Originally Posted by Hypatia
Anyway, that's my theory. Whether it's possible or not to make the game more like what I would like to see? Hard to say. People definitely get grumpy when they're not able to wtfpwn quite so much.
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Would be easy to accomplish though.
For warriors drop Rage cost of Bloodthirst and Mortal Strike to 20 while using a shield. Scale the threat of Sunder Armor to match Devestate exactly (including the damage part from Devestate) while letting warriors get significantly more block value/point of strength; and you have a working x/y/15 tank that is close to as good as Protection Warriors. While not making anything else imbalanced. Warriors just were like that before the expansion. Must assume that Blizzard intentionally broke warriors to make room for feral and paladin tanks. There is no reason they couldn't change it back. Must assume they don't want to for some reason. Protection warriors are already perfectly passable as DPS. Perhaps some threat issues if DPS'ing mainly with Devestate but they could give Devestate reduced threat if not in defensive stance or something.
I also play a priest. Don't think those would be hard at all to change. Holy has exactly one talent that is really game changing; the reduced casting time on heal spells. If they move some the reduced threat talent early in Holy; while reducing the pure healing power of some of the other high end holy talents they could easily make it so you are a perfectly passable healer with 15 Holy talents. Who might need to have a little more gear to heal an instance/raid compared to a Holy priest. But once again they have chosen not to. Must be because they don't want to.
Not sure but sometimes I get the feeling they intentionally make the game suck and be painful to play. I guess since it should feel like a sacrifice to play a pure tank or healer. I guess some people like feeling they make sacrifices for the good of the group or something.