I remember in an early Patch of WotLK Prot Pala had a talent that gave Spellpower for Stamina (was later changed to Spellpower for Strength) on top of giving a 30 bonus to critical heals. And what kind of gear has lots of Stamina? Right! PvP Gear! PvP Holy Palas were going deep prot, picking up stuff like the avengers shield silence on the way, gemming full stamina and had like 30k hp and 3k spellpower while a regular holy pala had like 20k hp and 2k spellpower.
During BC the first Boss of Black Temple dropped a Int-Dagger with no Mainhand/Offhand restriction so you could play Elemental Shaman with enough points into enhance to be able to wear 2x 1handed weapons
a little disappointed he didnt include the Shockadin Spec from early wotlk. you had good burst dmg and a crazy cc chain with repentance + pala stun. this was the most fun i ever had in wow arena.
My favorite weird thing I'm currently doing in WoW is a level 30 locked DH where I'm just stacking Mastery and using full shadowlands gems. I currently move at ~160% with no buffs. Almost as fast as using glide for movespeed.
During Vanilla I had a pretty obscure build where I was sort of a DPS/Healing Hybrid build with a Holy Paladin and a 2h mace and it worked really well. I used to kill entire groups of Horde players in AV, till they started fleeing on sight from me. Because of my 2h mace, I assume everyone thought i was Ret, but I still healed like a Holy Paladin and it would really throw off my enemies. Too bad i could no longer do that with burning crusade.
I still remember tanking Ulduar and ToGC with Blood and Frost DK hybrid, and also random fight with Paladin tank from opposite faction in Tanaris in this spec.. the 15min duel. That was fun :D
Man he missed out on rexxar build for hunters in Warlords of Draenor. BM hunters stacking haste and using daggers, was insanly fun. and amongs the top dps
iirc Rogue HAT(Honor Among Thieves) Spec in TBC was op. Raid members crit hits generated combo points so the rogue essentially just had to spam eviscerate.
Yeah it seems like a lazy-mans type of video, theres some things that dont even belong here such as the gnomergan mace??? Theres kebab DW Arms, Arms with Flurry, Fury tank, Arp prot... none of which are mentioned, and thats just warriors :D
frost tank i did it the entire wotlk back in the day, and did it for 90% of wotlk classic its just better then blood, more fun, better aoe threat, better cooldowns, better agro, lower cd on your dnd, less damage taken you didnt heal yourself anywhere near as much, and did a bit less single target damage, but everything else was better hell back in og wotlk not classic wotlk, i distinctly remember frost being THE tank spec, and blood was outright a dps spec no one tanked blood spec until icc, it being a "meme" or forgotten spec is outright wrong for the entire expansion frost was the tank, blood was a dps, it flipped with one of the later talent changes (either icc or ruby sanctum, think icc) but even then frost tank was still on par i miss frost tank imo dk is the biggest missmade class, frost should have been tank, blood dps, and unholy should have been what disc priest would later become, a healer that dealt damage to heal, would fit with WC3 dk a lot more as well, as dks in WC3 were support/healer heros also, PoM pyroblast i loved that spec a had a number of duels with my budies where i would just insta 1 shot them with a pyro crit it also wasnt actually worse then standard fire in raids, maybe lik 1-2% less damage, but i mathed it out HARD and found it really didnt drop far behind, and in really short fights it pulled ahead actually cos of the big spike from the 2 cds
Seeing this video just made me realize how SICK of this meta culture I am. People aren't allowed to play the game how THEY want because a bunch of out of touch developers have taught these players for decades to play the game only 1 way. And if the players see you doing something that just slightly suboptimal, you're not allowed to play the game unless you do the same cookie cutter trash everyone else is doing. I know it's different if you're trying to do the hardest content on offer, but jeez, all you meta & parse chasers need to get over yourselves. It's a video game.
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I remember in an early Patch of WotLK Prot Pala had a talent that gave Spellpower for Stamina (was later changed to Spellpower for Strength) on top of giving a 30 bonus to critical heals. And what kind of gear has lots of Stamina? Right! PvP Gear! PvP Holy Palas were going deep prot, picking up stuff like the avengers shield silence on the way, gemming full stamina and had like 30k hp and 3k spellpower while a regular holy pala had like 20k hp and 2k spellpower.
During BC the first Boss of Black Temple dropped a Int-Dagger with no Mainhand/Offhand restriction so you could play Elemental Shaman with enough points into enhance to be able to wear 2x 1handed weapons
a little disappointed he didnt include the Shockadin Spec from early wotlk.
you had good burst dmg and a crazy cc chain with repentance + pala stun.
this was the most fun i ever had in wow arena.
My favorite weird thing I'm currently doing in WoW is a level 30 locked DH where I'm just stacking Mastery and using full shadowlands gems. I currently move at ~160% with no buffs. Almost as fast as using glide for movespeed.
