Hello there!
Just popping a quick question that is going on in my head for quite some time, and greatly influences the motivation on the charakter choices for hc:
Is the HC community actually willing to let non-min/maxed class-specs participate in dungeons? I am not thinking about melee-mages or naked-challange runs, but rather about kinda valueable specs e.g. wrath spamming druids or priests that would like to keep on smiteing as dps instead of beeing placed into the healing slot (even if the skilltree does not match this role). Also tanking shamans, which actualy were a thing during classic (so I got told…) would fall into this category.
Yet there are at least 4 other players risking their chars when not everybody is going maximum on theirs…so, would you let such niche charakters tag along in a dungeon…or not?
This tagging the open world and not guild internal groups, which work greatly different here…
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Shamans can tank but not end game content, they lack tools so it isn’t popular. Feral druids are fairly common, balance druids less because of the oom. Enhancement and elemental shaman are played as well, tho enhancement is a risk for overaggro with wf bombs. If you’re not a moron you’ll find groups even with a non minmax spec, I mean don’t list yourself as a healer if you’re going to be in shadowform the entire run. Community is overly positive and its a real mmo, people go out of their way to help you. On our server there is a lot of interguild communication so basicaly everyone knows everyone, especialy if you’re a bit active on the disc too.
In my opinion, yes.
I’d welcome anyone, in any spec, in any form into my dungeon group.
I see no reason why a priest shouldn’t smite DPS if they enjoy that. We’re doing a dungeon, not racing for world first.
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I may be coming a bit late to answer your question but, I’ll give you an example of a dungeon party group that I was part of recently:
The dungeon was Sunken Temple, and it had me as a level 50 Priest Healer (disc/holy), a Paladin tank, lvl 53 (not ideal since it doesn’t have taunt for Shade of Eranikus), a shadow priest level 51 (another “non-ideal” dps, also a bit underlevelled), a 51 mage, and a 49 ret paladin (not only subpar dps, but also seriously underlevelled).
The only group member I found to actually be off was the retri pala, but only because of his low level. Still, we cleared the dungeon, even through the tank and the shadow priest ranting on one another.
I was a niches spec feral druid back in 2019 to honor my main in 2006. Back then I invited retri paladins and shadow priests to my dungeon runs as bear tank, when I didn’t played my cat dps role. Cleared MC, Ony and BWL, but then I desided that enough is enough and rerolled to a mage I am still playing (race changed human to draenai).
You can play none meta spec in Classic dungeons as they are easy, however when things go sour none meta might not have mana, utility or dps numbers to get out of sticky situation alive.
I only play with reliable people who look out for each other and do their best for the group.
So yes, we allow weird specs and try out things, but I’m not wasting my time or petri for randoms.
Sure.
But the issue is also that there is always lack of healers or tanks.
So you kinda want priest yo be healers ecv etc.
But druids that spamm wrath sounds pretty bad for the group due to the oom issues and you have to wait each pull for the druid to drink up. Same with priests etc.