I think it depends on the class, and also depends on the player.
Let’s take Warriors for example. They got Intervene, and Shattering Throw Back. Those two abilities excite so many Warrior players a lot because of their niche uses, especially PvPers. That was a great job by Blizzard un-pruning those abilities and giving them back to Warrior players.
There are others of course, but since Warrior is one of the characters I play that’s an un-prune I really was looking at. I think un-pruning as a concept is a good idea, but the way Blizzard went about it was not great for certain classes.
I think DH is a popular class because its simple, like you said. But the big thing you left out is it looks freaking bada$$. If you gave another class the same toolkit but wrapped up in a different style I don’t think it would have nearly as many players playing it.
Not at all, and Curse of Exhaustion is wonderful to have back.
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Yeah I don’t get why people are so against assisting with things that aren’t your main role. Like it only helps your group and all. The amount of times I’ve helped healers in M+ during bursting and quaking weeks…
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Well I finally got a double reason to pick devastator for Warrior in SL
The row of talent is pretty much a dps row and I could use the extra keybind as well.
Don’t use the abilities … no one is forcing you to use everything .
The game as it is now isn’t that much about skill anymore. Reflexes yes, and speed of hand and eye, those things are important but the game does so much for you now. It lights up things at the time to use them, outside references tell you rotations to use and so many effects are passive and outside your direct control. It’s more like the game does it for you and things only go wrong if you move the wrong way.
I do go and do it, to the best of my ability. I just like the idea of being given more choice in how to do that. People seem to be getting excited in a sad way about so-called “button bloat” but the thing is, the action bars are adaptable. You don’t have to have something there if you don’t want it. The problem in the past is that so many things were removed until the classes were a shadow of their former selves. How many times earlier on did I see the jokes about mages and their 3-button attacks or how simplistic the hunter class is to play. I think its better to have more choice and not use everything than to have little choice and be bored.
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Can switch to shield mid combat im pretty sure
I thought you couldn’t switch gear in combat. I feel like I’ve tried, but even then I have to give up second wind for a once and a blue moon shot at saving the group and not being destroyed as I’m geared to do damage and not stay alive.
Man having corruption in my spell book is so flavorful!
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I never said this. I only said that it’s pointless to put a shield on if the tank dies, not that you couldn’t try to take their place.
I believe it’s more beneficial to try to tank as Fury (for example) and keep both weapons so you’ll have access to all your abilities.
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You take all the access to abilities you want but it won’t help when you get smashed and die. As much as you want to fight it the shield does help your survival and thats the point of giving your things like shield slam is so you can still do some damage while doing it
Actually I think my favorite new spell is DND for frost. It’s so neat how it literally does nothing for them besides waste a GCD. Good button.
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I was wrong… man switching to that 1h/shield macro in a normal/heroic dungeon for sure fulfills any glorious runs.
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Can you just go away if you’re not gonna actually contribute anything? Again if you don’t like the ability don’t use it and stop complaining like a child
Even then let’s say the boss is at 5%. Why wouldn’t I just deep d!ck the boss and help group? Why swap to a shield and waste time?
Any healer with a grain of salt can keep me up. Unless it’s like a raid boss and those things have two tanks. So I still don’t see the point. If the tank dies at the beginning of the fight wipe and kick him.
If the tank is dead that’s probably going to happen anyways. You’re acting like putting on a shield suddenly makes you a Prot Warrior. Shield Slam doesn’t help you live longer and that extra 2800 armor might keep you alive for an extra hit but without all your tank abilities, it’s not going to get you far at all.
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And tell me what’s your contribution aside being an echo chamber using situational garbage arguments that happens almost never in the game?
It’s not like you have the greatest argument buddy…
I will simple dismiss your argument like someone said already…
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Okay lets say that 5% is a raid boss. You’re not gonna deep d!ck the boss. It would be more beneficial to your raid to be able to take a couple hits and hold the boss still so the rest of your dps can go ham and kill it. Again it is 100% situational and obviously if you’re in a normal 5 man with a 5% boss your just gonna kill it. There are situations in raids especially in progression where this can really help and to completely dismiss it as useless is dumb
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Ok, but a raid has two tanks. So again my argument would be me and the other 17 dps are going to go ham.
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