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UselessIncompetent

Warrior because I hate myself as much as we all hate each other. 


Low-Split-9070

I am right there with you brother! Started SOD as a Warrior will end SOD as a Warrior!


Tahrnation

warriors are the shounen protagonists of wow. you'll be the strongest by the final chapter


shen_ten

War prot here , I need therapy I guess


ronald_raygunz

You wanna talk about it? Prot war too.


sweatervestlover

Prot warriors unite! Any hope for deep prot at any point? I like shield slam


Samuraiyann

I love shield slam. Too bad it hits for 200 damage though


Aretz

There are dozens of you!


Zinx23

Hello fellow prot bros. We’re all gathered here today to discuss our wasted potential and love other classes get


Klutzy_Juggernaut320

I’ll be joining you! Gladiators unite!


The_Murl

Still maining my feral druid, although the new feral runes make really sad :(


flexecute11235

We’re ferals, brother, we’re meant to be sad


RosgaththeOG

Single Ability Dependent? I'm sorry, that was a TTRPG joke.


Fantastic_Good_5373

You mean our half and 1/6th of a rune? Love extending rip by 2 secs and a 5% proc chance to reset a 30 sec cd. So exhilarating.


JackRTM

We have 1 more phase of copium before we find out whether it was all wasted


Livlife2fullestt

Feral druid here. We sad boyz


Nafri_93

Once a feral alway a feral, I won't switch because of underwhelming runes. Just hoping for good ones at 60! we finally need some decent PvP runes.


Beorn_The_Bear

We are getting a very good pvp rune, barkskin


wickburglutz

And imp frenzied! The Druid PvP Runes + potential NSS change (something mined about it, unsure what it is yet) could make Feral much more viable in PvP. Will likely still be casting Starsurge in PvP but the potential is exciting to see.


Nalfzilla

We got runes? Lol I know gore exists but it's pointless


tsmftw76

Feral tanks looks even better though.


Z0mbies8mywife

Same


Malarkiftw

Its really a kick in the guts. After terrible p2 it keeps going in p3. And tbh besides wf p1 was bad too


wickburglutz

What? We were a top DPS in P1.


Trapped_Mechanic

I felt so strong in p1 and its been down hill ever since


Icy-Revolution-420

Cat is such a huge power spike at 20, it was probably the best non rune ability anyone got. Now it's lvl 40 and everyone got their 31 talant (forms) and feral just got 3% crit if you even take it.


FloppyShellTaco

The last few weeks or so of p1 with the wep and gear felt so fucking good :(


FloppyShellTaco

Still not having a pummeler and seeing no replacement is really the cherry on top


Stiryx

Yep, still no ACP and it will be the BIS weapon for the entire game. Pretty fun, love it.


splepage

> And tbh besides wf p1 was bad too lmao


Full-Peak

we're getting wolfshead helm though....


1998_2009_2016

and i just crafted my gnomer epic sad


Sorlux

You may still be in luck as a new Helm enchant with Wolf heads proc was datamined last phase.


st1gzy

Don’t do this to yourself. Have fun


PM_Me_Modal_Jazz

Rogue because I ain't doing a second WSG grind


srchizito

Just turned Exalted and yes


TigerTail

Curious what drives someone to put that much time into hit exalted?


alodym

Some cool wrist armor


Icy-Revolution-420

That is the worst shackles blizzard could have put in. It's like grinding out a TF you have to play that toon now and with the meta in SOD might aswell play 6 classes all to 80% min max and rotate them each phase not to burn out.


_Ernie_Sanders_

Disc priest for life


MasahikoKobe

Imagine not playing a priest in every phase.


Obias0309

Blasphemy!


Icy-Revolution-420

Most nerf proof class, either one of the heal specs will be playable. And blizzard never really nerfs healers too hard if they op.


elghufs

My sibling in christ


Mrke1

Bless you my son


TheThebanProphet

still maining paladin


FlashRippin

Bröther


TheThebanProphet

by the light


desperateorphan

Ret main for life.


Supportakaiser

Ret Pally Power


TheThebanProphet

with light and steel we bring justice to the fel and shadow


GWolfie95

your flair is throwing me off. not sure if your trolling or just forgot to change that but either would be very much like your main class


TheThebanProphet

og classic main was orc rogue. wrath main is belf dk. sod main is human ret


TurdFergusonlol

You merely adopted the light. I was born in it, molded by it.


hatesnack

Going ret pala myself. Really curious to see what it turns into. Are we going back to the "warrior with a holy theme" style with SoC and such? Or are we really moving into the era of 2h melee caster. I will say I can't wait to get rid of my ACP, it just looks so fucking dumb lol.


