issues that need fixing in TBC?.. wew lad… a lot.
among them; the fact hat RMP was the meta for arena, and that my spec was known as a gimp spec… blizzard even had the gall to add a dispel immunity for any arena team with a resto druid on it (Lifebloom)… and when i say ‘dispel immunity’ i don’t mean actual immunity, but rather a strong incentive not to dispel because otherwise lifebloom would activate for its full Heal over time effect instantly… all a druid had to do was throw rejuv and regrowth and then apply lifebloom and the person they are healing would be completely safe from harm, as attempting to dispel any of these HoTs would result in healing your target to full HP 9/10 times…
then there’s the fact that shamans were utterly gimped in arena because they weren’t allowed to use their elementals in arena, whereas mage could freely summon their water elemental several times throughout a fight and even cold snap it for double ranged frost novas.
and don’t even get me started on rogues “cheat death” and anti-heal poisons combined with warrior’s Mortal strike…
it was an absolute s***fest to be me back in TBC… can’t say i have fond memories of that expansion at all, when it comes to pvp.
and when it comes to PvE; the name of the game was ‘Crowd Control’… no crowd control? sorry you’re not getting invited to our heroic run
and guess which classes were the the only ones without such an ability… that’s right; Shaman - everyone else had some form of CC.
if it wasn’t hard CC like Sap, Repentance, Polymorph, Sleep, or Fear, they’d have something else that could temporarily crowd control mobs for a short time… but Shaman? Nah, you don’t need that…
Then one expansion later they add Hex, basically admitting that they f***ed over shamans throughout all of TBC.
i dare you to look up old patch updates for TBC and look for the class who got the short end of the stick each and every single time a patch was released.
i still remember being super desperate for months on end for literally anything that would throw shaman a bone when it came to pvp, and then seeing “stormstrike now has a new icon” as the only update to shaman for months if not a whole year… meanwhile everyone else either got their abilities buffed or had their talents completely revamped in a good way every single patch update.
there is a good reason the whole “bus shock” incident happened, but i could be banned for even mentioning that little… event… in wow history.
/rant