Not really - there’s one key factor; trolls instigate and actively do the trolling.
In this case - the people I’m referring to just sit back, watch the suffering, and enjoy it. They’re not the ones making the decisions that lead to all the punishment and suffering.
Committing crimes is a crime - but enjoying them being committed and seeing the aftermath isn’t.
Seems like there’s a lot of people on these forums that fall into the latter category and that keep influencing Blizzard to make systems that perpetuate their enjoyment.
I could live with that, personally. The right amount of friction in swapping can make the decision matter without making things harder for multi-role performance obsessionists, and those who do high end content have more resources at their disposal and can afford swap costs.
I would agree with you on this front in the context of previous expansions (vanilla through WoD) but when you consider that in the lore of more recent expansions it has been established that our characters have grown from being common adventurers to some of the most powerful individuals on Azeroth, my opinion has to change.
Using a mage as an example since that is what you did… Our mages have grown to the point of being archmages. Expecting them to have expansive knowledge of the various applications of the arcane (in this case, the different specs of WoW) feels like it should be a-given at this point.
Which I do agree with. I just think that they should be class neutral abilities rather than class specific ones (or utility only actually) that have the potential to make or break a spec in particular content.
I don’t have issue with the implementation of the system, more the overall ideas behind parts of it in-general.