i find playing caster with the amount of lining fake casting interrupts and cc extremely annoying, specially when you sheep a shapeshifting druid and your dh just eyebeam everything and then OMG MAGE LOW DMG ZUG ZUG
most melee classes just go in and try to deal as much dmg as possible, even if they bnreak ring, even if they bring db, even if they break sheep
while you start the game like "db sheep healer, fake the sheep, hunter interrupts you, proc precognition, cast sheep, druid shift in form, icy nova, ring around him, he moves, so you go there and blastwave him into the ring, cast burst, fake because you get kicked, he doesn’t use kick, cast burst, fake again, he doesn’t kick, sheep the druid on the ring that still has 4 sec, but fake it, and you dodge the interrupt, cast the sheep on the druid in ring (if he not shapeshifted) and so on and so on, 0 dmg, and this is assuming people don’t stun you insted of interrupt, you are just sitting there waiting for enemies to throw everything at you while being useless, and the 1-2 times you land sheeps or burst, your priest leaps you off rune of power, vortex knockbacks off you, or your zugzug dps just bladestorm eyebeam or grabby hands your ring on 2 people just to flex his dmg meter and shove it in your face because your damage is bad
then you have games where, you db sheep healer, the zugzug dps ignore you, you cast your full burst and you kill something because nobody is watching you
“OMG MAGE OP, HE KILLED ME IN 5 SECONDS”
Okay folks, name, 1 expansion, where a caster, couldn’t kill you in 5 seconds of free casting, i can assure you, there isn’t. i could do this in each and every expansion, the only difference is that in modern wow, the uptime of melees, and the amount of ccs, mobility and interrupt have reached crazy level, EVEN FOR A 1V1. If im 1v1 a dh, a hunter, or a demo, i can NEVER cast a spell if they are playing correctly, never, now pair them in 2, and expect me to CC HEALER, precast evocation 7 seconds, cast surge, 2 seconds, touch of the magi, trinket/managem macro, cast missiles with clearcasting proc, presence of mind (stopcast macro) arcane blast, now, if i managed to free cast everything, there is a 50% chance, that someone dies from this, if i crit, if i don’t, im gonna have to wait, the cooldowns, and that enemies ignore me, and that i cc the healer again.
it is just beyond frustrating to pull off in arena, where you can’t just “okay, i got no cds, ill just kite this to narnia, or knock them off LM, or glider away”
not to mention how even if everything goes according to plan, there is line of sight to consider, if they tunnel your healer, and your healer keeps going circles around a pillar, you can forget playing. What you gonna do, go mele vs them ? i found myself wishpering my healer to PLEASE, DON’T GO ROUND PILLAR IN CIRCLES, you takes the SAME DMG from dh and war, and i can’t do ANYTHING to help you, save, ring of frost in your path. i cannot walk up to them to take dmg asw so you can’t heal both of us.
