Switching a main -rantFollow

I feel your pain. A class with an uninteresting rotation gets old really fast. Especially since you're planning to raid. Luckily my main was always something that was fun and/or interesting to play during my active periods. But when playing an alt at maxlevel I often wondered why people were playing this spec as their main.

On the other hand, I could never switch mains now, since I am a horrible title/mount/pet ***** and there are at least some of those on my priest that are NOT accountwide.

I have no idea how Shadow plays on the PTR, but my fingers are crossed to not run into a similar scenario when 6.0 goes live.

A Couple of my specs (that I've seen thusfar) I don't think I like the sounds of:

1). Arms Warrior. I must be one weird guy to have loved MoP Arms. You had lots of stuff to do, you weren't waiting on Rage for everything (I LOVED the idea of BUILDING rage with some of my attacks and then dumping it when I desired). Last I heard from the Beta, it is VERY auto-attack heavy waiting on rage before you can do everything, which is riiiiiiiight back to where it was in TBC, when I hated the class most.

2). Arcane Mage. Seriously, they removed the ONLY Self-Heal they had and didn't compensate whatsoever? Nice, Blizz, nice. Protip: Sitting your b*tt down on the ground to eat was never fun or engaging gameplay; just ask Vanilla/TBC Rogues and Warriors. "Don't get hit!" yeah, that's kinda hard when they also removed some other spells, and you didn't always have room to blink around the place to stay away from enemies. You are going to get hit, and that is final. But you have no way to actually heal back the damage you took...... except by eating. They could have changed this in the last couple passes of class "balance", but last I heard they didn't seem to have any plans on giving a self-sustainability ability to Arcane.

Edited, Oct 9th 2014 6:42pm by Lyrailis

Well, thing is, I don't plan on going anywhere near Mythic; I don't have a raiding guild and probably never will; my RL schedule is far too busy for that. I might dip my toes into Flex, but I'm afraid that all the Raid Browser groups will be "MUST HAVE [insert ridiculous I-level here] AND ACHIEVES!" and I won't be able to do any anyways (that's why I don't like the LFR loot nerfs; LFR is probably the only way I'm gonna see any of the content whatsoever).

I'm more concerned about what these classes feel like solo, and again, the flaws I mentioned above are what I'm worried about most.



I've dipped my toes into the water with healing easy heroics in MoP, but I never liked healing in WoW much because of the 100%-20%-100%-20%-100% crap that we've had the last few expansions where you're machinegunning heals and if you pause for a second, the tank is dead. I don't like that kind of stress.

HOWEVER.....

They promise to give us more even healing curve AND I've been playing FFXIV lately (I haven't played WoW in a few months). In FFXIV, I've been maining a White Mage (healer, obviously) and I've gotten used to healing 4-man groups, and did a few 8mans as well. I like healing in FFXIV; it is the slower kind of healing that Blizz is describing WoD should be, so maybe I'll enjoy WoW healing for a change.

I have all classes on Lv90 right now on both Horde and Alliance except for Alliance Warlock (all geared up to at least 520, some further), so I can play anything (I'll need time to learn specs I've never touched, but otherwise the opportunities are all there).

Ret Paladin, though, is what it looks like I will freaking LOVE. I just watched Preach's video about Retadins earlier today and I was like "Holy sh*t that looks fun!" where you're constantly firing procs and you're not tapping your fingers on the desk waiting for something to do. It also helps that my current mains are Ret Paladins, and that is my "default class" that I always fall back to, to do my main stuff. I dabble in other stuff, but at the end of the day, I come back to kick some serious b*tt with glowing wings.

Edited, Oct 10th 2014 9:13pm by Lyrailis