I’m not sure about the Hunter. BM seemed okay at first, but now it’s too easy. MM has lost some of the instant shot value it had with Aimed Shot getting a cast time and Silencing Shot not doing any damage. I haven’t played it as much as BM, but it just seems meh – focus is a bit of a pain in that spec. I have yet to try SV but I might swap out MM for it.

The DK is just too much fun and I find it has some more utility; root, silence, pull, etc. It’s just feeling more fun now.

The Mage is also a lot of fun, definitely out of whack for balance. I suspect it might get to be boring like BM though, because the spells used are all about the same. On the bright side, they get decent AOEs and some other options. I think this will just end up being on par with the Hunter only Mages are ridiculously overpowered. Hunter? Not so much.

Warriors are great, and I love mine to bits. But I don’t really fancy feeling forced to switch spec every time a new weapon drops or Fury gets another tweak. Also, holy spec for paladins is also quite fun at the moment.

So I feel like I’m picking between dps/ tank (warrior) vs dps/heals (paladin). And if I felt like tanking on a paladin, I could do that also, even though it doesn’t really interest me right now. And as a bonus, retribution has proper crowd control and much better ranged abilities, not to mention paladins getting perks like crusader aura for free.

Either way, the point, as I read it, was the option of healing, which is not exactly the same as saying “I would be dualspecced into Protection and Holy”.

Oddly enough, I’ve been feeling close to the opposite to Spinks – I’m looking at a Warrior and envying the green grass myself. If it wasn’t for the achievements, titles and mounts that my Paladin boasts, she’d probably be retired for Cataclysm. While, as she mentions, Retribution is a rather well designed specialisation right now, Holy Power feels like a badly glued veneer to Protection.

On the other side, DW tanking with two fast tank weapons meant that you stroked every second. You were not a “tank” but a ninja. Slicing and dicing the enemy.

It was incredible “cool” and FOR ME much much more immersive FOR ME then tanking with a 2 hander.

My DK is only an alt but I considered DW tanking to be the coolest char I’ve ever played in WoW.

I can easily see how other people see that different. But I cannot see why Blizzard completely fucked up the class for those people who prefered DW tanking after two years. That’s like removing magic from a mage or a shield from shield tanks or to change the druid tank form to a squirrel…