[TTHS]Prophet
World of Warcraft Class Debate (19/06/2007)
2007-06-20 4:58 AM PDT
Well what a night. Yes, night, I live in GMT. I expected a simple Q+A with a load of spammers and trouble makers only to find that some fairly good points were being made.
Firstly, in the open floor, I managed to get my views on the supposed "tank crisis" out in the open. Those views being that there is no tank crisis. Tanks are in the plenty at this point in time and the problems we had with tanks while leveling from 60-70 are over. What we are dealing with at the moment is a lack of priests. I suggested that we address the lack of priests and healers in general before we address tank problems (which are none-existent).
Next, we had the, "Warriors in T4 can't tank heroic because they can't generate rage, " and while I admit that this is a slight annoyance to the tanks, I didn't ive any ground on this. That tank chose to take a different approach to end game, choosing the tiered raids over heroic and PvP so, much like PvP players have to live with no PvE, they should live with the lack of heroic. My point was not well recieved
The night finished on a laughable note, with ming popping into the open floor to tell us all that Druids are the hardest class to play at PvP. Just for the record, they are not. A feral druid is not hard to play as they have enough survivability to make 20-30 mistakes and still come out on top. Let's not go into boomkins. Needless to say, Ming made some fairly outrageous points tonight but he did make some fairly good ones as well.
There was also an interesting debate about 5v5 arena teams with 4 dps classes in and I made a point of saying that 4 dps structures are risky at best but do have their benefits. I shall stick with my 2 heal, 1 passive heal and 2 dps structure though lol It was agreed that Warlock/paladin 2v2 teams are the best 2v2 combination and that warrior/paladin teams are also fairly good.
Lastly, my points about shadwopriests seemed to go un-noticed by both floors who seem intent on singing Warlocks praises and then asking for a nerf. Warlocks don't need a nerf. I play a shadowpriest and have beaten warlocks in gear far superior to my own. What people fail to realise is that more spells does not really mean more skill is required. In a warlock fight, the warlock can sit there and relax whilst a priest only has a few spells to work with and if these spells are not cast in the correct way and DoTs are not renewed, things can go horribly wrong. That said, however, Shadowpriests with +700 damage should not be getting beat by locks. Nobody listened to me however and I shall wait until next time to make this point (unless, of course, Blizzard throw another nerf in our faces by then
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All in all, it was a brilliant night with some good points being made. I can't wait until the next debate..
See you all there
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Firstly, in the open floor, I managed to get my views on the supposed "tank crisis" out in the open. Those views being that there is no tank crisis. Tanks are in the plenty at this point in time and the problems we had with tanks while leveling from 60-70 are over. What we are dealing with at the moment is a lack of priests. I suggested that we address the lack of priests and healers in general before we address tank problems (which are none-existent).
Next, we had the, "Warriors in T4 can't tank heroic because they can't generate rage, " and while I admit that this is a slight annoyance to the tanks, I didn't ive any ground on this. That tank chose to take a different approach to end game, choosing the tiered raids over heroic and PvP so, much like PvP players have to live with no PvE, they should live with the lack of heroic. My point was not well recieved
The night finished on a laughable note, with ming popping into the open floor to tell us all that Druids are the hardest class to play at PvP. Just for the record, they are not. A feral druid is not hard to play as they have enough survivability to make 20-30 mistakes and still come out on top. Let's not go into boomkins. Needless to say, Ming made some fairly outrageous points tonight but he did make some fairly good ones as well.
There was also an interesting debate about 5v5 arena teams with 4 dps classes in and I made a point of saying that 4 dps structures are risky at best but do have their benefits. I shall stick with my 2 heal, 1 passive heal and 2 dps structure though lol It was agreed that Warlock/paladin 2v2 teams are the best 2v2 combination and that warrior/paladin teams are also fairly good.
Lastly, my points about shadwopriests seemed to go un-noticed by both floors who seem intent on singing Warlocks praises and then asking for a nerf. Warlocks don't need a nerf. I play a shadowpriest and have beaten warlocks in gear far superior to my own. What people fail to realise is that more spells does not really mean more skill is required. In a warlock fight, the warlock can sit there and relax whilst a priest only has a few spells to work with and if these spells are not cast in the correct way and DoTs are not renewed, things can go horribly wrong. That said, however, Shadowpriests with +700 damage should not be getting beat by locks. Nobody listened to me however and I shall wait until next time to make this point (unless, of course, Blizzard throw another nerf in our faces by then
)All in all, it was a brilliant night with some good points being made. I can't wait until the next debate..
See you all there