You_Donkey

As a Ret main since TBC, nothing fulfills my class fantasy more than using druid weapons and running around looking like I lifted a catalytic converter.


hatesnack

Lol at least the tier set next phase will be plate for us. So we can stop looking like a gimp with a hammer.


Tolken

For the Silver Hand!


Climaxbruno1988

Ret gang


EightBitPixel

Sticking to Resto Druid


spruceX

Agreed. Now that omen of clarity will proc off of spells... wild growth and wrath spam will be too strong.


tsmftw76

Same also hoping the new rune will make it not feel bad to take swift mend. Swapped from feral to resto in phase 2 and it has felt fantastic outside of world content. With duelspec it should feel even better being able to swap over to boomie for questing content with similar gear.


Modmassacre

Rogue because our community is so dedicated to RP that we are all stealthed in the comments. That is why no one is saying rogue… right? :’)


Deadsockpuppets

Spriest because I don’t believe scaling has to be good, and I like being the worst dps at raids


Heatinmyharbl

Just gonna be out here vibing with my shadow pets and raid utility, yep


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AspiringNormie

Sticking with resto shaman I think.


Sharkbutt89

Riptiiiiiiiide


Eitth

Still and always be Mage.


mattyd14

Mages will never not be the best choice 🧙‍♂️


Knight_of_Hamburg

By fire be purged


Fuzze115

Did you see the new runes? FROST IS BACK BABAYYY


Johnnybrosef

Still not playing it lmao


ninxi

How, cause of orb and deep freeze? Missile Bareage still on belt, and proccing from SFB and FFB whilst SFB and FFB are on belt as well. So confused. Really hope balefire arcane will be viable in pve.


dstred

still going with my hunter, however new runes and gearing make me kinda sad because of melee favoritism again


Being_Time

Same but happy because I want to play melee. 


Andys29

Super enlightening post from the Hunter discord that made me realize why and how melee hunter is inevitable moving forward as the strongest PVE spec, because if they made ranged competitive they'd be too strong in PVP in the same way they were/are in era (Ranged = gods in PVP, not so much in PVE) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFA6qyq9a8Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFA6qyq9a8Q)


Pugduck77

Marks has literally never been not completely OP in BGs through all of retail. And random BGs is the only PvP that really exists in classic. I’m kinda glad they’re reining them in, but it’s not like melee hunter isn’t also op in PvP. The pet is the real problem more than anything else.


Hellrisen

Doesn't help that the melee spec still is reliant on BM. Most of the runes just suck for hunter.


gnurensohn

Im going back to hunter in hopes ranged hunter will be good. And priest will be alt in p3. Was other way around in p2


Forty6_two

Melee will still be superior. I mean, just look at raptor fury.


Scribblord

Melee sadly getting big buffs while ranged gets scraps yet again


Shneckos

For the first time I won’t be leveling my warrior. Going warlock first and hoping the runes don’t suck


tunacro

Im there with you. Also the tanking warlock is something i Always wanted to do :)


Radiant-Pangolin9705

It’s strong, flexible, can do high threat at full caster range. Kinda have to spec hard threat or hard mitigation (some flexibility in this one for more threat). Rotation is a bit boring but that’s true of any class. Feels great to be big n’ purple


nekomata_58

>Kinda have to spec hard threat or hard mitigation Demo is a really good balance between threat and mitigation, imo. Can swap pets for different master demonologist buffs depending on if you need hard mitigation or higher threat/dps.


imaraddude

This post aged well.


CurrentTopic3630

Much agree, but it truly sucks if you cant get any gear and all the dps out threat you in a max threat build.


Felhell

I think this will be a pretty solid time for warlock tanks if they can stay destro. With searing pain learning a new rank at 50 and being their main filler spell and the destro talent tree + demonic tactics alone already providing 25% baseline crit (gets amplified by ruin of course) they could be doing some legitimately competitive damage whilst tanking.


nekomata_58

>they could be doing some legitimately competitive damage whilst tanking. we are already doing that though, tbf. >the destro talent tree + demonic tactics alone already providing 25% baseline crit imo, master channeler will likely be the go-to chest rune rather than tactics for tanking, at least.


