Seriously this phase is nothing but a clownfiesta that never stops giving.
PvP/STV is something like this:
shaman healers basically oneshotting people with NS and Lava Burst
shaman instant heals as enhance and it scales insanely well + rage literally prevents them from going oom + totem of freedom, seriously is this even getting tested before people abuse shamans for another phase
balance druids WG is overtuned, put 2 of em in a STV grp and anything affected by 2 WG isn’t gonna die unless RNG/Mortal Strike
horde racials are still dumb af and no fixes have been done to give alliance a chance and not just the very niche fights like Stoneform/Perception vs Rogues/Stealthers or gnome vs roots/slows.
rogues, Mutilate still doing the same thing as last phase, killing and melting anything that isn’t a metalock/beardruid/WoE shaman and they just stick to anything like glue, doesn’t matter what you do shadowstep/sprint will get you.
Incursion needs guards, loads of em to disencourage quest NPC camping.
Paladin and Locks lack mobility, and it is blatant af. Divine Steed comes to mind for pally and locks can have that gate/portal tbh.
STV people sitting on troll ruins are evading boss/mobs + are near altar, how is that not safespotting? literally breaking rules here and nothing is done.
Why in the f… is melee hunter a playstyle and doing more DPS than ACTUAL OG melee classes? Seriously what did you all smoke, this is horsecrap.
BG queuing to basically get a free DMF, seriously? It’s a free summon and you can use it in combat, restrict this garbage to only be acceptable OUTSIDE of combat.
SP Dots, 2 dots and you die, if a lock does the same you do not die at all.
You cannot tell me that P3 will stay right now as it is when it is clearly just bad and another downgrade from p1.
Edit: The rune design around ley lines and all that is the worst thing I’ve seen. People should get banned for selling it.
I have only started playing wow again after years away, trying sod, started in p3
Question to players of SoD
How serious do you take this game?
Did you expect a fully worked out version of the game with very few issues?
My take on Sod (as a somewhat outsider) is that is just a mess about for some fun, they are making fixes left right and center to try fix things like a leaky ship.
I don’t think they have spent any significant amount of time developing this or testing it
So why stress out about something they have not put much effort into? Take it as a bit of fun.
Symptoms: blasted booty, prone to gross exaggeration, delusions, inferiority complex, entitlement, selfishness.
Diagnosis: Ret syndrome
Treatment: Soothing balm applied to aching buttocks 4 times daily, and relocation to PVE server.
If you gonna make a rerelease of the game, then make it at least fun and not a clownfiesta/buggy at every turn.
Phase 1 was probably the best phase, with the least amount of abusable bugs and questionable balancing.
Phase 2 introduced the STV event which is still bugged to the day, people safespot/evade bosses while being near to altars and still haven’t received a ban or something similar. Shamans literally owned this phase and continue to own phase 3 by a mile.
Not to mention that horde managed to get enough buffs to be a better PvE faction aswell, cuz paladins do not bring the same/equal utility compared to shamans, ontop of that shamans scale better with literally everything + have 3 viable specs for any content, paladin has 1 and that is borderline questionable.
Prot paladins do not exist in PvP, HPals are the worst healer in PvP along with druids, rets get roflstomped by shamans.
They haven’t used PTR to simply stresstest servers for events and etc. at all. Ashenvale in the first 2 weeks was a laggy clownfiesta and people simply rushed Bonfire/Moonwell.
STV event had multiple overhauls in terms of how buffs work/ghosts GY/etc. , basically another flop.
People expect a working game, which has been tested before, that’s why devs/designers/etc. have an alpha and/or beta versions of their products to iron out their bugs to begin with. Blizz just yeeted SoD into the launcher without testing ANYTHING.
I’m finding a lot of positive things in p3. Sadly, all negative ones are related to PvP… Yeah, balance is an issue (btw, you forgot Shadow Priest as top dogs), but what concerns me more is the actual BG status. They are slowing die, and not only for the crappy alliance racials. They are just… useless. We got Bottenvale, we got STV, and now you can just sit near the incursion npc and harass people until you reach rank 7. I have always supported the idea of encouraging wpvp, but this is way too much.
worth a mention but compared to shaman, druid and druid who can kill you very fast, SP is slowly draining you.
honestly wPvP should always have a PvP objective that grants additional honor, camping the portal or the quest npcs is just not wPvP, its degen behavior, something which Blizzard/Aggrend failed to address.