While SOD was a victory, Blizzard blew it with

WoW Classic Season of Discovery
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PVP
30+ Second polymorph
30+ Second SAP
No damage reduction for divine shield
No diminishing results for chain stuns
Giving paladins a massive knock-back (actually a shaman spell and to a lesser extent, a Boomkin spell but was NEVER a pally spell)
Hunter ice traps that last forever.
Giving rogues a 3RD option to add to their stunlock rotation.
Not implementing balance patches to reign in classes that are obviously out of control.
Making STV items unobtainable via other means.

I’m only scratching the surface

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they dont really care about PvP balance in all the years its mostly been an unbalanced mess

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Even for PvE it wasn’t really a victory. The raids were too easy and then SE was suddenly way too hard and never received proper nerfs until after the game was announced to be dead.

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Unless it’s shadow priests, who were nerfed in PvE because of their PvP performance lol

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Spriest were nerfed in PvP due to their PvE performance

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You talking bout the Sword that Warrior/Hunter can also get?

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PvP was silly fun stop taking this game so seriously

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I have no idea what it is, I just know Paladins have this massive knock back ability.

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Its a sword from SE, not a pally spell.

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As SOD is coming to a end, this is where I rank the classes in PVP.

  1. Hunters - Range + every ability that can pretty much 1 shot you.
  2. Paladins - They cried when they received a minor nerf w/ phase 8 but have been out of control for most of SOD. No damage reduction with Divine shield and when you add in gimmick weapons and trinkets they become unstoppable. Both pallys and hunters should have faced a 10%-15% damage reduction. Killed the integrity of PVP in SOD.
  3. Shamans - I feel I’m ranking them too high. Resto shamans are useless in PVP. A ele shaman can easily be killed by a single mage counterspell rendering all spellcasts silent. A qualified rogue can make quick work of a Shaman with constant stun locks. As a Boomkin, I would simply root them and drop Starfall on them.
  4. Boomkins - Easy targets for rogues. Took a massive nerf in phase 2 but was able to rebound. Another easy target for hunters but can kill almost anybody with roots+starfall.
  5. Warriors - Meat hook is annoying AF. A prot warrior in PVP is also annoying.
  6. Mage - A experienced mage can really be tough to deal with. Unfortunately most Mage’ I encounter in SOD didn’t know what they were doing. Only mage I found remotely enjoyable to watch was named Glntiktok (Or something like that? I don’t remember the exact spelling)
  7. Rogue - Honestly, they have been relegated to focusing certain classes like Boomkins or warlocks. Everybody has spent time beating up rogues in SOD. I won’t shed a single tear for the rogues, their entire existence demeans the integrity of the entire game from day 1 of vanilla wow.
  8. Shadow priest - Trash. Why are you trying to kill people, just heal.
  9. Warlocks - Trash. They have one move, the GREEN BEAM move (I don’t know the name of it, don’t care). If you mained a lock during SOD I question your decision making ability.

Didn’t bother mentioning feral druids because not enough people played them in PVP.

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If your point is simply “paladins shouldn’t have this cause they don’t in any other version of wow,” then I find that to be an incredibly bad take. SOD was all about doing different things and trying new ideas.

That aside, a lot of what you posted is just the vanilla mechanics, which they said from the outset they were going to keep to the best of their ability.

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Yeah like I said, someone sad that classes got new abilities or gimmicks when they don’t even know the baseline abilities and gimmicks would probably have a bad take.

Your willful ignorance on the topic doesn’t make anyone else a “chad”.

It’s like you’re losing a football game but refusing to learn the rules of football because you feel your experience out on the field holds more weight.

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This is the average complaining SoD player showing knowledge of the game. It’s a weapon. Vis’era

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“Sod was a victory”
Lol
Lmao

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Only thing a Feral can’t kill is a Shaman/Paladin geared to outlast, that’s about it as far as ranking them.

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Settle down Chad. No need to dump on everyone who doesn’t make this game their entire life like you have.

Have you actually had any success in life or is it just this game?
Get a life

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Hopefully they get some new Devs that care about balance and things players care about. Paladins are stupid out of control. The SoD content was great but in the end after content what do you do? PvP.

Since PvP and physical mitigation is out of control, the servers were dead as soon as the announcement for no new content.

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I gotta agree with this. PVP is so broken and the ques are so long it almost seems pointless.

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Welp, time to level in cata for MoP

JK

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Your damage is reduced by 50% with bub up.