantly more lackluster.
The only real difference between legion and now was CC was longer so a lot of cc comps worked out and healers were viable swap targets so a lot of comps like rmp and stuff actually died to a bunch of other comps like dk/x/rshaman.
This meta so close to actually being good but healers being too strong and cc being too short just doesn’t allow you to ever play those comps because nothing dies in the cc window.