I bet this was talked about in many ways already but with TWW coming closer I would love to hear or see more about the invoker type empower spells on other classes.
We did not get any gameplay changes to normal day to day combat in quite some time. We have instants, channels and we have cast speed. Sometimes we get a cast speed ability on an melee character witch is crazy new every time…and when we get a channelling ability on a melee character its INSANE!
Likewise with casters. Only a few caster have a rotation revolving around instants, most are cast time or channelling.
Now we have a new type of ability (for some time now actually). Empower Spells.
Instantly a good load of nice spells came to mind that would freshen up many classes.
Lets take any kind of “big bad fireball” Spell for example. Making those empower would be awesome…you can make it fast and weak or strong and heavy. Imagine Pyro blast being a Empower spell.
Or Aimed shot, or colossal smash.
it would really freshen up the gameplay for many classes and it would steer us away from the…“one action per GCD” gameplay most melee classes have making them crazy piano plays were you never can have your fingers holding still.
I do get that but isn’t that what Talent trees are for? To edit a character class to your likings?
Don’t pick the empower spell then…on the other hand…knowing blizzard its exactly the one ability that’s so broken that you have to pick it or you do 20% less dps
at the end you pick what has the most dps and if u have to empower spells for it as high apm specc and you dont like it, you are forced to play it anyway to perform best
Sad but true often…
Even so I tend to use less buttons over more or new nice once’s but I also am no mythic raider or such.
My game fun is more imported to me then max dps.
BUT I do get that Max dps is the fun for some people and that’s legit.
Not something I want to see personally. “Maybe” for caster DPS specs but a hard no for melee and Hunter. Definitely not for Tank and Healer specs where being reactive is more important.
I could imagine some kind of empower cast, where you get less dmg while you empowering…Imagine like holding a shild high for 3-4 sec by a big impact
would feel more better than just press shildblock for active mitigation and shildwall, when a big punch happens (in the case of a warri tank) x)
I would not like this. I dislike the mechanic and it would actively ruin things for me.
So I hope they keep it with invokers only.
Even though they could add it to all classes except hunter and I’d be fine with it because that’s basically the only class I play anyway, but if they add it to the other classes, chances are they’d add it to hunters too. Hence, my answer of ‘no’ across the board.
I really don’t need more things to keep track off during combat. I really, really don’t.
I like the idea of an active shield block but I wouldn’t like it as an empower that gets stronger or applies a stronger buff at the end the longer you hold it. I dislike that kind of thing because you are effectively punished if you need to release it early for whatever reason.
Not really personal. Healers or tanks often have to react and stop what they are doing because of what another player did wrong, like standing in an AoE or accidently aggroing something.
Imagine you’re a tank and you need to empower to block an upcoming attack but some DPS has aggroed an add that just appeared… you can only pick one thing to deal with and that will probably result in a dead DPS.
aggro is soulbound jk, u cant do everything all the time and thats fine
In 99% of the cases its better to let the dd die, if you die as tank in most cases the group have a major disadvantage, in raid 1 tank has to solo tank till the end or in mplus everyone must kite the remaining mobs/boss
I know, but my point is that if the defensive wasn’t an empower you could pop your defensive, taunt the mob and save the DPS. You could have done both.
I mean that is a fair point. Is is pretty unique to Evoker.
But to be honest Evoker are already pretty “unique and better class then others”
Not in terms of performance but in terms of:
You are your own flying mount, you have the most customization options by far of all races and classes, you have a gigantic toolkit of things, you have special abilities, can glide, can double jump, can charge up cliffs, have about 1 minute of casting while moving. Dracthyr Evoker are already pretty unique compared.
I know in the mind of blizzard dracthyr deserve that cause they don’t have as much transmog.
But then you look at pandaren…3 haircuts and the option to have a long tail on black fur female only…that’s all we got after nearly 10 years.
And fun fact isn’t by far the least played race.
But that’s not what this is about. You are right that is giving it everyone isn’t the option. Its not that other classes need empower but that so many classes play nearly the same. We actually need just more diverse and unique abilities for the other classes.
jk, u cant do everything all the time and thats fine