Originally Posted by
Ange
People had lots of fun with DeathKnights in PVP spamming huge ICY TOUCH crits, never staying in melee range and passive dispelling hots. Chains of ice and icy touch spam, really the peak of class development.
The sartharion-3d tanking spec showed pretty much why it is stupid to give DK 3 tanking specs with the ability to get all low hanging fruits in a hybrid build. I did it, it felt stupid that a DPS-DK had to replace both main-tanks just to make the hard-mode of the fight PUG-able.
If you like One Trick Ponys just play a DH in BfA. The new class is still a hollow framework with no mechanics and lots of passive/tank-hybrid dual abilitys and those are even working everywhere as utlily cooldowns (tripple benefits, just as DK abilitys worked in the broken WotLK times). Oh yes, blizzard also added the DH class to the small pool of MUST-HAVE buff/debuff classes.
Nearly every expansion had some One Trick Ponys available for new players to enjoy some brain dead classes. The only outlier was MoP, the monk class was underwhelming and warlocks took the spot for the whole expansion with mechanical benefits (fire and brimstone), overtuning fun and as a "punishment" the green fire mog options with a faceroll easy challenge that had to be NERFED multiple-times and even then the majority of the warlock players waited for overgearing the last bit of challenge there was. Just to clear things up, I leveled my first warlock just to see the green-fire challenge, did the pre-nerfed version with a 2 day old warlock and was amused by the amount of whining that this mini challenge got. One of the signs that tels you what kind of players the class attracts.
Choosing a class you like thematically, just to realize its the noob dumpster class is a horrible experience. I take undertuned and ability-striped Death Knight specs over the dumpster tier we had for WotLK.
If you ever doubt you class choice right now, just look at the DH commuity, where the "veteran" players are playing the class only since a few months and class theorycrafting caps out at reading ability tooltips.
No thanks.