Vernichter

I would be interested in more class-specific content as an opportunity for providing gameplay tutorials. Certainly the Hunter and Priest quests at 60 and the Druid flight-form quests show that the potential is there. However, as Wraithlin has pointed out, the game is filled with teaching mechanics. There are certainly esoteric mechanics in WoW - it is baffling that hunter mechanics got more convoluted in TBC - but honestly, they are relatively few and far between. Blizzard could implement a set of class-specific quest lines at 80 that would direct players on the usage of their new 70-80 skills, but even that would not account for talent-granted skills.

There are options for Shartuul-like introductions to basic mechanics of tanking, healing, kiting, cleansing, etc. The deathknight class will also essentially mandate a range of quests to introduce new abilities. Still, more complicated tutorials seems unlikely given the content that is already available and that as an MMO, Blizzard can certainly defer some teaching to the community at large. It would be fantastic if they would be to improve some of the information on tooltips or add auxiliary tooltips that can be reached from the spell book, but I'm hesitant to ask for more than that. After all, the broad variety of quests and encounters added for WotLK will have teaching elements whether they are deliberate or not.

Ed. Target dummies make a world of sense, and I wish they would add them. For a very minimal amount of developer time they would make it much easier to test DPS mechanics.