Swapping Mains?

My main right now is an MM Hunter but I’m tempted to swap to something with a bit more group support/utility for the next raid.

Here are my options:

Enhance/Ele Shaman
Shadow Priest
Balance Druid
Retribution Paladin

Which do you think comes with the most fun/interesting gameplay? Any other suggestions for alts that provide some good group utility?

Honestly none are really fun maybe a ret because of heals on the go and does damage that depends on your play style .A ret is in your face while the others are from afar.

Elemental, once you got Ele you’ll refuse to play anything else

Don’t do ret (unless ur only doing heroic raids) their damage on fights is pitiful, and the utility isn’t very useful in current raid. Especially if there’s a prot/holy pal, since all but 1 aura is useless. I mean what jerk off thought ret aura was even remotely mediocre? News flash blizz not only is ret aura completely counter to paladin class fantasy its also a completely useless ability, AND it’s on gcd… at least ret got shield of righteous or w/e (even tho ret doesn’t use a shield… herp derp…) and consecrate… you know the ability that actually hurts your dps to use…

This is coming from someone who loves and used to main ret until a few weeks ago. If your gonna pvp that’s about as useful as ret gets.

UhDK is another great choice, amazing utility thats extremely useful in raid(norm-mythic) /m+/pvp and their damage is absolutely amazing.

Boomkin right now are amazing. They have survivability CDS. They can offheal. They can speed boost. Root. Typhoon. Burst. AoE. There is so much in their kit, and on top of that they are S-Tier DPS and on the easier side to play.

Unless they are gutted in 9.2 (9.0.5 doesnt nerf them, and its doubtful 9.1will have large class changes) They will be on top for most, if not all the expansion. And even if they were 5th in the DPS rankings, they still would be invaluable.

Definitely druid or shaman. Druid if you want more open world utility and different forms/affinities, shaman if you want endless totem utility, fun burst CDs, and don’t mind only being a wolf or raptor.

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ret and enh are useless in raids, pick ele, shadow or boomie depending on what your group is missing.

balance druid. option to tank, heal, ranged dps, melee dps. druid doesnt have a huge amount of ulitity for raid. we’re talking, innervate, battle rez, stampeding roar. off heals i guess if you need them. the other specs on your list dont really have much either i dont think. so id say balance has the most?

where druids utility really shines is in mythic plus. innervate, battle rez, stampeding roar, typhoon, vortex, offheals, shift to bear and taunt, treants, roots, cyclone, dispel, soothe, aoe interrupt (id rather have a single 20 sec interrupt but whatever lol)

All the classes you listed have less utility than a hunter :joy:

I started with my boomkin. I don’t like the rotation. It’s strong, but swapping back and forth between solar and lunar isn’t fun for me

Retribution Paladin offers no raid utility. Play something else if you want it.

Enhance Shaman is the only DPS that I don’t play absolutely horribly so I guess I’m the wrong type to answer :crazy_face:

Swapping mains? In this economy? You’ve got to be kidding me!

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Shadow priests are fun and have a lot of utility. Just be ready to be asked to switch to heals on occasion.

Literally every guild I have ever been a part of asks their shadow priests to heal on occasion. lol

I’d say elemental. They can be a lot of fun. Their toolkit is just massive compared to my DK.

Thinking heavily about Ele shaman because of the complexity of the rotation. My biggest hurdle for them is, do they really have much useful utility in raid?

Enhance is the funnest it has ever been. Elemental is pretty fun too.
Shadow Priest is very strong right now.
Balance druid isn’t very fun, but convoke is game breakingly good.
Ret is Ret.

All are pretty fun specs with Druid lagging behind IMO. What you need to worry more about if you’re aiming to make the change for next raid is what kind of nerfs are coming.

Shaman should skate by unscathed. Shadow Priest will prob take a little hit. Ret probably be fine. Druid going to get a nerf - convoke is getting hit or reworked.