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Topic	i rank the WoW classes based on how much time i've played them
banananor 11/12/20 12:58:52 PM #49:	Steiner posted... can you elaborate on this point? absolutely. i'll preface this by saying i'm being a little melodramatic short version- LFR motivated Blizzard to put every class on perfect parity and ability to carry a "stacked" raid. A raid is "stacked" when most/every player in a role in the raid was the same class. As a result of this, some of my favorite classes/specs suddenly lost what made them specialized or unique longer version- LFR was designed to be extremely easy, but you also had to take into consideration that ~40% of the raid was going to be AFK, ungeared, and/or unskilled by design. Every class had to potentially provide everything every dps had to have an interrupt, a speed boost, a stun, a 90 second dps cooldown, a 180 second dps cooldown, a "combo point builder", a "combo point spender", a "survive one nuke" ability, and a spammable AoE attack. Cleave specialists were gone, burst dps specialists were neutered, support dps specialists were gone, 'execute' dps was gone. every healer had to have a 180 second healing cooldown, a dispel, a mana efficient heal, a fast heal, a high throughput heal, and a spammable AoE heal. most importantly the AoE heal. Every healing class was now going to spam their AoE heal 80% of the time if they cared about performance. tank healing specialists were neutered, melee group healers were neutered, spot healers were neutered, and shield healers were gone It started getting better in Warlords of Draenor, when 'flexible raid sizes' and 20-man mythics were introduced, lowering the reliance on LFR. It wasn't truly fixed until Legion, when the new and improved Group Finder and cross-realm raiding made LFR functionally obsolete. The designers were finally free to focus on class fantasy rather than functional symmetry. I'm also just a sucker for teamwork and complementary playstyles, especially when healing. And the LFR era was a mediocre time for healers --- You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured. <cite>banananor posted [p:947080173] in i rank the... [t:79096331]...</cite> <quote>Steiner posted... </cite> <quote>can you elaborate on this point?</quote>absolutely. i'll preface this by saying i'm being a little melodramatic short version- LFR motivated Blizzard to put every class on perfect parity and ability to carry a "stacked" raid. A raid is "stacked" when most/every player in a role in the raid was the same class. As a result of this, some of my favorite classes/specs suddenly lost what made them specialized or unique longer version- LFR was designed to be extremely easy, but you also had to take into consideration that ~40% of the raid was going to be AFK, ungeared, and/or unskilled by design. Every class had to potentially provide everything every dps had to have an interrupt, a speed boost, a stun, a 90 second dps cooldown, a 180 second dps cooldown, a "combo point builder", a "combo point spender", a "survive one nuke" ability, and a spammable AoE attack. Cleave specialists were gone, burst dps specialists were neutered, support dps specialists were gone, 'execute' dps was gone. every healer had to have a 180 second healing cooldown, a dispel, a mana efficient heal, a fast heal, a high throughput heal, and a spammable AoE heal. most importantly the AoE heal. Every healing class was now going to spam their AoE heal 80% of the time if they cared about performance. tank healing specialists were neutered, melee group healers were neutered, spot healers were neutered, and shield healers were gone It started getting better in Warlords of Draenor, when 'flexible raid sizes' and 20-man mythics were introduced, lowering the reliance on LFR. It wasn't truly fixed until Legion, when the new and improved Group Finder and cross-realm raiding made LFR functionally obsolete. The designers were finally free to focus on class fantasy rather than functional symmetry. I'm also just a sucker for teamwork and complementary playstyles, especially when healing. And the LFR era was a mediocre time for healers --- You did indeed stab me in the back. However, you are only level one, whilst I am level 50. That means I should remain uninjured.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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