Originally Posted by
Doffen
It's because you think you are right just because blizzard "agree" with you. They are not changing classes as much as you think. They are adding stuff back to the classes to bring it back a little from spec identity, but they don't think their class design in Legion sucked, just that they went a bit too far on specs. They just roll back a bit on specs because of this a little coming in Shadowlands. You say that class design was criticized heavily in Legion. You want to think that, but the complaints then compared to in BfA where they removed artifact spells, legendaries effects while changing the GCD was siginificantly lower. If it was such a huge flaw in Legion, they would have done this in BfA. The real complaints is about gameplay feels slow for x class in BfA. Class design vs spec design is of low importance comparing it to the actual gameplay where most complaints come from. And this is why I am sceptical to what this really means for gameplay, because gameplay is whats important. Adding spells that got no use and then gameplay still feels out of place is what we can end up with. That's what should bother us, not class vs spec design, which is very opinionated.
It's important to note that most things they give us back are either very situational or things that is a core thing, like paladins aura. Now paladins have auras as well, just more spec spesifics. Majority doesn't necessarily think that spec design is bad, just many might believe having something for the whole class is important. An arcane mage will keep using arcane spells for 99% of the time. Blizzard are adding things back because they agree that they went a bit too far on specs, yes Ion has said a bit at least a couple of times, not that they failed like some people read into it.