How's your class for pre patch?

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Try out a few class the damage will change of course but overall how do you feel about your class with the talent tree change? Will you change main

Warlock:
Demo feels weird demoic coil proce and the build by wow head is a bit different than pre patch… Damage feels about the same? Maybe a bit lower

Destro feels great! I like it a lot for some reason. Just feel more smooth in AoE? Damage is higher than pre patch but tuning will happen for sure

Warrior

Only try fury and my dps seems higher Bladestorm is back! OF is great to use again but too be no more CD reducation. More fun to play for sure than pre patch

Hunter
BM hunter damage seems higher. More button to press I use wow head talent build seems to be a bit more complicated then pre patch still easy to play

MM hunter damage seems good! More smooth than pre patch coulnd’t tell the difference

SV damage is off the charts but gameplay I don’t like how damage is on all bombs doesn’t seem fun at all

Monk

WW MONK as always a fun spec to play. No more DoT damage is a nice change. I like the change

Brew Really loving it. The change makes it less button bloat overall. Didn’t notice too much difference but more enjoyable to play for sure. I only tank low m+ keys 5 and below and I am overgear for it so COULDN’T test how the tank nerf is

Pally

Ret honestly it feels the same? Damage seems to be more than pre patch but gameplay wise feels the same to me. No more ret aura sucks though

Prot pally. Yup I feel the nerf for sure since I was going to main port pally I tested doing some higher m+ keys like +8 range. The tank nerf seems to hit pally the hardest and I feel my healer have to heal me more for sure. My Def CD feels really weak overall. WoG heal doesn’t seem to heal my hp by much.

Mage

Frost no change to me? Only test a boss in LFR and it plays the same

Arcane loving the new change! Sure old arcane mage hates the rework but as a casual this change feels nice. I can pump in raids and M+ rotation doesn’t feel that complicated anymore

Eovker

Aug and Dev./ No comment as I just started playing mine 2 weeks ago but they seem fun?

Overall I was going to main a pally and hunter as an alt and maybe warlock as well.

After seeing all the hero talents and testing some class I feel like I want to switch to main a mage or Evoker and alt the hunter or monk

Still got to test DH and DK and get a feel for them.

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Have only played two characters since the patch. both in Remix. The continuing bugs and feature disconnects haven’t done much to improve my desire to actually play though. I had hoped for more hotfixes to be put into place by now.

  • My overgeared Beast Mastery Hunter with 300K threads? No change that I can see.
  • My level 61 elemental shaman? Completely wrecked and couldn’t even kill world mobs before dying. Had to switch to Elemental to do anything.

I know I should try out my retail characters and probably will this weekend.

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No idea how they’re performing relative to other classes, but I’m really enjoying my pally, monk, and hunter.

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Honestly everytime I load an Alt I dread having to go through their Talent tree. So far I only did Hunter/Mage/Monk… I’ll need a couple weeks to go through other specs, so much info to read and get reajusted.

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This👆
I’m having a hard time trying to reengage with many of the characters that I’ve created. At some point, I’m most likely will delete them just so I can level them up again to relearn how to play the class.

However, right now it’s a moot point seeing as how when The War Within actually launches our classes are going to change again.

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Don’t delete them, the restore option isn’t available until release probably.

I’m just taking my time, playing one character, then every other day I’ll load an alt, set talents quickly and run an old raid.

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Did a Nokhud 7, just to test things. Didn’t really notice a change in my playstyle as Demo from before. Should note, that since the Doom talents are apparently bugged, I didn’t run it. Went Charhound instead.

Of course that could simply be because the Survival Hunter and Fury Warrior were doing 2 mil a piece on trash, and I don’t even know how much on the bosses. So I couldn’t really get any of my own @$%& in before everything was already deleted from the game.

I am, as of yet, still unsure if my measly little 300k for the run was actually a me issue.

Affliction I really gotta work on, as I haven’t touched it since the start of S3. So RLP was an abject disaster.

Further testing is needed. Smooth out any PEBKAC.

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Both Resto Sham and Mistweaver Monk feel really good. The tree changes to reduce 2 pointers and update them made both classes feel good, R sham flows nicely and I kinda love what they did to downpour.

Excited to heal TWW :3

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Some dumb choices in talent point but not a big deal , can deal with it .

Self healing seems little crazy , I hit slam and heal for double the damage. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Really enjoying elemental, numbers aside. Just mechanically. While it is still similar to the current fire build, there are actually other spells in the rotation now doing worthwhile damage.

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Lol the tank nerfs are not in pre-patch retail…

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Ww monk is good.

Plays basically the same as before.
But now im 20% faster, can air dash and walk on water, plus i got to kick jadefire out and select whirling dragon punch instead.

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I’ve only played hunter and shaman, both are fine - no huge changes. Although they did add a few neat tricks for elemental.

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I haven’t really gotten into any of my characters since they’ve said these aren’t the final talent trees for TWW, so things are going to change again in a month anyway.

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(Sips on her giant Stanley cup filled with thistle tea) I’m too exhausted to stab things. I’m just gonna prop my daggers up over yonder an hope the monsters know what to do. (Tosses candy on the ground next to the daggers)

Mehhh……zzzzzzzzzzzzz

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I am really digging the Unholy DK changes.

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This is prepatch and these are no longer max level characters. So nothing actually matters right now and I’m just slapping buttons and launging at colors like a toddler.

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Outlaw feels slower for all the wrong reasons.

It’s like the class developer wants to punish people who don’t talent for the Hillbilly Subtlety build with the degenerate Crackshot spam.

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Won’t even test a rogue… :sob:

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Doom is bugged on Demo (well as of yesterday morning, haven’t checked since) which is slowing down the pace of Demo for me.
Affliction is ok. The fun stuff with Affliction comes with Hero Powers.