Just my opinion, and the way it has impacted my play style but my first character is a Forsaken Shadow Priest, played her for years and years - got the rest of my family playing and we all had a great time; insanity ruined her for me, I absolutely hated the mechanism and I haven’t played her for a long time now.
My second favourite character is my Blood Elf Affliction Warlock, really enjoyed playing affliction, it worked for me until Malefic Rupture, which totally broke the play style for me.
Sorry folks, I’m just sad that changes are closing off some of my favourites I’m not expecting anything to change and I’m sure for a lot of players these new mechanisms are great, but they just haven’t worked for me and I wanted to say so.
I really like how shadow priest is now, especially if you just go with dark ascension instead of void eruption. Before when it was focusing on building up to 100 insanity and then resource managing your void form, I hated it. I think it’s a lot better now and you should give it another go! Can’t comment on warlock, I only played destro and haven’t liked it since WoD.
They are not giving 2 cents against shadow priest bad dot spreading and tanks face rushing the adds and everything is a hard cast and pi needs to be applied to other classes.
Im all for a 5 man pi like mage bubble.
also make shadow crash explode with a cast time when you use it instantly on the targets and make mind blast spread it further.
make void form and Dark Ascension instant cast, there solved one of the class problems.
Warlocks sadly i have no opinion about since its not a class i play.
This just happens, you know. Classes changes, and you’ll never know if you’ll like it or not.
I once was a Mage for a lot of years, but dropped this class after Legion changes as they finally turned it into non-stop-spammable fire machine gun. it just felt so wrong.
Then I was Havoc DH for entire Legion. BfA pruning and afterward design felt like someone broke their kneecaps. Healing nerfs, Eye Beam CD reset through shards nerfs…it just felt ruined ever since.
Recently, they reworked Monks. I ranted about it in different Monk thread on forum already but man it really feels bad for me. They removed Serenity, Skyreach and callable Expel Harm yet they left some garbage spells and talents that were asked to be deleted for a while (JFS and LEC, I’m looking at you).
And even BM Hunters man. Until TWW it was still possible to make some weir but working single-pet builds. Now it’s borderline impossible since more than a half of talents designed around building pet army and almost entire cleave kit (except Stomp) is locked behind Animal Companion. Honestly, I wasn’t that sad about class rework since Battle For Azeroth.
It just happens. Either you get over it and move on, or become class hopper. It’s easier nowadays with Warband and account wide Warband progress, so…yeah. It is what it is.
I think a recurring problem Blizzard has with casters that rely on DoTs is the sheer amount of buttons you need to press and targets you need to cycle through, and all in a properly timed order, just to perform adequately.
It’s StarCraft levels of APM you’re rocking sometimes, and you’re just trying to kill five boars.
I’m not expecting anything to change and I’m sure for a lot of players these new mechanisms are great, but they just haven’t worked for me and I wanted to say so.