What is the most fun build that's been killed by Blizzard?

[Tiev]

MoP fury. I quit playing my warrior because fury is just too damn boring these days.

[HordeFanboy]

Wotlk full arp warrior with shadowmourne
Wotlk retri
Vanilla undead rogue
Mop warr
Mop lock
3.0 dk
Wotlk blood dk dps
Fire Mage Wotlk
Frostfire Mage naxx

[Argarock]

And the clusterfuck that was dual-wield resto shaman. Absolutely hilariously OP raid healing, due to double the proc chance on earthliving, but worthless at just about everything else. And then Blizzard removed any potential for it in Cata, by locking you in a specific talent tree until you hit the top talent.

aaah! I completely forgot the thing that was enhance using spellpower-weapon in Firelands,

Slow-hitting axe with spell power on it turned out to be bis for a build of enhance, untill blizz said "no" and made it so enhance didnt benefit from spell power on gear.

[Deleted]

Destro Lock WotLK, funny as hell.

Dead since MoP... still upset about the Chaos bolt change. Destro had a second life early Legion with the return of Shadow burn, but definitely ruined imho for the shadown burn talent change (Having to choose between conflagration or shadow burn )

[Ringthane]

Gladiator Stance.

Finally, I could do something with my warrior's sword and shield that didn't involve just standing there and taking damage. I mean, they say they want all specs to feel unique and fresh, and they spend a lot of time redesigning a lot of them, but the "two damage and one tank spec" aspect of warriors is still just as true today as it was when I logged on in November 2005.

[Death Warrior]

MoP destro/demo lock, survival hunter, and monk's 3 specs.
Also Blood DK in WoTlk, it was very fun.

[Frolk]

Blood BoS, good memories from tanking Maidens being top hps/dps ^^

[Tradu]

MoP/WoD Demo, MoP/WoD WW, Cata Boomkin, WoD Blood.

[ZazuuPriest]

BM / SV Hunters, especially in MOP but to a large extent BM in WOD, fuck what those two specs have become specifically.

[Helgrimm]

The warlocks now have a spell called Ritual of Doom that's used for getting items or something in their order hall. It summons a demon that 4 people defeat.

Was the old version something else?

The old one was a channelled spell to summon a doomguard. The spell dropped an altar of sorts while the warlock was casting, and needed 3? other people to click the altar to summon it. Like a summoning stone. Once the ritual was complete, a random player insta died.

[Deleted]

For me it's assassination pre-legion. I am alone in this, but I absolutely loved not having a single rotational cooldown. Everything was limited by only energy. Total control over every drop of damage. It was perfect. I also loved the subtleties of venomous wounds, and I liked being a melee that did mostly magic damage. Generally assassination was not appreciated by many, which made it even more fun for me.

Now assassination is cooldown restricted just like every other spec in the game. Completely lost its flavor, the one thing that set it apart from the other specs in the game.

Other things I miss is passive pet healing for warlocks. It feels ridiculous not having even a trickle of healing going to the pets now. I also miss the old shadowpriest, voidform feels more punishing than rewarding, similarly to the eclipse bar and the chakras. Mark my words it will be changed eventually, but it might take years.

Dispatch best skill.

[Nyel]

The old one was a channelled spell to summon a doomguard. The spell dropped an altar of sorts while the warlock was casting, and needed 3? other people to click the altar to summon it. Like a summoning stone. Once the ritual was complete, a random player insta died.

You needed a full group to summon your Doom Guard. And yes, one of the five always died. Funny when the Warlock died and the group had to fight the summoned Doom Guard (which was a pretty tough enemy).

[Deleted]

Fire Nova on my Enhancement. Heroic mode on Klaxxi was super duper mega fun
I want All specs going back to Mop, it was fun back then.

[Deleted]

ICC - DW frost tank.

[voidillusion]

Mop disc priest and early Wotlk affliction lock imo.

[faithbane]

relatively balanced

If we have to include that part.. Personally DW tanking as DK was really fun, not just the way it looks, it was something new, rotation was much different then any other tank at the time and based on your talent picks and build you could focus on many different aspects like resource generation/self healing, massive aoe tanking, buffing the dps etc..


When we ignore the "Balanced" part of the question, there were a ton of DK builds from LK era that were mad fun but they were relatively OP.. The hybrid build that came with the patch in middle of icc was doing insanely high dps, literally every build at Wotlk launch was broken in a way. Being able to resurrect as a ghoul that had a stun and high melee damage after you die in arena was broken as hell.. Offensive dispelling of frost fever/icy touch was mad as well..


If we go waaaay back, vanilla shaman hybrid build with deep in enhance and dipping into resto and elemental was really fun for pvp and outdoor content. It was a little strong but not strong enough to be "op" but you truly felt like a shaman in general and not just "Resto spec" or enhance spec". You had somewhat threatening lightning bolts and shocks, decent self healing and heavy melee damage if anyone got close to you + lots of utility totems.

[Deleted]

early cataclysm /castrandom arms.

you could hit 95% of your full potential just using that macro. fuck them for breaking /castrandom

[tennesine]

Wintergrasp / realm community PVP

its all cross realm now there is no chance to get to know other players none stands out

What does this have to do with class builds?

[Kuruption]

Launch Mistweaver.
I've never had more fun in this game, than I did fistweaving.

This is my answer.

[Swalload]

Wrath Blood DK DPS and MOP Survival Hunters