Originally Posted by
Razion
I know I sure as heck wanted it. Specs that all look the same and play the same and are only brought for generic class utility isn't what screams style to me. You get your style points for how you make and build your character and spec is the most defining choices you have because it can determine your role in a group for many classes. If you're just a <Insert Class Here> you can be swapped out for any other of the same class and there's nothing special about you and you may as well be a cog in a raid group. Even if you're one of many of your spec in the larger field of your class population, at least you'll be a little bit different. And besides, spec fantasy is cool - it's neat to specialize and have a different looking set of abilities and style of combat from all the other ones you have. It's was especially less pronounced for pure DPS classes like Hunters, Warlocks, and Rogues, which is why I think so many of those specs got so focused on in terms of their spec fantasy pushing them in directions that made them more unique but obviously all specs got their fair share of treatment in Legion to have their specs played up to be more unique and set apart from the other specs. I like specs being unique, love it even, I think all the different flavors add to the game and it would take away from the game if all the specs were so samey. Homogenization can be boring - balanced, but boring. Variety is the spice of life, and specs are cool as hell and worth celebrating. Legion I consider a triumph because of its dedication to spec fantasy to embrace what made you different to the other specs. Yes the base concept of classes is cool - but specs are cooler. It was hard to laude Legion with praise because of all the butthurt of systems people hated at the time, but I'm happy nowadays in retrospect people seem to be giving Legion the praise it should have been getting from the beginning. I don't think Legion would have been nearly as fun if all the Artifact and Spec flavor of the entire expansion hadn't been there. Would people really look back at Legion as fondly if the specs hadn't been so pronounced as a focus? I think it plays a large part into the identity of the expansion - the Artifacts were a big deal and I don't think it's going to be one of those features people just forget about as easily. They certainly made an impression and it certainly wasn't a case of all specs and classes feeling the same. At the very least, I think Legion accomplished very well what it set out to do with Specs as far as trying to make them seem as unique as possible.