I have started to see a pattern thats pretty obvious. Its always said dont go to the forums to determine what to play cause the forums are for complaining buts thats exactly how you gauge how well a class is doing… the leas complaining the better they are doing.
Go to the shaman or rogue forums and they are active with discussion or complaints. Now go to the mage forum. Sure ull see some complaints but after a few days ull realize the mage forum is pretty quiet and new threads dont pop off as often compared to the classes that are suffering.
Idk how blizz determines player satisfaction with classes but how active there respective class section is the more dissatisfied the player base of that class is.
Just a p.s. they should just use this to determine if they should work on the class and not actually read some of the really bad suggestions.
Blizzard has the ability to watch what characters are being played, how much they are being played and what content is being used by those characters.
Now if they see a lot of complaining about a class but hardly anyone is using it then they have to decide, is it because of what is being said in the complaints or is it that most players just don’t find that class interesting?
i mean if we go by this than with how active the druid forms is combined with the lack of a single blue post then nobody’s doing worse than druids and blizzard should just come out and say we would prefer if you stopped playing this class
You go to warcraftlogs and you can see actual data that isn’t ruined with ridiculous takes in GD. I’m not saying GD doesn’t get it right sometimes, but far and away the best approach to understanding spec performance in any given content is to review logs.
That is how you determine whether a spec is “doing well”, if your definition of “doing well” is performance.
If you want to get a better idea as to the quality of a spec’s design, you are far better off joining that class’s discord.
My fist class was a rogue, has always been a rogue and that was since 2007. We always complain because it seems like we are perfectionists but we are also driven to be our best. I am not sure that the forums are a good barometer of how a class is doing.
But it’s still fun. Do they want change for the sake of change? The talent to turn barrage into AoE rapid fire feels awesome. The class tree cleanup was superb. The spec is just more fluid and lost its clunkiness. Intimidate as an AoE stun without a pet? It’s just all good changes. I’m maining Hunter in TWW and I won’t be whining about anything, thank goodness.
I love the Sentinel hero spec, but then I love love love owls and spirit owls and such things. It’s right up my alley.
You would use objective statistics from Raider io or Warcraft Logs to determine this, not level of whininess on the forums.
They use feedback.
You need to distinguish player satisfaction from class success. Resto druid being the top healer pick in M+ doesn’t mean resto druid is the most fun or well loved class, it just means it’s performing well.
Going to the forums to judge based off complains is just dumb. Play the classes and see if you like it. Need you be reminded this is a video game? It’s intended to be fun. And if you’re trying to choose what’s objectively best for your raid/battlegrounds/keys, you should refer to websites with statistics.
The issue here is even when a class is generally doing well, you still get people complaining because there is something they don’t like personally.
Warlock in MoP had forum people complaining a lot for example, but there is a fairly large consensus on other spaces (reddit, mmo-champion, other parts of the forums, etc), that would say that warlock in MoP was one of its best iterations.
Remember the Hunters screaming at the heavens in season 1 of Dragonflight about how useless they were, at the same time they were the #1 single-target DPS spec in the entire game?
