The one thing that can make me leave a class, is mechanic changes. Happened to me in Legion. Played an af warlock, they changed how the spec played just before ToS was released and I just couldn't gel with the new style.
It felt awkward, and I stopped playing him.
BfA version is great though, I like it again. Never know what your missing without trying others.
In a dungeon earlier today on my Holy Priest I had a tank who said "Disc is better", my response was "I play what I enjoy, not necessarily what's better"
10/31/2018 02:15 PMPosted by SevarynI don't mean this to sound condescending, but you're playing a spec that's been good to excellent all expansion, and aren't pushing high-end content. Class imbalances become very apparent in Heroic raid and mid-level M+, and by Mythic raid and high-level M+ they begin to dominate.
From what I understand it wasn't quite so dominant in previous expansions, but BFA class balance has been unusually atrocious.
Oh, for sure. Arcane is certainly good for lots of endgame content, which is why I had made the post expecting replies from specs such as ele/enhance shamans, feral druids, WW monks etc. so that they'd give me a better perspective on something that I didn't know that much about. I admittedly don't like playing much besides caster classes, although I've sorta been easing my way in to playing monks, and perhaps it might just be because I'm getting more used to the spec, but I can see why some people wouldn't want to be playing WW right now. Regardless, I don't think it'd be worth just abandoning.
If it is coming from the sense that you'd want to do high-end endgame content and want to be the best spec, the best class, have the best racials etc. I get that. I suppose I was just wondering if that was the only, or at least key reason for it. My own judgment is clouded a bit too by the fact that I play on an RP realm and create character profiles for all of my chars and everything, so completely changing specs might seem a little more foreign to me than a normal WoW player.
I used to roll on an RP server too, so I get that.
If you're not planning on pushing for M+ chests or raiding Heroic/Mythic, you don't have much to worry about. There are broken specs, but they're all playable up through M0 and Normal Uldir. The closest thing we had to a spec that was almost completely unusable was Feral at BFA launch, and even that's serviceable now.
If you're not planning on pushing for M+ chests or raiding Heroic/Mythic, you don't have much to worry about. There are broken specs, but they're all playable up through M0 and Normal Uldir. The closest thing we had to a spec that was almost completely unusable was Feral at BFA launch, and even that's serviceable now.
10/31/2018 01:30 PMPosted by NagainaI mained Enhancement from early Wrath to early Legion. Legion mangled Enhancement so badly I just didn't find it enjoyable anymore. So now I'm a demon hunter.
Point is, it's not only people who push harder content that switch classes or specs. Blizzard has a knack for taking something you've loved for the better part of a decade and destroying it just because they can.
Wow, almost the same story but I made mine in BC.
so could you explain how they mangled enhancement? I'm not that knowledgeable when it comes to them so I think it may fit in the realm of 'changing its identity to the point where it's unrecognizable from before'
What you said, basically. Legion enhancement was a completely different spec from what it had been before.
10/31/2018 01:30 PMPosted by NagainaI mained Enhancement from early Wrath to early Legion. Legion mangled Enhancement so badly I just didn't find it enjoyable anymore. So now I'm a demon hunter.
Point is, it's not only people who push harder content that switch classes or specs. Blizzard has a knack for taking something you've loved for the better part of a decade and destroying it just because they can.
Wow, almost the same story but I made mine in BC.so could you explain how they mangled enhancement? I'm not that knowledgeable when it comes to them so I think it may fit in the realm of 'changing its identity to the point where it's unrecognizable from before'
What you said, basically. Legion enhancement was a completely different spec from what it had been before.
This exactly. I wanted to like Legion Enhancement. I tried to get into it. But the ratation was slower and clunkier. I didn't like suddenly having to build and spend a resource. It just wasn't fun to me anymore.
I abandoned Enh Shaman I think towards the end of Nighthold during Legion and have not looked back.
They really messed the rotation up and dumping my resource into lightnining bolt felt bad. "Enhancing" your weapons was also killed and I remember one of the important buffs I had to upkeep was so bad that videos were saying to just take it off my bar. I really missed totems ontop of all that, it's why I rolled shaman. Making the class feel bad was just the final straw :/ it was super strong single target and good AOE then got turned into a dumpster fire. I have it on standby though, I'm hoping for the changes because I loved my shammy.
They really messed the rotation up and dumping my resource into lightnining bolt felt bad. "Enhancing" your weapons was also killed and I remember one of the important buffs I had to upkeep was so bad that videos were saying to just take it off my bar. I really missed totems ontop of all that, it's why I rolled shaman. Making the class feel bad was just the final straw :/ it was super strong single target and good AOE then got turned into a dumpster fire. I have it on standby though, I'm hoping for the changes because I loved my shammy.