Still blows my mind that Mages and Paladins are getting reworks every other week and Priests in general have been stomped on and left in the dust for years lol
Let’s face it. We’re either getting a “class overhaul” (lol not Holy tho amirite?) in 11.0.7/11.1 that they’re very excited about (but can’t talk about yet), or they’re going to give us a post with PW:GFY 2.0.
My money is on the latter.
They’ll never give us PW:GFY2. That post was absolutely laced with venom, even if that wasn’t the intent, and they have to be aware of how terrible the optics were. The only other blue post that gets talked about like that is “we’d rather you not play demonology”, which people haven’t talked about for years except for in reference to PW:GFY.
My bet is that the blue (Wraith?) was in panic mode because they were just scrambling to hammer the turd they sat on until October 2022 into something workable for release a month later, so all they could do was explain why they couldn’t do x/y/z when faced with the question of “why is literally every class getting all these fun toys while you’re only taking away priest’s toys?”
Their strategy of light changes to the class every expansion is a proven and massive failure and their approach in Dragonflight was to do nothing but contain the damage while they finish making evoker the best thing ever. They have to be going for a foundational rework now that all the dev resources that evoker was gobbling up are (theoretically) free.
I would love it actually if they just straight up designed a new class before they even make the sweeping changes that Priest so desperately needs.
Oh man… I can visualize it now…
Behold the new Tinker Class!.. Priest no changes.
I’ve been hoping for a tinkerer class for as long as I have played Warcraft games. Would love to see it materialize, it’s a great time in the game’s history for it as there’s so much more functionality that the game has for things like held/charged abilities and whatnot.
I think there’s more hope of that happening that shadow being reworked in a meaningful way beyond the very basic changes. I would love to see a legion-level of rework to return it to what it was prior to that abomination of an expansion (I mean, next to shadowlands, that is, but that day will never come. I feel wow is too late in it’s life-cycle to have that drastic of a rework happen again to priest. They seem quite hard-headed in holding on to it and all the poor decisions after it.
I actually posted my Tinker class and spec breakdown ideas a while back here…
I do think there is a lot of unique untapped flavor enough to fully flesh out the Tinker class fantasy and if gone the route or similar to what I propose or better then I would really love to try it out.