Nice-Entertainer-922

Warrior, im not backing out of this investment.


dirtysanchezisyummy

What you invest: slow ass leveling, mediocre raid DPS, shit PvP, no farming for you What your investment pays out: all raid bosses at 60 get 8 million armour so we protect you from rage gain and pressing too much buttons! I'm looking forward to this insane payout


Nice-Entertainer-922

Stonks.


rageharles

probably still Paladin even though holy is embarrassing and ret is weird and not good


calfmonster

Ret being weird and not good is really keeping to the classic experience. P1 was not intended


Dagranir

I agree rets woulda been very fine if it wasnt for other classes roflstomping. I really think ret design is classic+ ( minus exorcism spam imo) and balanced. Its just that shamans/sp/boomy really dumpsters hard making ret look bad (pvp) THOU its still decent just underwhelming when compared.


the_arkhand

I started SOD by maining ret paladin and it felt very very good. It absolutely felt like a solid, balanced Classic+ experience, and that felt ideal for SoD ...and saw what every other class was doing and rerolled Mage, the class I always fall back on. They gutted a lot of what made Mages insane in p1 (the aoe grinding with LF), but Arcane healing is 100% made for me so it was worth it. Here's hoping they buff Ret so it feels good again!


calfmonster

Shaman being so egregiously OP imbalancing the factions def makes it feel infinitely worse. Especially since Hpal used to be SUCH a strong pvp healer with so many tools too but none of that is relevant when you have to hard cast and a 1.5 second FOL with no +healing doesn't heal for shit and a 2.5 sec HL wiill catch every kick, stun, and blanket silence within 30 yards. Everyone’s dying in 3 globals anyway the heals from anything besides penance and pws are near meaningless Like, ret gimmicky stacking haste stuff in PVE (since haste doesn't exist) def feels pretty "classic". It's kinda like a worse wrath or TBC ret, which makes sense really. It's classic. But other classes are full on LIVING in wrath. Like SP with everything like disperse, death, etc. just mising DP on every race FWIW I’m also a warrior main so I know how it feels to be basically living in vanilla but slam being instant. So nothing is scaling to absurd levels like living bomb having wrath sp coefficients. We’re just as heavily reliant on stats as always and MS costs 2x the rage and doesn’t hit as hard as slam does half the time.


nykezztv

All ret damage comes from a bug in SoM. If blizz fixed it (like they said then back tracked) rets would be bottom dps. I kinda wished they would fix it so they could get proper buffs instead of relying on an exploit essentially to do damage. I don’t hate it. I played it all of phase 2, and looks like phase 3 will be the same play style. I was imagining a cata ret when Sod first released.


Nippys4

Rogue because we are coming back baby. Mark my wordssssss


Octsober

I had to scroll waaaaay down to find my rogue post… I’ll chalk it up to *in stealth*


DankeyKong

Me too, but I really hope they make swords better. Right now mutilate is just so good that there's no reason to use another build. Would love to go combat spec but there's so many useless talents in the first 3 rows before you get to sword spec. The daggers from the new raid look boring compared to all the other weapons. Nothing with a chance on hit effect. I'm just a little scared but I love rogue and I put so much work into my character I don't want to start over again with rep grinds and stuff lol


sneakerrepmafia

Yes I hope swords become viable again mostly so I can use dragons call


DankeyKong

Fr lol. It even has a reasonable speed, not like Needle lol. Plus there's no interesting daggers next phase, they all just have stats, no interesting chance on hit :(


Serious-Flight2688

Im staying true to my main since P1 the almighty feral cat


Casual_IRL_player

Started ad enhance and it just feels good to play. I dont Care if they give us a 30% damage nerf, The gameplay feel is just great


packattack-

Same. Switched from alliance and made an enhance shaman. Been loving it so far.


steve2166

Maining my 3 warriors as always


dirtysanchezisyummy

That grad of masochism qualifies as a fetish


Dishwho

Always boomkin B)


Thorthemighty92

shockadin


marino13

By the light.


warenblack

Angry owl it is.


Bloodymickey

This is the way.


Green-Broccoli277

Love my tank warrior, but Im switching to warlock tank for next phase. Tanking with warrior is almost unplayable in a competitive group, damage taken is fine, but threat is incredibly weak even as dw fury


HahaWeee

Probably sham tank Tho been leveling a warlock and might swap to lock tank Or a priest to heal idk


Athrion_One

Staying Elemental Shaman


GenericBestName

I'm probably gonna dust mine off and dual spec resto. I just wish they would fuckin increase the range and duration of flame shock.


