Dumb Thoughts: I miss the violence

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Now, this is more a whine than me opening up the top and letting the head-spaghetti spill across the page, but something I have noticed with my Orc Priest is, while I love the class and the whole part of being the first generation of an entirely new thing from a society steeped in doing the same thing forever, I miss the melee.

I miss Gen.

I miss the crunch of his warhammer cracking into bone. I miss the thundering crack of his earth-shock, the crackling roar of his lightning, the flash of heat, fire and fury of his flame-shock, the earth-shaking cacophony of his Thunderstorm. I miss the bellowing of the ancestors in his ear when he calls upon their fury for the Bloodlust spell, I miss the way the world looks through the eyes of a wolf, I miss the caress of the wind on his skin as he uses his Gust of Wind spell to leap impossible distances or charge suddenly towards an enemy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ejd0CMgqIQ

I miss the melee, the thunder of blood in my ears and the roar of adrenaline in my mind.

Like, I donā€™t think Iā€™m going to give up on Khonn until I hit max level with him, at least, but does anyone else find themselves having similar ā€˜buyerā€™s regretā€™ with certain classes? I enjoyed Priest immensely in Dragonflight and the War Within, but ā€¦ I need my angies. I need to get into the scrum and get some blood on my weapons, and some dents in my armor.

I think, if and when Orcs get Paladins, Khonn might get a class-change, but until then, Iā€™m just gonna have to live with this vaguely disconcerting hole in my chest every time I have to stand at range and just ā€¦ slap the enemy with giant void dorks.

God, but what I would give for being able to multi-class. Even just a few levels of Warrior, or Rogue, or even Monk, just so I can scratch the itch and go smack things upside the head for a short while ā€¦

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Rogues and Warriors are generally it for me, but I have hunters/dks/pallys and I enjoy them, but not as much as the rogue and warrior. I always thought Iā€™d enjoy the pally more than I do, but I never did. I like my Warrior.

I have tried endless times to run a caster and I get so bored itā€™s ridiculous.

I do miss playing Norman, I have to say. Iā€™m guessing once Iā€™ve settled in on my Prot War, I will likely start to level Norman next and see if I can start playing him again. Iā€™m not sure Iā€™ll be able to find the time to play both H and A consistently, but Iā€™d like to get Norman to level.

I gave up years ago on casters though. I have a priest and a warlock that I mainly try to max level just to handle some profs. I played DH for about 10 seconds and walked away. I played evokers for about 5 seconds and walked away. Just canā€™t find interest in either of those. I never even bothered much with monk. I donā€™t find it interesting.

I know what I like at this point and that is either Norman, stealthing and slicing or Prot War - my absolute favorite, smashing and bashing.

Iā€™m a simple man. Give me a shield and a one-hand and leave me be.

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Reminder that Paladins are Warriors that think theyā€™re fancy just because they can read.

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Iā€™d be upset if I could read this.

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My RP main is a mage but by Gosh Golly Darn Heckn, I cannot stand to play them in content most of the time. The long cooldowns on burst, the unimpactful feel of spells (Arcane mage, so Arcane Blast is just kinda lackluster - no bolt, no blast, just bwoop).

I would commit so many crimes and/or favors in exchange for melee mage tank. Alas. I accidentally ended up maining paladin so far and tried out Ret for the first time. Genuinely the first time Iā€™ve ever played a DPS spec while questing, in a dungeon, or in a raidā€¦And I had a great time (though I have beefs with a lot of Retā€™s design, still).

Bonking things with a big ā€˜ol Light hammer is great fun.

Edit: iā€™m suddenly overcome with the power of Cope and inspired to write a design document for a mage tank that no-one at Blizzard will ever look at. Someone hold me back.

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Alright, serious post on topic.

As folks can see, Iā€™ve not leveled Thokk as of yet. Iā€™ve chosen this expansion to unapologetically dive into elves, their elfishness, and learn as much lore as I can. As such, I chose to level my blood elf warlock. It has green fire and I like Destro. It feels about as punchy as a caster could be with brilliant Rain of Fire procs and good chaos bolt numbers. Iā€™m told it isnā€™t meta and should feel bad. But unlike these world-first raid-finder taquito terrorists, Iā€™ve meta person outside the realm of the internet., so Iā€™m not terribly worried.

