Originally Posted by
Rinnegan
Every expansion we run into the same dilemma. A spec gets overhauled by Blizzard and some players love the new version, while others prefer the old one.
Whenever they change a spell drastically or remove it completely, they should put the old version of it in the talent tree.
An elemental shaman, for example, should have the option to play his elemental the exact same way he did in MoP. There should be a talent build, that brings back the play style of MoP elemental.
If a fire mage liked the play style of Cataclysm, then he should be able to spec into talents that allow for exactly that play style now in Legion.
Instead of removing the hunter survival play style completely, they should have just made a talent build for MM hunters that feels exactly like survival did in WoD.
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You get the point. It just feels like a waste when they simply trash a spec that players really loved to play.
If they advertised the next expansion with "play your class the way you loved to play it in any previous expansion" then LOADS of people will come back.
Balance won't be an issue, because number tuning is always the solution. A spec is over-performing because of gear scaling? Nerf some of the coefficients and it's in line again with all the other builds.