Legion’s Arms Warrior with every slot filled with Crafted Gear 'of the Savant '… This was monostat Mastery Crafted Gear + Aggramar’s Stride + Rethu’s Incessant Courage, where you could get your Mastery, which originally amped up your Colossus Smash to a ridiculous degree, to even more insane heights! Then add on the insanely high movement speed where you could chase down mounted players in Argus… on foot, and oneshot them with Colossus Smash…
Okay, hold up. Aug’s broken and I hate the spec more than most but it doesn’t hold a candle to the likes of BFA S4 Fire, SL S3 Destro, and late-HFC Arcane and Subtlety. Honorable mention goes to Shadow in Emerald Nightmare but it was unviable in M+ (and ludicrously broken in raid).
Those three/four specs ruled over their respective tiers with an iron fist, in all PvE content that mattered. Even Aug in its original, 10.1.5 release state wouldn’t rival these specs.
Glaive rogues or Augmentation.
I think augmentation should get extra consideration because glaive rogues coexisted with the hybrid tax, rogues were supposed to be OP. Augmentation exists as it is in modern wow.
Ret paladins in PvP after the rework near the end of season 1
Surrender Spriest in EN was pretty stupidly OP
I dunno, man. I got bored and tried to scroll through runs last season. Around 500 the tank and healer was a bit variable, around run 1000 fire mage and even shadow priest was variable. I got bored around run 6000, but every single group to that point had an aug in it.
Like, obviously their damage is good, but not OP…but noone in the history of the game has made tanks and healers so much stronger, to the point where I’m assuming the season of one shots we’re currently in was made to counter aug.
Prot paladin during wrath… my god was it wild. Cata disc priest comes to mind and dk in general during wrath. Mop destruction warlock was pretty wild too
Eh in 2005 warlocks were referred to as “free honor kills.” Things only started to turn around after the fear effect was added onto Death Coil. Almost half a year after the honor system was introduced.