No, there should be no class balance changes.
Bug/exploit fixes sure. But class balance is a no.
My change: Blizzard needs to fix the fly/teleport hacking that is rampant right now.
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/fix-flyteleport-hacking-now
But TBC had class balance changes throughout the expansion. So yes, class balance has to be a part of it as that was the original TBC experience.
I played BE Disc Priest as a pvper, raided a little as a hunter and warlock.
I wouldn’t change anything.
Remove all passive/active racial abilities from arena. I’m honestly very surprised this hasn’t happened on retail.
It feels bad playing a race you don’t like the aesthetic/animations of just to get some better ability. It feels cheesy winning arena games because you have X racial. It feels awful losing games to teams who have better racial abilities.
The only “class” balance I would consider would be blind not being physical. I think it was meant to hurt druids but hurt shamans a lot.
Arena wise limit food/water or add a special food at start of each match(a stack of 20), making all other food/water not usable.
test a small 3-5% resilience nerf
That’s as far “balance” wise I would go. The rest would be QOL stuff that focus’s on fun/player interaction. Not a fan of playing dress up or not Pokemon
add custom arena modes. Like many FPS/fighter games let users add custom items ,limit food/water, timer, Dampening ,option to remove racial’s etc If something sticks maybe add to rated
Wow has had arena zones but are risky as others can interfere regardless of faction. which made me think of ways you can expand the 1v1 duel format
- add party duels
- a neutral zone/ area like Negrad arena allowing players to duel horde/alliance alike. or in an arena like setting sever side letting players match and play. This would be cool to watch and participate
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This also has impacts in PvE. I never did unserstand why Blzzard gave racials that became so important that you almost had to build a class of that race.
Like Dwarf Priests, they are the only combo with Fear ward. Why?
I agree. Remove all racials from TBC altogether. Let priests pick 1 major and 1 minor priest-specific racial from the pool. Etc. Devouring Plague/Desperate Prayer/Starshards/Hex of Weekness major, Shadowguard/Touch of Weekness/Feedback/Consume Magic minor.
Racials just feel bad. I am literally throwing potentially HUNDREDS of TBC arena rating in the garbage by playing Night Elf Hunter in TBC. I already have a 60 Dwarf Hunter leveled just for TBC, and ONLY for the ability to Stoneform and the 1% gun crit. I think the aesthetic is worse, the animations are worse, gear looks worse on them, and they HAVE to use a gun in S3/S4 or you’re nerfing yourself, and I HATE guns/engineering things in a high fantasy game.
Racial bonuses are one of the worst things ever added to this game.
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Draebei got it in TBC aswell.
Vanilla had class balance as well, and was still a no.
If they do progression patches to classes that were the original BC patches then sure. But it shouldn’t be changed outside of that.
Your logic is like saying “they had LFG in vanilla (a very different version than what retail has) so classic should have retail LFG and LFR”
It’s a flawed logic.
If they make a wow 2 TBC, then sure. But anything classic, classic TBC. Exc should not have class balance changes outside of the scope of what the original did.
Bug fixes and addressing exploits are fine. Rebalancing the classes is not.