This rune breaks one of the fundamentals of Classic, one of its core assets. Unlike in more modern iterations of the game, the fact that every class in Classic feels unique and has their own gimmick.
This rune however is literally just giving windfury to druids. Windfury was THE thing for shamans. You basically destroy what makes shamans unique. When you think about classic shaman, you relive your creamy dreams getting wf-totem buffed as a warrior or being the shaman triple critting a mage into nirvana. Well, that’s gone now.
That’s terrible design. It’s like giving runes to people for opening portals, or summon team mates, or tame pets.
If a rune destroys another class’ identity - just don’t effing implement it. It’s really not hard to understand.
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So the only thing shamans had going for them according to you was WF?
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Yes it clearly was the one big iconic thing about classic shamans. Not even a debate
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that is all good in theory, but in practice classic wasn’t finished on release, and only warrior, priest, mage, and rogue have an ‘‘identity’’ with the other classes literally being half baked messes with unfinished talent tress and not actually having proper gearing options, being compromised to 1 set in stone shoe horned in role at end game
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I’m fine with your opinion even when not completely agreeing as I personally do think every class has their unique thing going for them. this rune however is literally just giving one class’ most iconic ability to another class. That’s just bad and lazy design and shouldn’t be a thing.
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having a ‘‘unique thing’’ going for you is basically your entire class just existing to provide one buff or ability to an entire party of actually finished classes? sure, windfury is iconic for shamans, but classes outside of warrior, mage, rogue, priest need more stuff to compete, which is what SoD was aiming to do
I totally agree with you on expanding classes toolsets. That’s ok, but why not be creative and come up with new stuff instead of literally stealing one class’ iconic ability and putting it into another class? It’s obviously not called windfury for druid but it’s basically the exact same thing. That’s my point. Should have left windfury effect on shamans and give druid something else. Hence why I call it lazy and bad design.
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This however is not classic vanilla. They can add anything to any class, based only on their decision. How classes/specs were in classic vanilla is completely irrelevant. If you want to play WoW where shaman is the class providing WF, select one of the classic Era servers and enjoy, nobody forcing you to play this version.
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They also gave hunters the paladin’s stats buff so why nobody talks about that?
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They can add anything, and we can add any form of feedback we like. It’s a forum. If you don’t like discussions, just don’t read it and leave (just applying your pity logic).
Ultimately, we’re here because we love vanilla/classic WoW, and if they take too many retail approaches, well guess what happens. Anyway, bye.
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Shamans dont have WF in phase 1. I absolutely assure you that by phase 2 shaman gets a rune that buffs WF to be as good or better.
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Don’t play SoD if that is your mindset, weirdo.
Changes, are the point.
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I think it’s more likely that they’ll get some form of Bloodlust as a rune as a differentiator.
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Why would shamans get a rune that gives bloodlust?
It’s pretty iconic as an ability, if not moreso than Windfury. I just don’t think that they’ll invalidate Wild Strikes - and therefore reducing the value of Feral’s support potential (Horde side, it’ll still be unique for Alliance)- by giving Shamans a better version. It doesn’t make sense to me. Unless they find some other fun support rune for Ferals which makes them desirable of course.
That been said, I agree with OP, I’d rather they’d found another way to make us more desirable with some other cool and unique ability.
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How is it more iconic then WF? That doesnt make sense to me.
If you wanna play Vanilla classic, play it, its on era right now.
really what is the point of this conversation?
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To me bloodlust is more iconic in comparison with WF. This is due to the fact that I remember bloodlust from the shamans in WC3 RoC better than Windfury.
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Nothing what you have said is of any value.
