so much yes i was just thinking the other day I miss having real tank gear even if it was more HP and armor or something. go back to tank DPS not being a thing in groups, and maybe some sort of passive solo buff or something that boosted dmg for hp/armor.. that scaled based on group size till you hit 5 then basically tank DPS is gone. I don't know.. i just hate tank dps even being a thing...... i will always miss +def gear, and block, and avoidance.
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No. You want to see even less tanks and healers?
You already need different trinkets. And most specs don't share the same secondary priorities so there are classes with "healer/tank/dps sets".
Yes, if that would mean non-essential stuff that innitialy kills your flexibility in other content (PvP, M+ and Raids) than that would be a verry good rewind. I am talking about how covenants restrict you in a way to perform at an S tier in any given content (due to specific ability's it grants you). I would much rather grind the specific gear for my PvP/OS/M+ than have a covenent that is S for raiding, but B for M+... thats just frustrating and not needed. You got a character, gear the character and enhance it with diffrent gear, the foundation of RP I would say and plays a big part the current game is lacking!
At least make spirit a stat again.
I would love to be able to have the choice of raw throughtput vs mana management when it comes to gear.
And stats like Versatility aren't boring? They're a literal flat damage/mitigation increase. They've also been repurposed in Shadowlands as a replacement to PvP Resilience/Power, which in themselves were necessary stats for balancing out PvP progression.
I'm all for going back to the old Wrath/Cataclysm era system because the stat complexity in WoW is frankly nonexistent thanks to all the stat and ability pruning done over the years. Having player performance governed by 1 primary and 4 secondary stats more-so resembles a Fisher Price My First MMORPG.
Like... if modern WoW were a tabletop RPG and you showed one of its character sheets to a D&D veteran, they'd laugh in your face and tell them they aren't going to play a game for pre-schoolers. They'd then ask if you're meant to fill it out with a pen or a crayon.
Whether it's gear or not I prefer to see the roles focused on excelling in their respective field. I dislike the "meta" where a good healer is judged by the damage they do besides keeping everyone alive.
Unfortunately in the recent interview Ion showed to be embracing the idea. Instead of healing and utility and supportive actions he expressed that the good healer is indeed the one who also dishes damage.
The "support" playstyle has its own place, it can shine in a myriad of other ways than dishing damage in between. But the extremely narrow design vision we are seeing is seemingly devoid of creativity.
So while I definitely dislike stats like hit rating I'd be okay with even something like that as long as it brings the role focus back to their center. Healers I know have said if they wanted to dps and be judged by their dps they would play a dps. But it's easier to claim those people are bad and maintain our condescending attitude.
I mean, healing is binary. Either u keep everyone up, or u don't. On top of that you have utility. You use it when needed or when its off cd, but you dont spend too many globals on utility. If you're keeping ppl alive and no utility is needed, you are obviously going to dps. The better healer keeps ppl alive more efficiently, uses their utility when needed, and thus has more time to dps. Thats why higher dps healers are better. I personally really like this meta
Yeah, I agree with what you say, dishing damage is indeed what a healer got to "keep busy" between healing and that's indeed what it takes to call someone a good healer. What I mean is that the healing downtime could be filled by more creative utility abilities, more active buffing of allies, debuffing of enemies, CC, creating zones of good or zones of bad where the group has to stand or move mobs into, etc. There's so many things, yet the Blizzard design is narrowing down on keys that make dps/heal numbers.
That would be an interesting way to do it. I personally love what I do on my resto druid. Most healing is preemptive with buffing my party with hots. I drop effloressence which is a good zone to stand in. Just like I keep party hotted, I keep enemies dotted which feels just as good. And I have typhoon, ursols vortex, and the aoe sprint for utility. Then every 2 mins after keeping group hotted and enemies dotted, I can proc an eclipse and then convoke.
I hated hit (it made no sense in melee why I'd miss a target 2 feet in front of me, if it moves, that's a dodge and therefore a different stat) but I liked defense. Felt it was a mini-goal to work for while gearing. "Cool, I got past Uncrushable and Uncritable and can tank raids now!"
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Specs, feeling like separate classes - was one of things, I liked in the past. At the end it provided extra content. Game wasn't ending for you, when you were getting BIS gear for your main spec. You could still do content for offspec gear. But Blizzard hated it and, I guess, there is no way back. I guess, it's mostly due to imbalance between pure DPS classes and hybrids. Hybrids had extra content, while pure DPS didn't.
I don't care about Wow 11.0, if it's not solo-MMO. No half-measures - just perfect xpack.
Sure they do. They've just simplified the stats down to absolute bare minimum and then made it so they passively give you slight improvements to aspects of your character. In doing so, they also made the items as boring as they could possibly be though.
Right, because this never happens with the simplified stats they've moved to? From a tanking standpoint, the only thing that really can get out of hand anymore is HP (which can translate hilariously into other aspects of the game -- e.g., Twilight Devastation nukes) and damage absorbs. They practically design classes to feel like shit until you have enough of these base stats to make your abilities work smoothly in an attempt to counter this kind of thing.
