Which class is the most simplistic, yet still able to hold its own well enough in solo content and pvp especially (particularly battlegrounds.?) My main interests are DPS - healing a close second. I’d like a class that has a simple rotation (i.e. faceroll) but also nice quality of life abilities for soloing.
(Demon hunter is off the list I hate them from a lore perspective)
Guardian Druid
Honestly, Id say a Paladin is pretty lax to play. I just boosted and leveled this one. Paladins are strong, able to hold their own, and the rotation is extremely simple. Heavy hitting dps rotation. Not very sure about their healing.
Many tools to survive long and hold your own for quality of life soloing at an easy pace. It’s why I play it. It’s an extremely relaxed class to me and I’m never worried open world WM.
I would say bm hunter is easiest and can hold own. Next would be druid. Druid you can do alot of different things with.
This. Two buttons to parse 80%.
DH has two buttons. 3 if you are bold. Easy full room cleave and healing built into the kit…next to that is hunter or pally. Both classes have an unlimited kit and are almost impossible to play poorly
You know shamans are on the chopping black from the Nathria parses though… I’d rather not have a class that’s standing out this early in the expac.
BM Hunter is crazy easy… you just push everything as fast as you can and your pet tanks everything. Be Maldraxxus for the worst skill but a second abom pet.
The class with the least buttons on my bars is the demon hunter. I cannot even fill two bars, whereas with some classes, I can almost run out of room
There’s only ~12% between top heals and bottom heals so I’m not too worried.
There’s ~25% between top DPS and bottom DPS…so if I was a UH DK or Balance Druid…I would be worried.
Not to be too technical but it’s actually 25% difference between upper quartile median resto shaman vs. disc priest at the bottom (which is what they’d most look at, how the better players are doing), which is the most significant healer imbalance we’ve seen since WoD really.
They’ve been much tighter than that in recent expansions.
I don’t count Disc. They have too much DPS to not pay a HPS tax.
RSham to HPal aggregate HPS is ~12%.
Hunter, its the most noob friendly and you really dont need to know/do much.
You know though, holy paladins are marginally edging them out on DPS even!
They may have some hybrid tendencies, and I may be cackling on the inside laughing at disc’s misfortunes after being treated like dirt by discos for two expacs, but they should be in line with other healers.
I strongly recommend not going healer, you’re going to put in serious work at least at this point in the xpac
But that’s the FUN part of healing! Healing just gets more boring as the content ages.
No, I didn’t know that. I haven’t seen a single HPal yet. I disagree that Disc should be treated as “inline with other healers” in the HPS dept unless they also get their DPS toned down in a likewise manner. You can’t have both.
Case-in-point: HPal spent most of BfA as both #1 HPS and #1 H-DPS. Towards the end with purchasable Ineffable it was absolutely obscene. Hopefully Blizz doesn’t let that happen again.
We agree. And hey, if one spec had to be OP for a while, I’m glad it’s resto shamans and not druids or pallies or discs that have been in the spotlight since Legion.
I agree but the guy wanted “the most relaxing”