Every class in retail feels the same. just different spell animations and ability names.
There is no “hybrids” anymore. its DPS, Healer or Tank.
There is no longer the ability to be 50/50 at DPS/healing or melee/casting or tanking/healing or tanking/dps. It is one or the other.
Being a support class in early WoW and a hybrid meant something, you werent topping DPS or Healing sometimes, but you had utility, unique things no other classes had. Heals, cleanses, dps, burst, etc. But you were never like a rogue on the meters, or a priest on the healing meters. You could mix and match how you wanted to play and do stuff differently than a warrior could.
the charges are just that, charges. its been that way. there is no need to fix it. would i like a 8 sec debuff? absolutely. Would it probably be OP? absolutely.
OP for Shaman and Druids to have a 20% bonus for less than 100% uptime. Again, refer to Shadow Weaving and Curse of Elements
… more of a bonus that is 100% uptime.
And, the charges are consumed by Rogues and Hunter pets. That’s garbage.
Given that they also made Shadow Weaving only apply to the priest’s damage and generally removed all the synergy they’d gone to so much trouble to add in BC, that tells me that sometime between BC and WotLK they got rid of all their competent developers.
And in general, I do not understand at all why anyone plays the “Blizzard changed it so it obviously needed to be changed” card like it’ll find any traction on a Classic forum. If you want to see what Blizzard considers the superior version of the game, it’s Modern, as J. Allen Brack kindly spelled out for all of us.
Yes, in WotLK they shifted to a bring the player, not the class philosophy.
Hybrids like shaman were allowed to dps and dps well; in exchange the unique buffs were given to other classes and toned down if they were considered too powerful. This is when they made lust raidwide and added sated, for example.
Changes aren’t right/wrong nor do they happen in a vaccuum.
Stormstrike isnt meant to cater to elemental spec. It’s there for enhance to earth shock in solo content. It gets eaten up in raid environments by whatever.
Exactly. It is wasted on dumb nature effects. If SS triggers a global, there’s a great chance you can’t even get an ES off before the charges are consumed.