Yeah, this was a huge mistake IMO. Tanks are not DPS. They shouldn't play like DPS and shouldn't work like DPS. It's 100% possible to add engaging tank play involving threat generation and active damage mitigation without just making a tank function exactly like a DPS class. The answer to DPS scaling outpacing threat gen is to bake extra threat into abilities and have that scale at a similar rate to DPS. You don't need to tie it into damage output. There are plenty of interesting things they could give tanks to do that don't make them a half-assed DPS class (or in some cases - a crazy AoE DPS class).
The ultimate point though is that by simplifying the stats down to the bare minimum that ALL classes share with each other, they've watered the game down to a point where one of the absolute core features is boring as all hell. MMOs are largely about item collection. When the items you collect are this boring it just takes so much out of the soul of the game. It makes everything feel bland and worthless. It doesn't help that you then end up having to re-farm the same couple boring items 3-5 times per expansion as their item level is increased either. It's just like pouring salt into the wound.
Nobody who wants hit or Def rating in the game actually played when they were
This describes literally every item that doesn't have an on-use effect...
I don't necessarily disagree, but I think that (setting aside "niche" gear like Int Plate etc.) pretty often the more "unique" items were either a) garbage, or b) something you had to farm in later tiers because it was just THAT good.
You're...sort of making my point for me. Avoidance stacking was not good for the game. It's a lot easier to balance mob damage around high HP or high mitigation uptime than it is to balance them around high avoidance.
They don't. Using the same stats as DPS or having their damage scale at a similar rate to the DPS doesn't mean that they "play like DPS" or "work like DPS." The same considerations go into tank gearing and play as they always have.
Again- they don't. Using the same gear doesn't mean that they do.
How does the threat "scale at a similar rate to DPS?" You just...buff threat gen each tier? And I mean....they already tried Vengeance, which had its own issues.
You mean...like...the active mitigation, defensive cooldowns, and self-healing tools that every tank has?
I mean, if you want to go back to the days of bosses dropping loads of gear nobody could use, you do you. I think it would be cool to add an extra gear slot for quiver/libram/etc. that would have spec-specific effects. But for me, "all classes use the same stats" takes nothing away. What matters more to me is what the stats actually do for the character, not what they are. Does getting new gear make my tank tank-ier? Yes? Then that's fine by me.
Disagree. MMOs are about character progression (and customization). Gear is a means to that end.
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How is that different than what we do now?People will not ever actively engage with so much crunching of numbers with gear - they'll just get an addon to tell them what pieces of gear they own are optimal to equip, and then whatever interaction you have with the gear gets thrown out the window.
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Nah, I don't particularly miss the days of having multiple sets of gear hogging up bag space, not to mention I didn't find defense rating to be a particularly engaging stat, beyond defense 540 it became useless, okay maybe not useless as it still increased block, dodge and parry chance but it was something to the tune of 0.04% per point of defense rating, which still means that pursuing the stat over other stats like stamina beyond defense 540 was pretty pointless.
Defense as a stat really only mattered when gearing for Naxxramas in early wotlk, beyond that it was so easy to maintain that overcapping defense became more of a hassle than maintaining it consistently throughout the expansion.
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Hard no to Hit, Expertise or Defense. Stats that are absolutely essential until they become worthless suck and are tedious to gear around, especially if poor RNG gives you too few of them early in the expansion or too many later on. I remember getting flooded with them during SoO and hating it, even reforging didn't save me from overcapping Hit.
Could there be 1-2 more stats? Why not, but they'd need to be different from the rest. Blizzard axed Multistrike because it was just another form of crit (as well as absolute combat log clutter) and I agreed with them. Versa is boring as hell but a valuable stat for tanks and PvP; I don't know if it's better to change it a bit by making it do something besides a flat +% dmg or getting rid of it, but I do feel we need a survivability oriented stat and just removing it wouldn't be good.
On top of having 1 or 2 extra stats, I also think spicing up the item pool with single or triple stat items would be neat. Every item right now has 2 of a stat, usually from a 50/50 to a 70/30 spread. Blizzard could get a bit more creative on that front. I also think a class-specific slot ala libram for pallies, quivers for hunters, sacred icons for priests or banners for warriors would be really cool not only for flavor but because these could be unique items with class-specific effects. They can handle distribution of such via tokens just like raid weapons are handled now.
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As much as I loved ArP in ICC as a Fury Warrior I don't think many or any of these stats should return. Defense in particular was stupid; "Here's a stat that you literally require to do your job as a tank and not get crit. But in order to get better gear by tanking mainly, you need a certain amount of Defense to even get your foot in the door."
I could see something like multistrike coming back, in a way that makes it attractive for all roles, but I like it better when tanks are crit immune by default. And ArP should stay gone as well due to how it was shit at low levels and OP when you got it closer and closer to 100%.
Anyone else remember bad tanks in Vanilla and WOTLK who had Quel'Serrar and were all, "I'm crit immune when Quel procs!"?
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