World of Warcraft Classic Discussion Megathread

[Apatheist]

I thought about rshaman 4 warrior with the BRD trinket and windfury would be fun as hell but warrior back then was a bit more complex to play (and multibox) as today Im afraid (switching battlestance for overpower, slam resetting autohit ect)

Probably wouldn't work as well with a shaman since you have no way of dispelling roots/slows. A priest would work but priests are super squishy compared to paladins.

[Kruschpakx4]

Probably wouldn't work as well with a shaman since you have no way of dispelling roots/slows. A priest would work but priests are super squishy compared to paladins.

for pvp yes, i think the best way would be to have the shaman replacing one of the warrior because he brings ranged slow, purge, wf totem, strength, grounding and ranged interrupt so while your healer is dispelling the shaman can screw the casters and once the warriors connect target drops immediately anyway. I dont think blessing of might and freedom make up for that.

Yep, sustained output with people sprinting from spawn to spawn to mass-pull everything in sight because infinite mana/focus/energy/rage wasn't a thing until what...Legion? It was well after the whole talent dumbification as I recall. And ofc, the high nature resistance that was implemented for absolutely no reason on some bosses doesnt help shamans either

I mean it got better in burning crusade when all the casters got some sort of mana regen while casting...in vanilla its basically zero mana gain while casting and for example ele shamans and shadow priests have zero mana reg talents which is why the spec is considered not viable, once you're oom you stay oom. And ofc, the high nature resistance that was was put on some boses in bwl/aq doesnt help us either.

[valkry]

for pvp yes, i think the best way would be to have the shaman replacing one of the warrior because he brings ranged slow, purge, wf totem, strength, grounding and ranged interrupt so while your healer is dispelling the shaman can screw the casters and once the warriors connect target drops immediately anyway. I dont think blessing of might and freedom make up for that.



I mean it got better in burning crusade when all the casters got some sort of mana regen while casting...in vanilla its basically zero mana gain while casting and for example ele shamans and shadow priests have zero mana reg talents which is why the spec is considered not viable, once you're oom you stay oom. And ofc, the high nature resistance that was was put on some boses in bwl/aq doesnt help us either.

At least the spriest could wand bosses that were wisdom judged for mana :P

Edit: Level 60 spriests were the most powerful in WotLK, just check my signature picture below haha.

[Fat Tire]

I mean it got better in burning crusade when all the casters got some sort of mana regen while casting...in vanilla its basically zero mana gain while casting and for example ele shamans and shadow priests have zero mana reg talents which is why the spec is considered not viable, once you're oom you stay oom. And ofc, the high nature resistance that was was put on some boses in bwl/aq doesnt help us either.

Ah yes, mp5 and swing timers....good times.

[Apatheist]

4 Enhance shamans plus a priest for dispels could potentially work. You would pretty much one shot anything you can touch and 4x grounding totems plus the ability to peel with a ranged slow would make your priest less squishy.

Still pretty hard to beat paladin though. Plate+shield, multiple defensive cooldowns plus they're nearly immune to poly/sap/seduction. Holy paladins were OP in classic PvP.

[Kruschpakx4]

4 Enhance shamans plus a priest for dispels could potentially work. You would pretty much one shot anything you can touch and 4x grounding totems plus the ability to peel with a ranged slow would make your priest less squishy.

Still pretty hard to beat paladin though. Plate+shield, multiple defensive cooldowns plus they're nearly immune to poly/sap/seduction. Holy paladins were OP in classic PvP.

the paladins might be even better since you could raid with them aswell, although if Im not mistaken you would only bring 4 pallys for each blessing ...but anyway would certainly be fun to play with spellpower gear/offensive holy shocks in pvp

ele shamans on the other hand, once you wear full mail and some 3k armor shield are really strong aswell...you could possibly even downrank spells in pvp since 5 lightningbolts can already oneshot

[Apatheist]

the paladins might be even better since you could raid with them aswell, although if Im not mistaken you would only bring 4 pallys for each blessing ...but anyway would certainly be fun to play with spellpower gear/offensive holy shocks in pvp

ele shamans on the other hand, once you wear full mail and some 3k armor shield are really strong aswell...you could possibly even downrank spells in pvp since 5 lightningbolts can already oneshot

For sure elemental shamans will be strong in PvP. I just don't like them much for PvE personally. With how much of a grind classic is my plan is to stick with a group that works well in PvE and PvP both. I don't have the time or inclination to level multiple groups.

I really like paladin healing in classic but it seems like most people here are set on playing Horde.