Are you guys enjoying the class you chose? So far, shaman seems very underwhelming; I’m not seeing the same power spike that I see other classes getting. I’m probably going to park him and level something else. Just curious what other people’s experience has been.
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Hunter has been more-or-less the same, except Explosive Shot go brrr and deletes enemy health bars.
Looking forward to getting Lone Wolf rune. Pet management was always my least favourite part of Hunter.
I’ve just done RFC with a shaman tank and they did a ton of damage while also keeping aggro without problems. It seems to me that you should be tanking if you’re a shaman.
I’m playing Priest and unfortunately I have the same sentiment the previous poster had about Hunters. It’s pretty much the same. Yeah, I have Penance and those homunculi, but the novelty wore off after 10 minutes. Now it just feels like I’m playing classic again with one additional button.
I haven’t been able to play much, but I am loving playing my priest. Might all change once I can get into Ashenvale, but penance and homunculi in Vanilla are amazing
I’m loving Priest so far. It’s so strong. Penance in classic feels super OP. I haven’t done any dungeons yet, but I feel like Priests are going to be powerhouses.
That’s surprising. Shamans looks like they are great.
What classes are you looking at and getting jealous of? What level have you gotten to, and are you considering rerolling?
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I’m a Mage.
I’m pretty much just spamming frost bolt atm.
Want an authentic classic experience.
Have mained a hunter since the middle of WotLK and now that I have my pet, things are looking good 
It’s crazy that Blizz kept the “hunters are going to be a nightmare till lvl 10” design from classic 
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Hunter is great, lone wolfs implementation is always dissapointing and its a real shame. Other than that its good.
Always thought maybe they might remove the deadzone or something with lone wolf. Makes it basically worthless as only 15% damage increase and losing a pet.
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Disappointed. But only cause nobody has found meta rune yet, I was hoping to run dungeons as a tank while leveling. Instead I’m just the dps.
Other than that, it’s pretty cool.
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penance on priest is a very nice surprise it’s one of my fave spells so i can’t wait to level it it’ll make solo priest super ez.
curious how time mage is though just looks like retail disc priest for mage lol
I’m looking forward to trying Warlock Tank when I find the rune for it, but i’m also debating on staying Affliction and taking it to the limit and never casting a Shadowbolt.
Hard to think about how good your class is when struggling to get tags on mobs still.
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I hit level 9 today on my gnome mage. It felt like business as usual even with Ice Lance until I got Fingers of Frost. Oh, man. It feels good to play, and I don’t have any talents yet. I also got the new Living Flame and Enlightenment runes. Living Flame does a decent amount of damage. I’m planning to level as arcane, so having Enlightenment will be nice for when I finally get Arcane Blast. The PVE server Wild Growth is hopping, and it’s nice to see plenty of people running around.
I didn’t have high expectations for priest, however I surprisingly really enjoy it. Penance hits like a truck and Homunculi comes in clutch for when multiple targets are pulled combined with fade.
So far 7/10.
Waiting to get rest of the healing runes but so far It’s been really good.
Hunter has been underwhelming. It’s more of the same and the additions make the class play worse imo.
Master Marksman is nothing special at all. It’s just the first talents in the marksman tree copied into a rune.
Sniper Training just encourages bot-like play.
Flanking Strike. Oh this ability is such a mess. It feels so clunky to use and not in the classic clunky sense. This is top tier bad retail design clunky. Low chance for a CD based swing timer ability to proc a reset on a low damage maintenance buff. Don’t get me started on the fact that it increases Mongoose Bite damage, but Mongoose Bite is still a low flat damage ability that hunter’s don’t train.
Beast Mastery. This one can be fine if you can combine it with a hunter tank rune (not pet tank rune) in the future. Being able to taunt swap with pet or juggle mobs between pet and hunter has potential. Otherwise its a pretty sad “make pet bigger” rune.
Chimera Shot and Explosive Shot are just “Better Arcane Shot”. Explosive shot is just an overtuned shot that just negates the value of the rest of the hunter kit. (You dont even have to auto shot mobs, just explosive shot and walk away). At least Chimera will have some utility in the non-DPS stings. Chimera can stay for that.
Carve is actually an interesting new button that gives hunters something different. No complaints about carve, it just adds AoE value to melee weaving which is nice.
I haven’t gotten the other runes yet but none of them scream anything special aside from Aspect of the Lion which is nice since its a group buff.
All in all I give hunter a 3.5 out of 12. Hunter’s need something like traps in combat, a tank rune, increased melee/decreased shot range, or a rework of the melee ability kit.
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I really think Hunter should have gotten some Survival Tanking Runes.
Shadowstrike has been nice on the rogue. Haven’t found anything else. Rogue always gets better after 10 anyway.
ehhhh 100% no mana cost on wrath?! this turns the whole game into easy retail mode. I’m two seconds away from going back to classic classic.
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So far try mage and warrior.
Mage been a blast with in the other hand warrior been trash and they just steath nerf devistate rune to warrior so now tanking got lot weaker. Time to tank with warlock or paladin