Except they don’t. If you’re in a group with mage being the only AOE then sure. You aren’t gonna see a mage in a dungeon topping the charts over a rogue by single target frostbolt spamming. It’s not possible. You also aren’t gonna out dps an arms warrior with sweeping strikes up .
Any class can 3 shot mobs. Dagger rogues, windfury shamans, ele shamans, arms warriors.
I fail to see the perspective
No downtime? Have you ever played a mage? Lol. Their mage water while leveling is always bad. They have a ton of downtime which is how I can tell you don’t play mage. It takes 2 full drinks to regen after AOE pulls. It takes 3 drinks to buff a group. They aren’t defensive at all lol. They have a couple cooldowns that help them get out of trouble but so does everyone else. They die in 2 hits with no barrier
The only two tiers of raid that anyone seems to give two craps over on fresh is BWL and MC, anything past that is kinda dead to the point where many guilds are collapsing and merging so the remainders can do AQ and Naxx because that content is scuffed due to the item level being too High and as a result breaking both pve and pvp.
South of AQ the game play is really fun, for basically everyone, hell my group that I play freshservers with usually has an S-Priest for Molten Core and sometimes BWL.
As for AQ / Naxx, tbe easiest way to fix them is nerf the loot down to epic item level 63, they will still slightly out perform BWL loot because the stats are better organised.
Bud, my mage goes OOM and I gotta drink between fights, I’m Poppin mana pots and gems in raid also. We don’t have the best mobility, that is what druid does.
No one, but you’re talking about both dungeon and raid, literally no one cares about trash parses, also bring sappers and a warrior with FAP and now that is god mode.
I agree. This is the opportunity for them to move away from the leveling model. Should be 1-60 leveling and then content/story unlocks via questlines from there.