There is no world where “bloated classes also need addons and weakauras tacked on top in order to play at even a decent level” is healthy for the game.
This has needed to happen for a loooong time. The irony is, most of the people complaining that their spec is getting easier aren’t even playing it right in the first place.
Besides, complexity will get reintroduced, this isn’t going to be permanent. Pruning xpacs are always followed by xpacs that give us more stuff. Hopefully now though the new stuff will be transparent in how it works. Their main goal appears to be removing all the secret under the hood interactions in classes that have to be learned about in a 3rd party site guide instead of through playing the class in game.
Now, it’s WoW, so it won’t be perfect ofc. I’m expecting lots of pain points. But all the whining has got to stop as It’s pointless. The game NEEDS to be newer player friendly to combat the ever declining raiding population. People quit games all the time for various different reasons and for years WoW has failed to replenish those numbers in a meaningful way. If you’ve ever recruited for mythic raiding you know this pain.
People forget they aren’t planning on making raiding easier, just accounting for the lack of combat addons. The difficulty in the game will still be there. And honestly i’m predicting the first tier is going to be MUCH harder than what we are currently playing. A lot of addon dependent players are going to be unable to clear mythic content next tier, mark my words.
I mean by it’s very definition whining is not constructive criticism. If it looks like constructive criticism and it smells like constructive criticism and it sounds like constructive criticism then it’s actually constructive criticism. Whining, however, looks very different.
In a world that is changing radically, people who play nostalgic video games don’t want change, and that is where many of the complaints come from. I suggest rolling classes back to vanilla levels, but Blizzard can’t do that, so they have to try and prune, or it will just be a mess for new players. They want new blood here. Us old players can only buy so many 90 dollar AH mounts, they need fresh people. But again, nostalgia is a very powerful drug. People don’t like change in video games, even if it is good change, which for Blizzard devs is often not so good.
The depth and nuance of WoW is a feature, not a bug. This entire philosophy is wrong.
There is room for streamlining specs that have orders of magnitude more spinning plates to manage, but this pruning makes the last pruning, which itself was a drunken chainsaw massacre through the spellbooks, look like nothing.
OK I was overzealous in my statement, I will admit. Not everyone is like that.
But a good amount are.
And quite frankly, many are frustrated overall about a bunch of stuff, and its piling up. Thats why Ive been skimming announcements, focusing on things I know I will like.
Honestly I’ll consider it a massive W if all these supposed tryhard “cE rAiDeR eLiTeS” which this being the straw that breaks their back actually sticks to the plan to leave “for good”.
Trash taking itself out is a very nice thing especially if they take their ilk with them. Hope they go enjoy Wildstar that game made for hardcores by hardcores. I hear it is doing so great these days
I get that we’re all frustrated on one level or another with something coming to the expansion or not. But we need to direct that at Blizzard, not each other.
