Except it wasn’t, they rebalanced every single class massively during vanilla due to how bad the initial design was. And even then still didn’t get it right and required more rebalancing in BC before getting it pretty close.
And when they saw something that wasn’t working they fixed it, they didn’t just let it sit on the wall and rot.
You misunderstand me… I never said the game was balanced perfectly… it was balanced in a different way. Classes had positive aspects and negative aspects… they were all different and played differently.
Last night I was doing battlegrounds on retail and me and 3 other people (one of which is an arena master) were marveling at the fact that fire mages can heal themselves from 10% hp to full somehow.
There’s no reason to change it. Leave it as it is. It’ll force people to think more about what they want to play, and hopefully make them better at that spec because they actually have to work at it.
If they want to try another spec, they’re free to get tons of gold and respec when they need - or to make another character and learn the ropes of that spec. Then they can log in to whichever character fits the need of whatever they’re doing.
Not really. Name a hybrid that suddenly became even a decent dpser, or one that became a solid tank. The only classes I can think of that had “major” reworks that drastically changed how they were played were locks and hunters.
An example of this in TBC is that at some point fear ward was given to every priest instead of just dwarves. The beginning of class/race homogenization.
Classes being rebalanced and reiterated on is not the same thing as class homogenization. Just because a class was altered during vanilla does not mean that the game itself was broken.
14 years later the classes are all in a worse state than they have ever been.
“I can’t make money because I’m a tank.”
So create more than 1 character. Rogue is a good choice because it can also open boxes. If you’re not already a rogue, I don’t know why you wouldn’t want a rogue alt. They are good farmers and open your boxes. Just get rend swords on the guy, and that’s pretty much all it needs to be a furbolg farming machine.
This is objectively false anyway. Tons of people have been doing it for years. People just want to stand on top of org roof all day and hope money falls into their bags.