Originally Posted by
EnigmAddict
Wow, i should have spell checked before posting that. But yes, essentially, you're right. It's been clear to me melee is king in this game, but range is still quite necessary, not sure what was so hard about the adding a range spec to DH, it is part of the Illidan lore, he's the greatest sorceror that ever lived according to one of the wow official books, (though that's probably better interpreted as one of the greatest ), so obviously he is both melee and range and one would assume that DHs would be both.
An alternative approach would have been to have Illidari as both DHs and warlocks and warlock class mechanic used to prepresent a caster Illidari with it's own unique class name like Fel Lord in a similar way to how Tidesage is a unique class name/concept but uses the shaman class to play, and Blood knight is a modified paladin, even though gameplay wise it's a paladin.
They could have taken a warlock spec, or merged a pet less , green fire version of Destro and affliction with a little bit of demon blowing up and eating to gain temporary power, that would have done it.
I just feel that if there were more range specs, then feral would be stronger. I don't know if Shaman have the same issue, but i wouldn't be surprised if Ele was the stronger spec atm. Tp get players to pick it up more.