I enjoy the squishy classes/specs with good damage. It feels good to do good damage and the complexity of surviving is a lot of fun in PvP. I have 7 level 70’s and have played retail for 4 months, since October 2022. Marksmanship Hunter makes the 3rd main made mediocre overnight because of huge nerfs and by far the most egregious and damning in PvP. They are incredibly ineffective in PvP now. Having to swap from one class to the next to the next after all of the time and effort I put into gearing, learning, and optimizing each of them is not worth it. It’s literally not even possible to gear to the same level as other players at this point because of trophies of strife and vaults I have missed out on. So I have the choice of playing my 3 most geared mediocre classes or moving on from WoW due to Blizzard induced barriers to my favorite aspect of the game. The friends that joined me at the same time in October had a mixed experience, depending on whether they chose a class Blizzard seems to love or not. The choice is obvious, there is no third option, I’m not going to gear a FOURTH class that I enjoy less just for Blizzard to nerf them into mediocrity too. I mean, theoretically if they nerf enough classes eventually they will all be balanced, right? No, that would require them to stop buffing their favorites that already dominated squishy DPS pre-nerf.
I have played for 4 months and gone through gearing, optimizing, and learning 3 classes/specs I enjoyed, all of which are now impotent with no sign of any reversals whilst many classes that were unkillable to squishy DPS have gotten buffed. I obviously chose wrong, three times, but how was I to know Blizzards manic way of “balancing” classes out of viability. In my mind, the reason the classes I chose that basically only have damage going for them wouldn’t be nerfed into oblivion is because they are incredibly soft, right? Easy af to kill. Seems logical I so naïvely thought.
Since Tuesday, I tried to just stick out the nerf because it’s my only option other than quitting, I retalented my MM hunter in the god awful new tree, and tried my hand at PvP. It’s like playing ungeared versus geared players despite being almost as geared (because of switching twice, my gear is a little behind and took a ton of time and effort to get to this level on each character). Maybe if this hadn’t already happened twice already I wouldn’t be at the point of quitting, but I cannot fathom how some people have theoretically paid to play this game for 19 years when this is apparently a normal thing for Blizzard.
Anyway, that’s why my friends and I unsubbed as new players despite Dragonflight being a really fun and mostly good expac. It’s not the skill gap, not the learning curve, not the facing hardcore players as a new player, not the community, not a lack of content, not queue times. Just Blizzards constant b.s. sucking the fun out of the game for those of us unlucky enough to enjoy classes/specs that Blizzard seems to want dead in PvP. There is nothing fun about the constant looming threat that our favorite classes/specs will be turned into mediocre trash overnight. Don’t worry, I have no delusions about this making it to Blizzturd and magically changing their ridiculous way of doing business. I just can’t see myself continuing to financially reward Blizzard every month and continue to waste my time, effort, and money for nothing. 4 subs gone just like that.
I have until Feb 5th if anyone wants my gold on Dalaran (Alliance side).