Affliction locks aren't difficult to play this expansion. Get some addons to help you snapshot correctly and that's really all to it, it's just watching timers and procs. Pandemic along with many other MoP lock modifications kind of took away any difficult aspects it might have had before MoP. Affdots and pandemic and other QoL make them pretty straight forward.
Sure they aren't "faceroll" like elemental shaman or a survival hunter but they aren't difficult to get the hang of. Definitely not anywhere as difficult as performing efficiently on a demo lock or feral druid. Arcane can be pretty tricky too at times. Never played a monk of any kind so I can't speak for WW.
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Depends on the fight. Arms is decent for galakaras, spoils and protectors (if you stack them up). But yeah I agree, pure single target wise is weak.
Agreed on single target fights. However, since spriest is in the toilet on those sort of fights you gotta perfect it to be even close to anybody else.
Try multidot 4-5 targets at same time without the dots falling off on anyone as well as watching the normal rotation and boss mechanics.
Out of the classes I have tried, I think the easiest have been Frost Mage, Destro lock and Surv Hunter, in that order.
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I tried to read this out loud and couldn't do it without laughing at least once !
"balancing" natures grace = switching eclipse states fast enough for it to have a constant uptime.
Refreshing Dots is something everybody has to do ?
When to use Hurricane ? I don't know anybody who is stupid enough to not know when to use his aoe spell ? Even if it has a buff threshold..
Multi Dotting ? Srsly? Should i hand you a towel so you can wipe off all the sweat caused by having to dot more than one target ?
"Managing Starsurge Proccs" = Pressing Starsurge when it Proccs , duh ?
Starfall has a target hit limit, basically next to no dps increase if used with adds up. Use on cd / forget.
Oh my god , if you screw something up while doing Boomy aoe you will lose dps ??? How is that no other class loses dps when something is screwed up ? Totally unfair !
Boomy with good gear is so damn easy since the specc gets easier the more gear you acquire. I myself have a 570 twink boomy and even with this gear i can rely on getting a shooting stars procc every 2-4 secs.
You gain mobility and an increasingly easier resource system with every point of crit rating you acquire, making boomy as braindead as any other specc in the game.
The Threshold for boomies to have a benefit from snapshotting is so much bigger for boomies than for any other dot class which automatically makes it a smaller part of its skill cap.
But good job promoting yourself, mission accomplished mr #1 boomy.
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Feral druid; no really, hunters, everything about hunters is faceroll.
To be fair he only claimed that it was the second hardest ranged spec. That doesn't say a whole lot, does it?
Are hunters more difficult? Not really, just more buttons.
Shadow priest? Essentially the same just with "chi" in stead of the unique eclipse bar and without the rotation altering cooldowns.
Mages? Arcane is debateable but the rest - definitely not.
Shaman? No.
Warlocks? Demo probably.
Wait, what? WW monk is extremely easy. The skill floor is ridiculously low, and the skill ceiling, while not as low as other specs, is still fairly low. The only "difficult" things about WW are managing FoF and Tigereye Brew, neither of which is rocket science. Feral, Demo, and Arcane are way more difficult to play perfectly.
Wat? Sorry, I love warlocks and have 3 of them and they are one of the easiest classes out of what I play. I have a Ret Pally, Feral Druid, Ele Shaman and Frost DK and I can do some fights in Normal SoO with one hand pretty much AND do them properly. Hardest is Feral by far and the rest are pretty easy with Ele Shaman and Lock being the easiest.
well spriest is easy but there's no damage so no it's not spriest imo. hunter has a lot of cds and buttons but is generally easy but i think mage and lock cause even if you don't have it down pat you still do lots of damage.
Frost DK! Spam them Oblits and profit!!!
Wut. Hit RSK on CD, BoK when you can't RSK, hit TeB if you have trinket procs up or are about to cap.
WW is probably one of the lowest skill caps for a dps spec because it's entirely reliant on getting decent RNG with trinkets since your on pull damage is awful compared to every other dps spec in the game. Get procs? Hit TeB. There's no thought process to WW because the only skill that requires thought for WW is FoF, which you can't even use 99% of the time.
So many more difficult specs in the game. At least other specs have to worry about wasting their CDs due to lack of procs. TeB is already up for such a huge chunk of the fight that you never really "waste" it.
I used my boost to 90 on a Warlock thinking that would be a fun class...nooope, such a faceroll.
Hardest PVE class: Feral Druid
Easiest PVE class: Destro Lock
Destro lock rotation is so retardedly simple, and you can do it completely wrong and still pull decent numbers.
Feral druid on the other hand has 2 dots and 1 buff to maintain while focusing on energy management.
All the classes are relatively easy. The difficulty in WoW has always been group coordination and micromanagement.
there are varying degrees of difficulty in a single spec. some people are happy with playing average and thinking wow this class is so easy.
a classic example of this would be arcane after the addition of mastery.
i think the minimum requirements you should hold to yourself before judging a (dps) spec is to at least play around in a raid environment to try and get in some solid efficiency with your level of play and see how easy it is for you to get within 5-10% of your potential damage.
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Frost DK
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