How to Prune Mobility and Re-imagine Maneuverability for Midnight

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Mobility across the board has creeped up to an unhealthy gameplay standpoint in World of Warcraft.

Here is my best attempt to prune it and re-imagine how classes should work in-game.

Warning: Feelings will be offended

Mages - Remove Displacement
Priest - Door of Shadows class wide, but on choice node with Angelic Feather
Warlock - No changes (perfectly balanced)
Monk - Remove Clash
Demon Hunter - no changes (advertised originally as unrivaled mobility)
Druid - no changes (perfectly balanced)
Rogue - Only 1 available charge of Shadowstep or Grappling Hook
Evoker - Only 2 charges of Hover, no resetting cooldown possible
Hunter - no changes (perfectly balanced)
Shaman - Remove Feral Lunge for Enhancement. Give Enhancement Shamans the Retribution Paladin treatment. Stormstrike/Lava Lash usable at 15-25yd range
Death Knight - Remove Wraith Walk and/or Abomination Limb
Warrior - Remove Heroic Leap, improve Charge to stun again (or something as vital) and intervene to break roots. Bladestorm grants improved movement speed
Paladin - Remove Divine Steed and ranged capabilities on Retribution attacks. Give all Paladins Wings of Liberty leap

In conclusion, this style of design gives each and every class the ability to have maneuverability in their own unique way, without having too much mobility across the board.

Priests have the option for Door of Shadows and Paladins have the ability to Wings of Liberty leap.

Enhancement Shamans no longer worry about up-time issues with ranged capabilities

Death Knights solidify their niche with “mounted combat” with Death Charger with the removal of Divine Steed from Paladins.

Only Demon Hunters and Druids remain at the top of the mobility hierarchy.

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So, you’re removing everyone’s ability to move? Sounds very smart.

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Please try reading again.

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You’re making a completely useless change to mobility, call it ‘unique’, and everyone is slower for no reason.

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That is the goal, but not for no reason.

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For absolutely no reason.

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Yea, wraith walk where we can’t use any abilities or abom limb which isn’t mobility

Good thing you aren’t a dev

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ha, now all of you are turret casters like me /giggles

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Wraith Walk is indeed mobility

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Nice you had to cut up my 2 different points to make them 1 different point

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I’m glad OP is a developer for WoW else I’d suspect this was a personal opinion.

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Not being able to use any abilities during Wraith Walk is irrelevant. It is still mobility and needs to be on the table for potential pruning.

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Care to share the reason you are thinking of then?

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And I didn’t say it wasn’t mobility, so I don’t know why you tried to pretend I did

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I don’t think mobility is such a problem compared to all the micro cc we have to deal with

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Mobility creep is real and should be addressed. Please try reading the very first sentence in my original post.

Abomination Limb and Death grip are still “mobility”. You are mobilizing your target to come to you. Quite literally the reverse effect of Charge which is mobility.

Pulling targets to you causes the chain reaction of them using mobility to escape you. Across the board, mobility in World of Warcraft needs to come down.

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Mobility creep isn’t a problem.

Cc creep is the problem

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I will happily take both!

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Na man, zooming around is fun.

Not being able to move your toon for 20 years isn’t

I think as long as there aren’t any huge discrepancies with mobility among classes then it’s fine, and currently there isn’t.

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Well first, to address this: Incorrect.

Other than the introduction of Evokers, it really hasn’t. Warriors had more mobility in SL than in DF/TWW. Mages have had the same. Hunter had the same. Priest had the same. DH got a slight increase on Vengeance only. Monk had the same. Rogue had the same, DK had the same. Paladin had almost the exact same.

I can’t speak for Shaman, but there’s been very limited changes to mobility, and I don’t see an argument as to how having tools to increase mobility is problematic.