Originally Posted by
Saberstrike
The thing about flavour spells is there's literally no one in the game that would go "OMG MIND VISION IS SO RETARDED AND OP ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO BALANCE" -- also flavour spells make classes feel unique. They were never the problem.
However, actual 'power' spells that are redundant / stupidly designed -are- very much a problem; What I would prune in the current state of the game:
> Interrupt immunities.
> Vanish -- with buffs to rogue survivability and maybe 20s off of cloak of shadows cooldown to make restealthing easier by playing SMART (stun enemy -> shake dots -> run behind pillar -> wait to drop combat), rather than smashing the button and winning by pure skill.
> Stormbolt / Shockwave -- As an olden time warrior player myself it is my opinion that stuns don't fit the kit. I'd be ok with a spell like throwdown, but those two just don't belong. Warrior should pin a target down and smash it if allowed to remain near, not be a bouncy stun-ball with mediocre damage and sh*t defenses. Also, bring charge stun back!!
> Ice Block / Divine Shield. To me they feel like archaic mechanics that made sense in their day when mage had really poor sustainability / paladin was generally non-threatening. At this point in the game they're just annoying. I'd add aspect to the turtle here as well, but eh... I'm just happy spirit bond got pruned so hunters actually die if you pressure them long enough.
> Druid shapeshifting removing roots / snares. Same as above -- archaic mechanic from when the class was generally bad. Shouldn't exist in the current iteration.
> Every man for himself -- No matter what they do with it it'll always be overpowered.
> Tauren racials. With HP getting higher and higher and higher as the game goes on the tauren HP bonus makes them noticably tanky; Combine it with a class like resto druid and you get a racial that really shatters a sense of balance by making the resto-cow even more immortal than it would've been otherwise.
Also since a lot of cc was pruned the stun feels really powerful. Maybe too powerful.