Originally Posted by
Vellithe
Different opinions on a subjective matter.
I never liked old BM, I preferred the easy SV with all the instant casts being spammed at every single gcd. And while I wouldn't say I love the new BM, it's a lot closer to old SV than the mess that is MM - at least everything is instant and predictable.
I mean, waiting is not exactly clunky. Specially when it's a completely predictable waiting, you can prepare for it and all. Maybe the word you're looking for is "not fun"? That's subjective, but very different from "clunky". MM is clunky, the buttons don't mesh together all that well and it's downright uncomfortable to play it.
I'm sure BM is terrible to those who did enjoy old BM. In fact, that's something I noticed a lot from the Legion class changes. Most classes changed so deeply that they play NOTHING like they played before, so essentially people's reason to play them is no longer valid. I noticed that most people hated the changes to their main (which I expect to be because they no longer play the way they like to play), so they end up rerolling as a different spec and it works, because now the niche previously filled by their old spec is filled by this new one.
Sucks if a big part of your reason to play a spec was the theme, though.
I don't think there has ever been a point in time in which a class with 3 DPS specs managed to be bottom 3 with all three specs. This is difference between a spec being terrible and a class being terrible.
I mean, this mess wouldn't be as big as it was if only three things were different: no AP grind, no filthy Legendaries, MM still competitive. Those three alone would just have every hunter become MM and stop complaining. As it stands, people have real good reasons not to reroll and since all three specs are below the dirt, there isn't even an alternative, viable spec to choose. Ideally, all hunter specs would be competitive, but having at least ONE good spec is better than having no good spec.
I don't think Blizzard has ever fucked up this hard, at least not intentionally (there was the whole WoD "Let's nerf Survival so hard that people stop playing it!" fiasco, but that was intentional failure).