World of Warcraft

I'm trying very hard to enjoy this game right now, but I just can't because Blizzard's class designers and balance tuning people decided to fuck my class/spec sideways without lube. I main a Death Knight, and right now all 3 of our specs are the worst in the game for their roles. Blood is a trash-tier tank that can't even do mythic+ 5-man dungeons right now, Frost is a joke of a DPS spec with the single worst artifact ability in the entire game, and Unholy hits like a wet noodle and is mechanically broken. On top of this, none of our specs scale particularly well with stats at higher item levels.

Seriously, both Unholy and Frost are the absolute bottom of the DPS ranks on logs, and continue to be at the bottom for projected sims for patch 7.1, because literally every single other class and spec has received some kind of buff between launch and 7.1... Except for Unholy and Frost, and the nerf to tank damage hurt Blood far more than any other because Blood's survivability is based on self-healing, which is based on damage output. On the topic of Blood, Blood has no actual damage mitigation, the idea is we survive by draining life from our enemies. That's all well and good, but our tools to do that suck shit and bosses do more damage than we can feasibly counter. Blood Shield, formerly one of the best tank masteries in the game, is now the worst in the game because it scales like garbage and even the weakest of boss DoTs can cut through it, and it is now worse due to the Necrotic affix in mythic+ dungeons introduced this week, which reduces our self-healing. Blood DKs in mythic+ are literally a hindrance to the group as it stands right now, I don't know how the fuck Blizzard managed to shit the bed this badly with the class I've mained for 8 years. I'm currently being benched on my Unholy DK, my main, because our class' DPS is absolute trash for raid progression. Time for me to drop all of my progress and start anew on a Mage or Demon Hunter, I only have to farm artifact knowledge and power for 6 whole weeks before I'm at my level now.

I stopped playing after MoP. Nine years of mostly hardcore roleplaying, lots of pvp and occasional pve. Met lots of people and travelled a lot to meet them. Would do it all over again.

Loved the social aspect of the game, but as the years progressed the game itself became more and more casual, the crossrealm bgs I could live with but somehow crossrealm dungeons and raids
kind of ruined the pve for me. Then came the actual crossrealm thing I believe. Within the span of half a year I quit due to multiple reasons. 


Memories of running to the store for gamecards and physical copies of the game and expansions... money well spent 


 I always focused my effort into a single class, to be the best warrior. So how are warriors these days in Legion ?

Prot warriors are possibly the single best tank in the game, with an ability that lets them mitigate 90% of incoming damage as long as they have enough Rage to keep the ability going. Arms is a solid DPS pick as far as numbers go, but I've never played it so I don't know how it plays. Fury would be alright if you didn't take 30% more damage while enraged, making you as squishy as a character who wears cloth.

The ability is called Ignore Pain (a better version of the same ability for the Barbarian in Diablo 3, if you've played that). I haven't played a Prot Warrior in Legion yet (I've been on my DK, a Havoc Demon Hunter, and a Destro Warlock so far for Legion), but IIRC the Rage that is consumed is proportional to the amount of damage you take, so heavy nukes will eat up more Rage than DoT ticks, which means it won't be indefinite.

But yeah, Arms is super solid. One of the better melee DPS specs, actually, but I hear people say the play style can be a bit boring, even if it does produce good numbers.

Dare I ask if a proper class balance has been reached in PvP ? Blizzard was always tweaking making one class happy while others grumbled. 

As it stands, I wonder for how much longer WoW will last. The decline in subs started years ago which is a natural state of any mmo. Sure players return or new players subscribe with every new
expansion but I cannot imagine it being enough. Switching to another business model would be useless this late in the WoW's existence.

With unexplored lore ( after 10 + years still no Kul Tiras ? ) and adding new lore I think at max there will be two more expansions.

Any thoughts ?

I could see them getting a few more expansions worth out. We still haven't been to Argus yet, and they introduced another big bad that's on par with the Legion this expansion.

They could also always pull another MoP and scale back the threat for an expansion, rather than constantly going bigger and bigger stakes.

I'd be really disappointed if we defeated Sargeras this expansion, honestly. I'm more expecting Kil'jaeden to be the final boss this time and take out Sargeras in some future expansion.

As for the Void Lords, the final page of the Anduin comic shows him as an old man about to begin the final battle against 'the shadow,' which I assume are the Void Lords, so barring a major timeskip at some point, that battle either wont happen any time soon or wont happen in WoW at all.

In other news, I finally got one of every class to 110 and am currently burned out on WoW. Good thing 7.1 is coming next week.

Despite (as I've said many times) not playing WoW, these Legion cinematics have hit me right in the feels.

Having followed that character for so long, that cinematic really got to me. I swear, i am not crying!

So I redownloaded the WoW trial to give the game another shot, and I'm enjoying it so far. I've leveled a dwarf paladin to 20, a troll rogue to 11, and an orc hunter to 7. I might try subscribing after I've tried out some more characters. Setting aside the obvious fact that I would have to actually pay for at least a few months to level up some characters enough to farm gold effectively, would it be feasible to pay for a continued WoW subscription with ingame gold? Or would that require too much unfun farming to be worth it?

Are you below the level cap? If you are, then PvP'ing is a waste of time since Blizzard doesn't (and realistically cannot) balance for low level PvP. Different classes learn different abilities at different levels, etc. It evens out once you hit 110 in instanced PvP, but for world PvP, everything is fair game.