everything will die in like 2 seconds 
The options for other races to overcome not having +weapon skill are few, janky and hard to get at level 60. With the level cap being 25, weapon skill is going to stand out even more for the raid because there are no options to overcome it.
it doesn’t matter. everything will fall over and die like cardboard cutouts.
If it doesn’t matter, why not change it? SoD is the time to try new things
The open world will be a joke, the only thing that will matter in pve is the raids that are balanced around the runes where… +weapon skill will matter the most.
you are overestimating how difficult they’re gonna make these low lvl raids. they’re gonna be a snooze fest
still not a reason to not fix +weapon skill
BIG TRUE
It’s still an issue at level 60 endgame regardless.
Not sure if that’s happening with Way of the Earth. Unless they lock tank runes to tank spec somehow, if I’m a resto / ele shaman, I’m just running around with +30% life, 10% DR, 6% crit suppression permanently lol. But yeah paladin healers are still harder to kill.
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To my mind I’ve always felt like this problem is easily solvable. You have 4 main weapon archetypes (daggers, maces, swords, axes) and 4 races to both factions. Give daggers to trolls and elves, maces to Tauren and gnomes (remove from humans), axes to orcs and dwarves, and swords to humans and forsaken. Not only does it help with making the race choice more impactful than just “be this or you’re wrong” but it also gives some of those weapons that are sub-bis new life in different hands. They’re gonna add in more weapons for sure so why not make them more varied instead of just this isn’t swords or axes so they don’t matter.
I expect (hope, really) to at least see a handful of additional +weapon skill items in different slots so that Edgies aren’t the only solution for non-orc/human.
Time to play a dwarf rogue tank and not care about wep skill!
Also all alliance paladins will be Ret so not too worried about ally being op in PvP. There’s going to be shaman ele tanks blowing them up all day I’m sure.
I personally think it would be cool if in game there were weapon specialization quest/attunements lines for each type of weapon where by the end of it you have mastered whatever weapon path you chose and get +weapon skill
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that sounds kinda neat
i wish we had a real classic+ with that and other good but conservative changes.
Edgemasters have been fine in the game for 20 years.
#nochanges