Visualizing Spec Disparity in RSS

Hmmm

I never noticed how bear and bare are basically both homonyms and antonyms

I just had… I just had a game… a game with no arms, no ret, no bm, and no demo. @_@

SHADOW PRIEST, OUTLAW, AND DH!!! IT WAS THE BEST GAME IN WEEKS!

Ur moms a homonym!

How would it be an antonym?

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Just you meant for them to bear or carry/keep in mind.

While bare implies naked, lack of, or not present/not carry.

So it’s like you told him to keep nothing in mind.

Toilet at work thoughts

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until this patch i also believed that was on the table, but it seems clear now that it just isn’t. it’d be great if ret was viable without being oppressive(it was before 10.0.7 lmao) but when the level of work blizz is willing to hand in is only up to the task of a hamfisted extinction event or nothing, i can’t see a fair case for the former

I get it. I don’t know.

I want ret deleted at this point… So sick of seeing them. I just want blizzard to give a damn about their game.

didn’t read the replies before mine but i’m sure some complete moron cited the amount of times they were nerfed as a way to imply they’re fine now

idk how anyone can be stupid enough to use that argument, if being nerfed automatically means the spec was in a healthy place it wouldn’t have received a very justified second or even third nerf

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I don’t get it man. Ret is just so dominant. Every match it’s the same. No bops. No freedoms. Nothing. They are still doing 20-30% more damage then everyone else. I mean, If I can get good uptime on a target, I can match it, but ret might as well just a caster at this point.

Like in this last game I’m in. Ret does 3.4 million to my 2.1 million. Does the same amount of healing. 200k+ loh. Doesn’t even use it every round or does anything to help. Still gets wins. I’m legitimately floored.

That said, ignoring everything else, it just feels like they have damage for a go way too often. I wish Doomwinds was on a one minute CD, ranged, and couldn’t be disarmed…

There’s always, always an Arms warr.

Ret is just overloaded atm, a spec like that cannot be strong without being overpowered.

It has a nearly full mid range offensive kit. It has 1min offensive cooldowns which let it synergize with pretty much everything and out rotate most specs defensive options.

On the same note it has two fairly strong 1min defensive cooldowns, and on top of that has additional longer cd defensive options in bubble, bop, and now magic bop.

It has insanely powerful teamwide utility in a low cooldown defensive wall for teamates(that also makes the ret not cross cc-able by most things) and a low cooldown cc removal, A long cooldown party member save in LoH (not crazy powerful but still useful).

It has a fairly short cooldown range long duration stun and AoE CC that doesn’t actually break on its own damage for some reason, CC being its weakest point of course.

They turned the spec into a jack of all trades, master of nearly everything. It’s so bloated and good (enough) in so many areas that you can put it with anything as it doesn’t really need anything else to enable it, it instead now just enables everything.

They made a spec with not many, if any, draw-backs and a spec like that is very hard to balance and keep from dominating.

I ran with a SPriest shortly after release for a bit (in WPvP, granted). SPriest/Outlaw is bizarrely strong. I call it Dark Alley comp…

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Was actually fun playing with the outlaw. Gave me plenty of uptime on my shaman. It was also not fun playing against them since they seem to always have evasion.

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i bet late season rss will always become densely fotm, maybe not this much so but still

certain specs seem like they will just be tox tho as long as they are any good, BM/Demo/UH especially

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Could this be better for the people that main the ‘least played’ specs though? Because some specs in 3s that aren’t played often in RSS be pumping under the radar like aff and feral.

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Have you tried sitting on the warlock all game and doing the same dps single target as the warlock can do to a full team?

Well you certainly have faster queues if you’re off-meta so you certainly have more chances to learn by doing.

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It’s been that since release as far as healers goes.

Can’t be any worse than the other brackets. At least in Solo shuffle you do not have to rely on the willingness of others to play with non-FOTM classes.

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Barely. Afflic queues are still averaging 20 mins over here at ~2.1

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Hey, still better than the ~1 hour queues I keep hearing about from Arms Warriors.

Big yikes

Demo isn’t even that bad

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