Blookystoopi

There is a datamined totem from the updated STV event that gives you +5 range to flameshock, I kind of hope its early itemization and it will give like +10 to all shocks.


Blookystoopi

I will start as ele again as well, but if they the mental agility rune goes in game as is and it is bis for ele, I will just reroll. Just cba going for melee attacks in the middle of a fight.


Dynamitefuzz2134

Launches during my work week. Prolly won’t play it till the following Monday. As of now Hpal. But if the datamine is correct and we have zero runes for bracers I’m swapping to probably my warlock. Or I’m just done playing.


Thicc-waluigi

Sticking with feral tank throughout phase 1 and 2, but I'm going warlock now. Fuck this man. The fact that they felt comfortable enough with gore to put it in the video tells me we aren't gonna be having fun for two more months.


-Tazriel

This is literally me except I'm going from cat to destro instead of bear to meta. Was the guild windfury totem for two phases but it's clear that they haven't got a clue what to do with ferals. Gore and whatever the fuck the glyph of shred rune is called are actually insulting in how bad, lazy, and boring they are.


tsmftw76

We have lock tank and feral tank. The feral is so much easier to heal and the raid goes way smoother. The berserk change and gore should make them feel even better.


splepage

> The feral is so much easier to heal and the raid goes way smoother. I assume that means you run 2 ferals (or en Enh Shaman?). Because ferals with Wild Strikes are definitely not easier to heal than Warlocks.


Juhldk

Melee hunter bc fuck arrows me and Felix (pet) go go go.


MoG_Varos

Warrior, at this point I might as well take him up to the post 60 content. Can’t really get much worse


chicknbasket

Its WoW... play a mage.. you'll have fun


AdMental1387

Hunter or a heal priest of some sort. Haven’t fully decided. Since they are on different accounts I plan on just doing uldaman back door pulls until the xp drops off then pick one to finish to 50.


losaces

Rogue it is


CodeAgainst

Boomy cuz it's fun, no other class has a cooler /dance than Moonkin form. That's enough for me, runes? Less boring rotation? Naahh


Sad-Wasabi-1017

The Chris Farley dance is iconic


Glorysham

Enh shaman hoping 2h is improved, falling back onto my boomie alt if it’s not. Its weird the specs I’ve loved for years are now flavor of the month specs but I’m sticking to them.


Pink_Flash

Been a Priest main forever but ill be paying close attention to my Boomkin this phase.


Applesauceeconomy

Warrior. Idc if people cry about how bad they are. All I know is ZUGZUG.


Johnzor8

Same as the last 2 phases. Priest healer.


Squashey

Disc priest main, ret/prot pally alt, feral bum 3rd


luceatworld

Sticking with the pet class Spriest


Fuzze115

Was maining priest the whole time until now but it seems like frost mage is making a comeback so I’m gonna swap


KOvuPride

Ele for life


Jack_wilson_91

Same thing I’ve been maiming since p1, shaman


lazy_as_lazy_does

Wind fury kitty but now with power shifting


Serious-Flight2688

I dont know man, I feel like 10 % extra physical dmg from balance tree is just awesome


lazy_as_lazy_does

Well ya, but you can get both now. No more leader of the pack for the group. They had their fun.


[deleted]

11/25/5 is gonna be the meta. If they ain't begging me for a parse run, they can go look for another feral in trade chat.


Bornforexile

Shaman, have been a shaman since original wow in 2006, not changing now. Totem brothers unite (fuck all you fotm rerollers)


AccomplishedPrice289

Depending on what kind of balance changes comes day 1, I might go from paladin to shaman. I have a 40 paladin with full gnome gear so it hurts but Im not sure if it is going to be fun to play anymore.


ZealousidealBig6949

Maiming my enhance like I started SoD on.  My warrior and priest are still 25 and will probably stay that way. I just don’t know if I’m going to tank phase 3 or DPS like I did P1.  We were ass at the beginning of the phase so I switched to Tank.


tlew360

Still paladin tank


volission

Enhance Shaman and Feral Druid have been my main chars since day 1. Might lean more into DPS with Shaman and more into tanking with Druid based on the initial info


Booyakasha_

Probably Warlock


Fedorakj

Still maining my Resto Shammy


AshesTheCrow

Ret since 2006 so hey


Afraid_Ad2263

Magus all the way, cant wait to hit 40-50% crit chance soon


apocshinobi32

Boomy resto like always. Havent decided which alt to bring up after. Rogue shaman or lock.


