Because blizzard failed pretty badly at initial class balance in vanilla. As evidenced by them having to a class review of every class in vanilla, read that again, every class not just hybrids.
In the case of hybrids part of those class reviews were to make their non healing specs more viable.
Why were the still so far behind after TBC?
Because blizzard was still trying balance them with utility in BC, and while it kind of worked(hybrids were more welcome as non healers than in vanilla) it didn’t quite bring them up to par. By wrath hybrids were fine.
So in three years, their master plan was still failing on a grand scale?
And again, hybrid tax…
And by wrath, hybrids were, oddly enough, getting homogenized.
And again, even if you are right in LK, it wasn’t their goal in vanilla.
Yes that is indeed the case, we know they clearly failed with their initial class designs as every class got a review in vanilla.
In the case of hybrids part of that review was aimed at making non healing specs more viable.
And yes it took until wrath for them to give up on the utility instead of just dps balancing as it wasn’t working. And BTW wrath was old talent trees and pre any pruning so long before homogenization started.
Every class is still getting reviews…
And again, “more viable” doesn’t mean what you claim it should.
And, what you seem to have forgotten about…or are now ignoring…is that your rationale for free respecs is wrong.
DPS warriors actually changed a lot in how they were played pre and post talent revamp. There were no DW dps warriors pre talent revamp.
He’s just trolling. His posts always just have this circular lack of reasoning that ensures the argument continues.
Classes get balance changes and expansions typically have major class changes.
But we are not seeing classes across the board get a massive review in mid patch since vanilla.
People level, and run dungeons, as off specs to level up. We did just fine.
The real issue, is just the shortage of tanks in general.
Random question; Is the respect cost decay a thing in Vanilla? My memory is suspect at the best of times and vanilla was a long time ago.
IE, if you DONT respect for 6 months, does the cost start to come back down?
This is what I found at wowwiki.
Changing a character’s talent build is called respeccing or is referred to as a respec. Characters can unlearn all of their talents (becoming untalented) at their respective class trainers, at a cost. Unlearning talents scales up the more times it is done: 1 gold, 5 gold, 10 gold, 15 gold, etc., up to 50 gold.
The cost to unlearn talents decays over time. This cost will be reduced by a rate of 5 gold per month to a minimum of 10 gold.
Yeh I thought that was the case, im just not confident relying on my own memory as an accurate source at this point.
Cheers.
Still avoiding the actual point… Typical of you.
Yep. It ramps up, and then degrades over time.
My brief time in retail on this warrior taught me I can heal for millions per battleground as Fury.
What.
The self heals and survivability is over the top to the highest degree. Trying to kill a healer? Hahahahahahahaha
If they change the speccing mechanic then there will be a TON more gold out there, it’s a gold sink.
Fitting, considering this generation and modern culture…
I thought the first respec was only like 10s?