I’ve the past hotfixes since phase 4 released seemed to have only been nerfs and corrections so the new runes work with older runes.
With all of these nerfs and fixes in hotfixes nothing has changed in the grand scheme. With the only widely available information, damage logs nothing has changed. Rogues are currently 2nd but that is because the Warriors gear is not currently up to par and they’ll end up scaling to the tippity top of the damage board.
What should they buff then? Hunters? Paladins? Shamans? Warriors?
Well lets start with pvp.
Nothing, PVP is in a really good place. Most people who are complaining just don’t know the class they’re against. “Ooo They can bubble”. “Ooo They kill me without hitting me”, “Ooo they kill me whilst constantly stunning me” “Ooo they can kill me in 1 cast”. It’s really simple, don’t die and only go into fights where you have the advantage.
PVE
PVE right now is top tier, there is barely if any BOE gear that counts as BiS. Yeah some classes are way underscaled in raids for example but in dungeons their AoE and utility and need is so great and so much gear currently is through quests and dungeons that you’re needed and if you level up your social skills a bit… you know you could get a spot… probably.
This gets onto the actual issue SOD has.
SOCIAL COMMUNITY
All of the issues i’ve read in this forum boils down to a terrible and mismanagement of the community. I’m not saying it’s the currents teams fault it’s the fault of the wigs not employing game masters. It feels like the people allocating budgets don’t understand how MMOs work but tbh when you can round down from 800k so you can have a clean number in the budget because it has 3 digits after it, you can’t expect them to have any kind of knowledge about that game.
We need so many more game masters than we currently have that can properly communicate to the players about minor social issues within the game and more major issues to engineers and social development teams.
I’ve played this game like many of you for longer than a decade and coming from being able to whisper GMs to now having to go through an outdated UI that barely works and having to go through forum links from 3 years ago to get a proper ticket through is such a downgrade.
Conclusion
The game from a technical and balance stand point in terms of classic world of warcraft is some of the best we have ever seen. Every class is viable and we can’t agure it. Classes are way better than some but everyone can make a substantial enough change to a group that in group content you can really invite anyone. Every class can go through solo content like butter.
In terms of social quality within the game it’s autrious and is less than any standard. I’m pretty sure single player games have better community support than this MMO. I love the current team and how they’ve handled the season but this is the only thing they have done terribly and it’s out of their control. Unfortunately this is still a blizzard game.
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Every class was also viable in vanilla. It is not enough, every spec should be viable
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Some very good points and a very refreshing post!
I agree 100% with everything you’ve said. I’d say that despite the low funding, the obvious crunching and stress under which the dev team is, it’s remarkable anything works properly.
As you said, the wigs are not aware of what their company is actually selling. They only try to find ways to cut costs and increase profit but alas, that’s the story of our economic system.
There’s a lot of outcry over SoD devs and yes many things need improvement while others need to be stomped into the ground (I’m looking at you, incursions), but the amount of hate the devs are getting is unwarranted to say the least.
The game is in a good spot. The support is in a terrible spot as always, but again, that’s the suits fault not the devs
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Yeah, apologies this is what I kinda meant.
I obviously hasn’t played every class and/or spec but i’ve spoken to everyone in every spec on alliance atleast and they’re really happy with the spec they have and the specs they have tried out.
I obviously don’t know about Shamans and i’ve heard about Shaman healing being poor but I can’t tell from my point.
You have clearly not spoken to BM hunters 
Which is expected because every reasonable hunter is now either MM or Survival because of how bad BM is.
Our damage is at early phase 3 levels, also 5 rune slots out of 8 do not even have a single BM rune
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Yeah when thinking about BM, I remember phase 1 and getting rammed by pets. Yeah i’ll talk to a few people and see if they have ever played BM.
Yeah sounds annoying that they only have 3 rune slots. Hopefully they see this amend or add runes for this spec.
wdym , druid in classic was so bad that you had only one per raid40 
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Well at least resto was OK and you needed a feral for the buff, also they could innervate
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Anyway, the point is that SOD has better balancing than classic did and generally feels better than original classic and it isn’t what we should be talking about. Instead we should be talking about the social issues currently in the game.
Yes the class balance is actually much better, I agree
However SoD is effectively an oversized beta and they definitely are not going to hire more GMs for it. They cannot even hire enough devs to begin with. Remember that SoD is a side project assigned to the already small Cata maintenance team. I would not expect any improvement in this aspect
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That’s the issue. This is ineffective as a business project because they’re tight with money. Obviously change takes time but we can hope the results of SODs success and positive feedback and responses for the work the devs have done and with constructive criticism and feedback we give the suits at blizzard and microsoft what worked previously and how that can work now.
Like you said it’s an oversized beta so they’re obviously looking for feedback and game feedback isn’t just technical aspects but in the space social aspects are very much under respentated when talking about testing in betas and alphas.
We have a good game right now with Phase 4. SOD Classic is a good game, it just isn’t a good social MMO what classic wow is meant to be.
I do not quite get what you mean by social, what exactly do you want to change? What are you unhappy about apart from the lack of GMs? I find your words too vague and general
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What i mean is that there isn’t any form of support to the playerbase. The forums barely gets any form of communication, there is a lack of support when it comes to server migrations and channels to help guilds move over and there is a lack of notice from my experience or channels to get notified. There aren’t benefits to the people who are forced to move over for being forced to be moved over.
Everything is the same with classic sod apart from the close communication we did have with blizzard staff what isn’t up to standard for a multi-billion dollar business and now multi billion dollar subsidiary. There was barely any advertisements for new phases giving more people knowledge of what’s going on creating interest.
What I want is for Blizzard to still be interested in SOD what it feels like it no longer is after the initial release and initial drop in retention of players. Which isn’t going to happen when people talk about non-issues in the forum with arguments that mean nothing and adds nothing to the general conversation. I want a general re-think about the goal of this forum, how the game is staffed and managed because it isn’t good for the player base and if I was putting money in as an investor, I wouldn’t be confident in the decision of making this project from what the conversation is when it’s near to end of life with none to minor plans of continuation that has been announced publicly. (What i’m getting at is I want more SOD but with how it’s going it’s not going to happen if the social aspect isn’t good).
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I see your point now. Yes you are absolutely right. Both regarding the fact that the game is improving despite the whines and that the devs are separated from the playerbase. Let us at least hopes that with the next classic expansion they will hire some GMs
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