Dear reader i just want your opinion on the Topic, if its worth playing melee classes especially DH in my case or just switching to a ranged class.
Considering how hard it is for melees to get into groups atm since players prefer to have 3 ranged in their groups, im frustrated to a point where im thiking about playing ranged which is btw no fun for me because im in love with melee, or just qutting the game for now, to come back when melees actually have an somewhat easier life.
So tell me what you think
I hear ret paladins do good dps and have tons of utility, so they’re quite popular.
I would lie if I told you getting into groups was easy as melee, or dps at all for that matter. With that said, I have a prot paladin friend. I’d advice you to find a prot paladin friend as well. Prot paladin friends improve your chance and speed to get into groups by 110% and they only take up one slot on your friendslist. This has been scientifically proven.
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Its not really about dps, i do good damage its more about the fact that most of the dungeon mechanics and affixes are way more of a problem for melees than for ranged classes. Therefore its less pressure for healers since you dont get nearly as mucg damage when youre ranged and additionally die less
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I’d recommend to first try to find groups of similar experience / skill to play with before giving up. I play a lot with my guild and we generally have 1 melee. Sometimes 2, in m+ groups. It is harder to join anyhing in the pug scene if you don’t play meta class with meta covenant, best raider io and best ilvl in the queue of 40 people.
Most affixes in M+ are a nightmare as a melee. They’re the reason why I’ve given up on M+ content in general.
While I did enjoy normal Mythic dungeons, M+ affixes make me loathe them so hard now as a melee.
It’s OK on lower keys, but when you push higher keys it’s a nightmare.
Pools, winds, insane damage, mechanics that target melee…you name it…
Exactly, its disgusting altough you first have to even get into a group in order to even have the privilege of experiencing how awful it is to be a melee atm.
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I play SV, I have a ton of ranged abilities, lose auto attack dmg when I go ranged tho, but for kiting some ads in m+ like the shades currently, its top notch.
Havent played anything above a +7 tho.
I’d go rogue if you want to find spots.
Welcome to how it was for us ranged ever since M+ was added in Legion 
My heart hardly bleeds for those who told us ranged players to “suck it up” when M+ was dominated by melee DPS for 4 years.
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Thats a real science and i like it.
Never said anything like that nor would I, in my humble opinion both ranged and melee should have similar chances and difficulties in all kinds of content, instead of an extreme unbalance which rules the game atm.
Depends.
If you’re into pushing highest possible keys for mythic+, then no. Absolutely not worth it.
If you’re just a normal player who does some raid, and at most 15+ keys, yea it’s fine.
outlaw rogue is fantastic at the moment. I’d gear one myself if it wasnt for legendary base prices. Ever since I started making a lot of gold I dont like spending it.
Monks and rogue are killing it in all content. If you want easy pug group, the cold, harsh truth is… you need to play a top spec. It really doesn’t even matter around 15 keys and heroic raid. But perception means everything for an easy life. Havocs got a bad rep in SL since nerfs (seem some crazy high havoc DPS though!). Where as monk and rogue are considered OP.
I mained outlaw in BfA, was insanely easy getting into a 15 key. Honestly would say it was a 95%+ invite in hundreds of keys. Played ret on the side and would take an hour+ most days. Both were same ilevel and rio, and even did the same damage. You’d deffo save many, many hours playing rogue or monk at the mo. Tunings well overdue though, in a weeks time havoc could be on top again.
Yes it will get better it might be rough right now but there is two things to consider.
Normally during season one the cap for gear is on +10 not +15 so in a way this expansion is harder than ever to do the highers keys for gear. Ontop of that gear comes in at a slower pace from both m+ and raids and in lower quality from m+. So not only is it harder it will stay that way for abit longer than normally. Last couple of expansions it has been m+ and farm full heroic gear pretty fast.
Just stick to what you enjoy the most things will become better as we go on. And the melee affixes arent as bad as some make them out to be.
The only melee worth playing right now is rogue and ret.
It’s only worth playing mellee atm or hunter
Just be a good player, doesn’t matter so much melee/ranged. I prefer to build balanced groups, some melee some ranged, never really ahd great success with too much ranged stacking coz of longer interupt CD’s for example. If you struggle to find groups, make your own with your keystone, as for some of my keys I get 10-40 signups, even if I wanted to take 3 Melee DPS I couldn’t get everyone in.