Originally Posted by
Marrilaife
Nope, also they removed the ability of tanks to switch to no-aggro stance (warrior stances, monk stances, dk presences, pala righteous fury, they're gone and you're automatically in the tank stance as tank and dps stance as dps). But I guess in the end I will never know the answer to the original question since you dodge it in all possible manners.
Living proof that no matter how much Blizzard modifies tanking to please the casual crowd there's no pleasing some people will always refuse to perform any other role than "dps", so the queues will stay the way they are. Then I wonder why is Blizzard even trying.
1. Rain of fire is still there.
2. Blizzard was a filler and channelled at that, how is it better that you had to stand and channel it, now you can place it and throw other spells on top of it.
3. Hurricane sucked long time, another long channelled spell that prevented you from doing anything else. Starfall was always better option for aoe if you had it since they implemented it.
4. Enhancement never ever had Earthquake. It started as a top tier talent for elemental (and poor damage at that), until they actually made spell useful. Flame tongue is now a weapon buff. Chain lightning still exists as elemental, enhance has crashing lightning and few aoe talents in case they want more. Melee specs casting spells is weird anyway, giving them more melee oriented aoe with proper visuals is a great move from Blizzard instead of both specs sharing half the spells (like shocks and so on). Being a melee spec that can put totem and hit chain lightning both at long range is not exactly fair, same reason why ret paladins lost a lot of their range spells - want to play ranged, pick a ranged spec.
Chain heal exists for resto and that's where it belongs. Dps specs are not meant to be aoe healers, they can get some self heals that's it. I heard enhance self heal was really bad for pvp but they were buffing it recently. I don't pvp so I don't know if that fixed it or not.
What I see from the above post is a person who wanted to spam 1 button aoe even if that button was piss poor for years (blizzard, hurricane). There are way more efficient way to "kill demons" than stuff like hurricane that was obsolete for years due to poor damage.
If boomkins have a reason to cry is the starfall "nerf", you no longer can pull the whole dungeon with it, and that used to be the reason boomkins were insane farmers for old instances. However for current content it was more annoying than barrage, pull everything in range...
Mage / Rogue is always Blizzard's 2 favourite children. You want a safe bet good dps class, pick a Mage for ranged and Rogue for melee. Despite claims that hybrid tax has been removed, Bliizard will always tone down monks, dks, priests, shamans etc. so those "pure" classes can top dps meters.
Bullshit, plenty of guilds are recruiting warlocks by the sheer favour of them being ranged and you just can't find that many mages to fill all ranged slots with them even if you wanted. Demonic gateway is unique utility, for example many guilds on Tyrant relied on people gateway-ing the p3 edicts away, some guilds used gateway for Iskar chakrams or Killrogg heartseekers, I'm sure there will be uses of it in Legion raids too.
You could cry if you were let's say Survival Hunter (because who the hell has even left open melee spots, if there were any probably DH rerollers called dibs on them). Yes, Warlock dps is not great in Legion. It might be buffed (while hybrids like Ele shamans or WW monks nerfed), I'm sure they're gonna do tuning pass 1 month into the raid, it's gonna be HM all over again where they nerfed hybrids like monks and buffed pures (like Hunters back then).
I'm pretty sure a lot of guilds are in the same boat like mine "recruiting ranged dps for Legion". Melee is insta decline no matter the class or skill of the player - no spots. Ranged are up for consideration and we'll have at least 2 of each ranged class. Having too many of the same class that for example favours exactly the same trinket might be a problem in gearing up on progress.