i had too much frustrations over my warrior though. i felt it was too weak in both DPS and tanking. but this was before LK. i’m leveling it again just so i could try it out. the last 10 levels to 80 is almost like a pain doing it. i thought i’d just delete my warrior or make her a utility toon. this is like rolling the same class again for me.. .

leveling a DK was too easy, what with self-heals and all that. no need to sit and eat.

The rogue changes with Wrath left me unimpressed and after a couple of runs of Naxx, I leveled my priest to 80 and made it my new main. However, my current disatisfaction with raiding as shadow (the low level of difficulty in Naxx and other raids probably has a lot to do with it) have me wondering if I should be changing main yet again. (And I’ve never healed, so that’s not really on the table as an alternative)

I’m not really interested in bringing back my rogue (especially as she’d need to be geared up before Ulduar), so I think I’d have to say that while I’d still have the same classes, I suspect my choice of main wouldn’t be the same.

(I’m currently trying to avoid burnout by gearing up my warrior as a tank, while I consider my alternatives.)

But not everybody feels the same way. I’m thinking of all the changes to shadow priests. Vampiric embrace used to be an effective group heal, but now only returns 5% of shadow damage as healing. The mana regen mechanic of vampiric touch was completely unique…until we entered the Era of Replenishment. Vampiric embrace/touch were core abilities for the class/spec, but they don’t feel as powerful. I know a shadow priest who has lost all enthusiasm and rerolled…and how often do you see priests in shadowform, compared to Burning Crusade? I also wonder how resto druids will feel after 3.1, since they’re being, um, heavily encouraged to stop rolling HOTs and start using more direct heals.

So I think class changes can be problematic if they detract from the core abilities or mechanics of a class or spec.

The funny thing about warriors is, I have not had a single warrior tank for me since I started my journey in Northrend. Or a druid, for that matter, except for our feral DPS switching to bear form to offtank something. Tanks have exclusively been paladins and death knights. If we even HAVE a warrior in our raid, it’s a DPS warrior. One of my best friends from BC, who was a tank back then, has been fury since 3.0.

Ironically, I’m mainly a tank, but I like the DPS playstyle of a warrior much more than the tank playstyle. Tank is too many buttons too fast, and DPS feels just about right.

I was looking forward to dual-wielding 2H axes when patch 3.1 came out… and then I learned that they’re planning on adding an in-combat Charge to the Arms tree. Argh! I’m torn. Charge is just so much fun that I may need to dual-spec into arms.

^^

Yep, I’d still be a warrior.