Originally Posted by
lateralsx5
I feel the class design was more healthy during vanilla (or even WOTLK) than now. They homogenized everything so everyone did the same 50000 stuns and defensives and self heals but now they just prune everything and we still have too many CC in the game and unbalance.
During vanilla, the worst thing was non DR CC (those 50 sec sheeps in pvp the first months lol) and rogues out of control. Some specs were weak (ret, feral although feral was quite powerful when played well) but at least you knew that not each class was going to CC you to death or use some cheesy getaway spell.
Also burst was retarded (one shots everywhere) but the idea of having classes having each different strengths was better. Now its not the case, classes have too many stupid abilities to destroy other players and you don't feel like you have time to think and be tactic. I remember how frost mages played in vanilla before having all those insta burst bullshit thanks to rogue receiving 50000 tools starting in BC (shadowstep,cloak). Then each class whined for a counter to this new spell which in turn resulted in each class having more and more broken , easy mode abilities.
Can you really 1vs 3 people anymore except if they play really really bad? You can't because each class is so simplified and situational tools are so rare that there is not much room to outplay people. Everyone dispels anything, uses root breakers, sprints, cheap kick and cheap stuns...
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Also mana drain and mana management was actually a good thing, it just needed tuning to avoid it being broken. Where is mana management now? Healers just perma heal everything without a single worry about mana bar and the only way to kill them is with dampening, big burst, perma CC which encourages more and more damage from dps and more and more burst heal from healers.
Thats boring imo, I prefer classes to actually have different tools to be of use, not just stuns and damage.
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During WOTLK each class had their niche, felt unique even though homogenization started at that time