So since TBC is already long forgotten and became the glorified Wotlk waiting room it already was, but officially, what do u think the Wotlk class population balance will be like?
I personally will predict a TON of dk,pally,warriors and mages as far as DPS go simply because of Shadowmourne and mage mains are mage mains. Rogue probably will not be that popular despite good dps.
When PTR launches people will quickly do some theorycrafting and the meta will be revealed. It will depend on the launch patch and unforseen elements of the expansion.
It’ll highly depend if they add Faction/Race change service.
my expectations:
I expect people to go back to retail if they won’t adhere to the meta. classic is now grounds for competitive play now. if you want to play casually you are playing the wrong version.
rogues will be crying in the corner?
yeah while rogues are actually doing dmg, warriors will be sundering and rets will be buffing the group
Wrath is the most casual friendly Classic version… Dunno why you expect people to go back to retail.
Especially because Wrath gamedesign could be compared as “Retail Classic”
To be fair, pretty much all tanks in WotLK (except maybe warriors, they’re the only ones I don’t have direct experience with) are pretty much easy mode compared to what we had in Classic and TBC. This isn’t to say that the game is easier overall, as bosses tend to be harder, but you now have so many tools that the difficulty is more or less all about the encounter mechanics rather than your class/spec’s own limits.
While the distance is much shorter, to the point pretty much any class can top meters in a given raid if they have so much as a smidgen more gear, skill, or RNG luck than other ppl in the raid, on avg a good affli warlock will still beat a spriest, at least in the later stages of WotLK. I have much less experience with how this 3.3.5 scaling will work at T7-T8 levels of gear, but I don’t see mages and warlocks left “far behind” by any stretch of imagination.
Rogues are still top-tier DPS, as Assassination early on and Combat later when ArP cap becomes possible - though ofc they still will struggle to find spots as plate classes tend to bring more group buffs and are more easily splashable in raids, plus they tend to have better AoE for trash and some bosses.
Not sure what you mean here - I personally found WotLK healing a lot more fun than in TBC. Holy priests are even more into the whole “toolbox” healing than they were in TBC, with Renew, PoM, PoH and other somewhat-underused spells in TBC becoming a lot more relevant in WotLK. Druids go from being Lifebloom bots to a more diverse HoT-based healer who’s a lot more proficient at raid healing than they have ever been up to this point in the game, with Wild Growth in particular being an absolute game changer. Resto shamans, similarly, are no longer Chain Heal bots and can actually transition seamlessly from tank healing to group healing thanks to Riptide. Holy paladins are still a bit more into “spot healing”, as usual, but with Holy Light having limited AoE capabilities, and Beacon of Light allowing them a bit more leeway especially in dungeon settings.
Shortage… where, exactly? In 25m there never was a shortage in TBC, really, and I don’t see it changing in WotLK. In dungeons things will get much better since not only we get dual spec but WotLK dungeons are much, much easier than in TBC, so a lot more people won’t mind tanking those as you just cleave through everything. 10m… yeah I can see a shortage there still being a thing, but again with dual spec into the mix, DKs being a thing, tank gearing being easier than ever and a lot more tools in the tank’s kits compared to Classic/TBC, we’ll see a lot more people trying their hands with it - as anybody with WotLK pserver experience can attest.
Seriously, most of these predictions of yours are bogus - have you even ever played WotLK recently?
Ask that important question:
Fix the game when?
it’s ok, most of my comments were tongue in cheek, but they are based on my own experience on both wotlk and in today’s wow.
Also, please remember tanks are needed in more then 25man (there was never a tank shortage for the 40m and later 25m and 20m in wow history, for obvious reasons)
And no, last time I played Wotlk (as a paladin (main), warrior and DK tanks) was, well, in Wotlk (i don’t do private servers).
I know, but as I told you, there’s no reason to assume the shortage for dungeons won’t get less severe than it currently is. This isn’t to say it will disappear, but it certainly will get much less bad.
Well that much I could tell from your comments about DPS chars^^
you are so unbelievably uninformed
90% DK, pala, war
Prepatch will be DKs as far as the eye can see, especially as you don’t need a level 55 already anymore
TBC is a great expansion, just because you’re a wrath baby doesn’t mean it was by default a WOTLK waiting room.
Don’t expect everything from private servers and players expectation to carry over to Classic WoTLK.
The “meta” has been established for a decade.
Ok boomer
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This is accurate.
Warriors are S - tier.
Unless Blizzard is actively changing things compared to the original state of the game.
The prediction is solid.
It would need an absurd amount of changes to actually shake up the meta significantly and there is no reason to believe they would do such a thing, I agree.
Damn, you fell for it 
OP checked every box of being an unwitty, faceless troll. His name, level, character and tone was all a dead give away. Should have just flagged his post as trash.