Orgrimmar has had leaden foot with masks on twice so far. The only major affix interactions for SW are leaden + umbric and small corridoors + split personality, and personally I think both are pretty BS.
There are 4 mandatory burrowers in SW. (3 in trade, 1 in Mage) and 4~ mandatory burrowers in Orgrimmar (1 in drag, 3~ in Wisdom [Technically you can probably do the double dominator faceless to the right instead of the double burrower mindflayer but I’m not sure why you would])
If you want to talk about mob disparity, compare K’thir dominators to SI: 7 informants. SW has the same number, but they’re all in a single zone, while Orgrimmar splits them over two which means SW has double informant packs while Org does not have any mandatory double dominator packs.
I did use now DK on not only clearing SW with 3 orbs spare, but also doing mask run top of that with 3 orbs spare. DK fully mitigates the slow (if people do not know then dk cannot be slowed below 70%) and on mage tower, what was his name - my pet interrupts the cast, so I can just like snail after it and make sure I interrupt sheep.
On last boss I just put orb down on pull and sat on it staring the eye
And what I learn ? A vision truly is dependent of class, spec, gear, and players mood as well what affix happens to be. OI.e. for my dk’s luck also last run i found so many sanity potions.
And overall I think - I’ll focus on the “easiest class and spec combo for me” to get the max mask runs to se eif I can do it - on a dk. Best mobile aoe (dot-and-run), best ‘down time dps’ (dot and run again), immune to slows, mitigate smagic damage, ignores movement impairing effects (i.e. chains only silence dk but dont do much else), can ignore mechanics (i.e. all those beams and what not get cancelled when player is immune).
So my verdict is - for me DK is best vision class. And I focus on that. Others may or may not get cloak upgrades, and raider just goes do minimum program.
I truly went from “F-this” to "hum… " between DK and DH. Crazy.
That’s fair. I’ve personally come to a very different conclusion because, as you’ve seen from runs of mine that you’ve commented on, I’m very methodical.
By being methodical a lot of these things don’t end up being problems for me, but I am also aware that being methodical isn’t fun for everyone.
Not so much the dot and run aspect, but more my approach towards handling visions. I know exactly what cooldowns / buffs I want before what boss, I know what mechanics I need to care about and what I don’t, I know where I’m lusting and how I’m playing each zone etc etc etc.
I like playing like that, and Stormwind benefits massively from that sort of attitude.
I do understand, and when i do actually start trying it properly for masks, I will go with flasks, drums, foods and preplanning. But today i just wanted to get my missing masks, cloak upgrade and some pointless fun.
Your attitude however is also why you probably better player than I am.
Better at this specific aspect of the game, maybe, better player? I think there’s far too much to this game, and people care or invest in so many different aspects of it that who’s to say who’s better or not
You are probably right, and also I kind of am like player that “I can do”, but sometimes feel “its not efficient” like I could have probably done my SW clear sooner than today just moments ago, but Its easier with cloak 12 than cloak 6, so … I waited cloak 12 Some players seek maximum personal challenge, i do not need that ‘trial of skill’ I am ok just with patient 'wait, and gain some edge".
I am past that “I must prove someone else what i can do in this game”- proven it enough in past. Now only proving to self counts.
