I. Bugs.
I legitly think the entire Dragonflight had less bugs, than this single patch. Bugs, bugs are everywhere: UI bugs, class bugs, dungeons bug (invisible swirl killing you is my favorite). I am sure you guys all have your own list of bugs, depending on your class and playstyle. Even after 3 weeks of patch launch the game is still infested with bugs and glitches.
II. Tuning incompetence.
I play more or less actively 4 specs, here are my impressions:
- Holy Priest. I have only 3 relatively effective spells, all of them are ST. The rest of my spells (including all AoE) are undertuned so badly, that it is almost never worth using them and if you remove them from me, it will barely change my playstyle or efficiency. Around 50% of holy priest talents is a worthless trash that you select only to get down the tree for 2-3 actually meaningful talents.
Holy Priest has been considered the worst m+ healer since TWW launch, while its sister spec of discipline priest has been a meta ever since. 11.0.5 comes and guess what? Yeah the Discpline is getting further buffs, while Holy is left to further rot.
- Protection Paladin. (don’t hate me, fellow paladins, I have to be honest) My AoE damage is so high that on trash packs in m+ I easily outperform many dps specs that have the same level of gear, BM and MM hunters, Devastation Evokers, Mages (prolly all specs) to name but a few. and I am not even dps specced! If I go full offensive talents as a prot, I would probably leave many more specs in the dust, so much for a tank spec!
On top of that I have easily the best utility of any other tank, can handle almost all interrupts by myself, I have highest duration stun with shortest cooldown, have a very high off healing. Yes, protection paladin is probably the hardest tank to play, but once you master it, you can basically outperform any other tanking spec at anything and do more damage than many DPS specs, at least in AoE.
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Protection Warrior. Among those I play, I find this spec to be the only one more or less reasonably balanced.
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Marksmanship Hunter. People who invite me to high key groups do this as a sort of charity.
As a Sentinel, my damage on paper is mediocre, when in reality (thanks to Lunar Storm degenerate design) it is much worse. As a Dark Ranger, my dps is all-round trash in all situations, doing steadily 30-50% less damage than most other specs, especially in AoE.
My damage under True Shot (biggest AoE burst buff, as discribed by Blizzard) is either the same or inferior to that of a Retri Pala normal damage.
I bring no utility, except Blood Lust, using which will make my pathetic DPS even worse, and besides Blood Lust can be brought by meta specs, such as Aug or any Shaman spec.
As Blizzard / Microsoft wants us to enjoy this sham of celebration, here are my wishes to them:
To the management: we all know you guys care little for anything else than profit, hence I wish your subscription curve to go the same direction Marksmanship Hunter viability went with this patch.
To skilled blizzard workers (i.e. folk who do music and visuals and not the maroons responsible for class & dungeon tuning): I wish you guys either get a raise or find a better job at another company.
Peace.