![]() ![]() Melee can’t be anywhere near adds because of their AOE explosions, and you have fire patches blocking melee from getting to the boss. In Tier 5, Al’ar spends most of its time in the air moving from platform to platform. ![]() In addition, should a tank go down, you’re likely to lose a melee quickly from the Hateful Strike damage. In Tier 4, the cave-ins on Gruul provide the same sort of issues for melee as the Falling Rubble mechanic on Sludgefist. If the totem goes off, the melee are unlikely to survive. He puts down a fire nova totem and roots the melee. Just one emblematic example of a 5 man boss is Mennu the Betrayer in Slave Pens. With patch 2.4.3, the 360 degree cleave from many bosses should be gone, but even with that removed, bosses in 5 mans, and in Tier 4 and Tier 5 - Phase 1 and Phase 2 of Burning Crusade Classic - have melee unfriendly mechanics. While a hotly debated, Burning Crusade saw a huge shift in the DPS meta from melee to ranged. You generally took whatever healers you had regardless of class because those were the only ones you had. One thing that hasn’t changed from Burning Crusade to Shadowlands is healer players tended to be in short supply. Holy Priests’ Circle of Healing will see huge increases in Phase 5 with spell power gear from Sunwell. The Alliance loved their shiny new Resto Shaman, and Chain Heal was a huge boon to all raids throughout Tier 4 (Phase 1) and Tier 5 (Phase 2). No one was better at keeping your tanks alive than a Paladin healer. They still were more than worth their raid spot for their buffs and Innervate, and they were PVP powerhouses. Druids did fine, but their PVE strength lagged behind that of Shamans and Priests. Resto Shamans and Holy Priests were strong healers for raid healing. I got my start writing about World of Warcraft being one of the first people blogging about Paladin tanking. I was a raid leader through Tier 4, and then became a progression raider up through Sunwell all as Paladin tank. I more fall into the grizzled veteran camp, especially when it comes to the subject of tank balance. Some private servers overtune their content to provide greater challenge which strengthens the power of a spell like Circle of Healing. While that’s true, not all Burning Crusade private servers are the same, and not all of them use the same ruleset Burning Crusade Classic will. They also know how the knowledge and skills players have now affects the behavior of players on Burning Crusade servers. These guys know all about class balance in Burning Crusade because they played it yesterday. Then you have another group of people: the private-server crowd. They lived it, and they’ve got the receipts to prove it. They’ve been in this fight since they were six years old! They know exactly what class balance was like in Burning Crusade because they were there. ![]() ![]() There are two distinct groups of people who provide commentary on class balance in Burning Crusade and they come from very different points of view. So how will your favorite class fair in Burning Crusade Classic? Good question, and the answer is somewhat dependent upon who you ask, and which phase of Burning Crusade Classic you’re playing. We believe that’s the most tuned and correct version of classic Burning Crusade that have the most time for the designers to get things balanced right? And so that’s what we’re going to ship with at launch and keep it throughout.Īll the imbalances in the original Burning Crusade will be there for you in Burning Crusade Classic. No, We want to kind of keep the authentic behavior that was in the final patch of Burning Crusade the same way we did with classic. ![]()
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