Only other caster I would consider is Elemental shaman, but I do miss just running in and beating the lunch money out of mobs.

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Speaking as my neighborhoodā€™s resident human male paladin player, I assure you: most paladins canā€™t. Sometimes that libram is just for show.

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In the wise words of my next door Paladin, ā€œSHOW ME YOUR HANDS, AND DONā€™T REACH FOR THE SPELL REAGENTS.ā€

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I have been a Hunter since Burning Crusade.
I have never felt the need to be anything else.

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My two ā€˜mainsā€™ are a Paladin and a Rogue. Loving Paladin but want them to add something that gives us that reverse 2H swing we had from some Legendary or something in Shadowlands, that was cool.

I think the rhythm and feel of some classes can definitely make it a drag if itā€™s not what youā€™re in the mood for.

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Ach, mein freund, I haff heard ziss viss mein bad ear! Vot I vould prescribe iss a bit uff puttink yourself in za uzza shoesā€¦roll za alt! Levelink iss both easy und fun vhen you approach it viss za new eyes, und as someone viss a lifelong und frequently unhealthy relationship viss electricity I can say viss authority zat shaman may cure vot ails you. Elemental, enhance, und restoration gifs you za best uff all possible vorlds. Melee? Ranged? Heals? Ja, zere iss za spec for zatā€¦vhy choose vhen you can haff it all?

As for me, I haff alvays been more on za supply side uff personal injury so za heals? Not zo much. Not zat kind uff doktor, nein.

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Iā€™m a warrior and weā€™ve got it good. We yell, our attacks make satisfying bonk and splat sounds, and we can jump real far.

Iā€™m not anti-caster though, my warlock throwing his chaos bolts around is pretty fun too.

But yeah, priestsā€¦ they are kinda hard. Two healing specs? And your damage spec is mostly just, ā€œmake fairly quiet poof of darkness happen near enemyā€. I guess tentacle slapping is a shadow priest feature these days, but thatā€™s more goofy than visceral.

The ā€œnew specā€ survey that went around recently mentioned a holy magic dps spec for priests, which would be really nice. A ā€œpurge with holy fireā€ type of spec could get some violence into this sadly gentle class.

Anyway, I feel the same way about Evokers. The gentle-looking wafts of pinkish dragon flame really donā€™t get my bloodlust going. Idk how fire-breathing got to look so tame but it just does, except for maybe deep breath, and even that ability feels sort of bad since it takes away your control for so long.

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Try spell reflection, that can start you on your journey to becoming an anti-caster!

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I agree on that sentiment. Melee classes have a ā€œcrunchā€ to them that casters often do not, and thatā€™s coming from a warlock main.

Iā€™m honestly kind of conflicted between warlocks and warriors, as being a warrior is so much fun because you crush things with a big mace, but the class fantasy of warlocks just scratches an itch i do not have in any other games. No joke, if you gave me a melee spec for warlocks, i would be a very happy orc. Death Knight is cool too, but the vibe of demons appeals to me more than the undead. I just love the Legion and the Fel more than the Scourge and Death. Maybe i just played too much Overlord and Brutal Legend. So, to give an answer, i would say the class i play sometimes that just isnā€™t the same would be Death Knight. Warriors are so much more aggressive and have more ā€œfunā€ mobility, like crashing into a field of mobs and starting to swing your axes around like a maniac, while DKs are slower, but harder to stop once theyā€™re on you. I like the aggression more. I get why people like DKs, though. They have a very solid class fantasy, and their armor sets are some of the coolests in the game.

Demon Hunters do have fel and horns, but they make you play as an elf, which means smaller shoulderpads, which means i am ignoring them. I like my large, powerful, potent shoulderpads because i am insecure about many things. Zug zug.

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Iā€™ve always preferred melee over spellcasting. Bows are good though.

Iā€™ve been really enjoying hunter this Expac. Iā€™m really loving duel wielding but my night elf hunter has that new double bladed sword. Warrior and Pali has been fun though.

Warrior was my first class and Iā€™m a little sad Iā€™ve gotten more hours on my Sunwalker so trying to get those warrior numbers up!

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I may have decided to scratch this itch in the worst possible way ā€¦

The monkeyā€™s paw isnā€™t bending a finger, it is doing repeated hand-flexing tendon gliding exercises at this point!

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