I just got back to WoW after a long time and I don’t like the GCD change… windwalker and enhance have been my go to classes but they feel slow with the GCD change… between a DK and rogue are there any specs that are fast? What other classes am I missing out that can be faster?
Caster: Mage, Marksman Hunter, BM Hunter(ish)
Melee: Fury Warrior, Rogues, Feral Druid(ish), Frost DK, Survival Hunter.
If you are looking to try something new the Survival Hunter is probably the most different and unique of the choices.
I started leveling a DK hes at 111 and i switched to frost from unholy… I have a rogue at 120… so a rogue may actually end up being more convenient for me… specifically is outlaw/sin or sub the fastest? I somehow feel outlaw can be fast with buffs… but sin is slow and sub is fast but I feel like I keep messing up my rotation.
Windwalker is slow? I must be playing it wrong…
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Sin can be fast as long as you play to its style of pop in, destroy the target before it can react, then pop out. But at the end of the day its a dot class with knives, which means it has better survival to let the dots do their work which means slower in a long fight.
Outlaw and Sub are likely faster play styles in things like dungeons and raids, but Outlaw is still heavily RNG based, beyond what I consider fun.
Specifically… the channeling FoF is a little slow. Plus haste isn’t a great stat (unless this has changed) so I don’t like how the GCD is offputting. It does feel better than my main - enhance.
Brewmaster. You’re GCD locked as a matter of survival. Whereas with most other tanks, it’s just some extra stuff to increase their DPS. You need to constantly be reducing your brew CDs, and you’re often using off-GCD brews DURING the GCD for even faster gameplay. It’s the one reason I don’t like brewmaster, there’s no breathing room.
I’m levelling several different alts at the moment, and to me the fastest ‘feeling’ one is Fire Mage. So many procs, and nice big numbers are always fun to me. Sub Rogue is a close second, you just melt mobs. Not sure either of those are at the top of the charts for endgame but they’re both ridiculous amounts of fun.
Surprised nobody’s mentioned fury warrior.
I was just going to ask… haha… yeah “numbers” don’t matter to me… I like the feeling of gameplay… it’s not fun if you don’t like playing it… xD
DH depending on the turf.
if you have room to safely do your things without aggroing anything DH feels pretty fast-paced.
in tighter areas where you are limited to much less abilities it can feel less fast paced though.
Also I think I found this: Simulcraft APM (can’t include link here…!) which may agree with the outlaw/fury and DH comments… although enhance which I main is up there… it is quite clunky…
You might also want to read up on the planned changes to Shaman for 8.1. You arent the only one dissatisfied by them right now but I dont know enough about the class to say whether the changes will help in your case or not.
I guess you are right… coming back to playing a shaman- it feels no where near what it used to be… i used to love those windfury procs and animation go off… Now it’s flashy but the windfury element is gone… I get some shades of that feeling when you use ascendance but thats it.