Of course we don’t know how new runes will change things, but based on the current state of affairs, i don’t think it will be healing priests and hunters for the meta.
I spent the ‘classic arathi basin’ period on Disc Priest with 190 games, 151 wins = 79% win rate. Never did arena, AB was my theorycrafting topic for years…so here i am !
So, you’re defending a node, rogue pops on you. throw out some macros “lumber mill under attack, help !” or what ever. Prey someone gets to you before the rogue inevitably kills you. Rogues are a priests worst nightmare. I rolled a resto druid end of WotlK…and it was not the same experience, ofc. The opposite in fact… Nature’s grasp the rogue, remove poison…druid has all the anti rogue tools. From most horrible to easiest match up. Base defended and rogue dead.
I predict it will be less than day before a thread is on here complaining about 4 x surge druids killing ppl in 1 GCD…from stealth !!
It’s gonna be druids in all forms and rogues for the meta i predict.
I think many classes will pop off next phase honestly.
Imagine if warrior gets heroic leap.
Imagine if warlock gets demon gate.
imagine if mages get stealth.
imagine if rogue gets cloak of shadows.
Alot can happen and runes can change everything. I think boomking will be super strong next phase though. But I also think most classes will be super strong next patch. But most importantly we will all have more buttons to press. Most classes right now have 1-3 buttons at most in their kit they actively use with maybe one CC and a button or two of utility.
In phase 2 everyone will have a much deeper kit. And that’s not even counting the new runes. now imagine if they also give us new rune slots. helmet, belt, wrist, etc. OOOH BOY. Things can get real complex and then skill becomes more relevant than pure meta team comps.
Not to burst your bubble, but your winrating from 04-10 is pretty irrelevant for the modern way of playing, its almost a completly different game, it just looks the same.
Jealous? i really dont care, just pointing out that bragging about a winrating thats almost 20 years old is pretty irrelevant when the game is played completly different from back then
You were solo defending in AB as a healer priest (which is already a strange choice for the job) 20 years ago and based on that you decide rogues will be op in P2?
Buddy, I am playing this game since 2005 and I was a Healer Paladin.
You need to be all kinds of special to solo guard the point as a healer in BGs. Your place is with a group where a decent healer is all it takes to practically win almost every engagement.
And that is double the case for a Priest/Paladin.
Back then we were a bunch of clueless idiots fighting clueless idiots.
From my personal experience - joining as a healer was already 50% way towards the victory, because back then everyone and their mothers wanted to be DPS and joining a small BG as a healer was almost a win by itself - so get off your high horse.
As a healer, it was simply a waste of my time to defend - because a healer that actually heals in a group was 90% of what was needed to win in AB.
Last thing you wanted to do as a healer is defend solo, especially as a bloody Priest. Like I could understand - a paladin, because at least you could stall forever and if a rogue would jump you - you still could reset the thing ~2 times and drag this forever with plate and shield before going down.
And even then - it would be a waste of a healer to do it.
So I am not sure why you claim skill (lul) on the one hand and then blurt out something silly as solo defending as a healer in AB, which is like a complete noober move there.
No disrespect, but i’ve got a 79% win rate in classic AB that completely contradicts what ever you may say.
79% of the time, you’re wrong. That’s a fact. Using your ‘advice’ i’d have what a win rate of 90% ? Facts are facts, at least from a disc priest perspective.
Your 79% is meaningless, because the very fact of joining AB as a healer already massively skewed it into your favor.
And I am talking from personal experience.
Quite frankly? 79% win rate is actually very average for a dedicated healer in AB, so I am not even sure why you’re so proud of it, as if it’s some unheard of achievement.
you’re contradicting yourself. How exactly are my heals helping everyone else if i’m defending a base ? CLEARLY the act of defending the base was far more important or i wouldn’t have kept on doing it and my percentage wouldn’t be so high.
Having 1 healer(me, defending bases) out of 15 players massively skews the game ? Ye gods, you’re just making stuff up now. it does ofc, but not like you think.
So no, you were never there either. Show me your stats if my 79% is soooooo average, bet ya don’t or offer some elaborate excuse.
I can offer how to win in AB lessons, cheap to you m8.