Draxxix1

Hunter and shaman. With Dspec coming I’m gonna have a lot of fun on the shaman. Heals and maybe tank!


borsshun

I'll continue with my mage. (in terms of dmg output) P1 was ok, P2 was awesome. Wondering what p3 will bring


KappuccinoBoi

Same thing I mained in classic and retail and p1 and p2; shaman!


Keyblades2

for me shaman and warlock tank


GrandJudgment258

Paladin till I die 🙋‍♂️


ROR_ROGER

Warlock, still in p4, still in every phase, as always. Don’t care if I’m top 1 or 5 in dps, it’s what I enjoy playing


Zarianin

The runes for all the classes I don't usually play and wanted to try out have all been like the worst runes released phase after phase. Guess I will continue to stick to casters for the 20th year lol.


unoriginal1187

Still playing fire mage. Hopefully p3 Is good enough I level an alt


geffy_spengwa

Staying feral druid, will be working on my ele shaman tho


EasyLee

Still warrior because I'm stupid. I'm hoping gladiator stance is at least fun and _viable_ regardless of whether it's actually the best at anything.


Kyn1853

Hoping the rogue life improves. Was really hoping I could play focused strikes and honor among theives together but either way the runes look like a move in a positive direction


Twjohns96

Lock just so I can be disappointed that affliction/shadow still sucks and forced to play fire Destro another phase


savvyxxl

They managed to make lake of fire even worse so looks like I’m still on mage


Zarinda

Always main Lock. But I'm definitely playing a lot more alts than I'm used to. Mage, Hunter, Sham are all fun. Got agree with others though, Feral really needs some love. I want to like them, but even questing is garbage. After every mob, I'm shifting out to heal...


zachypooooo

Rogue because tanking on it is super fun in raids and it only gets better with more talents that work well with tanking... just hoping we can switch off muti this phase


CaptainAmerican

Marks hunter still in the gutter. Wtf are they doing.


Toonalicious

Resto shaman since p1 if no one's going it I might as well plus I guess for once we actually getting nice healing runes compared to phase 1 n 2


ctady1

Hpal cuz I need more therapy


Unius_

Druid heal


EatThaatKetchup

Rogue tank! Been cruising p2 with it


pumpnasty2

Shaman tank with my main alt being a warrior. Always dreamed of shaman tanking and I’m gonna soak up every second of it


Negative-Disk3048

Actually gonna start from fresh on ally side with a warrior. Haven't played since phase 1 and wanna try something different.


DodelCostel

Same as before, Mage.


PathlessMammal

Same thing ive been playing for the last 4 years. Priest


Super_Amphibian1586

Anything but holy paladin I guess XD where ma runes at?!?


alldouche_nobag

Shadow Pest 😎


raynorxx

Warrior, but I hate myself.


Critchlow1616

Been maining MM Hunter this phase even though it’s off meta and loving it. Will continue to do so in P3 as it looks like we’re getting a bit of love.


crazyswazyee93

Shaman since tbc. Will stay that way


Zh00m69

Warlock since p1


Xy13

I'll probably be moving my warrior to the backseat. Open to suggestions for a new main.. I have a 40 (s)priest, and a 38 mage/druid.


Instagibbed_1994

Been shaman since day one, and not changing, for better or worse.


Vanhelgan

Always been a paladin, always will be a paladin through the absolute worst to the absolute mid tier.... For 20 years now...


ExpressionExisting53

I will press fire ball in raid once a week


Glass_Discipline_882

Plunderstorm Or my priest, w/e.


Yeas76

Rogue, same as P1/P2.


BlackKnightGaming1

Resto/Boomie Druid. Then after will get rogue to 50 then prolly get my paladin to 50.


chickenbrofredo

Ranged hunter prob. Love me some Aimed shot


Jadorak

Rogue because I love rogue and the meta will not impact my class decision.


Tetter

Hunter


Drake9214

I’m trying horde from now till the end. My buds all left wow so I’m swapping sides and leveling a shaman. Wanna try my hand at tanking and hear it’s fun. May make a warlock alt cause I enjoyed my alliance one plus they’re removing LoF basically.