Rune Wishlist and Speculation

WoW Classic Season of Discovery
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Rogues:

  • Fan of Knives (Rogues generally lack AoE)
  • Unfair Advantage (Wrath talent) but make it work off Dodge and Parry and remove the CD, or make the CD per-mob, and make it the same rune slot as FoK
  • Cut to the Chase (Wrath talent) where certain finishers refresh Slice and Dice and/or Blade Dance
  • Combat Potency (Wrath talent) where OH hits can generate energy
  • Smoke Bomb, creating casting LoS anywhere to forcibly group mobs and alleviate ranged nukers from gibbing back row players
  • Killing Spree
  • Update Main Gauche to be actually worthwhile to use (more damage/threat) over Mutilate or Saber Slash
  • Update Just a Flesh Wound to activate on more than just Blade Dance, such as Main Gauche, Ghostly Strike, and Evasion

Warlocks:

  • Felguard, make him hit especially hard if Demo spec’d properly
  • Grimoire of Supremacy (MoP Talent), because cooler demons is always fun and Demo spec should feel good about actively using their demons instead of just using them as Sacrifice fodder
  • Alternatively, have Grimoire of Supremacy and make it so Doomguards and Infernals can be summoned anywhere, without sacrificing people, and permanently controlled
  • Some kind of passive rune that dramatically amps up pet scaling from player stats, including health and damage
  • Shadowfury, I just think its neat
  • Pandemic, for Affliction to scale better into late game
  • Fel Synergy, help Demo Locks keep their pets healthy
  • Any number of passives/procs that allow Warlocks to feel OK about casting Soul Fire, seriously, perhaps so it becomes a signature nuke for Demo
  • Update Metamorphosis so that Shadow Cleave isn’t utter trash, just straight up increase the damage and/or make it scale with skills other than Shadow Bolt-specific modifiers or else Tank Locks are going to Hellfire themselves to death. The only thing that really modifies Shadow Bolt right now are useless or anemic, because Shadow Cleave is instant, Meta doesn’t have mana problems, and stunning/dazing people isn’t really all that good

Professions:

  • Just make a rune slot that amps up professions in some way, like giving us passive bonuses for particular professions, grants unique activated skills based on professions, etc
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if typhoon or thunderstorm are a rune i’m gonna play that class even if i dont like it. if both, then I already know what my main and alt at 40 will be.

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a rune that makes paladins instantly spec into holy, lock them out of the ret tree and give them a selection of pretty dresses. also rolling on anything without +healing gear suspends your account for 30 days

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Poor Warrior is upset…

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upset that there are no pretty dresses that represent just how paladins truly feel (heal/buff bots)? absolutely correct. very astute of you!

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You obviously won’t get Nautre’s Swiftness but you will be performing worse on many bosses who are mechanical and therefore immune to bleeds. Enjoy.

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i dont care about parsing so ill be fine. I use demo shout and taunt loose adds on healers for the success of the group over my own DPS. a lost art

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I really want Firestone Warlocks to be viable. Maybe something like “Your melee weapon ‘chance on hit’ effects make your next Soul Fire cast instantly and not expend a soul shard” (And no, this is not ONLY because I want Thunderfury prio in MC)

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an actual good feral bleed that can crit.

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Why do people say mana is a huge problem in classic? Its called management and its a big part of the game play.

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Boring I know but Bladestorm (usable in any stance & gladiator stance.

Can’t forget heroic leap but okay I’ll wake up now

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More Meta Lock support runes that change abilities into tanking ones.

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a rune that allows dots to crit for locks and shadow priests.

a rune that gives a totem menu that you can program to drop 4 assigned totems at a reduced costs and then you can “pick up” those totems for a mana back thing maybe.

a 2 hand enhancement rune that competes with dual wield .

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call it nearsighted or something. not a bad rune idea

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I think it would be cool to turn 2h enhance shamans weapon into a Totem like in warcraft 3 with the tauren holding a big ol log and have it passively give you 4 totems wherever you walk without putting them down constantly. could be very powerful though

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i mean they already gave pallies a rune to be a mobile tremor totem so the functionality is there.

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Says the warrior lmao.

To answer your question, mana management as a healer is very important, but as a dps, it is not reasonable. Sure, you can not clip your dots and such, but in order to get mana regen going, you need to be not casting (i.e. wanding) for like 3 seconds, and then that gets you the mana regen from your spirit, which isn’t much if you dont have spirit gear.

(Us warlocks have it easy, we can just life tap and borrow our healers’ mana)

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Some kind of AOE for Feral Druids (tank and dps versions)

3 target swipe just isn’t going to cut it.

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these are likely retail players where mana means nothing and their ADHD brains have been appeased to always be allowed to be casting a skill since mana doesnt matter

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For my class, I’d like to see demonic portals/gates, unstable affliction, soul well for stones, more drain soul damage so it can be a proper execute, grimiores for big pets, fel armor spell damage passive from tbc/wotlk, and finally soul shatter aggro drop from tbc/wotlk.