Meme Specs: Relax, it's not your decision. Let it go 🥳

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In the case of meme specs how do you find the defendant?
GUILTY.

Whether you are pro meme specs or against them, please remember one thing: IT IS AN INDIVIDUAL CHOICE TO PLAY A SAID "MEME SPEC"

It is no one else’s choice but their own. If a player wants to play a meme spec let them. It doesn’t affect you. It shouldn’t affect you. Stop letting it affect you.

Lately there has been so much backlash, hatred and anger spewed violently at players who even mention the forbidden words: “meme spec” how dare they say such a thing?

This is a wake up call, a reminder. To the community… to LET.IT.GO.

World of Warcraft is a MMORPG. A massively multiplayer (not single player ego here) online role playing game. A player has many choices and decisions to make, why should it bother YOU what these other players do?

To the people who call the pro meme spec crowd: “special snowflake, civil rights activists, mental head cases, so you want to be different?” Just get over it.

People who plan on playing these specs are fully aware of what they are doing. They are not going in blindly (if they are well… I’m sure there is research to be done & they may figure it out later on) Let people play what they want to play. We’re not going to be upset at not getting the phat lootz we’re not going to be that person who rages, cries and carries on in a guild.

We’re not being selfish by wanting to play a meme spec. It is not a selfish act to do what you want to do in a game that is supposedly a massively multiplayer online role playing game.

If you don’t like the meme specs just keep it to yourself, no one needs to hear your own personal opinion when it doesn’t concern you. Don’t invite them to groups, don’t invite them to raids, scream KILL THE MEME SPECS! Do whatever it is you need to do but please get over it.

We aren’t asking for changes, we aren’t asking to be widely accepted no questions asked, we are just regular players wanting to do what they want to do. Is this such a crime?

Way too much emphasis on making sure the people playing meme specs feel miserable instead of worrying about yourself and what YOU are doing.

DISMISSED.

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They will eventually feel miserable all by themselves once they realize how useless they are.

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Which is probably why they’re a meme spec, for solo content.

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What’s Yolo content?

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The Ironman challenge.

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Sure, if they feel that way they can do whatever they want. -shrug-

Point here is… so much toxic hate and rage when it’s not even necessary.

P.S wrote this at midnight so feeling really tired, probably mistakes will fix later perhaps lol.

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Heh they’re called meme specs because they’re sub par. If you want to be sub-par go ahead just don’t do it in my guild

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Do you have proof to back up your claims of this hate?

Not being silly here, I just haven’t seen this kind of “hate” (especially calling someone a civil rights activist) at all. Perhaps I overlooked. Please back up your claim otherwise it feels like a defensive rant about something you’re passionate about. It’s okay to be passionate about something of course, but although you probably don’t feel like it, it looks like you’re very insecure.

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Its their choice to play a meme spec if they want, and it is my choice to not invite them to my groups if they do.

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And I fully agree just don’t be crapping on them if they choose to play WoW the way they want -shrug-

P.S It’s Alexensual not that his opinions means diddly squat.

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What the hell is a meme spec and why are online communities so stupid?

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Hit the nail on the head. Meme specs refers to specs that are typically viewed as inferior to other specs that “perform” better. There is math and a heap of stuff behind it but you could say why is this decision something other people are worrying about?

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I don’t get. Most players know that certain specs aren’t as good as others when it comes to group content. It’s been this way. It’s always been this way. You can’t expect every player to suddenly turn off this knowledge.

You also can’t expect every player to suddenly not want the best spec for their class/role in group content.

I believe most players playing the less than viable specs aren’t going to be worried about group content.

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My thoughts exactly. :joy:

“Meme” spec? This must be some BFA lingo these modern retail pups like to throw around. Never heard of it in OG Vanilla.

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Nevertheless, warning folks that during vanilla, hybrids’ choices were limited to healbot or play solo BEFORE they spend 60 levels worth of time on a character is common courtesy.

The official character descriptions were disgustingly deceptive by not pointing that out ahead of time so it’s up to the player base to do so.

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The vast majority of players aren’t going to go out of their way to be vindictive towards people who play specs out of the norm.

It’s not the online community as a whole. This was probably just brought to your attention from this thread. I’ll say it again, vast majority of players won’t go out of their way to berate a Ret Paladin for example.

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Wait, do people actually consider Ret Paladin as a whole a “meme” spec…?

LMAO dear god I hope I got this wrong HAHAHA

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Wait, now I feel silly. Is this what I think the thread is talking about? Off spec classes? I never heard the term “meme” specs before in Vanilla. I thought the OP was referring to players who wants to join groups as Ret, Balance, Hemorrhage in raids, etc.

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I will be playing a meme spec. Lucky for me I hate raiding, and plan to gear up almost entirely through PvP (rank 14 here I come!).

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The guy who just started a thread about it was looking at it from the perspective of a top-end raid guild officer. From that one narrow perspective, it’s not an individual choice because the guild decides whether or not to take you. That’s also the only scenario where moonkin are considered to be terrible since their main problem is mana and not too many fights, outside of raid boss fights, last that long.

I think also that we may see some differences in the raid scene in classic vs. vanilla. In vanilla there was a huge healer shortage. So it wasn’t just that moonkin were bad, but that people were super angry at them for NOT playing a resto druid and alleviating the healer shortage. Will that same dynamic exist in classic where people will KNOW how valuable healers are from the start? We’ll know soon…

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