Don’t waste your time bro, these people literally don’t want to understand. They can only classify things by extremes, that’s just how their brain works. Black or white and nothing else.
If you bring up relevant counterpoints, like devourer DH still being capable of auto attacks cause they wield glaives despite being a “ranged” spec, they’ll twist the argument with some irrational logic that disregards the initial point.
By their own logic, devourer DH is a melee spec cause it can weave auto attacks in between casts, but they’ll never admit that cause “intellect is for casting and strength is for melee”, eventhough ret is basically a caster at this point with strength and somehow everyone has forgotten that casters can also swing their weapons.
Their entire argument centers around festering strike being a melee requirement and they bolster it with auto attacks. The issue is they disregard that the rest of the toolkit is ranged for a reason they think is “just flavor”.
They claim we are pulling the class towards a fantasy that doesn’t align with its identity, but the identity they themself adhere to is that of a knight not a necromancer.
They don’t even know what a necromancer is, in their heads necro is a warlock. Whereas in all lores across games and fantasy, necromancy is an archetype, a theme, one that isn’t role based. Just like how the light and being holy is not caster based and is used by paladins and priests.
Then they’ll fixate on paladin and priest to argue melee vs ranged, doing exactly the same circular logic they’re expectedly stuck in.
You can’t beat stupid, the more you argue the more they’ll beat you with experience… and there are a lot more of these people on these forums who flock together as a group.
Save yourself from the mental anguish of trying to convince people who simply do not have the capacity to do so.
