I’m curious if people main a specific spec or the class? For example I enjoy playing shaman. Pref elemental but I can play ench aswell if the spec is better in a specific content and hear me out.
Lets say elemental is good in arena and m+ and not good in raids. But ench is alright in raid and push out good numbers. I’ll go elemental for arena and m+ and ench for Raids, and ofcourse what ever content I priority that season I will also focus on optimizing gear for.
But in bfa aswell som dungeons dont even have bis stats for ele then I can change loot spec for that dung and hope for ench gear that dungeon for example.
So final question. Do people main a spec or a class?
I main a role: I either heal, or tank. Class doesn’t really matter - I do have my preferences, and enjoy healing and tanking on my monk more than as any other class/spec, but if need be, I can play pretty much any other class as well, as long as I’m in a healer or tank role.
I used to main enhance for a looong time, but eventually I got tired of how crap it was in BGs. Having paper armor is one thing, but having paper armor within melee range is even worse. So I ended up switching to Ele for a while.
Eventually I started playing Arms for a while. Nowadays I stick to my sub rogue. So I think it’s safe to say I don’t really have a proper main, but I do play a particular spec every so often for long periods of time, and it’s generally the “underdog” of its class.
Class. I use both dps specs, usually switching every once in a while when I tire of the other one. Resto I use for grouped content. Haven’t done any raiding and almost no m(+) in this xpack.
What I enjoy the most. Enjoyment also includes being able to perform well in the content I care about (M+), at the level I play, but that’s not the only metric of enjoyment, just one of the many.
i enjoy the versatility of shaman, either melee dps, ranged dps or healer. Thats one of the reason i made a shaman in the first place. i also enjoy the lore and backstory and the concept of a shaman. before i enjoyed priest for pretty much the same reasons but i started to really dislike the “holy” in wow so i couldnt play priest anymore.
I have had hard time choosing the spec/class after developers changed their design philosophy back in the day.
Nowadays i mostly go what feels fun but it has started to annoy me in these few expansions when you have to collect crap to make your class to work because of borrowed power. It has made playing multiple classes extremely annoying and unfun when you have to dedicate lots of playtime collecting crap doing mind numbningly boring stuff so that the class/spec actually works.
Ive pre purchased shadowlands but as soon as a half decent other mmo launches im outta here. Am sick to death of blizzard making the same design choices (or mistakes) i just dont think they can redeem wow at this point.
Isnt that what forums are for. You know… To give opinions.
Legion was lame as well outside of some nice story lines. Then we talk about legendary rng grinding etc. One day they will pwrhaps wise up and just balance and tune core specs as they clearly cant balance added power very well
For shaman I main a spec (enh) because I dislike how resto and ele plays (at least in bfa).
I like to heal but resto is not fun in the content I play (5s and pvp) so I prefer other healers.
But then again I often have the problem I only like 1 spec of a class. Like prot pala but dislike ret and holy. LIke Fury warri but dislike arms and prot etc.
I like playing all roles but unfortunately all on different classes
Its funny how the preference are so different. Id say wotlk was the best xpac. I’ve tried to test other classes but just end up not enjoying to play that much and crawl back to shaman which ever state they are in.
I’ve read alot that shaman always have been a forgotten class and been bad many xpac. That is simple not true and shaman hade multiple xpac in the light, not all 3 specs ofc but still.
Here is my take on it:
If you only like to play dps and nothing else. Play a class with 3 dps specs, normally they will always have one viable spec. If you dont mind switching around with a hybrid spec(Melee, range, healer.) Id say that you will 100% have a xpac or patch you wont enjoy your main then. There always gonna be a spec or class that isent preforming at the top % and at the end off the day. That is what make this game fun. If everyone had everything… WoW would die like it did when devs had that mindset.
I main enhancement usually on this guy, although in random bgs I have started to use my resto spec more, being a squishy melee is no fun. A leather wearer is more tanky then me.
Resto is pretty fun though.
in case of enhance you could rather say we had a little glory in some seasons but mainly were smacked by nerfs hard and quickly after that.
S7, S8, somewhen in mop 1 season, Wod last season and Bfa s1 where some of the best seasons of enhance
BUT they were never really op like rogues or mages, just strong and mostly not because of themselves but rather the classes they had good synergy with (mainly beastcleave and turbo, thats about it)
ele was usually not in the worst spot but rarely in the best spot either.
resto was always somewhat fine but also rarely the best
generally since the beginning train the blue is always the meme that destroyed shamans
