… am I still delusional for thinking that perhaps tank balance in Cata should be looked into?
See my old thread from june, for reference;
Edit: Since then, I have also done some tanking myself. Blood DK is definitely the winner. Your 5 man heroic healer dies to a mechanic halfway through the boss? No problems, just chain some cooldowns and death strike and it won’t even be noticeable. You can’t pull off something like that on any other tank.
The balance team just buffed Ele Shaman by reinstating their their pre-nerf t12 tier set bonus. That’s right, they just buffed an already solid S tier spec that can use the legendary staff right before Firelands.
Meanwhile, Feral, Fury and Enhance are in the toilet, along with the two other ranger & mage specs, which basically just don’t exist in Cata.
Shadow Priest t12 tier set also received a nerf in the exact same patch as Ele Shaman’s. Shadow Priest is solid meh tier at the moment, yet their tier set did not have the nerf reverted. Surely that one would have made SO MUCH more sense for a revert?
As an Enhance main, I have been praying for some buffs (or just even a freaking bug fix for our stupid Searing Totem, which targets random mobs and doesn’t even function if you drop it prior to starting the boss fight). Seeing a buff to Ele Shaman was like a massive kick in the teeth.
I would not trust this dev team to look after a house plant. let alone actually get balancing decisions right.
Dont get baited by the elemental t12 change, blizzard wont put any effort into cata, especially in rebalancing specs
trash game
Well one of the 2 devs working on Classic probably plays an ele-shammy
And the other dev plays BlooDK.