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Originally Posted by Glass
Just a side note: I would love to see some of the alliance raiders who are used to having paladins, start running thier groups with no paladins and substitute shaman instead just to get a taste. It just boggles the mind (from a horde perspective) to see someone say they've never had to worry about aggro. Make sure you run a group with shaman that drops soe and wf at all times and make sure you have no paladins.
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Most of us who raid also play with some of the best tanks in the game. So he's sorta spoiled in regard to threat generation as well. But yeah, I'm really, really looking forward to Salvation as it will let me go harder faster.
As far as the whole class balance thing goes, I think that Blizzard is going to let raiding and heroics shake out before making significant changes. The Mage/Hunter balance tweaks were pretty obvious(when mages are topping every single DM coming out of the raid zones you know there's an issue) and those problems had been raised in beta so there was time to think about it. I certainly am not looking forward to the pernicious AE that the heroic instances have, but the new content is fun enough that I honestly don't give a shit. Of course, I can afford not to give a shit because I have awesome guildmates who aren't going to leave me in the cold because I'm suboptimal for a raid instance, which is a luxury a lot of people don't have.
What I don't think we'll see is any sort of group synergy. That's not really the kind of thing that can be added in through a talent tweak, and they're not just going to hand us a new ability. That said, there is some hope. I would really love to see Blade Twisting actually do something along the lines of Misery, and there's already precedent for that with Improved Kidney Shot, and it seems like a natural way to do it.
I actually think they got PvP balance more or less right with Cloak and the Prep changes. There are certain things I won't attack(Feral druids, paladins that are known to be intelligent, Demo warlocks, Disc priests), and certain things that make me grin(seeing a mage cast Dragon's Breath, druid in treeform or moonkin, dual-wielding warrior). Everything else is in between. I've won some fights, lost some fights, and generally had a blast.
And if worst comes to worst, there's always speccing 41 sub, getting a nice dagger, and going to grief newbies with Shadowstep.