by Magnifican » Wed Mar 04, 2015 9:39 pm
The fact is the classes are not balanced. The hybrids were designed to do multiple things at once, which works well outside of endgame. But as soon as people started progression raiding it just didnt work out, and blizzard changed this in TBC for a reason. Hybrids became viable to fill specialized roles even in raids.
The argument that every class become "the same" just because some classes became more viable is flawed to say the least. Did every class play the same in TBC or wotlk? No!
We are not saying that every class should be exactly the same or do the same dps or whatever. Its just that in vanilla some specs were completely and utterly USELESS, which forced people to either reroll (not an option for most) or play a role they didnt want (pally healer being the perfect example here), or simply not raid. I can imagine how many left the game because of this. Again, it was changed for a reason.
And for all of those saying "Hey, you can tank as a pally, look at this youtube video!" - Just stop and look at how it actually went. How many pally tanks was in the guilds that cleared BWL, MC and Naxx? None. Some got lucky and got to tank some adds (which healadins and others did just as good anyway, so still no dedicated pally tanks needed). Warriors tanked. End of story. If there has been some supermegaunique couple of times where you see a pally tank, you can be sure that this person spent hundreds of gold on consumables and shit, and getting specialized gear for months and months and moooonths, this just to get even Close to the warrior, and yet still find themselves be far behind!
You want blizzlike because you suffer from nostalgia. Once that wears off you'll realize that it (class balance) sucks and you either have to reroll or be pigeonholed into something you hate.
I made a comment on alliance side chat that I was going to be a pally but I wont be a healer, just to see the reaction. Just imagine the rude remarks and the bashing I got, and frankly, I can see why.
Again I want to be clear that I DO want vanilla x1 rates, vanilla content and raids and gear. Vanilla was amazing in so many ways! What I do Not want is vanilla class balance and 8 debuff limit "just because". Makes no sense.
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Magnifican on Wed Mar 04, 2015 9:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.