So the Shadowlands preview said we’re getting a return to class identity and gave us a lot of good examples:
Paladins getting auras, rogues getting poisons, warlocks getting curses all regardless of their spec, ect.
I’m personally very excited for what they’ve listed, but Warrior stances were notably absent from the list. What else was missing that you guys want to see the devs attempt to implement as skills that really give you a sense of class identity?
I love the cycle of wow
First people stomp their feet at ability bloat
They prune
Then people stomp their feet at prune
They ability bloat
Rinse and repeat for the end of time
Don’t forget:
community forum posters gatekeep against complaints they don’t like.
Tbf, Blizz did go overboard with the prune, and cosistently insisted on giving us abilities back through talents.
So we rarely got new abilities. Just recycled old abilities
They likely didn’t list everything that they’re going to add back just so there are some surprises down the line.
Survival hunter going back to being a ranged spec. gonna be awkward pulling out a small crossbow from my butt to use the newly returned Kill Shot.
They didn’t provide the full list, just examples.
I’d expect to see stances coming too.
-Breathes in-
LIGHTWEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLL!
Its funny because we used to get complaints on the forums about specs feeling so similar within a class, especially the pures.
As someone who has played warrior since Vanilla, I genuinely hope they do not bring back stances.
Give me shattering throw, heroic strike and skull banner please.
More buttons to press in all aspects of the game. Your monk rotation will be 12 buttons. For Monk class identity means not slotting any weapons but your hands and feet start at item level 475…but wait since the squish they are now 300. Level 60. No wait thats skill. Also you will have to hit the space bar twice while rotating the mouse for the full Bruce Lee effect. Hope that clears up class identity.
TL:DR Blizzard has no clue what class identity is anymore. All those people have left the company !
You mean we are getting back everything they take away from us every other expac?
It’s probably not going to happen, but symbiosis for druids was one of my favorites in MoP.
Need pet abilities back for different species. Also deterrence a must have.
I mean, they’ve pruned for 3 expansions straight. They haven’t added anything permanent to classes since like… MOP. I think it’s time for some new, permanent abilities not tied to a stupid artifact.
I would love back a lot of abilities that were turned into talents, and then get us new talents. Abilities like Phoenix Flames come to mind. Baseline abilities or artifact abilities that were removed or turned into talents.
Abilities like Symbiosis would be fun to have back.
They hinted at warriors doing damage with a sword and board so stances might be in the realm of possibility…
Super casual Dragonslayers did this.
Us pvp’ers mostly did this. Which is just. Bringing back niche class design is what’s good for wow… Now, they need to add PvP vendors 
Demo locks demon form.
No. Survival is great now. It literally served no purpose ever before it became Melee.
The removal of class homogenization.