What you said is true, still they are not “OP”. Which is the point of my reply to the poster above me. There are other classes that can do what Spriest does, and do it better with an added extra. Spriest is in a good spot/decent, and that’s as far as you can go.
Haven’t played beta or PTR so i can’t comment on that except of what i read on the Priest Discord server. If you say it barely hurts them, good for me since i main a Spriest 
I’m going DK in Shadowlands, because the whole death-theme there simply screams DK to me.
I also wonder if there will be any special NPCs and stuff we’ll get to see as DKs and…if we get to see Arthas, how will he react to us?
Other than that, some amazing plate and blade transmogs in SL
I should go check out their complaints then, SP only has some spells soft capped to 20, and their mutli-dot potential remains the same as always.
Maybe they’re sad about AOE because Void Explosion got a long CD and they liked it for dungeons.
I will go with Deathknight as I have done in every expansion since I started play World Of warcraft.
Have 2 lvl 120 Deathknights
DK are not stable in any expansion. Decent/OP in one patch and mediocre in the rest.
Sure why not.
Sure why not.
Sure why not (well unless the FOTM spec is something you hate)
Dodge it like the plague. There is no happy ending for a priest in the last 2 expansions.
Seems to be plagued with a lot of troubles for 9.0.
Why not play your mage though?
My response is always the same, to pick the one that is most comfortable for you. Think of it like a nice warm blanket. Its the one you always want to come home to and snuggle up with.
hunter’s safe
Dk is fun and semi safe.
Warlock is safe and semi fun.
Rogue is safe and arguably fun.
Priest and monk are both fine, as long as you plan on multi spec play.
I chose DK myself. Because i like the class. I love blood. I enjoy frost and unholy. And my undead death knight just matches the shadowlands theme PERFECTLY.
Since you’re a mage, I recommend not picking warlock. It’s basically the same thing, only slightly different. Same with priest too. Another caster. Same type of gameplay. Go for a melee spec, or hunter which is basically melee class in every sense of the word, except for its range.
DK feels pretty good, at least Frost and Blood. Unholy is fine, but I personally don’t like it a lot. Blood DK also brings insane amounts of utility so chances are rather hight that he’ll be wanted in raids. AMZ is insane.
Hunter is always a safe bet, so are Warlocks and Rogues, really.
Hunter is pretty straightforward to play but also quite satisfying.
Warlock and Rogue will always have at the very least one spot in a raid due to utility as well as them being triple dps. I enjoy sub rogue a fair bit, and not really any of the warlock specs, but it all comes down to preference. They all play fine, although I generally dislike classes that utilize pets.
I dislike the new iteration of Shadowpriest in single target, for anything above one target it’s enjoyable to play. Disc is always great for raids and pvp and you generally can’t go wrong with holy priest, especially not for PvP.
Monk tank is great, as always. I love the new celestial brew.
Mistweaver currently feels really good, although it may relate to an unwanted interaction between the Necrolords covenant skills and Vivify (Bonedust Brew makes Vivify hit all friendlies coated in Bonedust brew). WIthout it it’d be a lot less fun for me. We’re still not sure if the interaction is intended.
Windwalker plays itself pretty well, although all of the covenant skills are kinda meh-ish, which is frustrating. Not sure how wanted a melee without any special utility would be in a raid. They’ll be fine in PvP, as they always are.
Honestly, it depends on what content your main goal is as well as what roles you’re willing to play. DPS only?
Monk and DK become a bit less attractive and Hunter Warlock Rogue are pretty safe bets for dps only players, since chances are 1 out of three specs will be at the very least fine.
Tank? Obviously DK or Monk, both of them are great bets.
Healer? Priest is a bit safer due to pw:barrier being insane.
All of the mentioned classes seem fine, currently. You didn’t mention any non healer druid spec or a dps shaman, so anything you choose will at the very least be represented.
thanks for all the response. I know it’s close to impossible giving objective opinions on a subjective topic like this.
I do like a lot about the DK, especially the fantasy and theme but also the multi-role possibilities and it’s one of my top picks. I like all specs also. I will be mainly dps and I fear DK’s not bringing enough “to the table” compared to rogues, wl’s, hunters and mages, which they probably shouldn’t.
I dont like dot classes a lot so WL and priest are sort of already out of the picture. The multi dotting playstyle just doesn’t cut it for me, I prefer big nukes.
I’ve considered shamans also but i dont like elemental on live and from what i’ve heard it’s close to live on beta again.
Mage - I did love fire in legion, was hoping it would be as great in BFA which it wasn’t (numbers in 8.3 excluded). Haven’t heard of the state of mages since beginning of beta which wasn’t any good.
Hunters do have some pretty neat utilities and mobility. I recently leveled a hunter in case but the rotation for both marksman and BM seems a bit weird? Probably me that has some reading to do but some specs just play naturally which is what I’m looking for.
Have a few pros and cons for each and everyone of them which I have a hard time picking this time around 
Take with a pinch of salt, based on beta raid testing logs (very small sample) but it gives us an idea (F’s in chat for Sharmans once again)/ There should be some tuning to bring the classes closer together since the gap is too large right now.
https://www.wowmeta.com/shadowlands/dps-rankings
Tbh that is actually outdated
If you look at the current logs, shaman are performing really well now. I saw a m+ log with shaman doing 2k more DPS then even the rogue in the group 
Shaman recently got a mega buff (may get re nerfed tho)
I hope they don’t renerf, Loyal Sharman players (especially enhancement) deserve their day in the sun after the years of sh1t they have been served.
I’ve kept mine up over the expansions… but its so disheartening at times xDD…
hopefully we’ll see a good time 
as it’d be nice to just go back to full time Playing Shaman instead of Playing random Classes all the time as i havent really found another main
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