Shouldn’t plate armor protect from melee and arrows pure physical damage to the point it’s barely noticeable but be weak to magic. And vice versa cloth wearers be weak to physical damage and bubbles reduce magic damage only. God knows casters have way too much cc and survivability. Pretty sure a healer or lock can out survive a warrior in full plate against… say a hunter. Just don’t make sense to me.
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That was before arena. When they are creating pvp abilities, they create it around arena.
The hunter has to be pretty bad not to beat any and all classes.
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They gave up on the type of armor being meaningful in “X” expansion. Can’t remember which one.
I think they should have kept it. Seems like armor is only worth the +stats now days. I guess my mind is more in line with classic rpg stat values. Casters should have enough cc to escape melee and stay out of range while melee are front line and control the battle. In all the games I’ve played cloth and leather are never tanker than plate but in wow they are. Also plate should be cumbersome and reduce magical damage and speed. Pallys should have reduced holy damage and healing in full plate. If they want to do 500k damage in the blink of an eye with holy power then they need to switch to a less cumbersome armor and be more vulnerable. Warriors should wear leather to be a berserker and have high burst… not like it already feels like I’m wearing paper conquest gear already though haha
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I expected holy paladin to be the tankiest healer since it had armor. Never happened in 15+ years. Priest always had that title even though priest wears cloth.
Think i found the OP’s real complaint…
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I don’t know if you could balance PvP around plate wearers barely taking any physical damage.
If two warriors fought against each other, the fight would never end?
If ten warriors attacked one warrior, that one warrior could survive against all of them?
I do miss how when my Rogue would go against a pally or warr way back and that fight would be completely different than against a lock or priest. Now the fights are homogenized into pve rotations.
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i think i was wotlk were you had to socket magic and armor pen gems so you could pick your poison.