For me all of my classes swap to either tanking or DPS to level.
Druid does Feral & Guardian swapping if I need guardian for a strong elite.
Paladin goes Prot as to gather large groups to finish quests in 1-2 pulls.
Shaman swaps to enhancement since I don’t care for Elemental as much.
My Hunter and Warlock just roll though as DPS with pet tanks as usual.
I started off BFA with a mage. It was painful for sure, I still remember my gf laughing at me for getting killed by a dolphin (Tideskipper in stormsong) and then her killing it without taking a scratch on her DH.
But, it didn’t really matter. Leveling was “worse” but it still got done just fine, world quests still become trivial and easy a week later after getting a little bit of gear.
I wouldn’t avoid the class I want to main over it because it stops mattering so quickly.
Normally I’d disagree
But I levelled a shadow priest in BFA and that after ticking over to 120 that was a harrowing experience
I even found death knights at the start of the expac felt like glass
But what’s a non solo spec. And what’s your issues with them. A Mage, priest, BM hunter, and blood dk are all going to be able to solo the same things in the open world. What issues are these specs going to have that one is just going to trivialize.
I leveled in BFA as an arms warrior. You don’t get any more non solo then a gear dependent no self heal slow warrior in an undertuned spec, and the only open world related issues I ever had was the lack of a water walking mount pre flight.
Is the arguement here what classes are going to be capable of soloing dungeons first? Massive groups of elites? I mean sure if you ramp up the mob difficulty to 11 and try to solo content that isn’t meant to be soloed some classes have some advantages. But there’s absolutely no point where you should have to be soloing said content.
I did Nazjatar with a Night Elf Fury Warrior when it first dropped. I wouldn’t take my Mage into that mob cluster until flying was available.
Naz is different, when your going into new zones on your main your going to trivialize the content with gear and alts will have catch up gear. A mage that was even vaguely up to date would’ve been able to walk in and one shot mobs pretty much.
Fresh entry into an expansion when gear isn’t a heavy factor would be when you see imbalance.
The real fun is hitting the new level cap of an expansion on one of those classes and suddenly fighting for your life against the mobs which have scaled beyond your leveling gear damage.
I love the people who have 5 minutes of playing a priest talking like they are a class authority. Unless you can go back in time, leveling a priest to 120 today doesn’t compare to 120 BFA’s start. Priests as a fresh 120 in bad gear were weaker than a fresh vanilla 60. Maybe take one without any gear upgrades to roughly 420 and hop right into the 8.3 cloak quest and assaults. Is it possible to solo with one? Yes. Is it obnoxious? Also yes.
I benched my priest for Druid since Legion because why would I want to put up with my squishy clothie healer when I could have a stealthing healer with an instant “tank” button and an extra dps class to respec to if Blizz breaks the first choice, rendering it even worse in the overworld? My RDruid can: go bear. Go feral. Do respectable dps AS resto. Choose to flee and be one of the best runners in the game.
My priest meanwhile has: subpar speed boosts. Subpar, outdated and situational cc. A trade off of either hilariously bad dps in its healer specs or hilariously bad self heals for the archetypical “healer”.
Solo feel does matter in this era because we aren’t allowed to raid log anymore, blizzard seems obsessed with us spending a lot of time running around doing things on one particular character. This means that even if it’s a healer, it has to feel fun and solid outside of it’s given job in groups and instances. I’m not going to tickle things to death for X months until we’re all so bloated on rent-a-power it doesn’t matter who rolled what.
At least with mage and rogue you can prepare the battlefield before the fight with cc, priest on the other hand has a sign over its head saying “kill me first”
nice! couldnt agree more.
I really hope they dont do this again, didnt we have people taking their necklace off and replacing gear with greens to try to work around the terrible scaling?