I know spell pen wasn’t added until AQ but I assumed both casters and melee would get their AV exalted rings this phase. I was really looking forward to that spell pen.
Because that is not how it was originally released.
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When the answer is in the question.
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Yea it’s just kind of lame that melee get mh weapons, 2h weapons, a shield a ring and all casters get is an offhand.
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guess you could make a melee
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I mean I knew spell pen was added in AQ but I assumed the caster ring was still available the same time as the melee ring.
You just contradicted yourself there. That’s like thinking wsg rep will have the epic plate pants before…the naxx phase? I can’t recall when they added them
ok yea here come the trolls
That’s not how it was originally released, you can watch the Warcraft direct video we’re quoting when they explained the anniversary servers, and their logic behind how it’s being handled too.
Yeah, the developers were clueless on itemization in classic. They gave casters +int +spirit, thinking bigger mana pool is good enough. +spell power is highly budgeted compared to melee damage. That’s why you have warriors topping DPS charts till TBC when the developers finally learned something.
PVP is also a joke in classic, you get sheeped repeatedly over and over while that trinket has 5 min cooldown, lol. I don’t even bother to use the trinket.
You don’t want that item, trust. Its worse than most blues.
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casters don’t need gear as much as melee 
int also gives spell crit, and spirit is 100% necessary for mages, otherwise your evocation is useless
It’s a half-arsed implementation of early vanilla itemization where some items aren’t in the game yet.
Warriors top the dps charts because the fights are short and we have 20% damage dealt + 100% crit for 90-100% of a fight. Rogues compete just fine without a 20% damage increase btw.
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It was in game, just less common. This is just how the gear was released and this is part of the “FRESH” experience as they like to call it. If you want all the loot unlocked from day 1 then may want to consider just playing on the Era servers instead where that is how they are.
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Only dummies think rogue is bad, its just not as friendly when the fights go longer than 45 sec, sub 45 combat rogues push insane DPS.
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People just don’t realize how strong the top 3 dps classes are or why they are strong. Short fights, strong offensive cd’s. And because most of them are just pve andy’s they can’t even begin to comprehend that there’s a whole other half of the game where the “bad” classes absolutely dumpster the #1 pve dps spec.
My buddy is playing dagger rogue on fresh, he’s smashing the warriors on like every fight.
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I think its worse than that… I don’t even like to think of them as PVE Andies, at least PVE Andies actually play the game. Most of these so called players are basically just botters using their addons to play for them since they cant even learn a few basic fight mechanics in raids that have fewer mechanics in a whole raid than 5 bosses in Karazan… or a single boss in Retail.
Even more sad is that they dont even comprehend why they use the stats they do or anything about their class or even how parses work.
The top 3 DPS in classic are top because they don’t go oom, infinite resource. That’s all.
And yep, shadow priest dumpsters the good pve DPS.