What will you roll in classic?

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Originally Posted by DamnOriginal

You think homogenization is bad these days? Haha. Welcome to vanilla, where your class has only one spec, one type of tier gear for that one spec and every single member of that class is that spec. Such diversity!

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And for some classes even that 1 spec was still performing so pitifully that it was barely worth a raid spot (ie: hunters).

Having messed around a bit on a vanilla server (60 resto/feral), the complete lack of any balance is what also threw me off. I will definitely give Blizzard's Legacy servers a go (probably as a druid again), but if it's gonna be the same mess I won't stick around there either.

Still, warriors could roll Fury and do well in later content. Mages were heavily constricted by resistances, but could still switch between Frost and Fire. Hunters were also able to choose between their specs - MM for early gear and Survival for later.

When Blizzard spoke about class design, they addressed it as their "hybrid tax" mentality, arguing that they did all of that on purpose. Yes, I know very damn well they didn't, but I support lenthas in that hybrid tax is a normal thing in vanilla.

My ideas for changes are things like removing the debuff count (because it's just stupid, no matter how you look at it), remove/reduce the threat of Mind Blast, reduce the mana cost of later ranks of Lighting Bolt, increase the %threat gain from Righteous Fury, give paladins Hand of Reckoning and Righteous Defense (don't say it's a big change because it's not - it's something they should've had from the start), add some sort of mana cost/return to the Protection tree (like BoS returning mana, like it was later reworked), give bears 6% crit suppression. At a glance, all of these seem like big changes when put together. In reality, none of these will have any impact whatsoever on PvP. None of these will increase overall raid DPS beyond a point that wasn't already intended (but was impossible due to bad design). All these changes will do is make more specs viable, nothing more. Only small, conservative changes aimed at making hybrids viable. Not good, just viable. (secretly I'm still dreaming of shaman tank)

@Abra - that's why I just avoid druids altogether. The first time I played one was at WotLK. And yeah, hunters being a DPS-only class and still being mid-range was kind of a big failure on Blizzard's part...