sometimes you can skip, depending on the time you are playing.
even grinding out 19s will be close to impossible to get invited into “good” 20s.
In prime time I farms a ton of declines on my almost 3k healer with ilvl 486 as well
later afternoon/early evening is very hard to get into any keys is my feeling.
I gave up on my fury warrior as well. 2.7k rio and 483 ilvl and I cannot get invited to 18s for a long time. Mostly comp issue, warrior being useless in most scenarios or just too many dps in general.
Shadow has it a little better but it does not help that most shadows the general masses play with do absolutely no dmg and therefore have bad stigmata and they rather invite the next best ret or mage
Yeah groops are very picky witch dps the wont
Good for me some groops wont a shadow
The priority target damage or boss damage is rly good, you dont look so good on the meta if palas burst done small adds but one specc that get rid of small stuff is enaugh
Warri is there in a tuffer spot i guess, i was never like oh yeah i need a warri for last spot if you just can bring a ret with BR or a DH with 5% magic buff
But most of the time you need a BL witch warri aslo not have, fo that reason i rly dont know why shadow is that wonted, is it only because people saw it in MDI or 5 % HP buff
technically shadow has a lot to offer.
Unfortunately most shadows don’t utilize that in the lower keys.
Shadow brings:
Good ST and overall dmg, good prio dmg.
CC, dispel for affixes or debuffs
group healing cd
mind soothe for some skips
stamina buff (only interesting on highest keys I guess)
on the negative side is of course that shadow is squishy, not mobile and lacks interrupt and hard cc.
Shadow works well in the current meta because DH tanks cover the weaknesses of Shadow very well
but for lower keys people prefer the classes that look good on the meter and also even prefer double utility e.g. 3 brez because one dd always flops anyways and often it is the one that has the brez…
Sounds about right it looks like shadow got a good tool for every affix eaven you got the worst cc for trash
I dont feel squsihy at all with feint[10%dr]flasheal[10%dr]+shield and mentaly fortitude +20vers i am most of the time wenn a big AOE hit come in my groop, and i get all stuff up more then fine while other dps drop too a very low %
And feint got 20sec(10sec last)cd the rest you can have 100%uptime
They just need too bring back consumables and tools or toys for BR, BL
That would just be a hugh step for balance,
I get that they wont bring back rolls fo3 class buffs but at last Battle rezz and Bloodlust or disable BL