During Vanilla I had a pretty obscure build where I was sort of a DPS/Healing Hybrid build with a Holy Paladin and a 2h mace and it worked really well. I used to kill entire groups of Horde players in AV, till they started fleeing on sight from me. Because of my 2h mace, I assume everyone thought i was Ret, but I still healed like a Holy Paladin and it would really throw off my enemies. Too bad i could no longer do that with burning crusade.
I still remember tanking Ulduar and ToGC with Blood and Frost DK hybrid, and also random fight with Paladin tank from opposite faction in Tanaris in this spec.. the 15min duel. That was fun :D
No, but as a feral, I bring buffs and a combat res. Pretty neat.
The Gladiator was Top DPS than they nerved extrem, because the normal Warri Tank was really strong!
Man he missed out on rexxar build for hunters in Warlords of Draenor. BM hunters stacking haste and using daggers, was insanly fun. and amongs the top dps
I quit playing wow when SoD was capped at 25. Why am I watching this hype video… I refuse to go back you can’t make me!!
melee weaving and seal twisting are awful playstyles :)
Makes a boring underpowered class infinitely more fun. Totem twisting sucks when shaman can use mana on dps spells though.
Many hunters and paladins I'm still raiding with miss their tbc kits greatly, moreso the hunters though
Can’t say anything about melee weaving but seal twisting was really fun imo.
Haha I remember the non stop heart strike spamming build in BGs, absolutely busted
iirc Rogue HAT(Honor Among Thieves) Spec in TBC was op. Raid members crit hits generated combo points so the rogue essentially just had to spam eviscerate.
it was wrath, god i wish tbc rogue had that
So the Shield Warrior dealing damage started in WoD? Just gonna ignore that Prot Warrior with high Arp were happily two shotting people in WotLK?
Yeah it seems like a lazy-mans type of video, theres some things that dont even belong here such as the gnomergan mace???
Theres kebab DW Arms, Arms with Flurry, Fury tank, Arp prot... none of which are mentioned, and thats just warriors :D
I was in a tiny guild that was raiding in WoD and I was top dps every raid on my gladiator. I will admit the guild wasn't really raid focused lol
oh my fucking god I remember the paladin specc. I almost quit arenas at the time, could not fucking kill them to save my life.
Didn't mention rogue's seal fate and other hybrid builds.
Lol in vanilla classic and tbc i was topping meters in our guild power shifting on my druid...pummeler ftw
WillE sounds either incredibly bored, depressed or sick. Guess that's what making classic videos in 2024 does to a man.
Masterfrost DK was juiced back jn the day
Ppl talking about shield wielding dps specs but not about Ele Shaman? Ok then.
So sad they didn't make holy DPS in SoD. It was a glorius chance to do it.
Shockadin is viable right now in SoD with the ZG 5 set and T2 4 set
First thought was my exorcism spam dps holy paladin end of wrath in icc
frost tank
i did it the entire wotlk back in the day, and did it for 90% of wotlk classic
its just better then blood, more fun, better aoe threat, better cooldowns, better agro, lower cd on your dnd, less damage taken
you didnt heal yourself anywhere near as much, and did a bit less single target damage, but everything else was better
hell back in og wotlk not classic wotlk, i distinctly remember frost being THE tank spec, and blood was outright a dps spec
no one tanked blood spec until icc, it being a "meme" or forgotten spec is outright wrong
for the entire expansion frost was the tank, blood was a dps, it flipped with one of the later talent changes (either icc or ruby sanctum, think icc) but even then frost tank was still on par
i miss frost tank
imo dk is the biggest missmade class, frost should have been tank, blood dps, and unholy should have been what disc priest would later become, a healer that dealt damage to heal, would fit with WC3 dk a lot more as well, as dks in WC3 were support/healer heros
also, PoM pyroblast i loved that spec
a had a number of duels with my budies where i would just insta 1 shot them with a pyro crit
it also wasnt actually worse then standard fire in raids, maybe lik 1-2% less damage, but i mathed it out HARD and found it really didnt drop far behind, and in really short fights it pulled ahead actually cos of the big spike from the 2 cds
He didnt cover Frost Dk being a better tank spec than blood though..
He missed early vanilla spell power rogue.
I had a dps brewmaster spec in wod.
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rogue tank? not spellpower rogue?
i have a video on my channel of a good glad stance arena. ended up 1v2ing a pally / druid
i miss that spec. the wod version.
Sounds like the playback speed on the video guzu is watching is on like 0.75%
nvm. Video wasnt fuly buffered.
amazing video, i watched the whole thing
video been out 10 minutes why lie
Seeing this video just made me realize how SICK of this meta culture I am. People aren't allowed to play the game how THEY want because a bunch of out of touch developers have taught these players for decades to play the game only 1 way. And if the players see you doing something that just slightly suboptimal, you're not allowed to play the game unless you do the same cookie cutter trash everyone else is doing.
I know it's different if you're trying to do the hardest content on offer, but jeez, all you meta & parse chasers need to get over yourselves. It's a video game.
Arnt you also adding to the toxicity of complaining about how people want to play the game? Find groups who wants to play like you :)
Last time i was this early my people havent commited mass genozide yet.
Cant tell if youre german or israeli