Have we arrived at why that is yet or do yall need it directly stated, again, for like the third time just since I started reading this thread?
Lol why all the sudden aversion to SoD? I thought others were enjoying it. Ive seen nothing but positive feedback in-game and people seem to have fun here.
You didn’t take shamans for any reason other than windfury. They were worse than the other dps and their healing was worse than druid and priest.
You never took feral druid period.
You took as little dot classes as you could before the debuff limit was lifted, and if you did take them for whatever reason, you didn’t let them do anything noteworthy because they were dots. You took one for the specific debuffs you needed like CoE, and you made everyone else just SB and wand.
Warlocks didnt get to play in MC or bwl hardly at all because of fire immunity.
Fire mages didnt play at all because of fire immunity, arcane wasnt brought, and frost mages just…pressed FB
Druids were laughed out of the game if they didn’t play restoration.
Paladins were laughed out of the game if they didn’t play holy
All of these examples show you that:
Every class was not perfectly viable, and many of them were just straight up broken.
Vanilla balance was based on both class and spec, and was in such a bad spot both itemization (like paladin and druid tier being only healing) and actual class design that if you didnt play:
Frost mage until AQ, and then fire mage forever after (esp with bosses being frost immune or heavy resist in naxx) (and frost mage was just FB)
Resto druid
Holy paladin
Largely Holy priest with some disc
Only demon/shadow only afflic until after bwl (unless you like pressing just SB and thinking thats peak design)
Resto shaman outside pvp, 2h enhance in pvp
You just didnt get brought.
Rogue and hunters werent much better. Only one maybe two specs were viable. Thats not balancing a class. That’s not balance at all, the opposite rather.
But then there were warriors. Heavily gear based. You sucked/were mid until you were on the way to mc geared, and then you dominated all forms of play after that point for the remainder of the game. You were also the only tank as guardian druid didn’t exist and you were just a feral in bear form with a weak taunt and minimal aoe, and prot paladin was even worse with no taunt and a VERY weak consecration/auto attack rotation. Monks, DKs, and DHs were well well off from existing yet, so if you werent a warrior (or on twin emps that required a warlock/mage tank) good luck getting invited.
In pvp they were still VERY good. I know you’ve seen videos like Swifty and Maydie. They don’t always have a pocket healer.
Sure, people who didn’t know better, or didnt care and tried (and often failed) anyway would invite you, but the vast majority of the 8 million plus people at the time would not play with you in those specs.
Thats not spec balance and thats barely class balance.
To be specific:
You didnt invite a rogue when you could invite a warrior. You didnt invite a mage unless they were frost until AQ and never again if they werent fire
You didnt invite a shaman if you could get a druid or priest.
You didnt invite a druid dps, or a priest dps, or a shaman dps.
You didnt invite hunters unless you wanted a body.
You didnt even any tank unless it was a warrior.
You didnt take a lock other than to summon if it was MC/BWL for the majority of the time because of fire/shadow resistance/immunity and that being 100% of their damage.
And when warriors started getting gear, you barely invited ANY dps at all if you had a warrior. There is a reason so many people in era played warriors. The content being so badly tuned you could do a 40 man raid with less than half that, doesnt detract from how bad classes and specs were. The disparity is huge.
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So what class isn’t viable?
You can write a novel all you want. You still haven’t named a class that isn’t viable to play.
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Stopped reading when you said Shaman healing is worse than druid. Then when you said you never took feral druid.
Shamans are objectively the best raid healer, with chain heal being one of the best healing spells in classic.
Feral druid is actually a decent middle of the pack dps and was very respectable for tanking, not to mention leader of the pack is an appreciated utility.
You clearly have retail brainrot.
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Everyone wants Vanilla as it is + their class/spec OP.
Because SOD is about to go away. No point in leveling there now.
Its going away??? For real?
No, Blizz said long ago it’ll continue on. On its own set of servers, not merged with Era.
And even more recently said this:
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Thats what i thought. Not sure where that guy saw that its going away.
I mean, the new content is about to end, and SoD players seem to want new content, unlike Era players. So it stands to reason it will die off soon.
So no chance of Blizzard ever fixing all the stuff SoD broke on Era and Anniversary realms. Very cool.
I am enjoying leveling on Fresh and raiding on SoD, so your narrow minded categorization doesn’t apply. Even if I was ‘Team SoD’, that still wouldn’t change the fact you lack reading comprehension.
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Yeah they shouldnt be, gdkp and parse culture are the reason this very thread exists. Otherwise nobody would really care, new players see how these players act and imitate it
40 man druids ( shaman too) have cleared molten core with zero warriors or mages. You never said what wasn’t viable.
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Okay tourist 
Whatever makes you feel better about not being able to read.
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Sounds like projection, tourist.
Damn, you just learn that buzzword?
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Nice deflection lol def projection 