Any Reason to Play DPS only Classes in 2022?

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depends on the player i guess, for me i spend most of my wow time as dps but since learning healing iv been having lots of fun

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You clearly misunderstood what i said :smiley:
I didn’t say ret paladin can’t clear content
because you can clear everything
and dmg is Decent.
Nonethless you will have hard time in pug world as paladin
paladin is more a group of same people class then a pug.

Read what you said here
if paladin had something good that can offer outside of situational blessings like BoP/HoS/HoF or situational LoH/bubble to soak
it would be considered meta :smiley:

That’s all what i want to say

23

Umm, yeah, the same as always.

24

Because you want to?
Because you don’t want to be brow-beaten into Healing or Tanking?

meh


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I said for pugs. Read what i said and don’t ignore my example about holy paladin. Basically every healer brought more to every pug than a venthyr holy paladin. But still venthyr holy paladin was meta.

Healers are pretty nerfed (40% this week) in DF. That situational LoH of the ret will maybe even the full life saver, and will make dungeons doable. Bubble is indirectly buffed very hard too this way. Ret can be OP next season.

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No, not true. The only hybrid thats performing well is Monk, the rest are not good. Ret is bad in PvE, Feral is better now but it’ll prolly end up bad again, Balance was bad for most of Shadowlands.

If you want to play a DPS role, its nearly always “Pick the pure DPS class, or dont play DPS” situation in any half-decent challenging content.

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Balance was meta for 2 seasons, and is even stacked for RWF. Without balance venthyr holy paladin could not even be a thing in season 1. How was balance bad for most of shadowlands?
(and i am still timing up to +24 with a Balance druid this season, without even pushing this season)

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Maybe you just like the way the class feels?

That being the case, nothing else matters. You’re always going to have a better time and play better on a character that you like playing because
 well, you’re going to actually play it and that means practice and practice means skill.

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29

Stop caring about what people that are clearing 30s choose to play, especially if you’ll only do up to 20-ish keys.

You’ll have a better time playing this game.

Cheers :slight_smile:

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30

Play what you want, don’t let anyone else dictate what is fun for you.

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OP is under the mistaken belief that people are sitting there stressing about their class and how best to do PUGs/mythic content/PVP/etc

Truth is a vast majority of players are either solo players (where alot of DPS specs are great, like my BM hunters) or they dont really care about doing the top DPS as they are just having fun.

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Short answer? Yes.

Long answer? Pure classes have the option to flex into three different damage patterns, which gives them options to accomodate to bosses with different mechanics.

A fire mage is really good for single target damage, or for AoE situations where priority AoE burst is, needed.

Frost excels at two targets, and in fights where adds can and should be used for funnel damage into the boss.

Arcane can achieve a similar playstyle as the other two, but in short bursts instead. They are exceptionally good in situations where there are damage amplification mechanics that they can exploit.

Hybrid classes do not have this flexibility, instead they were given the option to flex into different roles.

Pure classes have their place in modern wow. Most people only really use, a single spec of theirs, so all this isn’t really relevant to them.

I personally prefer hybrids because I find the single role nature of pure classes pretty limiting, but that is mainly because I:
-like tanking and healing
-I do not pug

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They differ playstyle-wise. Look at hunters.

Some prefer to go the lone wolf route (MM), others want to throw a herd of animals at their foes (BM), and the rest are into trappers and fighting up close and personal, guerilla style (SV).

These are simply different class fantasies and not everyone is a silent sniper or an army commander. The good thing about these is that you get to play your role differently in case you get bored.

I can’t help it either to play Holy nonstop, so I occasionally swap to Disc and enjoy the increased damage with the fact I can heal my party with it. :smiling_face_with_tear:

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I play ONLY dps. I know is so difficult to understand that ppl like different things
 think about it.

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To make sure one of your specs is in meta and viable. Chances of 3 specs of rogue will be bad is very low unlike spri or ret. Both hybrid and pure dps classes have upsides and downs.

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36

God yes!
The last thing I want is to give an excuse to others to “bully” me in to Tank or Heal roles or they will kick me soo hard, I will :poop: boots for a week!
Not to mention, to have gear for all the roles, is a headache

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It makes sense to play a pure DPS class for players that are not interested in tanking/healing.

If all you wanna do is DPS, then pure DPS classes are the safest option because of the 3 specs. Think of probabilities of having a spec of your class being “META” or just good in certain damage profiles.

For example if you are playing retri paladin or ww monk, if your spec is not good a season, you are out of luck. If you are playing a rogue let’s say, you have 3 specs to choose the best one for any fight. Due to that, there is a way smaller chance for pure classes to not being “META” for a season.

38

Well a reason to play those is having a higher probability to have at least one meta dps spec to play for the role, that you want

39

Yes. Playstyle.
Tell me any class that’s a huntsman, capable of healing and tanking as well.
Tell me any that’s using ice magic. (Okay. Death Knight. Totally feels like a mage.)

I do care about the feel of what happens after I press 123412341234.

The other thing, also a recurring question with Wrath - people don’t play tanks or healers because of the playstyle, or the pressure. I dislike the high intensity stuff that retail healing has become, I did prefer the slower, classic-BC approach with mana management. Tanks, I don’t even know anymore, but I also lost interest in World of Diablo 3, also as a dps. I like 1on1 fights, and small packs with problematic mechanics that we need to handle. When pulling two packs ends up a wipe because of permasilence, permastun, or simply taking absurd damage, or draining the healer with Mortal Strike.

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No they can’t.

Fire mage is always TOP 4.
Warlock always has one spec TOP 4.
Hunter always has one spec TOP 4.
Other top 4 spec is super randomized.

Notice I left rogue out?
Rogue’s damage is never Nr1 but they are ALWAYS viable, because off their utility and still top 6 ish damage profiles.

Hybrid classes always get screwed over on DPS because they can play other roles.