Comments on: How much do we really want a class to change between expansions?

By: Ratshag

Ratshag — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:01:25 +0000

Me raiding toon in TBC was me shadow priest. In wrath, though, the class were pretty much gutted and rebuilt as sumthin all new. Mana battery were out, see-through mage with no sheepings were in. Weren’t a nerf, reallies, since dps got a big boost, but I totally lost interest in playing him. Instead I done power-leveled a pally in the weeks before the expansion, and she went ta Naxx. The spriest eventually made it ta 80, but he never raided again.

By: Simon Jones who is blogless

Simon Jones who is blogless — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:53:59 +0000

I remember when Shamans became dual wielders.

Which, along with some other changes, managed to completely cripple them in PvP, where I was having most of my fun with WF crits off my arcanite reaper. After that, I stopped playing him for years.

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:48:39 +0000

I’ll be able to better answer your question after Cataclysm releases. I have this nagging feeling that I am going to hate the change from mana to focus for Hunters. I hope I’m wrong…

…or that FFXIV releases first and I don’t have to worry about it.

By: Regis

Regis — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:26:22 +0000

Yeah. I played a hunter in TBC and when I tried it in Wrath I didn’t like at all what they had done with the class.

On the other hand I didn’t like how holy paladins is pretty much the same boring healbotting that they were in TBC.

By: Tesh

Tesh — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:25:38 +0000

Couldn’t do much worse.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:13:57 +0000

Leaving WoW for a moment… When I started playing EQ in 1999, I created two characters, a bard and a monk. The monk won. I loved the design. I had a weight limit, I’d never get rich on loots, but I also wasn’t reliant on them like other classes. A monk was 80% or more effective naked, and his bare fists were some of the best weapons in the game by the time he hit the level cap. As the game progressed and expanded, rather than alter the monk class itself to keep it in line with the item mudflation other classes were getting, they decided instead to make monks just as equipment dependent as everyone else. I still played my monk for years, right until I finally cancelled my account, but there was a loss of pride, of fun, after the change.

By: Klepsacovic

Klepsacovic — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:13:51 +0000

It sounds silly, but I hated the switch to dual-wield on my shaman. I never quite got into shamans after that.

By: Uzi

Uzi — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:10:17 +0000

I think thats the key isnt it? We can all live with a few changes its when a class either gets nerfed ‘to the ground’ or simply everyone else gets buffed past you and it can be a game breaker. And that sucks and people simply stop playing.

By: Canazza

Canazza — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:36:56 +0000

When they first created moonkin, it was an excellent day for Druids. I specced balance for the first time for TBC and loved it.

Then WOTLK came out and they broke us. What cata is bringing is a complete gutting of the core balance talent (Eclipse) and making it so that procing eclipse and having to move won’t half your DPS (the main gripe).

I’m looking forward to cata as moonkins are getting some much needed love.

By: spinks

spinks — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:12:28 +0000

I can’t feel much sympathy for healadins because I remember how far they outpaced my priest at the beginning of TBC. That was really miserable and I did eventually take a long break — but it wasn’t because MY class had changed. The game had, and other classes had been changed around me.