I realize that this may be a dumb question, but I see the term class mobility tossed around and am still unsure what is meant by it. Does it refer to sustained run speed, burst speed (like a mage’s shimmer/blink), the ability to cast while on the move, the ability to elude or escape traps and snares, or some combination of this list?
Pallidans don’t have it. Monks can shoot forward in spin; mages can blink forward; druids and shaman can shape shift for fast movement.
It’s that sort of thing.
I assumed it means being able to move around w/o your dos suffering.
I tend to play relatively stationary (apologies if i used the wrong variant of the word), so I don’t care much about mobility.
Also explains why I tend to suck at pvp.
We have Charger via our talents, but yeah. DKs get especially screwed for lumbering around.
Ya combination. Shaman can hit a spell to cast while moving as well. Hunters can leap.
Pallidans don’t have all these things, but do have two emergency bubble and LOH.
It’s based on moving around, really.
Warlocks are one of the least mobile classes in the game until they get their Gateway and their mobility talents. Even then, there’s not a lot of movements for a Lock, you’re pretty stationary while casting. On the other hand, Mages have Blink as a baseline, a lot of instant spells, ways to cast while moving as a baseline, they can stay pretty mobile, especially with Shimmer.
A Warrior can go all over the place. They can leap (twice), they can charge (twice), Fury gets increased movement speed while Enraged, Warriors can be extremely mobile with their abilities. Paladins, in comparison, are metal-clad slugs in combat. Unless you roll Charger, a lot of your movement is casually jogging towards something and hoping it can’t run away.
The mobility of a class is mostly a PvP thing, but being able to move while casting or move out of danger quickly can be a very useful thing in PvE.
Pally mobility actually isn’t that bad once you spec into 2 charges of horsie. In fact it would actually be completely competitive with monk etc if they reduced horsie cd by about 15sec from 45 to 30.