Demon Hunters were a bad idea, No one likes 4 button rotations.
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Im looking foward to SL, it because of these changes im playing my lock again. Ive been on beta and ptr and loving it.
Well no, it’s an example to show how useless it is to me. I’m not going to waste time hunting shield upgrades for the snowball’s chance in hell I have to use it. It’s just bad game design, because me a dps warrior isn’t going to have the gear to survive till the Tank gets back just because I put on a shield.
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Indeed some cases are just a joke…
the most common is ret paladins using shield of the righteous… as if they ever would do that I had someone the other day telling me that they would use corruption as destro only to justify and glorify this terrible unpruning.
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You clearly never played back in the day then. There were so many wipes saved by a warrior throwing on a shield or druid going bear form to hold out. Again just because it’s something you don’t want to do doesn’t make it bad game design. It’s just something you don’t want to do and that’s your choice
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I have and I died. I used to stance dance on my Warrior all the time back in the day. It saves you 10 seconds until you drop. I’m not geared the same as a Tank. I’m not geared to survive. I’m gear to do damage. I’m going to die without the Tank. Especially now with how high damage is.
situational situation as counter argument?
give me a break… just don’t try to justify garbage.
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the corruption one is weird, im not sure if there is ever a niche situation where you would use that.
im assuming a lot of people defending the unpruning havent actually thought much about it. much of the unpruned spells are just not as fun to press with the gcd, or they’re completely worthless in most scenarios.
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Yeah things have changed a lot since then. In Wrath I could change stances on the fly to be a tank. Now, you have to get out of combat to do that. Only Druids really kept that ability and they can only do it effectively (some what) if they spec into Guardian Affinity.
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Except all the people playing demon hunters.
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it’s been YEARS since destro stop using corruption… it’s just doesnt make any sense… maybe they are excited but they havent seen things like they unpruned things but also removed things such as blessings for ret paladins for example.
Ever think maybe you’re just bad? There isn’t that big of a gearing difference anymore between tanks and dps. Yes tanks have certain modifiers to help them but the gear is essentially the same. Again just because you don’t want to do something doesn’t make it bad.
Yes again as others have said these are niche abilities that add flavor to the class. They do help in those situations and thats the point. Just because every single ability you have isn’t used 100% in your rotation doesnt make them useless. You just can open your brain up to anything more then I press bottons and do damage
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Actually I did like managing about 15 totems and all of my skills and I did it well instead of being easy and brainless like DHs.
The shield abilities would be useful in an emergency tank situation, but you can’t swap in a shield in combat (just tested on PTR). If they make weapon swaps in combat possible again those abilities would have some use, but until then, the shield abilities are basically useless.
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I actually think unpruning is one of the worst ideas they have ever had. It’s literally a regression of progress that has been on the game over the past several expansions. Annoying, obnoxious buttons to press for no real reason other than for the sake of having them.
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Since when can you not swap weapons in combat? That has always been a thing unless your speaking M+ in which yes you can’t switch anything but there was a rumor that was changing
I think folks that think like you and like this “unpruning” need to watch more closely wowhead news and spells.
Just some observation.
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If that’s true, then point it out to them. Well, you are pointing it out to them, but do it in a suggestion or whatever. All these changes are still being tested and if you think that is a positive improvement that should be made, tell 'em so.
Or maybe you should look at useful ways to use these abilities outside of how they make you do bigger numbers. There’s uses for them you just don’t want to be bothered
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I see most if not all Warriors outside of the 1% ignoring this. In a standard dungeon and open world setting this will never get used. Sure you can make an argument for M+ and Raiding, but it’s not going to be used by like 99% of the playerbase and I’d rather get back something the whole class can use freely as much as they want then something situationally.
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